Syria, Pyongyang: WTH is going on now?

[SlowGoose]

Is our government trying to start a third war now?

[the PNASTY]

Yes they are. The US Olympic committee is also putting shit in our reservoirs to make our children bigger so we can get more medals than China...

Seriously, do they even have oil in North Korea?

[Mr. Whippy]

Makes sense. NK needs money desperately. They have a technology worth $$$. Syria has money but sucks at technology. Bring the two together, start the James Bond theme.

[psudy]

Didn't Israel bomb a site in Syria months ago? Is this a new site? Are you confortable with a place like syria having nuc capabilities? Would you be if you lived in Israel?

[SlowGoose]

Originally Posted by psudy

Didn't Israel bomb a site in Syria months ago? Is this a new site? Are you confortable with a place like syria having nuc capabilities? Would you be if you lived in Israel?

Did you read the link? The question is not whether Israel was right to bomb the Syrian site (I'd say yes, they were), the question is why is our government bringing it up months and months later?

[jim schmidt]

I'm convinced that everything happening now in US propoganda is to keep Iraq out of the news until after the election. You'll notice the body count is going right back up.

[Trash]

Originally Posted by jim schmidt

I'm convinced that everything happening now in US propoganda is to keep Iraq out of the news until after the election. You'll notice the body count is going right back up.

Took the words right outta my mouth.

[wshtb]

Of course Israelis may feel uncomfortable with Syria having nuclear weapon.

But the WHOLE WORLD feels uncomfortable with United States having thousands of nuclear weapons. In fact, as the only country on this planet that has ever used nuclear weapon on another country, (twice in a roll by the way), USSA should be the first country to decommission any and all nuclear facility.

Cuban must feel really comfortable having a US military base INSIDE their country.

Other than some Americans, who else is comfortable with United States having military bases in 2/3 of world countries?

Back to the topic: it is probably nothing more than another PR campaign to slander north Korea in the ongoing nuclear negotiations.

[baldheadeddork]

Is this a coincidence?

Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran

By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 25, 2008; 1:51 PM

The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force.

"It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference.

Still, Mullen made clear that he prefers a diplomatic solution to the tensions with Iran and does not foresee any imminent military action. "I have no expectations that we're going to get into a conflict with Iran in the immediate future," he said.

Mullen's statements and others by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently signal a new rhetorical onslaught by the Bush administration against Iran, amid what officials say is increased Iranian provision of weapons, training and financing to Iraqi groups that are attacking and killing Americans.

In a speech Monday at West Point, Gates said Iran "is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons." He said a war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels. But the military option must be kept on the table given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a future Iranian nuclear threat."

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who was nominated this week to head all U.S. forces in the Middle East, is preparing a briefing soon to lay out detailed evidence of increased Iranian involvement in Iraq, Mullen said. The briefing will detail, for example, the discovery in Iraq of weapons that were very recently manufactured in Iran, he said.

"The Iranian government pledged to halt such activities some months ago. It's plainly obvious they have not. Indeed, they seem to have gone the other way," Mullen said.

He said recent unrest in the southern Iraqi city of Basra had highlighted a "level of involvement" by Iran that had not been understood by the U.S. military previously. "It became very, very visible in ways that we hadn't seen before," he said.

But while Mullen and Gates have recently stated that Tehran must know of Iranian actions in Iraq, which they say are led by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mullen said he has "no smoking gun which could prove that the highest leadership [of Iran] is involved in this."

[jerome_oneil]

Comfortable with Syria having a nuclear weapon? I hate to break it to you guys, but they already have them, along with that entire stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction that the Iraqi's smuggled into the country in order to prevent their discovery by US forces.

The North Koreans are just there buying up the surplus.

Duh!

[Trash]

Originally Posted by jerome_oneil

Comfortable with Syria having a nuclear weapon? I hate to break it to you guys, but they already have them, along with that entire stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction that the Iraqi's smuggled into the country in order to prevent their discovery by US forces.

The North Koreans are just there buying up the surplus.

Duh!

[psudy]

Originally Posted by SlowGoose

Did you read the link? The question is not whether Israel was right to bomb the Syrian site (I'd say yes, they were), the question is why is our government bringing it up months and months later?

Sorry. I skimmed it. I thought it was a new attack. I saw that on the news months ago.

[jim schmidt]

Originally Posted by jerome_oneil

Comfortable with Syria having a nuclear weapon? I hate to break it to you guys, but they already have them, along with that entire stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction that the Iraqi's smuggled into the country in order to prevent their discovery by US forces.

The North Koreans are just there buying up the surplus.

Duh!

Thank God for George Bush keeping us all safe!

[BigArn]

Originally Posted by jim schmidt

Thank God for George Bush keeping us all safe!

[SlowGoose]

Originally Posted by jerome_oneil

Comfortable with Syria having a nuclear weapon? I hate to break it to you guys, but they already have them, along with that entire stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction that the Iraqi's smuggled into the country in order to prevent their discovery by US forces.

The North Koreans are just there buying up the surplus.

Duh!