[faithincowboys]

why aren't these buses getting blown up on the way in there.

[tomahawk]

Damascus will be reduced to smoldering ruin in the future.

[usafretired]

Bring 'em on. Less to deal with down the road.

[dfwgator]

I figured that we were going to fight Syria after we were done with Saddam. It is "terrorist central."

[headsonpikes]

Of course, the Ba'ath Party runs Syria, too.

The apostrophe in ba'ath apparently stand for,"..by, I love de...'.

;^)

[KriegerGeist]

Bring in the Predators with Hellfire missiles or fly in the Warthogs. It seems to trivial a job for Spooky & Spectre.

[FloridaBoy]

bring them on. we can fight them at the same time we fight the turks.

[hchutch]

I'm not surprised.

The fall of Iraq would leave Syria surrounded by countires that are friendly to the U.S. and/or Israel.

[denydenydeny]

While Stratfor sources confirm that Syrian volunteers are attempting to reach Iraq, the BBC allegations of busloads pouring out of the country are difficult to believe and can be bolstered only by the thinnest of circumstances.

That's how pathetic the BBC is these days: Even Stratfor laughs at them.

[mercy]

****The only conditions under which Damascus would allow volunteers to join Iraqi forces****...

would be if the regime was smart enough to dispose of some fundamentalist hotheads.

[dalebert]

I am sure we have enough ammo for anyone who wants to help Bagdad. Captured Iraqi combatants had pockets full of money. Killing for dollars won't last long.

[TADSLOS]

Come on in boys, the water's fine... he he...

[Redcloak]

It could also be the case that Syria is ridding itself of its own Islamist radicals. IIRC, Syria is also a Baathist government and thus not on the best of terms with the Islamists. They could, for the price of a few bus tickets, purge their own radicals and stick a finger in America's eye; all with plausible deniability.

[Sabertooth]

Someone's unhappy they were left off the Axis of Evil.

[aristeides]

If the bus had Islamists on it, Iraq may be trying to destabilize Syria. And Syria might have asked us to attack the bus.

[dead]

Busloads of Syrians have reportedly left Syria to fight alongside Iraqi soldiers. If true, this would be an astounding development on Damascus' part, as it would be tantamount to declaring war on the United States.

That’s nonsense.

If they even exist, they are volunteers who are leaving Syria to go fight for another country.

That cannot even remotely be considered “tantamount” to Syria “declaring war on the United States.”

What a dopey premise.

[rintense]

They are turning this into the world vs. Islam and don't even know it.

[aruanan]

If true, this would be an astounding development on Damascus' part, as it would be tantamount to declaring war on the United States.

Syria is a scab that has needed peeling to the quick for a long time.

[DoctorMichael]

The "Pro-Totalitarian-Dictator-Contingent-of-the-9th-Islamofascist-Brigade" is mobilized.

[ApesForEvolution]

Might as well thin the herd out now; less to do later. And later could be sooner...