Official: Syria Seeking Banned Weapons (our next war)

[lindashaw]

By HARRY DUNPHY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Syria is allowing militants to cross its border into Iraq (news - web sites) to kill U.S. soldiers and is aggressively seeking to acquire and develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, a senior Bush administration official said Tuesday.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20030917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_syria

[qanda]

1. Ohhhhh! Now I get it.

The reason they are now saying that they never connected Saddam with 9/11 is because they now want to connect Syria with 9/11. We need another war to get those polls back up.

[lindashaw]

3. This is reaching the point of insanity.

[jab105]

20. Reaching?

It's already far beyond...

Left sanity with the Iraq war and second round of tax cuts.....

[rooboy]

2. John Bolton said this???? I'm stunned.

He's usually so - you know - diplomatic.

[salin]

11. Guess he had to find something to do

after is rhetoric about N Korea became so inflamatory that he was barred from participating in further talks with North Korea (to try to avert a nuclear conflagration).

[damnraddem]

15. But it's safe to let him loose on Syria, because ...

the Dubya thugs know damn good and well that Syria neither has WMDs nor is developing them -- so it's not dangerous, like N. Korea may be.

[IndianaGreen]

13. John Bolton is a pathological liar, here is a reminder of why

Back in 2001, Bolton accused Cuba of developing biological weapons to be used by terrorists against American interests. Bolton never presented any credible evidence, and he was laughed off the stage.

Here we have the same pathological liar hard at work in getting public support for an attack on Syria. One more war in which American blood will be shed for the sake of PNAC and Israel.

[Must_B_Free]

4. another from the boy who cried wolfowitz

what credibility?

Is this just more lies?

[Jack The Tab]

5. And our friend Saudi Arabia just laughs...

Oh, those connections to the Bush Family Evil Empire...paying off IN SPADES!

[Nottingham]

6. Really! And this is News! Could it Be the phone call from Arafat to

Syria for help and Syria's push in the UN against Israel to be getting to Bush!

I have always said we will next invade Syria :bounce:

Iraq is going to be our Base of Operations

[damnraddem]

18. Well, Iraq could be our base of operations if ...

we don't have all of Iraq's police shooting at our backs as we go in.

[unfrigginreal]

7. Don't laugh at this disinformation...

I predicted that Syria would be the next target in the spring or summer of next year. These MF'ers WILL GO TO WAR TO SOLIDIFY BUSH'S POLITICAL POSITION. Yeah that's disgusting and it would be hard to get most Americans to believe it...that's the point.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Correction

These MF'ers WILL SEND SOMEONE ELSES SON OR DAUGHTER TO WAR TO SOLIDIFY BUSH'S POLITICAL POSITION.

[TheLastMohican]

24. That is a big deception

Americans believed a bogus story of WMD and they will believe it again. You have to tell a big lie to make it look like truth.

[newyawker99]

29. Hi TheLastMohican!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[legin]

8. This is the second time I've seen this

Perle (of course) said it the first time I noticed it.

"Bolton put Syria in the same category as Iran, North Korea (news - web sites) and Libya as "rogue states, those most aggressively seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction and their delivery and which are therefore threats to our national security."

This is now a standard tenent of u.s. foreign policy, basically put, 'any nation who we are not that keen on that tries to aquire nuclear weapons threatens the u.s.'s vital national interests (security). Because the u.s.'s vital national interests are at stake we are allowed to bomb the shit out of them as is the norm in foreign policy'.

It's going to be a fun planet to live on, if the right wing stay in charge. (grim irony)

[HereSince1628]

9. Is Bush going for a trifecta?

1) Take down regime in Afganistan, fail at the peace...
2) Take down regime in Iraq, fail at the peace...

3) Take down regime in Syria, fail at the peace?

I can't find it but I remember reading a piece last winter in which Bush said his goal was to create chaos...

I think he may achieve that.

(BTW if you know the piece I'm talking about please PM me with a link)

[madrchsod]

10. wow is this news or what???

syria has and still is making chemical weapons. the prodution started many years ago and has tapered off just recently.what they are concentrating on is developing better forms of chemicals. their program is in response to the israeli build up of weapons of mass destrution over the years. the syrians used these chemicals to put down a revolt of the sunni`s, causing anywhere from 7000 to 35000 deaths..
as of now the syrians haven`t the ability to produce bio weapons or nukes.more importantly they can`t find anyone to help them because the country is under constant watch by the usa and the israeli`s. it has been reported that the syrians are working with the cia in regards to the rements of the saddam regime.

[damnraddem]

14. Yes, we must invade Syria, immediately. Let's see -- what troops ...

shall we use? Well, maybe we can hire some Ghurka security guards to carry out the invasion.

[Beetwasher]

16. I'll BET this is TRUE

But you know what? It only begs the question of what a failure this admin is for several reasons:

1. No one will believe them now

2. This is proof the world is a more dangerous place because of the invasion.

3. Syria's a real can of worms that would NOT be anywhere near a pushover as Iraq and SYRIA KNOWS WE ARE COMPLETELY DEPLOYED AND TOOTHLESS AT THE MOMENT AND CAN TELL US TO FUCK OFF.

[Minstrel Boy]

17. The inevitable photo of US and Israeli troops

meeting up and shaking hands in the Golan will go a long way towards ensuring that there will be no more terror, ever.

[damnraddem]

19. Right, and that will be doubly clear when ...

the suicide bombs start going off in the U.S.

[Flying_Pig]

21. PNAC/Likud running our foreign policy ....

This article one of a series that has been published in the Times, over the last couple of months. Every week, there are at least two of these articles, stirring the "war pot" against either Iran, or Syria. In each case, the article quotes a member of PNAC (Bolton, Feith, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Perle, et al), and usually contains a statement from a pro-Israeli/Likud congressional member, in this case, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida.

What's happening, is that PNAC has teamed up with the more outspoken pro-Israeli/Likud lawmakers (both Republican and Democrat, go here, for another example from last week, and I've got many more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=328634 ), in an effort to put some more fire to the Israeli/PNAC plan to reconstruct the Middle East following radical right-wing Likud precepts and strategy.

I find it outrageous, that these lawmakers, in attempting to guide our foreign policy by marshalling our troops and money to help the Likud accomplish its fascist goals for the Middle East, are in fact, committing treason. They are not operating in the interest of this nation, but representing the interests of another nation (Israel), and putting those interests above those of the U.S. This is against our Constitution, and violates their oaths of office.

The question I have, is how long are we going to allow PNAC, and their pro-Israeli/Likud sympathizers in the Congress, to drive our foreign policy, in their efforts to embroil us in endless wars for the sake of Israel (and secondarily, for oil)? It's time to write these lawmakers, and other members of congress, to protest their treasonous activities. Barring that, we should see that it is their children who are sent to fight the wars they are planning!

[megaplayboy]

22. What, and Iran will sit and wait their turn?

I just can't imagine the Iranians sitting on their butts watching Assad get knocked out of power, knowing that they are next on the list. Look for Iran and Syria to put half their armies on the border with Iraq, and basically invade the minute the B*sh rhetoric reaches fever pitch. I see Vietnam level casualties for our boys in Iraq once 3 quarters of a million troops come screaming across the borders, and we figure out we don't have enough air power to hold them back. Idiots.:spank:

[radfringe]

23. heard muted rattling of sabers and the whirling of spin

just caught pieces of it yesterday...

the one line that really caught my attention, (sorry can't remember who said it) "....Syria's WMD program is WORSE than Saddam's..."

When I heard that my first thought was "whoooo-boy, here we go again, invasion of Syria by spring of 2004...."

[Dhalgren]

28. All you would have to have to be

worse than Saddam would be a can of Ortho. If the American public and the Congress go along with this shit, then this is no longer the America we have all hoped that it is. There are only three options left open if America invades Syria with public support: 1) take to the streets with violence, 2) hope that New Zealand will allow immigration, 3) buy a flag and a BUSH UBER ALLES bumper sticker and try to keep your head down.

[Vernunft]

25. Other than Iraq, Syria has

no UN resolutions forbidding them to build and possess WMD. Syria, like every other sovereign state on this planet can legally build as much gas grenades as they want to. If there´s any lesson to be learned from the Iraq occupation it´s to build WMD´s faster. This Assad son is a smart one, we can all be sure he saw it coming a year ago or longer. Hell, I have and I don´t have a secret service, I just have the news everyone has...

[leesa]

26. Mommy! Mommy! Syria's letting bad people in to kill our innocent

soldiers and they have bigger toys! Any Muslim country that DOESN'T develop their weaponry to protect themselves against the rogue nation of the US is going to be trounced. bush gave them no choice.

[Oggy]

27. You'll be on your own...

I can't see Blair backing Shrub on this one, he's in enough trouble as it is.

Also Syria has the largest best equiped forces in the middle east.

[Bandit]

30. Wolf Wolf Wolf come help please

Ha Ha Ha Ha you fall for that one every time you dodo.