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2004-04-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Long Hair Republican 2004-04-16 00:20|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 serves the country's unity and preserves its security and stability

Perhaps with a PostIt note attached explaining that the country in question could easily be Syria instead of Iraq?

Posted by Steve 2004-04-16 8:41:36 AM|| 2004-04-16 8:41:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve, that's the light yellow post-it note. There are also salmon and green post-its from associate editors Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz attached...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-04-16 8:59:38 AM|| 2004-04-16 8:59:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 this will be seen as weakness and prompt baby assad to push even more

Posted by Dan 2004-04-16 10:34:37 AM|| 2004-04-16 10:34:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Anytime you hear the name Richard Armitage, be very concerned. He is the diplomatic equivalent of James Bond, as in "licensed to kill". For example, when a possibly nuclear power wants to go to war, he is the guy sent to scare the bejeezus out of them. He would be the guy who delivers the threat of thermonuclear annihilation
in person.

He is an extremely scary dude. It's not often you see a high government official whose biography keeps changing.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-04-16 11:58:03 AM|| 2004-04-16 11:58:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Seafarious: I'm still laughing at that one! I especially like that Rummy gets the salmon colored ones!

I agree with the point here, this is Colin "good cop" Powell and Richard "I'm delivering a scary message" Armitage working together.

Posted by Steve White 2004-04-16 12:17:17 PM|| 2004-04-16 12:17:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What's that line about how diplomacy is saying "nice doggie!" while reaching for a rock?

Dear Baby Assad: Happy Birthday. Don't make us come over there. Love, Uncle Sam.

The Richard Armitage part sounds interesting. I really don't know his history, but he strikes me as a 'fixer', if you know what I mean.

Posted by SteveS 2004-04-16 12:19:16 PM|| 2004-04-16 12:19:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 How about a footnote casually mentioning that leaky borders work both ways. There's this Kurdish minority in Syria, and a lot of leftover guns and ammo in Iraq....

Posted by Nero 2004-04-16 1:38:43 PM|| 2004-04-16 1:38:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 There's another famous line about diplomacy -- it's being able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that he looks forward to the journey.

Posted by Tibor 2004-04-16 1:46:17 PM|| 2004-04-16 1:46:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 a separate congratulatory letter from President Bush

Dear Baby Assad:

CONGRATULATIONS. You have just been selected by the NSC board to be our GRAND PRIZE WINNER. You have just replaced Iraq in the Axis of evil trio.

Daffy Khadaffy disqualified himself. But you know the story. He wants to live.

Please let us know when we can assist you with clean disposal of Saddam's Sarin Gas.

Regards
W.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-16 1:48:35 PM|| 2004-04-16 1:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Armitage has the look and the voice for work in the funeral parlor industry. Some accuse him of being moderate, but on all those neocon point papers that Chainey and Wolfowitz sent to the Clinton Administration, you'll notice that he and Bolton signed more than a few.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-16 2:46:21 PM|| 2004-04-16 2:46:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Armitage is a dangerous dude. He can still apparently bench press 400 pounds.

Posted by H.D. Miller 2004-04-16 3:25:49 PM|| [travellingshoes.blogspot.com] 2004-04-16 3:25:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Boltons definitely a neo con. Never heard that about Armitage. Sure hes not just more of a tough guy realist, along the Jim Baker mold?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-16 4:50:25 PM|| 2004-04-16 4:50:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I'll look back at the stuff, but he signed some of them. He definitely was part of the same think tank.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-16 5:02:19 PM|| 2004-04-16 5:02:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Armitage worked fairly closely with Perle in the Reagan administration but I'm not aware of associations with any think tank.

Posted by rkb 2004-04-16 8:01:41 PM|| 2004-04-16 8:01:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 What's that line about how diplomacy is saying "nice doggie!" while reaching for a rock?

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" whilst you find a rock.

â Attributed to Tallyrand

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-16 9:04:34 PM|| 2004-04-16 9:04:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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