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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! October 31, 2005 Syria: Getting Serious?By GreyhawkUNITED NATIONS, Oct. 30 - Security Council diplomats worked out final details on Sunday on a tough resolution against Syria, an action that will forcefully step up international pressure on the country's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, and deepen his government's struggle to ward off increasing isolation.Syria has responded by trying to enlist the support of Arab leaders To cope, Syria has reached out to the international community, including Arab leaders, trying with little success to promote the idea that it had nothing to do with Mr. Hariri's death. In that connection, Syria sent its deputy foreign minister, Walid al-Mualem, on a tour of Persian Gulf states on Sunday. On Saturday, President Assad said he would set up a commission to conduct Syria's own investigation into the assassination. Althouh the New York Times reports Syria's quest for support met with "little success", an LA Times story indicates that may not be completely true - as "some Arab leaders" are urging caution: The Bush administration has embarked on an effort to build strong international pressure on Syria despite warnings from some Arab leaders and Israelis that doing so could lead to a chaotic collapse or even the rise of a fundamentalist Islamic regime in Damascus, U.S. officials say.Meanwhile, the London Sunday Telegraph presents a Syrian response not covered in those accounts: Syria has accused the United States of launching lethal military raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime.Now for a complete perspective, read this post from a blogger in Lebanon. (Via Michael Totten - who's insight should prove invaluable as this story develops.) Update: The resolution has been passed by the UN Security council - unanimously. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Monday in favor of a tough resolution demanding Syria cooperate with a U.N. probe into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri or face possible punitive measures.Unanimous - that's not to be taken lightly. Such things have meaning, after all. Posted by Greyhawk / October 31, 2005 3:21 PM | Permalink 3 TrackBacksI've been particularly horrified by the willingness of many countries to view honour killings as an acceptable practice, and I've written about it many times. Each killing is brutal and inexcusable, but I recently came across one that illustrates just ... Read More The Greyhawks went a couple of days without posting and I figured they must have gone on a weekend excursion of some sort. Based on today's deluge of lengthy posts, I wonder if they were having technical problems and saving Read More Syria is feeling enormous pressure on a number of fronts. The UN Report on the Hariri assassination in Lebanon reached into the highest levels of the Syrian government, and international pressure is mounting. Read More 3 Comments |
March 19, 2010Dawn Patrol 03/19/2003 [Greyhawk]
"Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and various sources around the world." Mudville was founded in March, 2003. Our efforts to bring the thoughts, words, and deeds of milbloggers to a wider world evolved to become The Dawn Patrol in March, 2005. With today's entry we're going to reset the clock - but not re-write the history - and recreate the world as it was - on a day the world changed...
Updating... more to follow.... MILBOGSAndrew Olmsted, 19 Mar 2003, Stateside: It would appear that the liberation of Iraq has begun. Greyhawk, 18 Mar 2003, Germany: A united world could have, just maybe, brought down Saddam without firing a shot. We will never know. 19 Mar: We'll never know what a united world could have achieved... the UN could not agree on anything, the situation degenerated, and here we are. Status quo was not working. The French were too desperate for oil and trade at any cost. Well-intentioned Americans were led into the streets by Communists (and others) with an agenda. The media distorted the split. Many in America and abroad thought they could manipulate the situation to their personal gain. They miscalculated. The fire is lit. Pontifx ex Machina, 18 Mar, undisclosed location: Rolling out the gate, the guard gets a quick "hook-em, horns" sign as we weave through the barricades. Then we're off, cruising through the desert in a battered-up SUV. On the eve of war, only one thing passes through our minds: is there going to be any appropriate music on the radio? Lt Smash, 19 Mar, undisclosed location: Read the President's speech today. The clock is ticking. Chief Wiggles, 22 Mar, Kuwait: The war started Wednesday morning for us right after the president gave a speech to the American people that lasted about 4 minutes. We were all very anxious for this whole thing to be either over or get it on its way. Will, 22 Mar, en route: I am going to Baghdad to personally shoot that paper hanging son of a bitch! Lt Smash 20 Mar, undisclosed location: Sgt Stryker, 20 Mar, Stateside: Iraq to File U.N. Complaint About Attack Primary Main Objective, 30 Mar, undisclosed location I Dare Kofi to Come Get Me.
BruceR, Flit, 19 Mar, Canada: AND SO IT BEGINS. Godspeed, Yanks. Come home safe and soon. Andrew Olmsted, 20 Mar 2003, Stateside: The most important thing to remember over the next few days is this: the first reports are almost always inaccurate. First reports are generally submitted in the heat of battle before any real analysis can take place. Therefore, they're highly subjective, based on limited information, and rarely hit the mark. So as the first reports of 'surgical strikes' on Iraqi forces come in, it's best to take those reports with a grain of salt... Iraqi BlogsSalam Pax, Baghdad: The bombing aould come and go in waves, nothing too heavy and not yet comparable to what was going on in 91. all radio and TV stations are still on and while the air raid began the Iraqi TV was showing patriotic songs and didn't even bother to inform viewers that we are under attack. at the moment they are re-airing yesterday's interview with the minister of interior affairs. THe sounds of the anti-aircarft artillery is still louder than the booms and bangs which means that they are still far from where we live, but the images we saw on Al Arabia news channel showed a building burning near one of my aunts house... Other BlogsAndrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish: How much more morally indefensible is appeasement when we also have complete international authority to do what must be done? I think we will look back in the future and not ask, as so many now are, how it was that diplomacy didn't get unanimity on this matter. We will look back and see the moral obtuseness of Chirac and Putin and Schroder and Carter and feel nothing but contempt for them, and their preference for state terror over the responsibilities of the free world. That's why I felt enormous pride tonight in the stand being taken by Blair and Bush. The president's speech was measured, firm, just. Blair's political risks - in order to do what he believes is plainly right - will confirm him in history as a great prime minister, the conscience of his party, and the leader of his country. I say that before this war begins, because the cause is just whatever vicissitudes of conflict await us... Glenn Reynolds has a ton of links. Other OpinionsMark LeVine, Alternet - 'Bush Wins': The Left's Nightmare Scenario: ...With war seemingly imminent, the movement is being forced to fall back on a second scenario, "Everyone Loses," in which the warnings of a protracted and bloody war that destabilizes the Middle East and increases terrorism bear their bitter fruit. However unpalatable in terms of destroyed lives and infrastructure, this latter scenario would at least quash the Administration's imperial dreams and force the kind of soul searching of United States' policies that is a major goal of the movement. But this outcome is less likely than many assume, and the antiwar movement would be well advised to plan for a third scenario: "Bush Wins." In this third scenario, the war is over quickly with relatively low U.S. casualties, some sort of mechanism for transitional rule is put in place and President Bush and his policies gain unprecedented power and prestige. From my recent conversations with organizers and their latest pronouncements, it is clear that this possibility has yet to be addressed. Waiting much longer could spell disaster for the antiwar movement... The social and political forces unleashed by the end of decades of Hussein's murderous rule will not easily be penned in by a US-sponsored show-democracy; but whether these forces use a reopened public sphere or turn to violence to respond to the likely betrayal depends in good measure on how adroitly the world progressive community can lay fast but deep roots in Iraq. Newpapers
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Who knows, maybe the War Criminal in Chief wants to start another one. This time with Syria. I've always figured he'd start wars so he can get heating oil up to $10 a gallon.
This just in: 55% of the public thinks the Idiot's presidency is a failure.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051031/ts_usatoday/bushsetsouttosalvage2ndterm;_ylt=ArE0YTiYgl5_3nD6hxPVD2Ss0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
In a different poll, 55% of the public thinks that the indictment of "Scooter" Libby shows that the Idiot's administration has deep ethical problems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102901223.html?nav=rss_email/components
Get ready for another terror alert, a war, or both.
Wilson, get a grip.
If you want to be taken seriously, and spread your view that Bush is a bad president, why not try using logic instead of infantilism?
You say: "Get ready for another terror alert, a war, or both." Here I thought that I read in the article: "Ms. Rice and other American officials have said they do not seek "regime change" in Syria but rather "behavior change."
-So, which is it?
Love and kisses, Amanda
An increase in oil prices?
What happened to Blood For Oil, the concept that we invaded Iraq to get cheaper gas? Now the left has changed its tune (imagine that) and said that Bush is trying to drive *up* the price of oil.
Oh well, I guess if your crazy accusations don't turn out to be true, you can always change them. Remember, being liberal means never having to say you were wrong.