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2004-03-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-07 00:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think the Bekkaa Valley would be an excellent location for a Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, and BJ's in the middle of a HUGE parking lot!

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-3-7 12:15:32 AM|| 2004-3-7 12:15:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, so because of the problems in Iraq, he doesn't think we'll be doing anything about the fact that they're causing the problems in Iraq?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-3-7 12:34:51 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-3-7 12:34:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Better yet: A 'Jurrasic Park' type theme park with tons of burned out T-72s, broken statues of maximum leaders, demonstrating the ultimate result of socialist policies. We could call it 'YerAss Sick Park.'

Posted by badanov 2004-3-7 12:36:02 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-3-7 12:36:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush is constantly on their minds..... Everytime any of 'em sit down to eat a meal....or go to bed....or take a shit, there's a thought in the back of their mind about how they are a target, and could be HIT at any moment.

I know if I were assad or any of those idiots, I'd be scared to death all the time. If they're wanted, and they're seen, they're dead! And they know it.

Posted by Danny 2004-3-7 1:24:29 AM|| 2004-3-7 1:24:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Won't beÂ the first guy to underestimate
W. Or the last.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-7 1:45:56 AM|| 2004-3-7 1:45:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 i hope assad is constantly visiting his proctoligist because if bush wins in 2004 his asshole will be opening wider in fear than the tigris-euphrates valley

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-3-7 4:54:11 AM|| 2004-3-7 4:54:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Good grief - not the brightest of buttons are they.

I think it is imperative that GWB wins in November, and have been keeping an eye on the Democratic selection process (which was ... interesting). I'm assuming that the Bush onslaught will start in the summer, and on November 4th, baby Assad and the Mullahs break out in a cold sweat.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-3-7 7:23:20 AM|| 2004-3-7 7:23:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "I'm assuming that the Bush onslaught will start in the summer, and on November 4th, baby Assad and the Mullahs break out in a cold sweat."
And if the gloves don't come off regarding Syria and Iran immediately after the election, it is we who should be breaking out in a cold sweat.

After our initial boldness, we seem to have sunk into an increasing timidity- and it's got me worried. This "Arab Democracy Initiative" is a noble undertaking, certainly, but I had always considered that our major purpose in being in Iraq was to be in a position to apply real, palpable pressure to the chief sources of the terrorist problem: Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran. And I don't see very many signs that we are actually doing that.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-7 9:29:04 AM|| 2004-3-7 9:29:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Now you are starting to underestimate Bush. A great deal has been accomplished in the last two years. Osama is the target this spring. This summer, we turn over control to an Iraqi government. The fall is the election. The winter is the strategy setting for the next four years. Spring '05, you may like what happens. But a lot of it will happen without knocking heads.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-7 10:25:50 AM|| 2004-3-7 10:25:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mr. Davis, agree completely, but please get your language right. That's misunderestimate Bush. :-p

Speaking of which, do the Donks drink a special "Misunderestimate" water or something? Or is it some kind of a disease?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-3-7 12:08:29 PM|| 2004-3-7 12:08:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The other thing Assad and the Mullahs ought to be worried about is that, if Bush does lose, he's got about 10 weeks (from the election to the inauguration) free use of the world's most devastating military arsenal, with no political consequences to worry about. "Adios, muchachos!."

Posted by Matt 2004-3-7 12:43:28 PM|| 2004-3-7 12:43:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 do the Donks drink a special "Misunderestimate" water or something? Or is it some kind of a disease?
It's a hereditary defect. In some places it's called "stupidity", in others, it's called "duckassitis". It's deadly if untreated. Unfortunately, Donks tend to avoid the treatment about the same way Nigerian Muslims avoid innoculations. It requires reading, listening, and thinking - the last of which is most important, and least done.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-7 1:21:02 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-7 1:21:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 do the Donks drink a special "Misunderestimate" water or something? Or is it some kind of a disease?
It's a hereditary defect. In some places it's called "stupidity", in others, it's called "duckassitis". It's deadly if untreated. Unfortunately, Donks tend to avoid the treatment about the same way Nigerian Muslims avoid innoculations. It requires reading, listening, and thinking - the last of which is most important, and least done.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-7 1:21:03 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-7 1:21:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hmmm... I don't know whether I'm underestimating Bush or not, and I'm certainly not a Donk: I'm just trying to maintain a clear mental distinction between what I actually know and what I can only suspect (or hope for, as in the matter of getting physical with Syria and Iran).

Speaking of getting physical, I'm not sure just how much Bush can do without additional Congressional authorization; I suspect, not too much.

And it may be that we won't see anything more until after the election, when (I dearly hope) a larger Republican majority will pave the way for Bush getting authorization to kick some more ass.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-7 2:52:59 PM|| 2004-3-7 2:52:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 No, we probably won't invade. But that doesn't mean we can't kill anything that moves along the border without 12 hours advance notice.

Posted by mojo 2004-3-7 4:35:14 PM|| 2004-3-7 4:35:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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