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2003-04-17 Syria-Lebanon

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Posted by Samma-lamma 2003-04-17 09:40 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let them come to Iraq. We will kill them. Quickly, dispassionately, and in large numbers. And trace them back to Syria.

As for Iran - well, the overland supply line has just been cut. Iran will now have to ship third party, by sea. Far more difficult to hide shipments of weaponry that way.

The geography alone makes Iraq the keystone in stopping terror in the middle east.

Posted by OldSpook 2003-04-17 10:05:18|| 2003-04-17 10:05:18|| Front Page Top

#2 God willing, as my imam, Ahmed Simian Orangutani, would say. If the western desert turns into a vast killing ground for these primates, it will all have worked out better than we hoped.

Posted by joe 2003-04-17 10:13:07|| 2003-04-17 10:13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 The pain in my side saz that Syria is becoming very uncomfortable with its new-found attention being directed at it. We need to keep ramping up the heat on many fronts, expecially with their oil pipelines from Iraq. I do not know how much Iraqi money they still have access to, but with an oil embargo and some heat on their finances and banks, I think that we can sink 'em without actual military intervention, aside from massing troops on the border and some carefully done special ops in country. If they want to harbor terrorists and mess up Lebanon, then there will be a very high price for their status quo.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-17 10:20:40|| 2003-04-17 10:20:40|| Front Page Top

#4 If we go to war with Syria they won't be able to call it a war for oil. But, I would rather us take care of Bob Mugabe first.

Posted by George 2003-04-17 10:46:13|| 2003-04-17 10:46:13|| Front Page Top

#5 A direct threat needs to be made to Hezbollah: send your members to Iraq and they will be rooted out and KILLED.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-17 11:04:29|| 2003-04-17 11:04:29|| Front Page Top

#6 To increase the heat on Syria, I trust that our leaders are putting the screws to Syria's erstwhile European allies. I listened to a typically slanted NPR report this morning on Syria and how Assad, the Elder, almost reached an accord with Israel in 1999. However, the NPR correspondent intoned, the Israelis scotched the deal because of its intransigence in turning over all of the Golan Heights.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-17 11:07:03|| 2003-04-17 11:07:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Dennis Ross, a former American special envoy to the Middle East, said last June that Syria had shipped Syrian-made rockets directly to Hezbollah in Syrian-controlled parts of southern Lebanon. Until last year, Ross said, Syria's role in arming Hezbollah was limited mostly to permitting shipments of Iranian-made arms - including Katyusha rockets - through its territory. With a range of about 70 kilometers (45 miles), the Syrian-made rockets have a longer reach than the Katyushas.

Smoking gun.

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-17 12:53:41|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-17 12:53:41|| Front Page Top

#8 However, the NPR correspondent intoned, the Israelis scotched the deal because of its intransigence in turning over all of the Golan Heights.

Screw Syria. The Jews kicked their asses and took that area from them in '67 as a result of repeated Syrian shellings and terrorist attacks, and for them to still act as if Israel OWES it to them to give it back, well....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-17 14:40:48|| 2003-04-17 14:40:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems to me President Bush declared war on terrorism wherever it fluorished. Hezbollah is a terrorist outfit. We should welcome them from Syria with open arms - M-60's, Abrams tanks, and Bradley fighting vehicles. Once the fruitcakes are taken care of, then we go in and clean out their homesteads and the nations that support and supply them. I think that's about the only way to really deal with people so willing to die.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-17 18:53:14|| 2003-04-17 18:53:14|| Front Page Top

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