BUSH TO SYRIA: SCRAM

BUSH TO SYRIA: SCRAM
By DEBORAH ORIN
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/41798.htm

March 4, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — President Bush told the New York Post yesterday that Syria must pull all of its troops out of Lebanon by May so that the now-occupied nation can have free elections.
"The subject that is most on my mind right now is getting Syria out of Lebanon, and I don't mean just the troops out of Lebanon, I mean all of them out of Lebanon, particularly the secret service out of Lebanon — the intelligence services," he said.

"This is non-negotiable. It is time to get out . . . I think we've got a good chance to achieve that objective and to make sure that the May elections are fair. I don't think you can have fair elections with Syrian troops there," the president said in a wide-ranging Oval Office interview with The Post's editorial board.

Asked if there is a threat of military action as an "or else" if they don't, Bush replied, "No. The 'or else' is further isolation from the world. You know, the president should never take any options off the table, my last choice is military."

"How dare you naughty Syrians occupy Lebanon and push the Lebanese around? Even if the US is occupying Iraq and pushing Iraqis around, that doesn't give YOU the right to do as we do. Only the US has the right to occupy and manipulate other nations."

is to privatize sociaL security!

to be tortured.
Go figure.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1314317.htm

ELEANOR HALL: Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad has indicated he will buckle to international pressure and pull his forces out of Lebanon.

The Syrian leader has reportedly told Time Magazine that he will comply with UN Resolution 1559 and withdraw "in the next few months."

There are public signs that Syria is feeling the pressure. Syrian President Assad has told Time Magazine that his troops could be withdrawn from Lebanon in the next few months. But he made this qualification: "I could not say we could do it in two months because I have not had the meeting with the army people. They may say it will take six months."

The last link-W DEMANDING Syria to pull out- was posted about 5 hours after it was reported that Assad had already said they would be pulled.
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 · Last updated 11:18 a.m. PT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1632708

as if he's in negotiations.

As for it being an old story - it's a NY Post exclussive - how dare you question Murdoch?

"Syria must pull all of its troops out of Lebanon by May so that the now-occupied nation can have free elections."

Does * now think he's EMPEROR of the Middle-East? We don't even know if Syria was linked to the recent assassination but it sure stirred up a hornet's nest that conveniently played well for the * Administration.

Syria can't just up and pull out because it's their government that is responsible for the "day to day" running of the country. If they left, we'd have a "Messy Rumsfeld Democracy." (anarchy - looting, kidnapings, more terrorist training camps, etc. etc.)

The Executive Branch has IMO gone completely INSANE. Didn't * state that he doesn't think much about Bin Laden no more than a year and a half ago? Yet today he's macho man out to git the ole' terrorist, "Dead or Alive" once again?

The above coupled with the implied invasion threat to Syria over Lebanon has to be making ever INCREASING Generals in the Pentagon contemplating early retirement. Soon we'll only have Private Pyle spring butt Yes-Men as our Military Commanders. Tragic. :grr:

YOU GO GIRL! You tell 'em how it IS!

And also! SWEDEN OUT OF POLAND! YEAH!

And and .. BRITAIN OUT OF INDIA!! YEAH!!

(oh my god what a douche)

needs to get their troops out of Lebanon so that good democracy can flourish.Sounds real Presidential.

Oh, I forgot, Bush needs an imperial Israel to fulfill his deluded apocalyptic views.

They risked their lives to vote believing U.S. military would leave. They were mistaken or mislead. The neoCONs plan permanent military presence.

Huh. So, I guess, an occupied nation can't have free elections after all.

If Lebanese elections are a sham, how is it that Hariri had been a longtime, popular Prime Minister, until his defeat last year? And why did, uh, "Syria," wait until he was out of office to blow the man up?

Better get them 15,000 troops home, Syria. You'll need 'em soon against those 150,000 foreign troops in Iraq, with more to come.

Rush Limbaugh listeners and the FAUX viewers. Do the stupid fundies count?