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2004-05-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2004-05-14 12:11:18 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Come back here," called the Black Knight. "I'll bite your knees off!"

Posted by Seafarious 2004-05-14 12:34:08 AM|| 2004-05-14 12:34:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Someday, son, all this will be yours..."

"What, the curtains?"

"No, not the curtains you silly twit! The land!"

(And the ever popular)

"Help! Help! I'm bein' repressed!"

Posted by mojo 2004-05-14 2:17:47 AM|| 2004-05-14 2:17:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Assad "rejects" the sanctions? If only it were that easy, Asshat.

Posted by Mercutio 2004-05-14 3:42:39 PM|| 2004-05-14 3:42:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 exactly. I don't think W asked whether Syria accepted the sanctions. What a dipshit

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-14 4:00:53 PM|| 2004-05-14 4:00:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Assad said the instability in Iraq affects Syria. He said there was a history in the 1980s of Iraq sending saboteurs into Syria and that even today there is smuggling of arms from Iraq to Syria and vice versa. "This is dangerous for Syria."

Assad seems to understand the strategy better than most LLL

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-14 12:30:42 AM|| 2004-05-14 12:30:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 An American embargo won't do much. An Iraqi embargo would be very inconvenient for Assad, but would probably be harmful to Iraq as well. The new government will have to decide whether it wants to be subverted.

Posted by Anonymous4828 2004-05-14 12:48:52 AM|| 2004-05-14 12:48:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Or the new government (once it finds its feet) could decide that turnabout is fair play. They could host "Radio Free Damascus" for example. Come to think of it ...

Posted by Steve White 2004-05-14 1:07:26 AM|| 2004-05-14 1:07:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Come back here," called the Black Knight. "I'll bite your knees off!"

Monty Python. Although the Arab mindset is more like ealier in the sketch.

" I cut your arm off! "" It's just a flesh wound. "

Posted by Charles 2004-05-14 1:34:40 AM|| 2004-05-14 1:34:40 AM|| Front Page Top

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