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2003-04-14 Syria-Lebanon

US starts military-build along Iraqâs border with Syria

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-14 09:48 am|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I always laugh when I hear the A-10 called a "fighter plane". Just goes to show what some of these people know. (or don't know, as it were)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-14 11:03:36|| 2003-04-14 11:03:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Good, about time!!!

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-14 11:25:31|| 2003-04-14 11:25:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Theres a new sheriff in town.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-04-14 11:46:50|| 2003-04-14 11:46:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Bomb-a-rama, speaking of people not knowing, The gal on Fox News Yesterday thought that the AK47 was used by the U.S. And the Armchair General thought they we're hearing an AK firing while the camera was on, and the world was watching, a U.S. Marine firing.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-04-14 12:28:26|| 2003-04-14 12:28:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Syria needs to arrest and return All Iraqi baathists who crossed the border in the last four weeks and send them back for Trial...

Or Else!

Posturing must not be allowed to become an acceptable course of action.

Someone tell these dopes we have satellites with very good eyes ( 20/20 vision ) watching them and that we are unlikely to show them what we have seen simply because they already know the truth.

Posted by AnonymousLy yours 2003-04-14 12:37:03|| 2003-04-14 12:37:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Considering that the US now controls the oil pipeline that used to be used to smuggle oil to Syria and the roads that used to be used to smuggle oil to Syria, we can probably put quite a hurt on Syria without actually using any military vehicles. The military hardwaredoes just seems to put the exclamation in the point.

Posted by mhw 2003-04-14 12:38:39|| 2003-04-14 12:38:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Syria will come around. Expect Assad to liberize his system in the weeks and months to come. He knows the jig is up and he'd probably just as soon not have be sent away, via JDAM, from this mortal coil.

Posted by defscribe 2003-04-14 12:44:59|| 2003-04-14 12:44:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Methinks that the Iraqi Information Ministry can readily find employment in Syria. He has just the kind of resume and body of pathological prevarications that Assad is looking for!

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-14 13:31:15|| 2003-04-14 13:31:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Wait! We declared a War On Terror long before we did on Saddam. Just handing over escaping Ba'athists ain't enuff! They've been bad, really bad.

I recall Lebanon used to be an actual country, but became Daddy AssHat's buffer zone and training center. I recall one helluvalot of DEAD US MARINES (237?) on Syria's watch. One is infinitely too many. I recall that they have supported terrorists (Hezbollah - in concert with Iran) forever.

Taking down "states" that support terrorism is the only truly effective means of slowing or stopping it. You take away the haven, the financing, the documents, the places where they train these twisted-from-birth-by-Qu'ran volunteers, and a host of other reasons. This is one of those "states" and deserves no slack, period.

Am I missing something here? Do we let Syria skate away if they just help a little with the Iraq thing? Wha?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-14 15:36:59|| 2003-04-14 15:36:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Not that driving Syria and Hezbollah out of Lebanon,or even ousting Baby Assad wouldn't be a good thing,but Bild is not the most reliable newspaper in the world and I'd wait for confirmation from another source.Note the "unidentified US general".Sam Mildener,perchance?

Posted by El Id 2003-04-14 16:04:57|| 2003-04-14 16:04:57|| Front Page Top

#11 The gal on Fox News Yesterday thought that the AK47 was used by the U.S.

I'll bet that if the magic words "assault weapon" were used, she'd probably snap to. Or maybe not...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-14 16:28:27|| 2003-04-14 16:28:27|| Front Page Top

#12 It's Fox News, give them some credit...

In any case, I understand the A-10 confusion. But come on, A is for Attack... F is for Fighter... C is for Cargo Transport, B is for Bomber...you'll go far with those little triggers.

Posted by Brian 2003-04-14 17:25:52|| 2003-04-14 17:25:52|| Front Page Top

#13 It all makes sense until you try to explain the F-117.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-14 19:00:01|| 2003-04-14 19:00:01|| Front Page Top

#14 We don't want to go into Syria. I'd guess the 4ID will spread out with the 101 and interdict the border. We have lots and lots of nifty toys that will tell us if a snake crawls across. Meanwhile, no iraqi oil, and the Israelis making ugly noises.

Bet on photo-documented humint on the folks that aren't there soon. When it shows up, we'll shove it right down their lying throats.

Posted by mojo 2003-04-14 21:45:31|| 2003-04-14 21:45:31|| Front Page Top

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