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2013-03-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2013-03-25 14:41|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 If this is true does it give the Iranians an opening to take over?

Posted by AlanC 2013-03-24 15:26|| 2013-03-24 15:26|| Front Page Top

#2 the Iranians are already calling a lot of the shots with the Russians calling a few also

Posted by lord garth 2013-03-24 16:20|| 2013-03-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 If true, the REAL civil war and genocidal butchery will soon begin. Of course Assad was the ....."problem" so it will be interesting how the administration twists this one.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-24 16:35|| 2013-03-24 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 lord garth, put this together with the "What Russia wants in Cyprus" post check out the geography and the consequences are limitless.

So, Russia takes over Greek Cyprus and Syria via Iran and Turkey does what?

Oy, this might get too big for pop corn.

Posted by AlanC 2013-03-24 16:37|| 2013-03-24 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah, just add stuff onto the popcorn. One of my favorites is to throw in M&M's.

Posted by Charles 2013-03-24 17:13|| 2013-03-24 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 An Iranian?

NOW this is getting very interesting.

Pass the popcorn and the M&M's.

The Russians are gathering influence to put a BIG fence around this mess. They've been in it up to their neck with Islamists for years and between Afghanistan and Chechnya, they don't want it to metastize.

Perhaps Putin has put on his big boy pants and decided to act globally with the jihad BS.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-24 17:42|| 2013-03-24 17:42|| Front Page Top

#7 M&Ms??? Might have to get the wife to make another batch of Chocalate truffles (rum, rasberry, peppermint, the lot)

Posted by AlanC 2013-03-24 18:41|| 2013-03-24 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Incident remains unconfirmed.

As forr IRAN, what doth MEMRI.ORG sayeth > IRANIAN OFFICIAL [Mehdi Taeb]: LOSS OF SYRIA WILL LEAD TO LOSS OF TEHRAN ITSELF, SYRIA IS AN IRANIAN PROVINCE OF IRAN, IRAN HAS FORMED 60,000-STRONG SYRIAN BASILJ, ISRAEL IS OUR ONLY THREAT.

The highly controversial Taeb's statements is repor causing a serious brouhaha amongst Iranian Clerics + Pundits, espec as per his "Syria" claims.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-24 19:35|| 2013-03-24 19:35|| Front Page Top

#9 If it's true Fred and I are breaking out a 30 year old bottle of port...

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-24 20:38|| 2013-03-24 20:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Assassination attempt on Assad?

Good thing he has bodyguards to protect him.

Oh, wait.... :-D

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-24 21:43|| 2013-03-24 21:43|| Front Page Top

#11 another link

Posted by Water Modem 2013-03-24 21:51|| 2013-03-24 21:51|| Front Page Top

#12 So you want Iranian influence in Syria, or just run of the mill al Qaeda?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-03-24 23:58|| 2013-03-24 23:58|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm praying Assad live long and prosper...such a lovely war! If we didn't have him, we'd have to invent him! We need more of him to control Allah's hell spawn and by golly, Satan is ready with the supply! Fact is, O'Bummer is doing pretty good too with supplying the other side...We keep hearing of Medieval rivers of blood during cities getting sacked...remember unk Rifaat Assad and his 80,000 'slime brothers slain in Hama in the eighties?
Well, Bashir will do better than his uncle ten times over...times are good...now where O'bummer
is gonna start another one for us?

Posted by Pliny the Cheap6130 2013-03-25 19:54|| 2013-03-25 19:54|| Front Page Top

#14 New nym, same dribble, gets old.

Posted by Injun Stalin7884 2013-03-25 20:10|| 2013-03-25 20:10|| Front Page Top

#15 I suppose with that line of thinking we should be looking for next Tamerlain, protector of the faith of Islam to come to town and butcher an entire city as he did with Baghdad...something like a million killed...four pyramids 50 feet high of head?

I think we are really seeing the true nature of Islam. They will continue to look backward and continue to kill each other until it reaches some absurdity, like Tamerlain.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-25 22:45|| 2013-03-25 22:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Ouch, Injun Stalin7884

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-25 22:56|| 2013-03-25 22:56|| Front Page Top

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