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Posted on 07/06/2005 2:00:32 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Syrians are increasing assistance to foreign fighters preparing to enter Iraq and kill civilians and U.S. troops, despite months of pressure on Damascus from Washington to crack down on the jihadists. A U.S. official said recent intelligence shows that Syria is the home to Web sites that exhort militants to come to the country for preparation to fight and die in Iraq. Syrians also are providing barracks-like housing as the recruits from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco and other Muslim countries prepare for a jihad, or holy war. The fighters also receive weapons, training and money in Syria. The Syrian government denies that it is helping the terrorists. American commanders in Iraq have refrained from publicly saying the Ba'athist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is actively assisting the insurgency. The Web sites and housing are why U.S. commanders, in hearings last month, referred to Syria's capital of Damascus as the "hub" for foreigners entering Iraq and carrying out daily suicide car bombings. Previously, officials have said that terrorists receive phony identification cards and passports in Syria and that they use the papers to cross Iraq's porous border. But fresh intelligence reports show that the staging in Syria is becoming more elaborate, the official said.
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So when are we going to 'deal with ' Syria?
It's time....
When a regime smiles and literally begs to be attacked, it ought to be attacked. That's just common decency.
They feel safe because they've heard that we're bogged down in a bottomless quagmire with no end in sight and we're doomed and trapped and so on...
Way past time to make Syria a parking lot!!!!!!!
Emcouraging news but the border will only be secured in the long run when we overthrow the Baathist regime ni Syria and do something about the Iranians and Saudi Wahhabists.
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Not true, we don't have to go into Syria, we only have to attack the barracks with a cruise and stealth attack that destroys them. It would send an unequivical message to Syria, Iran etc.
Then through diplomatic contacts let Assad know that wherever he is is next if he doesn't put a top to it.
Then do it.
Tanke him and his family out with him and let the collective outcry fall on deaf ears.
I think Clinton already proved that doesn't work with terrorists and the regimes that support them. We shouldn't point the gun unless we are willing to pull the trigger.
I think the American military right now is using the best approach. They are treating Iraq like a roach motel. The insurgents come in and they never leave.
To think we do not have spec-ops working behind the scenes would be naive. I believe we are encouraging this activity. It would be easy to just put a couple of predators on the border and anything that comes into Iraq gets zapped on entry.
However, the terrorists are congregating in one place and if I recall, that is how the President prefers it. better there than here. If 1/2 million terrorists came into Iraq, we would eventually kill them all.
Well land sakes!
All these helpful hints and solutions.
Bet that Dang Cowboy President and his ranch hands never thought of any of this.
"Bet that Dang Cowboy President and his ranch hands never thought of any of this."
Of course he didn't. If I recall correctly, Kerry and his compadres at Moveon said Bush is a moron, so it must be true.
Man, dontcha hope they really believe that?
Amen, Amen! It needs to be just like Libya in 86, Qaddafhi and his clowns. Bush said you are either with the terrorists or with us. We need to put the smack down on Syria.
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