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2005-01-18 Iraq-Jordan

Hussein's 'Army of Muhammad' Confesses: We Received Money and Arms from Syria and Iran

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-18 11:23|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 causus belli for war

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-18 11:47:05 AM|| 2005-01-18 11:47:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 does look like we are headed that way.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-18 11:47:37 AM|| 2005-01-18 11:47:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hah. I wish!

United States, unfortunately, seems more scared of Syria and Iran, than Syria and Iran are scared of the United States.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-01-18 1:31:37 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-01-18 1:31:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 ignore

Posted by Tom 2005-01-18 1:32:35 PM|| 2005-01-18 1:32:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 #3-Too soon to say that.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-18 1:33:45 PM|| 2005-01-18 1:33:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 ignore

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-18 1:49:44 PM|| 2005-01-18 1:49:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lies, all lies. Sec Dep Armitage says the Syrians are being "helpful" but they could be "more helpful."

And the Iranians wouldn't do such things, now that the EU-3 is applying soft power on them.

Seriously, it is no longer a case of not knowing that Syria and Iran are killing our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. The real question is: What in the hell are we going to do about it? And when?

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-18 2:52:03 PM|| 2005-01-18 2:52:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 For Syria, try this page and 1) enter H.R.1828 in the Search field and select the 108th Congress. The Bill shows up as the #2 hit - check it out.

Posted by .com 2005-01-18 3:07:51 PM|| 2005-01-18 3:07:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Checked out the H.R. 1828 ( 108th ) .com
But like Captain says, what are we going to do about it and when ?

Posted by tex 2005-01-18 5:15:42 PM|| 2005-01-18 5:15:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wait for an Iraqi DoW?

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-18 5:17:55 PM|| 2005-01-18 5:17:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I would repeat that Syria (to a large extent) is a "client" state of Iran, and Lebanon (utterly) a "client" state of Syria.

Here's the same information regards Iran:
Search HCON 398 - 108th Congress - Item #4: H.CON.RES.398.EAS

So where would you start?

Posted by .com 2005-01-18 5:27:09 PM|| 2005-01-18 5:27:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, .com, since Syria is the weaker dependent enemy, there are arguments for and against doing them first.

Obviously it would take far fewer troops to knock out Syria. Some of them might even have 6-pointed stars on their tanks and airplanes. Right now, our troops are stretched thin trying to protect everything. The question is: if we send them over there, can they do the job quickly enough that we can start to reap the benefits of the lower threat level? Syria can't be another Iraq, because where would the terrorists be based? Turkey? Jordan? Israel???? Granted, there are all the terrorists that have made their homes there and we would have to make sure we captured or killed them.

OTOP, if we can neutralize Iran, then Syria withers on the vine. Iran would be far tougher. We could hope that there is a strong domestic opposition, but we hoped for that in Iraq, too. The mullahs don't have the complete Stalinist total control that Saddam and his henchmen did, so an opposition is at least possible there. Then again, Machiavelli warned a foreign power to never intervene in a civil war, since he likely reunites the opposing sides against him.

Over all, I'd prefer to take out Syria to free up our back. Then, turn around on Iran and use a blockade/bombing strategy. Try to kill some of the government leaders without carpet bombing cities or anything.

But what do I know?

Posted by jackal 2005-01-18 11:12:02 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-01-18 11:12:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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