Posted on 12/07/2004 7:15:28 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
Edited on 12/07/2004 9:35:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I believe the first move will be a surprize attack by Israel against Iran. Syria will respond, of course, perhaps using Iraq's WMD to attack Israel (possibly through Lebanon?), and Bush will have no choice but to then invade Syria.
Syria no brainer. Iran is just to big.
looks like a perfect tactical bottleneck. sitting ducks
Yes. IMO, very likely.
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Presidnt Bush's (hinted, but not stated) ME policy is to bring government, law, and order to that entire region of fire ants, something the colonial era failed to do. For some strange reason, I give this strategy a better than 50% chance of success.
Red marks the hot spots?
Thanks for these illuminating and humorous comments. Our plans for liberating that whole theater of the world are safe behind yours and the rest of the "Our Gang"'s cast of characters.
That whole business about invading here and there is hilarious. Really loved your "Let's take a look at the Map" thing.
My son is in the Marine Corps serving on the Syria/Iraq border. His platoon is mortared daily from Syria. Unfortunately the Syrian government claims no knowledge of who might be responsible. This has been going on for months.
The only good Ba'athist is a dead Ba'athist.
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Yeah, sure, get rid of the Ba'athists...
I'd feel cleaner with a Sho'owerist !!! ;-))
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I didn't know that the Sea of Galilee was named after Captain Kirk!
nope..elevation.
they're both tough nuts to crack logistically, but Syria offers the advantage of opening supply lines to the Med - that alone saves about 10,000 miles on sea transport. The main Syrian port is named Latakia, iirc... and is north of the bekaa & surrounding mountains (less worry about guerilla groups).
Weve been in there for 21 months - heavy insurgent activity for at least 16 of those - and we're just getting a clue where its coming from?
Josef Bodansky has written a book, published in August 2003, entitled "The Secret Iraq War" that accuses both Iran and Syria of providing insurgents and weapons to destabalize Iraq.
Our intelligence services are woefully weak and inept. The shakeup is long overdue - but it will be a long time before they are operating with the required level of performance.
Yawn. That was REALLY poor. I'm now convinced you flunked out of college.
See your Bible; it's called 'the burden of Damascus.' I think it is coming soon....
"U.S. military intelligence has concluded the Iraqi insurgency is being directed to a greater degree than previously thought from Syria"
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Give US 'intelligence' another two years in the ME and they might find some arabs in syria too.
I bet that's the last thing they want to do at present, kinda tied up elsewhere right now....
Only 12 months late to reach the conclusion we all knew already. What geniuses!
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