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2006-08-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Chilling threat as Syria FM offers to join with Hezbollah if...

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 While he watches the Israelis ... Jordan hits from the south or the US rolls in from IRAQ?

he's far too cocky for a man with no friendly borders.

Posted by 3dc 2006-08-07 01:31|| 2006-08-07 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Life is not "fair" Syria. It will also become less "Fair" if you keep it up.

Posted by newc">newc 2006-08-07 02:29|| 2006-08-07 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Bloof. The ruling Alawites know their entire sect will be massacared by the Suni majority if IDF takes their army down.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-07 03:03|| 2006-08-07 03:03|| Front Page Top

#4 ISRAEL AMBASSADOR ON FOX > neither Syria or Iran see any borders between their nations and Lebanon = Israel: IOW, Lebanon doesn't exist as sovereign or independent as far as Damascus andor Tehran is concerned. Where IRAN PER SE is concerned, this view potentially also applies to Syria per se, as well as Jordan per se, pragmatically once Israel surreally goes down for the count. By the ambassador's scope Israel is already fighting against Syria and Iran.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-07 03:24|| 2006-08-07 03:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Syria is the easy target but Iran is the meaningful target.

Posted by Odysseus 2006-08-07 05:34|| 2006-08-07 05:34|| Front Page Top

#6 The elephant in the room remains seated until November and not a moment later.
Time is running out on Syria and Iran. The twelfth Imam will hatch soon and all hell will break loose. Stay tuned.

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-07 07:44|| 2006-08-07 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Mr. Assad, guess how long it will take to reduce Damascus to rubble? Here's a hint: Not very f*cking long. Keep it up.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-07 08:53|| 2006-08-07 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Note that the regional war is not so welcome that Syria will actually join it...

Posted by Oldcat 2006-08-07 09:43|| 2006-08-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I welcome a regional war. Gets rid of Syria and possibly Iran.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-08-07 10:02|| 2006-08-07 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I think this says Assad is not in control, fearing for his life. He may want to negotiate for protection...get the list for Mossad and we'll arrange a nice vacation spot on the Mediterranean.

Posted by Danielle 2006-08-07 10:46|| 2006-08-07 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Syria is on the Mediterranean. With a little coaxing though, we could place a US Marine base in western Syria, say a 7 mile wide beachhead.

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-07 10:52|| 2006-08-07 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Step right up, mouth-boy. The Syrian army would last about 4-5 hours.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-07 12:09|| 2006-08-07 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Oscar is suiting up as we type.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-07 12:21|| 2006-08-07 12:21|| Front Page Top

#14 "If Israel attacks Syria by any means, on the ground, in the air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately..."

Really? Kidnap a couple Syrian soldiers and see if Syria is willing to play by the same rules they demand of Israel--complete military restraint. (Course you'd have to find the Syrian soldiers when they're not in women's clothing.)

Posted by Jules 2006-08-07 12:39|| 2006-08-07 12:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Would be much easier to wipe out Syria's fighting forces, they wear uniforms.

Posted by RWV 2006-08-07 12:43|| 2006-08-07 12:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Syria's foreign minister, Walid Muallem said: "If you wish, I'm ready to be a soldier at the disposal of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah"

Bill Clinton once said: "The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die."

(He didn't mention Syrians, so he would luck out here.)

Do you suppose Walid Muallem is more or less sincere than former President Clinton?

Posted by eLarson 2006-08-07 15:34|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-08-07 15:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Syria is the easy target but Iran is the meaningful target.

Word, odysseus.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-07 20:57|| 2006-08-07 20:57|| Front Page Top

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