don't look now but we may be about to invade SYRIA ...

[welshTerrier2]

it's been great listening to the Democrats talking about foreign policy over the last few months ... you could spend weeks just reading their analysis on how they think the US should be handling bush's sabre rattling towards Syria (or Iran) ... that's what real leadership on foreign policy is all about ... and that's why Americans are so trusting of Democrats when it comes to standing up to the bad guys overseas ... it makes you proud to be a Democrat when you see them getting out front on an issue like this ...

the reality is, that if the Democrats have nothing to say about foreign policy, and leave it completely to the republicans, we will never regain majority status as long as the neo-cons can convince Americans that we are fighting for our survival against a vast network of global terrorists ... Democrats remain silent, or supportive of what bush is doing, at their own peril ... if we are truly "an underground", we have to find a way to change that and get them to speak out in opposition ...

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/politics/24syria.html

Syria Stops Cooperating With U.S. Forces and C.I.A.

Syria has halted military and intelligence cooperation with the United States, its ambassador to Washington said in an interview, in a sign of growing strains between the two nations over the insurgency in Iraq.

The ambassador, Imad Moustapha, said in the interview on Friday at the Syrian Embassy here that his country had, in the last 10 days, "severed all links" with the United States military and Central Intelligence Agency because of what he called unjust American allegations. The Bush administration has complained bitterly that Syria is not doing enough to halt the flow of men and money to the insurgency in Iraq.

Mr. Moustapha said he believed that the Bush administration had decided "to escalate the situation with Syria" despite steps the Syrians have taken against the insurgents in Iraq, and despite the withdrawal in recent weeks of Syrian troops from Lebanon, in response to international demands. <skip>

American military officers in Baghdad and intelligence analysts in Washington say militant cells inside Iraq draw on "unlimited money" from an underground financial network run by former Baath Party leaders and relatives of Mr. Hussein, many of whom they say found safe haven to live and operate in Syria. <skip>

On the day of the interview with Mr. Moustapha, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Syria was "allowing its territory to be used to organize terrorist attacks against innocent Iraqis."

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