Monday, April 14, 2003
Syria. The United States says that they have harbored fleeing Iraqi's
they are on the list of states that sponsor Terrorism.
They harbor terrorist organizations, some of which maintain training camps in Syrian territory.
They possess chemical weapons facilities.
Today's gaurdian:
The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon, the Guardian learned yesterday.
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However, President George Bush, who faces re-election next year with two perilous nation-building projects, in Afghanistan and Iraq, on his hands, is said to have cut off discussion among his advisers about the possibility of taking the "war on terror" to Syria.
"The talk about Syria didn't go anywhere. Basically, the White House shut down the discussion," an intelligence source in Washington told the Guardian.
Which begs the question, what rationale did Bush have to invade Iraq? Becuase absolutly none of them hold up to scrutiny.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave)
Could he be bigger than Mahir?
Lets hope so.
He's got a way about him.
Don't know what it is.
But I know that I can't live without him....
"It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."
--Donald Rumsfeld
