Syria bluntly warns US not to attack Iraq ...

AT ^ | 11/30/01 | George Baghdadi

[Random Access]

Hope you don't mind me cleaning that up a bit!

Not a problem.

[paul51]

Any harm to an Arab country would be a fatal mistake

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heard it all before. Please don't declare a holy war, whatever you do (that would be about number 8,762). Better start worrying about your own fatality.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

> well, I think he's nuttier than his father was..

They SAY he was western educated. In reality, he is nearly retarded, speaks very little in public to hide the fact, usually only speaking to his chief advisor. Assad had chosen his eldest son to succeed him. Bashar was nearly nonexistent as far as Assad was concerned because he considered him to be a great burden and embarrassment.
Suddenly, his brother *died* in an automobile accident which put the loose cannon, Bashar, on the throne. The West believed they could exercise some control over him and did their best to give him a westernized profile. Unfortunately, once he gained the throne, his advisors had much more access to him and they were Hamas.
Even his glasses were part of a charade. He is supposed to be an optometrist. And I am Queen Latifah

[Fabozz]

"[J]ust what the hell is in Iraq they don't want us messing with anyway?"

The only Arab army even theoretically capable of winning the next Arab-Israeli war. If the Ba'ath regime gets replaced with a moderate government, the Arab League will have to give up all its dearly-held hopes and dreams about pushing the Jews into the sea.

[WRhine]

"Iraq is prepared to defend itself. We will not be terrified by any arrogant party," Iraq's Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said on Tuesday.

Nothing like false bravado when you are cr#pping in your pants. Oh wait, this is Iraq. Check that, they don't get the picture until the sledgehammer hits their thick collective skull.

[Barnacle]

Yep, it will be "The Mother of All Wars Part 2".

[WRhine]

Egypt and Jordan, important US allies and supporters of the campaign against terrorism, both fear that a US strike on Iraq, coupled with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would send the whole region up in flames.

Sounds good to me. Let the flames begin. Fewer Muslims equal greater world stability.

[robbinsj]

However: (1) Russia is not on the list; (2) Russia has a few thousand nukes; (3) Russia has warned the U.S. not to mess with Iraq; (4) Bush needs Russian oil.

IMO, Bush will reconsider this plan.

[SlightOfTongue]

My thoughts exactly.

Take a ticket, Syria. We'll call you when it's your turn.

[Faraday]

I wonder if the pictures of celebrating Afghanis make it onto state-sponsored TV, in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. Probably not. But this is what they are worried about. The fall of Saddam with a victorious coalition of ethnic groups would be an intolerable example to the despots and mullahs of the region. These paper camels' days are numbered.

[VaBthang4]

""Washington would be wrong if it was making plans to hit Iraq. Every Arab country would absolutely be against the move"

....so what?!

[boycott]

Syria? Me so scared. Boo.

[dread78645]

Egypt and Jordan, important US allies and supporters of the campaign against terrorism, both fear that a US strike on Iraq, coupled with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would send the whole region up in flames.

They would have to worry about the flames if they hadn't flung around the Palistinian gasoline for the last 20 years.

[dread78645]

/would/would not/

[rightofrush]

How about a twofer?

[B4Ranch]

Congress didn't authorized the killing of Hussein, just getting the Iraqis out of Kuwait. What makes anyone think they will authorize attacking Syria unless Syria attacks us first?

[American in Israel]

Syria warns us not to attack Iraq, Jordan warns us not to attack Iraq, Egypt warns us not to attack Iraq......just what the hell is in Iraq they don't want us messing with anyway?

Nuclear weapons plants.