USA opens up economic war against Syria!

[Ted Striker]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to impose sanctions on Syria, tightening the economic and diplomatic squeeze on a nation the United States says is harboring terrorists and developing weapons of mass destruction.

"Diplomacy with the Syrian regime has failed miserably," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, chairwoman of the House International Relations Middle East subcommittee. "It is time to reinforce our words with concrete, tangible and punitive measures."


"Syria is two-faced, throwing a few small bones of information to American sources while continuing to aid the most violent terrorist groups in the Middle East," said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-New York, the bill's chief sponsor.

But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said Syria "has evidently chosen to side with the terrorists in this war and it's time for their government to start feeling the consequences of their actions."

Congress, he said, "has a responsibility to make Syria understand the recklessness of its actions."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/syria.sanctions.ap/index.html

Capitol Hill is reaching the breaking point with Syria? Or is this going to be a Cold War type of thing?

My feeling is that Washington is going to do everything it can to have a war with Syria without actually invading.

[uh Clem]

a nation the United States says is harboring terrorists and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Well gee, it must be true then, because the US is never wrong about that sort of thing.

The Syrians btw have this really annoying habit. Whenever Washington starts to scold them about weapons of mass destruction, they demand action against the one country in the Middle East that does have WMDs. Don't you hate people like that?

[Q Classic]

i thought the syrians and the iraqis were sorta friends...

[oedo]

remember 9-11...
how many of the hijackers were Syrians btw?

[Q Classic]

well, none, 'cause they were all iraqi. saddam funded them.

and now saddam's fled to syria, 'cause they're tight like that.

[oedo]

this is strange. I thought, they were all Afghans.

[Q Classic]

well, you're wrong, because there are very definite links between saddam and al qaida. besides, afghans aren't arabs.

[oedo]

yes, I heard about those links:

[Eli]

USA! USA! USA!

[Q Classic]

damn, that means i'm a terrorist too. of the third power, too!

[Bosh]

i thought the syrians and the iraqis were sorta friends...

Nope, they contributed two divisions to the Coalition against Iraq in Gulf War I. Just goes to show how much better Bush I dealt with the whole diplomatic front (gotta hand it to someone who can run a modern war on a profit).

[Q Classic]

tsk, eli, don't steal ted's thunder!

well, you didn't post a pic of that ho'...

[oedo]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
damn, that means i'm a terrorist too. of the third power, too!

now that you mention it, you´re right! OMG!!!
Ming! do something!

[Az]

Nah, I don't think that the USA will go to war against Syria. The only interest group I can see supporting USA war against Syria is the Lebanonese lobby, but I don't see them supporting war, either.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by uh Clem


Well gee, it must be true then, because the US is never wrong about that sort of thing.

The Syrians btw have this really annoying habit. Whenever Washington starts to scold them about weapons of mass destruction, they demand action against the one country in the Middle East that does have WMDs. Don't you hate people like that?

Israel has been willing for years to have discussions towards regional disarmament. Kinda hard when several major countries in the region (saudi, Iran) wont sit in the same room with Israeli reps.

And of course the reason for our concern about WMD's in a country like Syria is possible connections with terrorism. Remember when people were criticizing Bush for going after Iraq, when a country like Syria had much stronger ties with terrorism?