[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Syria has repeatedly denied it was allowing fighters to slip across its 380-mile border into Iraq and stressed it was doing all it can to stop it.

I don't believe it!

[txkev]

Anyway we can fly off course and hit Damascus? I'm sure after yesterday, they know how bad of pilots we are!

[NonValueAdded]

Maybe we'll learn something and then apply it at home.

[theFIRMbss]

>U.S.-Iraq Battle Touches on Syria Border

Could be a nice touch
to reward good Iraqis
by simply making

Syria into
"West Iraq" and, then, Iran
"East Iraq." Sounds good.

[MplsSteve]

"American forces have complained of coming under mortar fire from the Syrian side of the border - though they say they don't know by whom."

Likely guerrilla units doing the mortar fire. I don't see why we can't respon with counter-battery fire.

We have the equipment to pin-point the likely site of the firing.

OTOH, maybe the guerrillas pack up so quickly after firing, it isn't even worth it to fire back at 'em.

[Dilbert56]

Barbed wire, land mines, sensors, barbed wire.

Half of Iraq is unemployed. Let's get them digging ditches, building fences and burying the vulnerable pipelines underground.

[ibtheman]

If you do your bible history, every time the syrians attacked the Isralites, (4 times)! The syrians got whipped big time! I think the Syrians are not wanting to get into a fist fight with us, they know they will have big time problems with us, and our allies the isralites backings us!

[FreedomNeocon]

The past few weeks the pussy terrorists have even 'given up' trying to attack ING troops, and are now just driving explosives into markets filled with civilians.

Seems like panic... and I predict will be the 'final straw'... even for even the Sunnis.

IP in Tikrit passed a temp 'emergency law' that you cannot drive in your car alone, and if you try, your car will be shot at!

Extreme for sure, but if they are willing to go that far, you know the intel people are willing to offer is way up as well.

[processing please hold]

on the other side of the Iraqi border,

My geography of the ME might be off but, isn't that Syria?

[FormerACLUmember]

The al Queda army of foreign invaders is fighting the Coalition troops at al Qa'im near the word "Iraq" in the map, where the Euphrates and roads enter Syria. The enemy army has a fallback at Abu Kamal over the border in Syria. The border needs to be sealed off big time.(You may need to scroll right in this detailed map)

[John Lenin]

Next stop, the Bekka Valley.