U.S. rejects Syrian statement, threatens "serious consequences"

[sabra]

http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=770120

U.S. rejects Syrian statement, threatens "serious consequences"

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (KUNA) -- A Syrian government statement that Syria is doing all it can to police its borders with Iraq was rejected on Friday by State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli, who threatened Syria with "serious consequences".

"Innocent people are getting blown up in Iraq because Syria is allowing its territory to be used by terrorists bent on sowing murder and mayhem in Iraq," Ereli said during a department briefing. "And they are not going to succeed. The international community is not going to let this continue to happen".

More and more, Syria is being recognized as a "destabilizing element" in the region, Ereli said.

Problems with Syria go beyond Iraq and include Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority, Ereli said, "because there is a connection between Syria and terrorism and murder and mayhem in each of these three different areas".

I am getting scared.

[Gloria]

1. This will scare you more: In Syria, Regime Change by other Means/ATimes

From the current World Media Watch....

1//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong Sep 16, 2005

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GI16Ak01.html



IN SYRIA, REGIME CHANGE BY OTHER MEANS



By Ehsan Ahrari

The United States has not abandoned the option of regime change. This time, the objective is to oust the Bashar Assad regime of Syria, but by using "other" means.

This use of other means includes a combination of old tactics used to topple Saddam Hussein, and also uses a number of new tactics aimed at ensuring that the European Union - or its major members, the ones that were derided in the past by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as part of "old Europe" - does not oppose it, and that even the United Nations Security Council goes along with it. At least in principle, that is a deft approach.

Why has Syria become the target of America's fury? There are at least two reasons. First, as an immediate neighbor of Iraq, Syria has been increasingly accused by the US of aiding and abetting the Iraqi insurgents. This is not a new reason. However, as the security situation worsens in Iraq, the Bush administration intensifies its rhetoric of the condemnation of Syria.

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[Team44Car]

3. bush wants a good old fashion twofer: Syria AND Iran, why wait?

[Scurrilous]

22. Syria itself is a twofer...

...take out Syria and you can also have your way with Lebanon. I wouldn't put it past these sick f@cks.

[mitchtv]

6. Sharon:"Jump"

Bush: "How high?"

[Teaser]

2. What are we gonna do?

Bleed on them?

We've proven conclusively we can't defeat the remnants of a decimated army comprised by a small religious minority in a country that is, on the whole, not sympathetic to those army remnants.

So we think we can hurt the well-trained and fairly well equipped army that is Syria's?

[Team44Car]

4. Bush is going to drain the treasury, that's what!

Everything else is detail and bush is not a detail man.

[saskatoon]

8. Hurt them

Why SHOCK and AWE of course.

[The Stranger]

5. One Nation, Under PNAC, With Illegal War and Injustice for All.

[MasonJar]

7. Let's see. On the DU today I have read of threats against N.

Korea, Iran, and now Syria. What a guy. I think we should have a smart war. Our great leader in hand to hand battle with their leader.

[VegasWolf]

9. Bush and what army? Blowing up things without boots on the ground

has always failed, just as Bush and Rummy learned in Iraq.

[NCPatriot]

10. I'm Just waiting for....

A group of Nations to come together or just one rogue regime, and enter the USA to rid us of the dirty crooked polticians we are held under!

Our lousy leaders have proclaimed to bring the war to them (terr'sts) instead of having to fight on our own soil...

If I was a leader in any one of MANY areas of the world right now, namely Chine, N Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuala, etc etc... I would be discussing preemptive stikes against US interests or troops... ON THIER OWN SOIL!

Bush-hole and the entire "Within the Beltway" group of cronies need to get their shit together before we are fighting not terrorism, but for our own lives!

Like it or not... The majority of those with seats in the beltway are all useless! If they are not controlled by corporate greed (Dems and pubs alike) they have no voice!

Our entire Govt is out of control... Repugs driving the truck... Dems riding along quietly!

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[TomClash]

11. Send Billy Kristol with a pea shooter

[0007]

12. ...and Zell Miller as a back up.

[yurbud]

13. syria threats only thing that makes me suspect Israel driving neocons

otherwise, it looks like it's all just about oil.

[wordout]

15. Yep. nuke Damascus for the juice.

[yurbud]

16. I normally think Israel is the tail & we're the dog, but it's hard to make

that work on Syria.

[shadowknows69]

14. I thought we wanted all the terrorists

to come into Iraq now. Central front of the war on terror and all that. Shrub tells them to bring it on and then gets pissed when they do.

[sakabatou]

17. F-ing peice of crap!

How many more wars do we need?

[PurityOfEssence]

18. In a corner, with its dying gasp, the neocons will destroy Syria

The Israeli Defense Force sits poised to do its bidding, and stalled as it is for its other adventurism, the neocon assholes want to slam Syria and flex its alleged masculinity.

Remember: the neocons have a greater allegiance to Israel than to the United States of America. Having said that, however, their bent is to dominate the world.

As the tide of conservative dominance ebbs, truly ugly initiatives will surface.

[TheStates]

19. These neocon, zionists whatever they are, are out of their minds....

They can't seriously be thinking about war with Syria already....I knew the State department was full of crooks, I just didn't know it was full of homocidal maniac crooks is the thing.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

20. I thought they were not dumb enough to invade Iraq, fool me once.

[Demeter]

21. So What Is State Dept Going To Do?

Take a line from "Monty Python and the Search For the Holy Grail"?

"I fart in your general direction!"

That's about all Condi, Bolton, Remmy, Cheney and Bush could muster between themselves.