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Syria says sanctions against it would harm U.S - huh? | |||||
2003-10-11 | |||||
Syria warned on Saturday that the United States had most to lose from severing trade and diplomatic ties with the Arab state if Washington passed a proposed act to impose sanctions. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Bushra Kanafani said Syrian-U.S. ties were at their lowest point ever because of the proposed Syria Accountability Act and Washington’s backing of Israel in its attack last weekend against Syria. ’’Contacts (with Washington) are not severed fully, but the state of Syrian-U.S. relations has deteriorated to a point it never reached before,’’ she told a press briefing in Damascus. "we’ve been really pushing the envelope, and clearly they noticed" Kanafani said the Act, which won an initial nod from a panel of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, was ’’a product of Israeli policy against Syria.’’
hmmmm - guess the oil spigot stays off then, no harm, no foul If endorsed, the Act ’’is not going to be very harmful for us. The United States of America will be loser number one, maybe we will be loser number three or four,’’ she said. By severing ties with Damascus, Washington would bury the Arab-Israeli peace process it initiated, said Kanafani. LOL Bwahahaha - stop it! you’re killing me...no, really ’’Now if the dialogue with Syria is cut as this act says will be, this will have a grave effect on the peace process. It will put an end of the peace process after all the efforts taken also by President George W. Bush.’’
Wait...Washington responding to U.S. demands...?
’’We are not giving them any support. Some of their leaders are residing in Damascus. Let Israel give them the right of return to their homeland and they will go back,’’ she said. Answering U.S. complaints the Damascus was not doing enough to stop anti-U.S. militants crossing Syria into Iraq, Kanafani said: ’’We are not allowing intentionally anyone to cross the border to Iraq... but the borders are long and nobody can stop crossings (on) these long desert borders.’’ including the crossing of the 3ID, Marine expeditionary forces ..... | |||||
Posted by:Frank G |
#1 Sounds like a threat to use the terrorists they support against us. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-11 10:35:55 PM |