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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 08:40 PM
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US Ambassador to Iraq predicts US will invade Syria to combat insurgents
The liquor must reallly be flowing in Aspen! :wtf:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/09/18/us-ambassador-to-iraq-pre_n_7516.html

Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Ambassador to Iraq, made the off the record prediction that the US will go into Syria to combat insurgents that have been using the country as a staging ground for terrorist activity in Iraq.

Ambassador Khalilzad’s comments were made at businessman Teddy Forstmann's annual off the record gathering in Aspen, Colorado this weekend.

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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 08:42 PM
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1. Go for it. Declare war on the entire world while you're at it.
What is with these morans?
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PuraVidaDreamin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 08:59 PM
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2. Seriously ! What are they waiting for. Let GO!
The sooner the better.

It's on! Revolution here we come!
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:01 PM
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3. Always The Schmucks Who Say Such Things Are Far Away From The Battlefield
Cowards. Cowards, the entire bunch of them!
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:08 PM
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4. Syria and Iran have a mutual-defense pact
since February...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1416319,00.html

Iran and Syria confront US with defence pact

Ewen MacAskill in Beirut and Duncan Campbell
Thursday February 17, 2005
The Guardian

Iran and Syria heightened tension across the Middle East and directly confronted the Bush administration yesterday by declaring they had formed a mutual self-defence pact to confront the "threats" now facing them.
...
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:12 PM
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5. this'll be a two fer.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:17 PM
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6. i think the syrians just may fight back or
decide to trap the usa/iraqi forces in the sands of the border.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:23 PM
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7. Bring 'em on! Let's Roll!
Edited on Sun Sep-18-05 09:23 PM by Poiuyt
I saw this guy on TV the other day making exactly the same kinds of statements that Bush was making just before he invaded Iraq.
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maine_raptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:26 PM
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8. Flashback Time!!!!
Anybody remember Nixon and the bombing of Cambodia and the subsequent invasion?

I'm gald I don't have to change my sig line for this one.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:30 PM
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9. Great. First a war for oil, now a war over Syrian bread.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:45 PM
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10. Actually, according to Bill O'Reilly this will be the Felafel War
Edited on Sun Sep-18-05 09:47 PM by SpiralHawk
And he promises to "bravely" fight the noble fight from the plushest chair in his air-conditioned office, being a rich Imperial Chickenhawk and all.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 09:51 PM
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11. He's having a trophy case made for his upcoming Medal of Freedom
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 10:15 PM
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12. I think one of my favorite quotes
from the scifi show Babylon 5 fits this administration to a tee...especially with their current jones to pick a fight with everyone in the Middle East.

"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."
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