[xrp]

Gee...looks like I'll have to do without my Syrian...errr...UHHHH...huuuuuuuuuuuuh

[Cvengr]

I suspect the real threat might be international team tag to their efforts.

Fuel prices have jumped 40%, steel prices have jumped 40% and now cement is being rationed down to only support about 200CY of concrete per batch plant daily. All due to shortages in international shipping, in large part because of Chinese priority for those resources.

If you planned to build this year,...you might want to plan some more. Those without accounts with concrete batch plants might find they have a long wait for concrete in the foreseeable future.

Most of these shortages are pure shortages from foreign imports being directed elsewhere.

[demkicker]

"We are not simple-minded to the degree that we imagine we can affect the great American economy,"

So glad he made that clear.... Gut laughing here.

[spodefly]

This is bad.

I was thinking about buying a Syrian car, or radio, or microwave, or dialysis machine, or telephone, or computer, or airplane, or something.

Now it looks like I can't.

[mattdono]

Uhhhh...I can feel the tension in the air!

[Rebelbase]

EXPORTS:
B) Syria to U.S.:
Syrian Exports to U.S. for all 2001: $159 million
Syrian Exports to U.S. for all 2000: $158 million

% change: +0.6%

Top 15 U.S. Imports from Syria (in $ value)

mineral fuel, oil	$70.9 million
art/antiques	$26.9 million
knit apparel	$23.9 million
woven apparel	$12.8 million
spices, coffee, tea	$ 6.6 million
other vegetable	$ 4.2 million
specialty provisions	$ 3.2 million
misc textile articles	$ 2.2 million
cotton yarn, fabric	$ 1.9 million
cocoa	$ 0.7 million
manmade staple fibers	$ 0.6 million
furniture and bedding	$ 0.5 million
machinery	$ 0.4 million
manmade filament, fabric	$ 0.4 million
wood	$ 0.2 million

Fastest Growing U.S. Import from Syria: Textile Floor Coverings up by 815%

[nuconvert]

LOL!

[doug from upland]

No more Syrian veggie burgers for me.

[mystery-ak]

Gosh!...this is gonna hurt, ouch!!(sarcasm)

[nuconvert]

Oh Yeah? LOL. PonG

[calmseas]

Syria only exports bullshit anyway. We can get that from any other Arab country.

[gatorgriz]

Wow; I guess I'll forgo my usual Syrian mud bath...

I spit on Syria in toto... What worthless country; a pimple on the ass of humanity...

[Squantos]

Good golly there goes the 7-11 workforce ! No more Slurpies and 2 week old corndogs for the infidals eh ? Whaaaaaah Whaaaaaah !!!

Syria........is'nt that Texan for big green glass ashtray ?

Stay Safe !

[Desdemona]

Oh, this is really going to hurt.

[isom35]

are they syrias, I mean serious?...or is it series?

[JimSEA]

The humor and derision on this thread is obvious to the Muslim world. Who could take them seriously. Humiliation and Islam do not go well together.

This is why Iran is building the Bomb and why Syria took the risk of hiding Saddam's WMD IMHO. It is rough on the old ego when all you can cheer is the beheading of a guy who never harmed anyone and even liked Arabs. Pathetic but dangerous and very evil.

[RoseofTexas]

OH WOW, now I'm reeaaaaaaaaaallly shaking in my cowboy boots....bawhahahhahahahhahaha! Them Syrians are tooooo funny! BaWHAHAHHAHAHA!

[Mo1]

Does anyone know exactly what they trade?

[BulletBobCo]

[EGPWS]

Syria is preparing a law that would prohibit trade dealings with the United States in response to U.S. sanctions imposed on the Arab country last month, Syrian legislators said Saturday.

D@mn, stop laughing, this is serious, gosh without trade with Syria there goes my sex life, my job, and everything that I have worked for my whole life!

Where oh where can one replace the all desired influx of Syrian imports to guarantee financial stability in the USA?

[EGPWS]

The hand with the food has been bitten.