****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.

[headsonpikes]

Note to Mr. Assad of Syria:

Please observe connection between 'playing with bull' and 'getting the horn'.

[Mears]

Sorry folks,but I hope this isn't true.

[Aric2000]

LOL, ain't that the truth!!

[Marysecretary]

Intelligence--Clinton? An oxymoron if I ever seed one.

[Centurion2000]

Heh ... liberals around the world are risking brain hemorrhages today ..... lovely.

[Justin Thyme]

But what it does mean is that the left will say 'we planned it all along.'

That sort of depends on your definition of 'we planned it all along.' If you mean we intended to do it all along, I'd say that this is not necessarily the case. But 'plans' were made for a contingency basis.

I assure you, somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon we have 'plans' for an invasion of pretty much every country in the world. By plans, I mean a general blueprint on how they feel the operation would best be approached, and these plans are updated periodically. This does not mean we have an immediate intent on implementing all of these plans, they are 'just in case' type things. By the same token, I can also assure you that Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Syria, amongst others, have also had for a long, long time plans on how they would execute a war with the US.

With this, I can't necessarily say that we DIDN'T plan it all along. Merely that the logic of since it exists, we planned on implementing it from the start, isn't necessarily correct.

[snooter55]

LOL !! Thanks for the laugh my friend. Now, please come clean the cigar ashes off my keyboard ........
Snooter ;o)

[RightWhale]

they didn't even make the "Axis of Evil" list

No, they're just a meridian of evil.

[ASA Vet]

the administrations map of a peaceful middle east doesn't have Syria on it.

[Marysecretary]

Nah, Poohbah, that's just in America, PC capital of the world. (smile) (Henchpersons?)

[Marysecretary]

GOD is pleased.

[Marysecretary]

Uh, you're assuming they HAVE brains, Centurion.

[k2blader]

Bump!

[Dead Dog]

Invasion of Syria: The Home Game!

[Joe Brower]

[Theophilus]

Aw crap, you mean we have to wait another 6 months for the UN to arrive at indecision over Syria?

[Rippin]

RIght, good things come in threes.

[ravingnutter]

Until we go into Syria, we will not find all of Saddam's WMDs.

Jerusalem - Iraqi chemical and biological weapons may be hidden in Syria, a senior Israeli intelligence officer told a parliamentary committee here on Monday, Israeli public radio said. "It is possible Iraq transferred missiles and weapons of mass destruction into Syria," General Yossi Kupperwasser told the committee. He said the transfer could be one explanation as to why US-led forces scouring suspect sites in western Iraq had found nothing so far, the radio said

Iraqi WMD 'possibly in Syria' 03/31/2003

Also, a blast from FR Past...

U.S.:Syrians hiding Iraqi weapons for cash

More links are posted at the above FR thread.

[tiki]

They are complicit in financing terror, encouraging terror, condoning terror and training terrorists.

[anymouse]

This report just filed from Domascus: Clean underwear sales rising. :)