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2006-08-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-17 11:06|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ya, good luck with that. The only reason hezspurta is still around in Lebanon is that Israel didn't use its full force.

You are still a pimple on the ass of the Middle East, Assad.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-08-17 11:31|| 2006-08-17 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 This is already having ill effects for Israel. The invasion was devastating, but poorly managed. I would be cautious about drawing too many conclusions from it though. Israel likely wont make the same mistake again. They moved in, destroyed the country, killed, captured, seized weapons. If Hezbollah calls that a victory for them, well then I guess they won. Have fun living in a squalor of rubble for the next ten years, and enjoy your victory, and UN troops.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-08-17 11:42|| 2006-08-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 It is not possible to be too rich, to be too thin, or to have too many Hezbollahs.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-08-17 11:51|| 2006-08-17 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 "The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel the past month that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.
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We obviously don't look at this in the same way. Two months ago there were no Israeli forces in Lebanon, and a 1000 or so Unifil there, right?
Now there are 5-10000 Israeli's there, going to be (hopefully) 15,000 Lebanese and 15,000 Unfil soldiers there in a few months. How is going from no forgien soldiers in Lebanon to at least 15,000 there, a victory in anyone's book?

Posted by plainslow 2006-08-17 11:57|| 2006-08-17 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 How, because most likely they'll all be pointing their guns south..especially if Kofi has his way.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-08-17 12:08|| 2006-08-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Hollywood stars condemn hamas, hezbollah

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-17 12:16|| 2006-08-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Baby Asshead is getting too big for his britches. Perhaps he should have an "accident" arranged by the Mossad or IDF.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-08-17 12:16|| 2006-08-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 At what point will the West wake up?

How many dead how many attacks how much surrendered or lost territory how much?

It is only going to get worse and worse until what is left of the strong in the west stand up and check the pansies, take the leadership and do what must be done to win. HOw much pain will it take.

Posted by C-Low 2006-08-17 12:21|| 2006-08-17 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought he already had an 'accident' when the IAF buzzed his palace a few weeks back.

My 2.5 YO son has those from time-to-time. But, unlike Baby Assad, he'll eventually learn to avoid them.

or are you thinking of a different kind of accident?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-17 12:24|| 2006-08-17 12:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing like trumpeting your support for terrorism publicly.

"President" Assad: If you need help finishing the bullseye on your back--you know: those hard to reach places--let us know.

Posted by eLarson 2006-08-17 12:29|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-08-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 If Baby Assad had half a brain he'd declare peace with Israel and do everything he could to get the Golan heights back peacefully. Then do an Islam and declare victory and hike up the anti-Israel rhettoric as you fortify the high ground.

If given seemingly reasonable peace offerings from Syria a ton of idiots would push for Israel to comply.

Of course this would have worked better a couple of decades ago but better late than never.

Of course he's too stupid, too narrow minded, and too fearful of his own generals.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-08-17 12:34|| 2006-08-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Why spend the money on a shiny new Hezbollah? I thought with the glorious coming of August 22nd that it would be a different world. Maybe he should look to purchasing some used Hezbollahs from Lebanon instead.

Posted by Thoth 2006-08-17 12:41|| 2006-08-17 12:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Last I heard, Baathism was a secular movement. And the Assad's massacred as many as 30,000 Muslim Brotherhood jihadis in Hama, Syria.

Unless the US or Israel acts now, Israel will face a total missile threat within 3 years, and Europe will be under Iran blackmail in 5. And the US Homeland will within range of Ayatollah' ICBMs within 10. If President Bush wants the next generation to build a library in his name, then he ought not to pass on an unnecessary genocide threat onto American youth. Pick a date, and launch. Public opinion will fall into place.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-17 13:18|| 2006-08-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Israel was under strict orders NOT to topple the Lebanese government. I trust that this will not be the case if Syria attacks Israeli troops.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-08-17 13:27|| 2006-08-17 13:27|| Front Page Top

#15 That's another wonderful achievement of the incompetent Olmert. He denied the IDF the clear victory Israel needed to entrench its security, to inflict a major defeat to Hezboshiite and to increase its deterrence in the Arabs' mind.

Now, the stupid Islamonazis feel emboldened, Syria is creating its own Hezbofascist organization, and Hamas and Abbas' PA are planning to unify and adopt the terrorist methods used by Hezbollah.

It is necessary for Israeli people to change its leaders as soon as possible, and to launch this time a massive offensive (at an hour of their choice), with no pity at all, to eliminate totally those genocidal islamoterrorists (napalm and cluster bombs on all Lebanese towns controlled by Hezboschmuck as a first step...).

The democratic countries have to wake up, and decide once and for all to fight the war that has to be fought. It's about time.

Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid 2006-08-17 13:31|| 2006-08-17 13:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Hizbollah "victory"? Including troop rotations, at least 25,000 IDF troops passed through so-called Hizbollah defenses. Some defenders.

Why was the IDF silent on what it was doing in South Lebanon? Having forced evacuation of major Hizbollah terror centers - Aita-a-shaeb and Bint Jbeil being the largest - the IDF used massive artillery assaults to flatten all of them. When Hizbollah attempted a counter-attack at Bint Jbeil, 1-200 attackers were killed. The IDF left when there was nothing else to destroy. In its wisdom, Hizbollah suppressed coverage of the renderings of its centers, so that it could proclaim "victory," and please Muslim idiots.

Remember: magnesium bomb attacks on Tokyo, burned 200,000 Japs to death in a matter of hours. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki nukes killed 180,000 instantly, and were still killing people 20 years. Does anyone here have a problem with mass killing, to pre-empt future mortal danger?

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-17 13:44|| 2006-08-17 13:44|| Front Page Top

#17 I dont see the point of a Syrian Hezbo. The Lebanese one had the advantage of actually being independent of the Leb state, which gave Israel the dilemma of how to attack Hezb while not harming, and not being seen to harm, the Leb state. A Syrian controlled Hezb IN Syria presents no such dilemma. If Hezb-in-Syria does a rocket launching or a kidnapping, the IAF just hits Damascus, and shows the world what an UNRESTRAINED air campaign looks like.

Sounds more like hes just saying fortified infantry with ATMS, surrounded by civilians, are good for stopping tanks. Well, yeah, we know that.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-17 14:14|| 2006-08-17 14:14|| Front Page Top

#18 " Israel was under strict orders NOT to topple the Lebanese government. I trust that this will not be the case if Syria attacks Israeli troops. "

yeah, what i was trying to say, not as succinctly.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-17 14:15|| 2006-08-17 14:15|| Front Page Top

#19 Morons haven't yet figured out that losing less territory than expected isn't at all scalable to re-gaining lost territory. Hezbollah holds *less* Lebanese territory now than it did at the beginning of hostilities - in other words, while agitating for a few acres around the Shabaa Farms, they lost numerous square miles of formerly bunkered South-of-Litani land.

I suppose we can expect a report next fall about how Syrian Hezbollah has lost less territory than expected between Damascus and the Golan, and wasn't in fact wiped out to a man in the Syrian War of 2007. Well, assuming that said Syrian War doesn't end in a wholesale WMD exchange which irradiates the whole damned region.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-08-17 14:18|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-08-17 14:18|| Front Page Top

#20 Syria is forming its own Hezbollah-like guerilla organization to fight Israel in hopes of "liberating" the Golan Heights

This is actually a simple plan to figure out. This plan was in the works for some time. Iranian religious fanatics, with the help of Russian strategists, is the master planner. Whats the plan? I like to call it Operation Buying Time. Time, for what? Time for Iran to build a nuclear warhead. Lebanon is an unwilling participant and Syria is a willing participant with the signing of a mutual defense agreement. Willing or not willing, both countries are guilty guinea pigs in this Iranian apocalyptic lab experiment. Lebanon and Syrias only strategic role is to create a two state buffer zone for Iranian nuclear ambitions. There is lots of thread left on this Iranian screw and they know how and when to turn it.

Phase I. Lebanon is the first buffer zone or the first screw to be turned. The only way Iran can get time to build a nuclear warhead is to create chaos. As we all have witnessed, when the world turned on the pressure towards Iran, Iran via the Hezbollah invited a massive military response from Israel. The cease fire was not accepted by the ~~Iran~~ Hezbollah because Israel defeated Hezbollah but because Iranian strategists concluded that they reached their goal in buying themselves many, many months without the worlds inference, concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions. There is still, quite a bit of thread left in the Lebanon screw. Lebanon is not finished, being used as a buffer zone.

Syria is the second buffer zone and the second screw to be turned. Iran knows that the U.S. and Israel is not interested in saving the government in Syria. So, Iran will exploit Lebanon as long a possible before moving to Phase II. The Lebanon option alone, will buy Iran many months if not, years of time. Phase II will include sacrificing the government of Syria, specifically Damascus. Iran will not go to Phase II until there is a credible threat to their nuclear facilities. Once Iran moves to Phase II second buffer zone, Iran will be guaranteed not months, but years to develop a nuclear weapon. Why? Because moving to Phase II will invite the complete destruction of Damascus. Once the world witnesses this mass destruction of Damascus, even the U.S. government will be forced to stand against any future Israeli military operations.

One may argue that, Israel can utilize the Sampson option. Since Lebanon and Syria is currently being used to buy time and not to destroy Israel, Israel will not use the Sampson option. Attempted destruction of Israel will come at a later and more opportune time and Iran wants the sole credit. The gamble by Iran is that, by the time that Israel is willing to use the Sampson option, one, Israel will show injury via a thousand cuts and two, more importantly, Iran, by this time, will have multiple nuclear warheads.

Morals and ethics aside and it really sickens me to say this but, in my opinion, this is a brilliant plan by the mullahs of Iran. Brilliant, because the creation of a two state buffer zone that Iran can turn and tweak the screw at will. The only way to counter this plan is for an all out Middle East war and the West does not have a stomach for this type of war on a massive scale. The war would include U.S., Israel, and possibly Australia, (combined power only, for maximum effectiveness) against Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, simultaneously. One may say, where is Britain in all this? Britain is slowly drifting toward the EU realm and will not participate. Britain will tell Israel to negotiate. The world will not agree to this and therefore Iran with a nuclear weapon is inevitable. Unfortunately, a piece meal war is not going to work, only overwhelming force, due to the enormous amount civilians that will die if overwhelming force is not used.

In the future, since both countries will have nuclear warheads, I predict that Iran with a band of Muslim nations, (with the help of Russia) will march against Israel for a conventional war. Israel will be the ultimate winner but, hundreds of thousands of Muslims will be sacrificed in this mad religious lab experiment.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-08-17 16:17|| 2006-08-17 16:17|| Front Page Top

#21 Snease Shaiting3550 is right with the great defenders. If the UN follows through with it's 15,000 troops, than the great defenderss defended so well that South Lebanon will have 15,000 more Lebanese troops and 15,000 more infidels on thier terrritory. Some defense.

Posted by plainslow 2006-08-17 16:27|| 2006-08-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#22 That Pencil-~~dick~~dictator is really asking for a major case of whup a**.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-08-17 17:47|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-08-17 17:47|| Front Page Top

#23 'cuse me ... I meant Pencil-Neck dictator!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-08-17 17:47|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-08-17 17:47|| Front Page Top

#24 'cuse me ... I meant Pencil-Neck dictator!

I'm confiident that's what you meant, LOD. Otherwise you would have used the more applicable apellation of "Needle-d!ck."

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-17 18:34|| 2006-08-17 18:34|| Front Page Top

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