A bush is sinking in the polls? Time for a WAR!

[leftofthedial]

Syria is next.

They're already floating a multiitude of "reasons," just like before Iraq. Remember, prior to "WMD" they tried regime change, links to 9-11, global "terror," and a litany of other excuses, none of which received any support until they latched onto the "smoking gun mushroom cloud" meme.

Let's see, Syria is not sufficiently preventing insurgents from passing through Syria into Iraq. No? Not enough? Okay. Syria is supporting global terror? No? Don't believe us? Okay. Umm, Syria is meddling in Lebanon in defiance of the UN? Yeah! The old UN resolution scam worked twice in Iraq. Let's try that one for Syria.

[radfringe]

1. but we will need a bit of fear first

Two scenarios:

1. Terror attack on US soil - blame it on Syria

2. Israel attacks or is attacked by Syria, and we have to go help prevent the spread of terra....

either case - Syria is next, probably Iran at the same time

[leftofthedial]

8. I don't know where the troops will come from

we need more Mormons to enlist

[BobBoudelangFan69]

2. How Come This Does Not Come As A Surprise? ...

Am I too cynical?

[leftofthedial]

9. It's like clockwork

repukes screw the country, sink in the polls, invade some third-rate country and become popular war-time prezdnts.

Murkans keep falling for the same shit.

These days, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be too cynical.

[napi21]

3. Rice told the Foreign Affairs comm. "Shrub doesn't need Congress

to approve an attack on Syria or Iran because it's covered under the authorization for the War on Terror!"

I was listening to KGO radio early this AM (4AM EST) and the host was talking about that. He said that's the scariest statement that has been made in well over a year! EVERY Congressman should be screaming!!!!

I must say, it sure scares ME!!!!!!

[leftofthedial]

10. look for open mutinies in the armed forces if they widen this crap

[Neil Lisst]

4. leftofthedial, you're rightonthemark.

He's already planning the next terror event/war.

Iran is too big, so Syria offers a possibility.

behind the latest terror incidents?

[leftofthedial]

11. nice toon!

:thumbsup:

[shoelace414]

5. can't fight insurgents, so lets find us a military to fight!

[leftofthedial]

12. Syria would put up more of a fight than Iraq did

although their military is smaller

can't fight insurgents because no telling which ones of them are actually British and Murkan special forces

[dutchdemocrat]

6. Some interesting tidbits on this thread.

Click this DU thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5132392

With Rice pounding on Syria all last week and now Bolton and Bush leaping on the Syrialiban bandwagon - the drumbeat to expanding the war is pounding.

The MSM is bundling Syria and Lebanon, in that order, in the blame game on the death of Hariri - despite the fact that, the lack of evidence implicating the brother of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, and other members of his inner circle, were dropped from the report that was sent to the UN Security Council... for good reason it may have turned out.

The perception around the world is that Syria did indeed have a hand in this terrible bombing crime may have some problems.

Der Spiegel, in Germany, revealed in an investigative piece today, that a central witness in UN-Hariri report is a convicted fraudster - who not only has been convicted several times for embezzlement and fraud (a la Chalabi), Zuheir Mohammed al-Siddiq received a large sum of money for his testimony from an unknown third party. Reportedly he called his brothers from Paris saying; Now I'm a millionaire.

Contact between al Siddiq and the UN investigation team headed by Detlef Mehlis was allegedly made through Syrian dissidents. It turns out that he is the one who implicated Bashar al-Asad's brother and brother-in-law in the killing and, according to the article, the Syrian government provided ample documentation to various western governments on al Siddiq.

The German language article has not yet appeared on Der Spiegel's English version site so I have translated it here using Babelfish.

Syrian Press is retaliating that the report should never have been released until it was completed and that the conspiracy has already started against Syria and Lebanon with the killing of Hariri.

"The main goal is to target Syria as a regime refused to bow to American policy and as it is forming a front to confront the American and Zionist hegemony schemes in the Arab region." states Champress, an electronic newspaper published by the Independent Media Group in Damascus.

In Cairo, Former Assistant Egyptian Foreign Minister Abdullah al-Ash'al said: "The Mehlis report is confused and tries to interject Syria without giving any evidence." "...Mehlis mission is a political task and not judiciary and the report is based on a political conclusion and not on a judiciary one." Al-Ash'al added.

The actual UN Report is available here.

Funny, it makes no mention of Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan, found dead last week in his office of an apparent suicide three weeks after he was questioned by Mehlis's team.

[dutchdemocrat]

7. Umm...

In Condi's opening statement to the FRC, she went out of her way to criticize Iran and Syria. They “allow fighters and military assistance to reach insurgents in Iraq,” she said. “Syria and Iran must decide whether they wish to side with the cause of war or with the cause of peace.”

(Since April 2005, the country that has supplied the most foreign fighters to Iraq is not Syria or Iran, by the way. It is Egypt, according to The New York Times of October 20.)

[leftofthedial]

13. OVERWHELMINGLY the country that has provided the most foreign fighters

to the Iraq conflict is the USA.