Israel strikes inside Syria...

[wyldwolf]

Israeli warplanes attacked an Islamic Jihad training base deep in Syria in retaliation for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant that killed 19 people, the army said Sunday. Israeli media said it was the first Israeli attack on Syrian soil in more than two decades.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20031005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_attack

[Terwilliger]

1. oh SHIT!

What will Syria do? What will the Arab league do?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Good bye peace

Wonder if the right-wing born agains see this as a sign of the end times? Wonder if the neocons see this as an excuse to stretch our troops even thinner and invade Syria? Wonder if this will start another Israeli-Arab war?

[leftofthedial]

3. Oh praise be to Muffy the Mystery Cat

For verily did Muffy predict that her glorious return would come when flames and destruction were rained down on the great yarn ball of the northeast (we all know that Syria is the "great yarn ball of the northeast" in Muffianic prophecy) by Muffy's vengeful and most pure wrath.

This post will be empty in case of Muffianic Rapture! Oh praise be! I'll be sitting at the right hand, er, paw, of Muffy the Mystery Cat for all eternity!

please check out our website www.liberalslikemuffy.biz .

[acmavm]

4. Could the Israeli action be a precursor to what the Bush Administration

will do next. They've been wanting to go after Syria for a LONG time. Now, the Israelis have made the first foray into that country. And it's in response to a Palestinian suicide bomber, which gives them some political cover.

No matter what it is in response to, the fact that the Israelis continue to build new settlements and the continuing construction of the "fence" makes it plain to the Palestinians that there is really no chance of them ever getting their own state regardless of what propaganda comes from Bush and Sharon. This whole roadmap has been a fiasco. There was never any real intent on the Israeli part to live up to their side of the deal, and given that fact, the Palestinians refuse to discontinue the attacks on Israeli civilians, which I find to be a cowardly way to operate.

Watch for the Bush administration to condone this attack into Syria. In fact, the justifications for it should start coming out of the mouths of Rummy and Powel any time now.

There has to be honesty from both the Israelis and the Palestinians, good-faith negotiations, and both sides have to make positive moves to show that they are willing to end the decades of killing. But why should Israel ever feel that they need to give up territory or set boundaries for a Palestian state when they have the full backing of this government?

[leftofthedial]

5. harboring terrists

we KNOW they have WMDs. We KNOW they are in the area of Damascus.

Imminent threat. Al Qaeda. 9-11.

[Mairead]

6. You bet. Now Smirk will say 'we must support our ally Israel by

bombing Syria'.

If any Dem candidate tries to woffle on this in any way at all, I hope we all agree that they should forthwith be made toast

[Lindsay]

7. Well, officially

Der Shrubbenfuhrer told all parties to chill.

What's being said behind closed doors, of course, may be considerably different.

[GabysPoppy]

8. Locking - dupe

This thread belongs in the I/P forum. As it is a dupe of a thread there, you cn continue the discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=18429

GabysPoppy

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