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2005-03-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Assad Secretly Deploys Joint Iranian-Syrian Units in Lebanon

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Posted by Steve 2005-03-07 9:10:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 since nobody answered me on the other thread, I'll try again here:

Look at this photo from Instapundit today ...notice the guy in the middle
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now look at this one: (scroll down to last picture, guy on the left
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don't they look like the same guy?

PS..I used the troll hat so I could get a little attention here!
2b

Posted by Bush Sux 2005-03-07 10:54:41 AM|| 2005-03-07 10:54:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There certainly is a strong resemblence, BS.

Assad, on the other hand, is playing his culture's final card -- loud bluster proclaiming invincibility. But, being the poor relative, he doesn't have a Baghdad Bob spokesman, and has to do his own blustering.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-07 11:14:36 AM|| 2005-03-07 11:14:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gosh, yes 2b. They do look alike, though one looks a bit younger than the other and appears to have a more beakish nose. But what they both seem to have in common is their mood, it doesn't quite seem to fit the circumstances - almost as if they were photoshopped in. No, I'm not saying they were photoshopped, only that it looks like a normal guy in the wrong spot. As Glenn Reynolds said, the one in the middle looks like he wishes he were with the hot chicks instead.

No doubt a coincidence, but thanks for sharing.

Posted by so pathetic 2005-03-07 11:19:52 AM|| 2005-03-07 11:19:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like proof enough to me of Syrian interference in Iraq. Same guy ...

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-07 11:59:40 AM|| 2005-03-07 11:59:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 thanks for the comments :-)

Posted by 2b 2005-03-07 12:10:14 PM|| 2005-03-07 12:10:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 He must mean the Bekka Napalm Test Range, huh?

Posted by mojo 2005-03-07 12:56:01 PM|| 2005-03-07 12:56:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Keep an eye on Iraq. If you start to see large numbers of Army troops being rotated into Iraq, but MARINE units either not being rotated out, or being rotated to EUROPE, you know Bush has made up his mind to get rid of Assad. Consider: the US has 135,000 military troops in Iraq. The 6th Fleet is still in the Med. Virtually every troop ever assigned to a warfighting unit has gotten ground experience in Iraq or Afghanistan. Syria can import 100,000 Iranians, and it still won't make a difference. If the word is passed to "go", Assad is going to have that "a" in the middle of his name changed to an "e".

Syria will be a little more difficult to destroy than Iraq, and will definitely need a preliminary barrage of airstrikes prior to an attack. The three SA-5 sites in Syria will definitely have to be taken out first. After that, the coastal anti-ship batteries will have to be destroyed. Then the Marines can land just south of Beirut and just north of Latakia, and join up with the 3rd ID from Iraq in Damascus.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-03-07 3:38:35 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-07 3:38:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 OP, how about if we see Iraqis taking over control of Baghdad, cauz they're ready?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-07 3:42:49 PM|| 2005-03-07 3:42:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 OP, why would the Marines be rotated to Europe before attacking Syria?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-07 5:18:09 PM|| 2005-03-07 5:18:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 TW - so they can ride in behind the air shield of the 6th Fleet aircraft carriers and make a beach landing in Lebanon and Syria. It saves the expense of taking them all the way back to the States and then bringing them back to Europe for staging.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-03-07 6:53:05 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-07 6:53:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The visual of the Marines making an actual landing enroute to kicking ass would be worth wonders when it comes time to threaten some other jerks around the world.

Syria'd have the Marines to the west, the Israeli's to the south and the US army behind them.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-07 9:49:02 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-03-07 9:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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