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Nottingham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:01 AM
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Is Bush Afraid of Israel?
Is Bush Afraid of Israel?
07/29/2003 11:12
Syria foreign minister: US's decisions concerning Syria are influenced by Israel
As is known, immediately after the cessation of active operations in Iraq officials of the incumbent US Administration focused in Syria. It was supposed that Syrians might provide shelter to figures belonging to the overthrown Iraqi regime. What is more, Washington arrogated other faults to Damascus: starting from production of weapons of mass destruction to protection of terrorist organizations (the Hizbollah in particular).

Tensions were so high that it was even said that the US military might invade Syria. However, the White House declared it had no intentions of this kind; following the statement the turmoil about the US-Syrian relations gradually faded away. But to all appearances, it didn't fade away once and for all.

Russia's news agency RIA Novosti informs Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa said at a press-conference in Damascus that the US ignored the attempts that Damascus made to normalize relations with Washington. The Syrian foreign minister explains the fact with influence of Israel: "US's decisions concerning Syria are influenced by Israel. It is because of Israel's pressure that the US doesn't want to establish good relations with Damascus. The majority in the US Administration are afraid of Israel."

Syrian Prime Minister Mustafa Miro advanced even further. Right before his visit to Turkey, the prime minister said that "US's policy is aimed at establishment of a new order in the Middle East. This is the reason why I think that Turkey, Syria and Iran must unite. Targeting one at a time, the US will do the same with us what it did with Iraq." According to Mustafa Miro, "Americans, the current rulers of Iraq, are Syria's neighbors. They are not better than Saddam."

more....


http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/10602_syria.html

Well I still think Syria is the Next Big Target! :bounce:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:05 AM
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indictrichardperle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:10 AM
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2. i always thought US troops
acted to defend America, not Likud. I guess i was sadly mistaken. :eyes:

Thats quite a "sacrifice" we are asking our sons and daughters to make, isnt it ?
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Muddleoftheroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 07:39 AM
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13. Ah, yes
Those pesky Jews control the world. They hang out with their Mason buddies and the Illuminati.
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the_sam Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:21 AM
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3. People Midunderstand the Israel-U.S. Relationship
Sharon isn't pulling Bush's strings. The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is more symbiotic. Israel serves a crucial strategic interest in the region. It serves as an American-friendly base of operations in the Middle East.
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clarkbarr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:32 AM
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4. Ask Rachel Corrie's parents what a friend Israel is
After all, those "Friends of America" deliberately ran over her, and they broke out in cheers when they crushed her!

With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:40 AM
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5. Amen, clarkbarr.
Thanks for the true, provocative, and timely post.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:43 AM
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6. Not this time, Sam
The PNAC'ers (Perle and Wolfowitz especially) are actual agents of the Likud party. They helped Benjamin Netanyahu plan out a "strategy" that reads almost identical to that which is detailed on the PNAC website.

It's obvious that Iraq was never, and doubtfully would have ever been a serious threat to the United States. But a fully armed Saddam Hussein - as he was before 1991 - would have been a threat to Israel.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 04:50 AM
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7. JINSA is talking up IRAN as the next big target

"Time to Focus on Iran - The Mother of Modern Terrorism"

Michael Ledeen made a speech on this topic way back on April 30.


" . . . Ledeen argued that Iran might use nuclear weapons against Israel based on the rationale that "half of the Jewish population in the world would be killed after the attack versus a minute fraction of Muslim people killed in retaliation. It would be worth the lives of Iranians to destroy Israel." Ledeen also reminded the audience that both Syria and Iran sent tens of thousands of men into Iraq to aid the Iraqi Republican Guard against U.S. and allied troops."


Of course he does mention Syria, too, so maybe Dubya will hit both at once. We are living through a nightmare.

Has anyone ever heard this bit that "Syria and Iran sent TENS OF THOUSANDS of men into Iraq to aid the Iraqi Republican Guard against U.S. and allied troops"?
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 06:25 AM
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10. Or maybe it's more Zionist bullshit to stoke up the next war?
> Has anyone ever heard this bit that "Syria and Iran sent
> TENS OF THOUSANDS of men into Iraq to aid the Iraqi Republican
> Guard against U.S. and allied troops"?

They were obviously sent in payment for all of the Iraqi WMDs that
Saddam transported to Syria for safety ...
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jos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 05:40 AM
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8. It's not Israel is he is afraid of
It's AIPAC!
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 05:46 AM
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9. Bush: Golly Gee! Israel!....
Ain't that somewhere in ...whatchacallit....the Eastern part of, you know, European?

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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 06:31 AM
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11. I think he is
Even though they are a half-assed client state.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 07:38 AM
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12. Bush is Sharon's "poodle"...
Get my 2 cents in before this is locked and moved.

And this "Security barrier", does it remind anyone else of the Berlin Wall?

Ronnie Ray-Guns told Gorby "Tear down that Wall!" and Chimpy tells Sharon "Oh? You don't want to remove it? Hokay!..."
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 08:43 AM
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15. No
It reminds me of the wall around the Warsaw ghetto, but this time it is to keep the Palestinians confined.
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 08:40 AM
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14. Ha!
Bush announces the fence is a problem, Sharon says tough..


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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 08:50 AM
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16. Is Bush afraid of Lincoln's ghost? Is Bush a clinical Paranoid?
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