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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 09:52 PM
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We are going to invade Syria? Zero Hedge thinks so.Anyone got current info??
article is one paragraph:
Yesterday we reported that the Arab League (with European and US support) are preparing to institute a no fly zone over Syria. Today, we get an escalation which confirms we may be on the edge. Just out from CBS: "The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart "immediately," and Turkey's foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria." But probably the most damning evidence that the "western world" is about to do the unthinkable and invade Syria, and in the process force Iran to retaliate, is the weekly naval update from Stratfor, which always has some very interesting if always controversial view on geopolitics, where we find that for the first time in many months, CVN 77 George H.W. Bush has left its traditional theater of operations just off the Straits of Hormuz, a critical choke point, where it traditionally accompanies the Stennis, and has parked... right next to Syria."
http://www.zerohedge.com/
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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:02 PM
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1. Looks that way
Zerohedge has a habit of being prescient about such things.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:14 PM
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2. nope. Only one carrier; nothing more than gunboat diplomacy.
Once we get four or five carrier groups into the Mediterranean, then I would expect something.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:31 PM
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3. No
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:35 PM
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4. saw this earlier, and posted it - I would not discount anything.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:57 PM
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6. ooops..sorry, I missed that.
Have not been online as much this past few days.
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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 10:37 PM
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5. I'm sure those who got off on the Libya war-porn will be cheering our imminent war in Syria
Next stop, Iran!
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 12:23 AM
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7. No
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