Rice calls for sanctions against Syria

[spindrifter]

Aljazeera.net
Wednesday 27 September 2006, 3:04 Makka Time, 0:04 GMT

The US and Syria clashed on Tuesday, with Washington urging other countries to impose sanctions on Damascus and Syria telling the US to stop trying to impose its will on Arabs.

According to a state department transcript released on Tuesday, Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, told the New York Times: "What we'd really like to do is we'd like to get some others to join us in other kinds of sanctions ."

Washington has long listed Syria as a "state sponsor of terrorism" and has accused it of fueling violence in Iraq.

In May 2004, Washington banned US exports to Syria other than food and medicine, severed banking relations with the Commercial Bank of Syria and barred Syrian flights to and from America.

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[BuyingThyme]

1. Fueling violence in Iraq? Condoleezza is against that?

[malaise]

2. But who will call for sanctions

against CondiLIAR?

[davidinalameda]

3. didn't think that sanctions worked

:shrug:

[Subdivisions]

4. Es-ca-la-tion!

What they won't do! Sheesh!

[bdamomma]

5. oh geez, condi is getting desperate, what a witch she is

[Ilsa]

6. I smell another distraction.

No shame.

And sanctions worked so well against Iraq in getting them to love us, didn't they?

[razors edge]

7. did anyone ever post

who/what she did to get that supertanker named after her?

is she trying for an aircraft carrier now or what?

[leesa]

8. This gal's just purely into torture for torture's sake.

Put that whip down, honey.

[RethugAssKicker]

9. Syria "fueling violence in Iraq"

The nerve of these fucking people....

We're over there blowing up their poeple and stealing their resources,,

and we accuse any other country who dares to disagree with us "terrorist"...

[MzNov]

10. yeah yeah yeah.... they're not giving her much to do these days

I don't think anyone even listens to her anymore. For good reasons, of course.

:dem:

[Disturbed]

11. Has Syria refused to torture renditioned Terrorist Suspects

for the Busholini Regime? After it has finally surfaced that Syria had accommodated this with a Canadian Citizen maybe Syrian officials refused to take any more renditioned suspects?

[Jacobin]

12. Won't that hurt the 2 million Iraqi refugees who fled there?

I thought Madame Supertanker just loved her some Iraqis.