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Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries.
Originally posted by Souljah
Considering that Big Firefights between US and Insurgents in Iraq take place close to Syrian Border, it is only a matter of time, when the "president" Bush decided to change the Regime in Damascus also.
Even hard-liners acknowledge that given the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, a U.S. attack on either country would be an unlikely last resort; covert action of some kind is the favored route for Washington hard-liners who want regime change in Damascus and Tehran.
Originally posted by Souljah
Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says.
Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries.
Source:
MSNBC - Newsweek
Considering that Big Firefights between US and Insurgents in Iraq take place close to Syrian Border, it is only a matter of time, when the "president" Bush decided to change the Regime in Damascus also.
Originally posted by deltaboy
no surprise there since Syria is supporting the insurgency by using their agents. and since Syria's history with covert act its no surprise the U.S. is goin after them, probably bomb the camps on the Syrian side thats training the foreign fighters.
If the United States turns up the heat, it risks getting burned
"You might get what you wish for. But not quite what you wish for," said one diplomat in Damascus who requested anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities. The prospect of regime change in Syria worries even Israel, Syria's longtime enemy. If al-Assad's rigidly secular regime were toppled, the nation's mosaic of competing sects and ethnicities could explode into conflict. Islamist radicals—including a group called Soldiers of the Levant—are already gaining influence in Syria, where they were once ruthlessly crushed.
--snip--
The ambassador says that while Damascus is still detaining jihadists on its own, it got "fed up" with the Bush administration's public al-Assad bashing, even after Washington had privately lauded Syria for handing over Saddam's half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan, earlier in the year. Moustapha also confirmed an account from a U.S. intel official who said Damascus was angered when Washington exposed one of its operatives. "We are willing to re-engage the moment you want—but on one condition," Moustapha says. "You have to acknowledge that we are helping."
-snip--
"We won't take yes for an answer from Damascus," says one intel official who declined to be identified because his work is classified. In the last few years before contacts were cut off, he says, Syrian intelligence helped avert two major attacks on U.S. targets, including a Navy base in Bahrain. U.S. pressure, he adds, may be "radicalizing the country." That is one risk, perhaps, of engaging with no one in Syria—neither dictators nor democrats.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
They aren't supporting the insurgency, that's just Fox News BS.
Syria has been fighting the insurgency, even working with the US at one point until the US kept criticising their efforts and not publicly acknowledgeing their help.
Syria has been surpressing radical Islamists for decades now, even fighting on the side of the Christians during the Labanese civil war.
If Assad is removed from power, the radical Islamist groups will probably take over and make things much worse than they are right now.
The United States recently debated launching military strikes inside Syria against camps used by insurgents operating in neighboring Iraq, a US magazine reported.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice successfully opposed the idea at a meeting of senior American officials held on October 1, Newsweek reported, citing unnamed US government sources.
Rice reportedly argued that diplomatic isolation was a more effective approach, with a UN report pending that may blame Syria for the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, told Newsweek that his government continued to detain Islamic extremists and remained willing to resume cooperation if the public bashing stopped.
"We are willing to re-engage the moment you want but one condition," the magazine quotes Moustapha as saying.
"You have to acknowledge that we are helping."
Moustapha also confirmed an account from a US intelligence official that Damascus had been angered when Washington exposed one of its operatives.
Originally posted by deltaboy
it must be the same Syrian operative who confessed on Iraqi tv for helping the insurgency. i believe that he said something about takin on the Americans and keep them busy with Iraq so the U.S. would not invade Syria. go figure.
Fox News
The bearded man in a gray jacket and shirt who appeared on the U.S.-funded Iraqi state television station Wednesday had a stark message about the insurgency — he was a Syrian intelligence officer who helped train people to behead others and build car bombs to attack American and Iraqi troops.
--snip--
"We received all the instructions from Syrian intelligence," said the man, who appeared in the propaganda video along with 10 Iraqis who said they had also been recruited by Syrian intelligence officers.
--snip--
He claimed he infiltrated Iraq in 2001, about two years before the U.S. invasion, because Syrian intelligence was convinced that American military action loomed.
An unidentified Iraqi officer introduced the video, saying all insurgent groups in Iraq were covers for Syrian intelligence. He named a number of well-known groups, including one that has killed and beheaded foreigners
Originally posted by AceOfBase
They aren't supporting the insurgency, that's just Fox News BS.
Syria has been fighting the insurgency, even working with the US at one point until the US kept criticising their efforts and not publicly acknowledgeing their help.
Our history with covert acts?
LOL !!!!!!!
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Syria an Iran have alliance. You can't take us both at the same time.
Syria is not Iraq.
And neither is Iran.
The Iraqi resistance is Iraqi, even the US admits that.
Syrian government is working with the americans sadly, just like the iranian one.
Governments are filthy corruptable things, they do whatever profits them.
Capitalists, whatever they call themselves, they are truly just capitalists.
Originally posted by Souljah
Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says.
Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries.
Source:
MSNBC - Newsweek
Considering that Big Firefights between US and Insurgents in Iraq take place close to Syrian Border, it is only a matter of time, when the "president" Bush decided to change the Regime in Damascus also.
Originally posted by deathstar1000
Syria supports no Islamic fundamentalists? Last I checked practically the entire hezzbolla leadership is based in Damascus. They may not be supporting sunni fundies but they sure do support the #e ones.
Originally posted by Souljah
Considering that Big Firefights between US and Insurgents in Iraq take place close to Syrian Border,
Originally posted by Souljah
it is only a matter of time,
Originally posted by Souljah
when the "president" Bush decided to change the Regime in Damascus also.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
It’s nice to see your Denying Ignorance by putting president in quotes
Originally posted by Souljah
Originally posted by WestPoint23
It’s nice to see your Denying Ignorance by putting president in quotes
I knew you wouldn't understand, but for me a President is Somebody that is actually ELECTED by his own People - and not if he rises to power with Deception, Lies and his Daddy's Friends.
Originally posted by nukunuku
But siriously, do you people think USA can afford another debacle such as Iraq? Will the whole population of USA sign in for a tour of duty or what. If really you need to wage pointless wars all the time, perhaps you should try finishing one war before starting another.