U.S. deploys 20,000 troops near Syrian border

[better2know]

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_9.html

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The United States has deployed 20,000 troops along the Syrian border after Syria failed to stop militants from crossing into Iraq.

As late as October, U.S. officials said hundreds of Islamic insurgents were crossing into Iraqi from Syria. They said Syrian authorities had failed to respond to U.S. appeals to stop the flow of insurgents.

U.S. military officials said the U.S. troop presence was bolstered beginning in September and has resulted in a significant drop in infiltration from Syria. The U.S. troops are based in the Iraqi province of Anbar, Middle East Newsline reported.

But the U.S. presence has not halted the flow of insurgents from Syria. On Monday, the U.S. military said six suspected insurgents were captured near the Syrian border. One of them was later killed when he tried to attack a guard.

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eek!
low poll numbers
jets over scotland and lebanon
peace treaty in works
cancelling ability to leave the service
centcom moves back to quatar
horrible uk visit
-I truly hope not!

[bluestateguy]

1. Over there! Over there! The draft is coming, the draft is coming...

Johnny get your gun, get your gun, get your gun...

[DUreader]

2. Not a reliable source, any other links to back it up?

I saw another thread on this somewhere.

We're all expecting this, or Iran.

[better2know]

9. google news -Charles+Swannack+syria = other sources

The Michigan Daily

http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/19/3fbb0e4f4306c

U.S. mounts air campaign in Iraq

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Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, said the number of U.S. soldiers in Anbar province, bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, has been tripled in the past two months to 20,000. That, he said, has curbed infiltrations.

“We are not fighting foreign fighters coming across the border in significant numbers,” Swannack said. “We are fighting mostly … locals” loyal to Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime.
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whatup DUreader
good question
so another source
yup, no foreign fighters but troop buildup anyhow
plus the draft(thanks bluestate)
hadn't heard the thing (posted later(ilsa))about iran moving into iraq

[DUreader]

10. Triples to 20,000 Syr. Jordan and Saudi borders

not quite the same as 'US deploys 20,000 to Syr. Border'


Nice googling job anyway

Yo

thanks for the links

[better2know]

14. sorry

point well taken

dealing with some maniac at another thread
{don't try to figure that one out ;) }
and obviously the sarcasm boiled over into my reply

the trib is crap
but that was the headline -lbn rules-

Am feeling paranoid -obviously-
enough to try to read between the headlines

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

[Scott Lee]

4. That dam has more holes than the USA has fingers.

And a big stress crack has appeared. Face it, it's cut and run or get handed your ass.

[Timefortruth]

5. Likely true, they have Saddam's WMD you know.

and if we invade they won't use them either, they will just move them to Iran, and if we invade there they won't use them either....where will they move them? Maybe New York State if Hillary looks like she will win reelection?

[Ilsa]

6. Is it also true that Iran

has "moved" their border with Iraq in about fifty miles?

And we were going to "stabilize" the ME? Yeah. Right.

[E_Zapata]

7. flow of insurgents? Officers on the ground there said yesterday:

"we don't really see foreigners coming across the border into iraq to fight"

REAL military seargeants and everything.....yesterday, said: NO flow of foreign militants.

Lying bastards at the pentagon.

[are_we_united_yet]

8. Somebody goofed

I distinctly heard W say Bring em on

[aquart]

11. And no matter how many times we tell idiot boy

That we have neither troops nor justification for war with Syria and Iran, George has a little list and he WILL get the job done.

Sort of.

[jenk]

12. so now we only have 110,000 in mainland iraq?

[alittlelark]

13. PNAC gameplan

those guys are soooo predictable!!! I'd laugh if I didn't feel like puking.

[BlackFrancis]

15. oh bullshit

The various brass just came out and said the resistance was local not foreign even if they did attribute it to "Saddam loyalists".

Part of me really wishes they would just go whole hog over there. Try out their "New Order". We would go down in a fashion that made the end of the Soviet Union look anticlimatic.

[DCDemo]

16. Wasn't there a statement from this guy

Or another commander-on-the-scene along the Syrian border that said that tons of people crossing the border would be news to them, and that Syria was cooperating.

I wish they'd get their story straight...Syria has been cooperating DEEPLY in the War on Terror, and I'm sure it doesn't encourage them to help more if we keep demonizing and accusing them.

[PVnRT]

17. More like Vietnam everyday

First, it's the "hearts and minds" comment. Next, it's the use of "insurgents." Now, we invade another country in all but name to stop "insurgents" from cross-border attacks.

I'm just waiting for search-and-destroy missions and daily body counts on the news.

[belab13]

18. surely they're not so stupid as to pull the trigger a year or so before

an election. More likely, they'll wait until they are given the diebold mandate in 2004 to pursue anybody but Osama by any means necessary.

[belab13]

19. It would be nice to get Syria's perspective on this. Iraq does have other

borders and Saudi Arabia has produced some of the more accomplished insurgents.

[goforit]

20. I had a friend who predicted this all along!!!!........Kudos to her!!!!

Clark predicted this all out disaster as well!!!

[Tinoire]

22. Shit - (lol) I predicted this for 2 years

This is a hige disaster but we've walked into it knowingly as we allow our party to be "distracted" by secondary issues such as education, abortion and gay rights.

In our 2 party system, those are nothing more than "distractionary" issues to prevent us all from uniting against the greatest evil and progressing from there.

Lots more coming but in order to put together the pieces, one must venture into the I/P forum to keep an eye on all the news that well, isn't really news they say.

WW IV will start and all the important news will still be constrained by special rules.

[NickB79]

21. I have my doubts about their effectiveness

Thats a lot of land to cover, even for 20,000 troops. Just look at the US-Mexican border and see how easy it is to sneak across borders despite widespread border patrols.