Sources: Bush to Impose Sanctions on Syria This Week

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) plans this week to impose economic sanctions on Syria for supporting terrorism and failing to stop guerrillas from entering Iraq (news - web sites), people involved in the deliberations said on Monday.



Congressional sources said Bush was expected to curb future investments by American energy firms in Syria and prohibit Syrian aircraft from flying into the United States.


Bush was also expected either to block transactions involving the Syrian government or to ban exports to Syria of U.S. products other than food and medicine, the sources said.


A White House announcement on the sanctions is planned as early as Tuesday.


The move comes after lawmakers, who helped push legislation through Congress last year to sanction Syria, complained that Bush appeared to be appeasing Damascus by not implementing the penalties under the so-called Syria Accountability Act.

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20040510/pl_nm/syria_usa_dc

Hilarious,...that legislators are complaining that Bush seems to be "appeasing" Damascus. Blah!!! Bah!!!

we might not live to regret it!

These people are desperate. They know they are beaten, because they are beaten on the Chess board. At this point in time, they have nothing to lose and have no compunction on taking us with them.

Remember what Bush said when asked how history will remember the War in Iraq? He said, "I don't know; we'll all be dead!"

He wasn't kidding..


JMJ

'either to block transactions involving the Syrian government or to ban exports to Syria of U.S. products..'

Banjo Fishing System? Talking condiment dispensers? The list is endless.

:evilgrin:

:shrug:

Let the fallout from the torture begin. How will the rest of the world view this action?

Only four members voted against it (two Democrats and two Republicans).

http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2004/05/12742.php

The Nuremberg Defendents were tried, convicted and hung for less than what we have on the BushNeocons.

The truth is fascism in America revolves around a handful of
Wall Street firms and leading American families. One
name above all others in steering the country towards full-
blown fascism stands out above all others: Bush. For
over seventy years and three generations the Bush family
has been hard core supporters and advocates of fascism.

With the record of the current Bush regime a short excerpt
from the first leaflet of the White Rose Society, a small group
of students who dared to oppose Hitler and the Nazis 
bears repeating.

"Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself
to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique
that has yielded to base instinct. Who among us has
any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall
us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from
our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - crimes that
infinitely out-distance every human measure - reach the light
of day?"

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/intro.html

population, especially the children, and then attack them after it has been determined that Syria has reached a certain level of weakness and social instability. And then we "liberate" them and impose freedom and democracy on the country until they capitulate.

'Israel should bomb strategic targets in Damascus'
AFP, Jerusalem
Monday, May 10 2004

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/05/10/d405101302106.htm

Syria should shrug this off. What concerns me more, are the "millitary options".

eom

Our biggest import is other countries money, used to finance our budget deficit

,...and I wouldn't doubt for one moment that the world would utilize such a tactic.

Second verse, same as the first...

I remember how conservatives lectured us about how sanctions did work and that we had to invade Iraq instead. Now we are going to do the same thing with Syria. How stupid!

bidding. And no doubt, the dual-loyalty PNAC-Likudnik neonazicons in this administration (Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Abrams, et al) have set this up nicely, and to plan.

Seems no matter how badly things go with their illegal war in Iraq, or the other crimes they are involved in, they never stop pushing their agenda (which is to rule the ME, vis a vis their appointed vassals).

When is THIS nation going to wake up, and realize that the situation we now find ourselves in with Iraq, is largely due to the work of evil bastards whose first loyalty is to Israel?

When are we going to put a stop to letting an outside nation control much of our foreign and military policies? All those involved in promoting and defending these policies, are traitors to this nation, in the truest sense. They should ALL be tried and hung for what they've done, and then we should demand that the Israeli people remove their corrupt and evil leadership as well. To bad Kerry has embraced the status quo with regards to Israel....

Oh but then U.S. provided U.S. security is aweful sloppy on borders and visa overstays as well.

interesting timing... definitely something is up. All that is missing (unless I missed it) is an announcement per North Korea.

I see no other course of action on the part of the Arab countries--and Venezuela--that they could take to protect themselves other than to place an embargo on oil sales to the US.

which domino will fall next?

If we attack another Arab nation, I think they'll band together to fight us. Not just militarily, but like David_77 said, with an oil embargo. Add in that Venezuela and Russia aren't very happy with us, then we'll have some issues. The strategic reserves wouldn't hold us for long--not that we'll see them, gotta feed the military machine. Hopefully we'll toss bush* out on his ass before this'll happen.

Doeas Dubya even know where Syria is on the map? Maybe he thinks Syria is next to Cuba or trades too much with Fidel.

Although that kind of hypocrisy would not have surprised me at all.

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The United States is ordering the sanctions "because they will not fight terror and they won't join us in fighting terror," Bush said in an interview last week with the Cairo-based newspaper Al-Ahram International.


"We've asked them to do some things and they haven't responded," Bush said. "And Congress passed a law saying that if Syria will not join — for example, booting out a Hezbollah office out of Damascus — that the president has the right to put sanctions on."

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Syria provided the United States with intelligence on al-Qaida after the Sept. 1, 2001, attacks. Though some U.S. officials have played down the importance of that, the cooperation probably discouraged the administration from imposing sanctions that would have reduced diplomatic contacts.


Syria has been on the State Department's list of terror-sponsoring nations for its support of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that attack Israel. U.S. officials have also said that Syria hasn't done enough to prevent anti-American fighters and arms from crossing its border with Iraq. They have also criticized its domination of Lebanon, where it has based thousands of soldiers.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=2&u=/ap/20040510/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_syria