****RUMSFELD ORDERS PENTAGON DRAWING UP OF SYRIAN INVASION PLANS**** (Dow Jones Newswire)

New York Newsday and Dow Jones Newswire ^ | April 10, 2003 | staff report

[ewing]

An intelligence source says that United States Defence Secetary Donald Rumsfeld last week ordered the drawing up of contingency plans for a possible invasion of Syria, New York Newsday reported Thursday.

According to the newspaper's website, Undersecretary of Defence Douglas Ferth is working on a policy paper highlighting how the nation of Syria's support of terrorist groups is a threat to the region.

But the newspaper also reported that a senior Pentagon officer said he was unaware of any new planning involving Syria.

Secretary Rumsfled said Wednesday that Syria had allowed Iraqi regieme figures to enter the nation and provided Iraq with military technology.

[ewing]

You are with us or against us, Dubya is not fooling around..

[ambrose]

They laughed, danced and celebrated on 9/11 - but they are now finding that payback can be a bitch...

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[NautiNurse]

Well, since we're in the neighborhood...

Bump!

[ewing]

Might as well clean it all up and strike while the iron is hot.

[Starrgaizr]

Well, I should hope that someone at the Pentagon has a contingency plan to give Assad the Saddam treatment. It would be gross negligence not to do this. Of course, the world hates us anyway, we might as well let GWB take the heat to clean up the neighborhood.

[peeve23]

We've had plans for some time. We probably have plans for the invasion of canada (and should enact, to spare the canadians any further embarrassment from Cretin's gov't).

What makes sense in this is that the Ba'ath Party is the major (only) party in BOTH Iraq and Syria. They're in bed with one another and are butt buddies.

Might as well kill all the snakes in the same hole. (no butt buddy pun intended.)

[Gefreiter]

Well, since one reinforced Army division, 3 (?) Marine regiments, and unlimited USAF and Navy aviation took Iraq, why not Syria?

4ID has nothing to do. Why not send them across the desert and take down Syria?

[The Great Satan]

Jeepers... and they didn't even make the "Axis of Evil" list. Rummy isn't messing around.

[ewing]

Just wait until we find the small scale models of the World Trade Towers and Pentagon bulidings inside the Iranian Intelligence facility (according to a Bill Gertz report of the Washington Times)

[3AngelaD]

In some places, this is called a two-fer.

[Semper Paratus]

Birds of a feather.

[dfwgator]

Hey Assad, you want a piece of this?

[1Old Pro]

If the reports are true that Iraq's military henchmen are there, then Syria is protecting terrorists and war criminals making them a legitimate target in the war on terrorism.

[AppyPappy]

Your link is meshugga. It doesn't point to New York Newsday and Dow Jones Newswire

[dfwgator]

Today we take care of all family business.

[JohnnyZ]

Secretary Rumsfled said

RumsFLED? Yeah right, he's not FRENCH!

I think Syria won the bidding to take Iraq's place in the Axis.

[ewing]

Is this a new contingency plan in light of our storng military poisitions in Iraq?

[Constitution Day]

Wow!