by John Doe II » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:33 am
From DU.<br>Does anybody have more confirmation on that?<br><br><br>any confirmation on this?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05292/590727.stm">www.post-gazette.com/pg/05292/590727.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>As I suspected six months ago, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>U.S. military and Bush administration civilian officials confirmed last week that U.S. forces have invaded Syria and engaged in combat with Syrian forces.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>An unknown number of Syrians are acknowledged to have been killed; the number of Americans -- if any -- who have died in Syria so far has not yet been revealed by the U.S. sources, who by the way insist on remaining faceless and nameless.<br>The parallel with the Vietnam War, where a Nixon administration deeply involved in a losing war expanded the conflict -- fruitlessly in the event -- to neighboring Cambodia, is obvious. The end result was not changed in Vietnam; Cambodia itself was plunged into dangerous chaos, which climaxed in the killing fields, where an estimated 1 million Cambodians died as a result of internal conflict.<br>On the U.S. side, no declaration of war preceded the invasion of Syria, in spite of the requirements of the War Powers Act of 1973. There is no indication that the Congress was involved in the decision to go in. If members were briefed, none of them have chosen to share that important information with the American people. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Presumably, the Bush administration's intention is simply to add any casualties of the Syrian conflict to those of the war in Iraq, which now stand at more than 1,970. The financial cost of expanding the war to Syria would also presumably be added to the cost of the Iraq war, now estimated at $201 billion.<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br>U.S. forces have crossed border to engage Assad’s troops, sources say<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/52...">www.thenewstribune.com/ne...tory/52...</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Iraq battles are seen spilling into Syria<br>But other officials say that as American efforts to cut off the flow of fighters have intensified, those operations have spilled over the border, sometimes by accident, sometimes by design.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/14/news/syria.php">www.iht.com/articles/2005.../syria.php</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>In the summer firefight (with US troops), several Syrian troops were killed, leading to a protest from the Syrian government to the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, according to U.S. and Syrian officials.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3397315">www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssis...ld/3397315</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Increasingly, officials say, Syria is to the Iraq war what Cambodia was in the Vietnam War: a sanctuary for fighters, money and supplies to flow over the border and, ultimately, a place for a shadow struggle.<br>Some other current and former officials suggest that there already have been initial intelligence gathering operations by small clandestine Special Operations units inside Syria.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/15/politics/15syria.html...">www.nytimes.com/2005/10/1...ia.html...</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
