There's a lot of behind-the-scenes maneuvering taking place regarding Syria
right now. Russia is neck-deep in this, and I believe that's the only
reason we haven't moved against Syria yet. There is plenty of
circumstantial evidence suggesting that Russia helped Saddam conceal his
WMD...perhaps even helping him move them out of the country to Syria. Now,
Russia is causing a huge rift in Russian-Israeli and US-Russian relations
with its proposed sale of air defense and anti-aircraft missile to Syria.

If you go back to early 2003, we hit a Russian convoy streaking across the
desert making a bee-line for Syria. It was supposedly a group of embassy
officials (driving alongside heavy trucks?!?). We tried to get them to
divert to Jordan, but they ignored our request. The wounded were taken to a
hospital in..........Fallujah. The very next day, Condi Rice (an expert on
the former USSR) was dispatched to Moscow.

There may be a new Cold War on the horizon...and Syria and Iran are the
Russian pawns in the stand-off.








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NOYB wrote:

That's news to me. Which member of the Bush administration said that?
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John R. Bolton, Undersecretary for Arms Control. September, 2003

Notice the use of the term "no information". This was back when we were
still absolutely convinced that SH was sitting on a chemical and
nuclear stockpile of bad stuff, based on the flimsiest available
shadows of questionable evidence....

Bolton said, about Syria.......

While there is currently no information indicating that the Syrian
Government has transferred WMD to terrorist organizations or would
permit such groups to acquire them, Syrias ties to numerous terrorist
groups underlie the reasons for our continued anxiety.