U.S., Syria to Discuss Iraq Infiltration (Armitage Abroad)

[Khephra]

U.S., Syria to Discuss Iraq Infiltration




By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer

December 30, 2004, 4:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- The State Department's second-ranking official is traveling to Syria to talk with officials there about the infiltration of insurgents across the Syrian border into Iraq.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage also will visit Jordan and Turkey, which also border Iraq. Armitage left Washington on Thursday but details of his itinerary were not disclosed.

"We have felt that it's very, very important for Syria to continue to take further action on the issues of infiltration of insurgents or support for insurgents in Iraq," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.

The administration believes Iraqis who served under ousted President Saddam Hussein are using Syria as a base of operations for supporting the insurgency.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-iraq-syria,0,2405712.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Old and In the Way]

1. War without end...amen.

Of course, the move countries we invade, the more the insurgents use neighboring countries to enter the resist. Sorta a vicious cycle.

Maybe if we left, there'd be no more insurgents crossing borders to fight us.

[sweetheart]

2. Maybe we should bomb cambodia or laos

Heck, when in doubt, bomb a neighboring buddhist country of pacifists...
thats the way of the cowardly republicans. Clearly syria ain't no
laos... but its the same shiite all over again.... hey, same old
shiite! ;-) Same old sunni!

These bush repuke cowardly military thugs are nothing if not predictable.

[TheKingfish]

3. Syria, please pretty please

Guard your borders so we don't have to. That way the Iraq invasion will succeed and then we can invade you.

[maxsolomon]

4. closing the syrian border should have been job #1

just another facet of the brilliant "medal of freedom"-worthy war plan.

don't secure known stockpiles of explosives.
don't secure the cultural heritage of the country.
disband the standing army creating 1000s of unemployed men with military training.
fail to create an jobs program or rebuild the infrastructure.
don't close the border with the neighboring baathist dictatorship.

[jukes]

5. seems as if

the resistance can operate pretty much freely anywhere they like in iraq, why wd they bother w/ bordering countries?