Syria in the Gunsights

NewsMax ^ | Monday, April 26, 2004 | Jack Wheeler

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Syria in the Gunsights

Jack Wheeler

Monday, April 26, 2004

The argument for taking out the government of Syria is growing by the day. The only things holding back the Marines from seizing downtown Damascus and imprisoning Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as a war criminal are (a) the lack of manpower to prevent the place from collapsing into anarchic chaos before a transitional government can be set up, and (b) the literally hysterical objections of the State Department. Consider these justifications, any one of which would be reason alone to rid Syria of the al-Assad pestilence:

Syria has a 600-mile border with Iraq. Al-Assad is orchestrating the insertion of thousands of Al Qaeda, Hizbollah, and other Jihadi terrorists into Iraq, arming them, and letting them come back to Syria and resupply. It is these foreign terrorists that are primarily responsible for the atrocities in Fallujah and elsewhere, killing US and Coalition soldiers as well as innocent Iraqis.

As arms inspector David Kay has noted, Saddam’s “missing WMD” were shipped to Syria before the war began. Starting in January 2004, Al-Assad began flying shipments of WMD components to Sudan to hide them in warehouses in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. Afraid of the US response, Sudan’s leader Omar Bashir is now having second thoughts, and is ordering that Syria take back its Scud-C and Scud-D ballistic missiles and chemical weapons components.

On April 17, Jordanian police seized an amount of WMD chemicals being carried into Jordan from Syria by Al Qaeda terrorists. Three booby-trapped pickups were loaded with explosives and VX poison gas containers. Jordan’s King Abdullah and his intelligence chief General Kheir publicly announced that if the terrorists had succeeded in their confessed plan to detonate the VX in Amman near the American Embassy, over 20,000 people would have been massacred.

The evidence is becoming overwhelming that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad provided the hiding place for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, that it has begun providing them to Al Qaeda terrorists, and that it is waging a proxy guerrilla war upon the U.S. and the Coalition military in Iraq.

Sanctions, such as those authorized by Congress last December in the Syrian Accountability Act, and other forms of political and economic pressure, are very rapidly becoming far-too-little-far-too-late solutions, and very dangerously so.

Twenty thousand human beings were almost slaughtered in Jordan this month. Whatever anarchic chaos occurs in Syria after a B2 strike obliterates the Presidential Palace in Damascus, it is preferable to al-Assad-backed terrorists succeeding in their next VX attempt.

Syria is leaving President Bush with little else than the military option. The sooner he exercises that option, the more lives will be saved, American, Jordanian, and Iraqi.

Jack Wheeler is the Publisher and Editor of To The Point at www.tothepointnews.com.

© 2004, To The Point, Inc.

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[Anti-Bubba182]

Already here:

Jordan 'was chemical bomb target' (WMDs al-Qaeda)

and the other post quoted on the other forum is also at FR:

King Abdullah: Al-Qaida WMDs Came From Syria

[John Lenin]

Remember this , we are surrounded by hostile countries, one battle at a time right now, there is no sense in pulling in other countries until we secure Iraq. Iran is a way bigger problem than Syria.

[GoLightly]

I shoulda searched here first. lol

[TomasUSMC]

Will somebody pleeeese tell me who is the person or persons we are handing power over to on June30. I just want to know who whom or what?

[John Lenin]

Let the UN worry about it, that's the least they could do.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Unfortunately, you have been listening to politicians of both parties who don't have a clue how unfair a draft would be. The draft is not the answer. It will not deliver the quality our military needs today. Ours is a high tech military force. All the rich boys, Republicans, and more Democrats, yes, the Democrats have more "rich" and elitist folk than the pubbies, will beat the draft cause daddy or mommy will have worked the system. The answer is use of our massive air and sea power. This Islam "thing" requires the elimination of the enemy. Failure to do that will bring the USA down. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool. Do you really think that Japan and Germany would have made nice with the Brits & USA during WWII? Do you really think a John Kerry or Kofi Annan would have been able to negotiate with Hitler or Tojo! How did we win WWII? We wiped out the enemy until he had no more will to fight! Thank God for FDR & HST! Was quite a different bunch of Democrats then, unlike the whimps and America haters that run the party today. As the smart folk say: Failure in this war is not an option for the USA! And....I believe it!

[armyboy]

How are we going to take action against anyone ? We have every troops stationed somewhere. You people are all dreamming.
We could just bomb the heck Syria.
I've been proudly in Iraq for about a year and will be for a while longer, and if we have to go to war if Syria, I'll gladly go. I'll even volunteer to go with a different unit if it comes down to it.
I say this because I look at the bigger picture. A little discomfort and serving more time here is a small price to pay for a safer world.

[freedom4me]

We need to close the borders between Iran and Iraq and Syria and Iraq. No travel, period. We need to fly armed predator drones along the borders. Any person or vehicle crossing the borders at any point will be taken out. We must stop the flow of terrorists and weapons from these two countries...now!

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I suggest you pick up a gun and back up your statements

It may come to that someday if the Islamanazi's make any gain here in the U.S. Those of us who have the guns will be ready. Those P#$$ies who don't believe in gun ownership are going to be left out in the cold.