[Sparta]

Why can't go through Syria after we're done with Iraq?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Or vice versa.

[ASA Vet]

Maybe that's where V Corp will be going after Iraq.

[RightWhale]

Why can't go through Syria after we're done with Iraq?

If Iraq will take 2 days, Syria will take an extra afternoon. Restore the Syriac Kings!

[Mr. Mojo]

.....And from Syria to Hezbollah in So. Lebanon. I hope that Israel's Arrow ABM system can intercept at (very) close range.

[Mixer]

Why can't go through Syria after we're done with Iraq?

I don't see any reason why this is not a possibility. If Syria has nothing to hide then they should be more then happy to allow a search. Only problem is, now that they have been tipped off, the WMDs may be on their way to somewhere else entirely.

[steveegg]

Why can't go through Syria after we're done with Iraq?

Well, all roads in that region go to Damascus <VBG>, so we may as well. Just as long as we don't forget to wheel south to the moneybags of the anti-America operation.

[Carry_Okie]

ISA 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

[rs79bm]

Yes, this is very Syria(s) indeed.

[Endeavor]

And some commentators have said Saddam has hidden WMD in Malasia. I think he's got the darned things everywhere -- except where the inspectors are likely to look.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

I guess Sharon REALLY hopes that we are going to fight all of Israel's wars while paying Israel at the same time for allowing us to fight their wars.

As the The Jerusalem Post puts it: "Saddam's ouster will also lift a large component of the strategic threat facing our nation. But before we reach this positive outcome,"

Try the thread if you do not want to subscribe to The Jerusalem Post

Let me see now who is the first calling my view 'anti-semitic'

Regardless,

HAVE A MERRY XMAS Y'ALL!!!

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Unbelievable, there is no evidence. In fact, as the Jerusalem Post article notes, the info HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED:


Iraq may be transferring chemical and biological weapons to Syria, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a TV interview on Tuesday.

Sharon said that Israel has information that "weapons he (Saddam Hussein) wanted to hide, chemical weapons, biological weapons, were indeed transferred to Syria."

He said that the information has not been fully verified.

"We have some information to that effect. We are now working to confirm the information," he told Israel TV's Channel 2 in an excerpt of a program broadcast on the nightly news.

[Sparta]

Sharon: Iraq may be Transferring Weapons (Fox News)

JERUSALEM — Sharon said that Israel has information that "weapons he (Saddam Hussein) wanted to hide, chemical weapons, biological weapons, were indeed transferred to Syria."





He said that the information has not been fully verified. "We have some information to that effect. We are now working to confirm the information," he told Israel TV's Channel 2 in an excerpt of a program broadcast on the nightly news.

In the excerpt, Sharon did not indicate where the information came from or what form it took.

Israel has been preparing for the possibility of Iraqi retaliation in case of a U.S.-led assault against Iraq. During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel, causing considerable damage but few casualties.

Israel has vaccinated emergency and rescue workers against smallpox, concerned that Iraq might use the disease in a biological attack. Almost every day, the military's Home Front Command carries out widely publicized drills to practice dealing with missile attacks of various kinds.

[dinok]

We should have started out with Syria.
We owe them for the Beirut bombing in the eighties that they allowed to be panned and from their territory.
Not to mention that if we had Syria under our control, we wouldnt have to ask anyone else for bases to go after Iraq. And the main reason is that Syria has been the home base of terrorists for the last 40 years.
But I'm sure the UN would be real upset. We can't have that.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Saddam transferred weapons to Syria for concealment

Gideon Alon

Ha'aretz Correspondent, and Ha'aretz Service

Saddam Hussein transferred chemical and biological weapons to Syria that Iraq wanted to hide, according to information Israel has received, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday evening. Sharon, who spoke on Channel Two, said Israel was checking the information.

Also Tuesday, Labor spokesmen said that remarks made earlier in the day by Military Intelligence chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi (Farkash) on a possible United States attack on Iraq indicate that Sharon and his aides are using the issue to sow fear in the Israeli public and deflect its attention from the police investigation on irregularities in the Likud primaries.

Ze'evi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he expects the United States to attack Iraq in the beginning of February, shortly after the American government reviews the United Nations inspectors' weapons report expected to be presented by January 27.

Ze'evi also said that in contrast with the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq has not issued particularly harsh statements against Israel. Instead, Iraq has issued general statements saying that it will attack whomever attacks it first.

Labor chairman Amram Mitzna said that, "Sharon is sowing seeds of war" and that "the photographs in which he is pictured with gas masks are a political spin, and are the seeds of war scattered by [Arthur] Finkelstein to create headlines that will shift attention away from corruption in the Likud."

According to Haim Ramon, who is the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and who also serves on Labor's information committee, Sharon's visit to a Home Front Command base on Monday was part of a campaign tour. Ramon said that it is known that the chances of Iraq hitting Israel are low, and therefore the public's feeling of panic should be reduced.

Ze'evi also said that Al-Qaida has changed its pattern and is now focusing on Jewish and Israeli targets.

UN sources said this week that Iraq's account of its weapons arsenal failed to include information on 6,000 chemical warfare bombs. The account of the missing bombs, contained in the so-called "Air Force document," first came to light in July 1998. A UN inspector saw the six-page document and took a few notes before it was snatched from her hands during a 16-hour inspection search and standoff at the Air Force headquarters.

After withholding the Air Force document since then, Iraqi officials handed it over to a UN inspector in Baghdad on November 30. But Iraq gave no explanation for the missing weapons in its cover letter or in the 12,000-page weapons declaration submitted a week later, the sources said.

SOURCE

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Article in post 26 found through this link so consider the source as POSSIBLE misinformation.

[concerned about politics]

No wonder Saddams so arrogant.
Heck, with Democrat meddeling in the affairs of adults, it gave him plenty of time to hide everything.
No kidding, the Democrats will be the death of us all someday if they manage to stay in power. Clinton almost( or may still have) done us in.
The 2002 election was a God send.

[snippy_about_it]

Freepers knew it all along.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/777438/posts

[evad]

Fox just reported Sharon is alleging that Iraq has transferred weapons to Syria. More developing....

Where is the logic in this??

[WatchNKorea]

Syria needs to be added to the Axis of Evil immediately.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Here's the best part, and no one has mentioned it yet. Guess which country is presently head of the UN Security Council? Hint, it is a prominenent Mid-East country run by the megolamanical son of a tyrant. It is located between Israel and Iraq. It has virtually annexed Lebanon. Give up?