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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Syria's WMDs...

...being used...

There were reports of convoys heading over the border to Syria from Iraq in the days preceeding the 2003 U.S. invastion. Those convoys were purported to have been the long-sought-after Iraqi WMDs which were being shipped to the Ba'athist regime there in Syria.

Now we find out that Syria has been reported using WMDs in Darfur. Coincidence? I think not...

Syria's neighbors - Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and now Iraq - are all U.S. allies and none of them have any interest in Syria having WMDs. (Lebanon doesn't count because it is occupied by Syria's troops and the government there is controlled from Damascus.) The regime there should start thinking about the consequences of its actions very soon if it wants to survive...