Annan: Arab Leaders Worried Over Syria (becoming next Iraq)

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http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1105/279877.html

Annan: Arab Leaders Worried Over Syria

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Arab leaders are worried Syria could become the next Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on his return from a visit to the Middle East. Annan said the issue of Syrian cooperation with an investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri came up in every capital he visited.

"They're all concerned and anxious to see Syria cooperate and to see the issue settled diplomatically and not lead to a situation that destabilizes possibly Syria and Lebanon," he said Monday. "They're worried if we are leading to another Iraq situation."

Last month a U.N. interim report implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services in the Feb. 14 assassination and said Syria was not fully cooperating with the U.N. investigation of the killing. The U.N. Security Council warned Syria of possible "further action" if it does not do its part in the probe, which has been extended until Dec. 15.

Syria has objected to a request from chief investigator Detlev Mehlis to interview six top Syrian officials about the assassination in Beirut. Syria's U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad said Monday that Lebanon "creates problems, sensitivities and other issues."

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1. I am seriously beginning to think that blivet** has run short of

'political capital' and may not be able to pull that one off. Even if he wanted to.

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3. The act that Congress put into place that okayed the Iraq invasion....

...also allows our Fearless Leader to move militarily against any other country he sees fit if that country is linked to terrorism. No additional Congressional debate/approval is needed or necessary.

That is something 99% of all Americans do not know, and I bet they would be very disturbed if they found that out.

If you look at the rhetoric spewed out by the NeoCon Junta about Syria over the last few years, you can see the obvious attempts to convince Americans that Syria is tied to Al Qaeda. Even the military operations in Iraq along the Syrian border have been publicly stated as operations geared to "stopping foreign fighters" (i.e.: Al Qaeda/terrorists) from entering Iraq from Syria.

Syria has good reason to fear the NeoCon Junta.

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