White House stops blocking Syria bill

[hedda_foil]

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White House stops blocking Syria bill
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By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY

Two days before Israel bombed an alleged Palestinian terrorist training camp in Syria, the Bush administration gave Congress the go-ahead to approve new U.S. penalties against the Damascus regime.

Rep. Eliot Engel (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., the chief author of the Syria Accountability Act, says he was told on Friday that the legislation had been put on the calendar for a vote Wednesday by the House International Relations Committee. The measure has support from a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.


The legislation had been blocked by the White House in the run-up to the Iraq (news - web sites) war while the administration sought to blunt Syrian opposition to overturning Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime. But those inhibitions are gone, Engel says: "The signals I get are that the administration is increasingly frustrated with Syria."


The decision reflects U.S. anger that Syria has neither ended support for Palestinian terrorists nor closed its borders to Arab militants infiltrating Iraq to attack American forces.

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Tuesday, President Bush (news - web sites) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) again shared a view that Syria is a threat to Israeli security.

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"The decisions he (Sharon) makes to defend her people are valid decisions," Bush told reporters after a Cabinet meeting. "We would be doing the same thing."

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. Syria not towing the line for Bush

so send Sharon in to stir up trouble across the borders--then make sure that legally one has a case to invade and blow up Syria--under Hitler, everything was done legally also.

This is more of Bush's evil--is another set up--look for more lies and lies and lies because no matter what he says about Syria, or anything, the fact that he is a pathological liar just makes whatever he says moot. I doubt that he cares--he will just hire a PR firm to make sure his lies do not make it to the history books and he will further threaten anyone, and their family, with dire consequences should they bring it to attention that Bush lies and as a result of those lies, people die-even his own people.

Bush is evil--I am ashamed of my country

[sistersofmercy]

2. Aren't the occupying forces in Iraq suppose to secure the border?

Hmmmm, interesting means of passing the buck rather than admitting the coalition can not make Iraq secure.

[Mairead]

3. And another Dem sells out

Eliot Engel, D-NY

(edit: fixed spelling of name)

[cprise]

4. "Alleged terrorist training camp"

Sure it wasn't a chicken farm, or an aspirin factory?