[Btrp113Cav]

why does the president keep blaming iran for iraq? you know what, honestly that is idiotic. Syria is responsible for 90% of the deaths in iraq. They are the ones that allow the training, funding, and funneling of foreign fighters through damascus. They have terrorist camps, offices, and everything else to do with terrorist related activities actively sponsored in syria. Iraq/Syrian border is the #1 spot for the flow of foreign jihadis.

[the anti-liberal]

I don't know. There must be something going on w/Syria that we haven't been told about. Why else the silence?

[AZConcervative]

So you know more than the president?

[Wasanother]

Are you one of those CIA leaker's? You seem to know a lot about who's supporting who?

[SaltyJoe]

Iran instead of Syria? I suppose it's the nuclear danger over the rat trail/Syrian fighter imports. Strategically, Iran is between Afghanistan and Iraq (logistics land link and airspace). Syria is isolated well enough and can't do what Iran is doing. Iran isn't blocked in and remains bellicose. Syria has already pulled back, but Iran is still imposing especially upon Israel.

I think that even Israelis would place Iran as a high threat than the Syrians. I could be wrong, but if the Iranian extremism is ended, Syria will play better with its neighbors similar to how Libya's Qadhafi is crazy like a fox and surviving without WMD or giant military offensive weapons. How Reagan made military strikes on Libyan terrorist training camps may have similar results with other nations harboring and training jihadists, but not while Iranian extremism with nuclear ambitions persist.

[USMA83]

Who do you think influences Syria?

[Kath]

Gee are you privy to intelligence that President Bush is getting??? No offense but I think he knows a bit more about this then you do.

[Tunehead54]

why does the president keep blaming iran for iraq?

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Current intelligence has repeatedly suggested that Iran is engineering, manufacturing and transporting to Iraq shaped-charge mega IEDs that are responsible for most of our soldier's losses these days as well as being viewed as attempts to instigate a civil war in Iraq between the Shiites and the Sunnis - other than that, no reason, I guess.