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Why indeed.......according to a former Air Force General(Sada) in Saddam"s inner circle, Syria was where the Russians were taking all of the WMD that they had been working on in Iraq before we invaded.

Remember a convoy of black limos that were "accidentally shot at" while speeding across the border of Iraq into Syria?????

Russia's scientists were hard at work in Iraq and when the U.S. was "working with the U.N. to get their 'approval' to enforce the sanctions against Iraq," needed to get the evidence of the WMD before being discovered by the rest of the world.

Now, Russia needs to move, protect or destroy the various WMD, such as germ warfare, airborne poisons, etc. before the world catches on.

Actually, Syria or another totalitarian country, friendly to the interests of Russia, is a friendly place in which Russia's secrets are better kept than in mother Russia.

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IMHO - WMD's from Iraq have nothing to do with this. Syria has its own stockpile of Chemical and Biological WMD. They have had them for years. So unless they got nuclear WMD warheads from Iraq, the WMD angle is mute.

The author of this linked article fails to explain why the Russian sea base is not enough justification. It is their only base in the Med. Where are they going to dock in the Med ? Also, a Russian land bridge from the Caucasus through Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria would be the ultimate prize. They can take Georgia in a few hours. Armenia lets the Russians have their way with them already. Russians still maintain bases there.

Apparently the only way you can dismiss the sea port as the cause, is to note that the rebels have assured the Russians they can use the port. Yeah. Right. We all know how predictable the Arab Spring has been. As the Russians tried to point out, just today, to President Bonehead.

Obama and Hillary are in way over their heads.

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Why indeed.......according to a former Air Force General(Sada) in Saddam"s inner circle, Syria was where the Russians were taking all of the WMD that they had been working on in Iraq before we invaded. Remember a convoy of black limos that were "accidentally shot at" while speeding across the border of Iraq into Syria?????

Exactly what I was thinking. How easily people forget things.

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Remember a convoy of black limos that were "accidentally shot at" while speeding across the border of Iraq into Syria?????

IIRC, they were trucks, not limos, but they did have some 'diplomatic' members in the cabs of the trucks.