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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (18803)	5/25/2005 6:51:41 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361233

"and would get behind any effective military action called for by any President" Okay, but your kids go first.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (18803)	5/25/2005 6:52:56 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361233

I don't know much about him. I didn't like his father. I'd rather we invade countries on more of a basis than not liking them. I don't want to pay for "bringing freedom to the Syrians"! Syria Says U.S. Ignored Cooperation Efforts From Associated Press May 25, 2005 DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria stopped security and military cooperation with the United States months ago because Washington failed to respond to repeated overtures from Damascus, Syria's ambassador to the U.S. said Tuesday. "There has been no cooperation between Syria and the United States on security and military matters simply because all attempts of cooperation between us and them have not led to a political result," Imad Moustapha said in a telephone interview from Washington. He said Syria had not cooperated with the United States "for months." The United States accuses Syria of facilitating the Iraq insurgency and says Syria is not doing enough to stop the flow of fighters and funds into Iraq. Moustapha called the criticism unfair and said Syria was doing everything it could to control its porous border with Iraq. In an interview with CNN, he added, "We do not want to be cooperating with the Americans on one front while being lambasted and attacked by the Americans on the other front." Syrian officials have said they offered to carry out joint U.S.-Syrian patrols along the border, but their overtures were ignored. A senior U.S. military official has said that alleged Iraq insurgency mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi met with his lieutenants in Syria last month. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Moustapha's comments were "a step in the wrong direction."

To: SiouxPal who wrote (18803)	5/25/2005 7:52:24 PM
From: twmoore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361233

I sincerely dislike Assad. I sincerely distrust him, and would get behind any effective military action called for by any President. Sioux,I am disappointed that you would make this statement.Isn't that the same attitude that got America in this mess in Iraq? I said right from the beginning that this war would last about 10 years and possibly bring America to it's knees.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (18803)	5/25/2005 8:22:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361233

Sometimes you astound me. Have some pizza; Domino's... 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos This impoverished, landlocked country endured one of history's heaviest bombing campaigns. From 1964 through 1973, the United States flew 580,000 bombing runs over Laos — one every 9 minutes for 10 years. More than 2 million tons of ordnance was unloaded on the countryside, double the amount dropped on Nazi Germany in World War II. "Certainly, on a per-capita basis, Laos remains the most heavily bombed nation in the history of warfare," says Martin Stuart-Fox, a historian at Queensland University in Australia and author of A History of Laos. The U.S. bombing was designed to cut North Vietnamese supply lines that looped into Laos on a route to communist forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia; the trail was designed to bypass the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam during the war. The bombing runs also supported Laotian government forces fighting a losing battle against communist Pathet Lao rebels and their North Vietnamese allies. Edwin Moise, a Vietnam War historian at Clemson University in South Carolina, says there was logic behind the relentless bombing. "Massive use of air power to try to choke off an enemy supply line makes good military sense, especially since there was very little civilian population in the areas in question," he says. By relying on air power, the United States did not have to commit ground troops. usatoday.com -------------------------------------------- Invigorated by Vietnamese and Chinese support, the Khmer Rouge had grown in strength and size. But as far as the Nixon administration was concerned, they were a puppet militia of the Hanoi government - if the war with Hanoi could be settled, the civil war in Cambodia would end with it. It was with this logic in mind that the US signed the Paris Peace Accords with Hanoi on January 27, 1973. US troops would leave Vietnam, Vietnamese troops would leave Cambodia. and a cease-fire would take effect between North and South Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge, however, immediately broke with Hanoi and vowed to continue their struggle against the Lon Nol government. In early February 1973, just days after the peace accords, the US re-instituted its massive B-52 bombing campaign in Cambodia in the feeble hope of sustaining the Lon Nol government. For eight months hundreds of thousands of tons of US bombs fell across Cambodia - more than the entire tonnage dropped on Japan during all of World War II. Nearly any place outside of Phnom Penh was fair game for attack, and thousands of small Cambodian villages were flattened or abandoned as a result of the raids. The horrific drama of the 1973 bombing campaign climaxed in early August, when an American B-52 bomber accidentally dropped its load on the village of Neak Luong, southeast of Phnom Penh. Over 125 Cambodian residents were killed, yet the bombardier was fined only $700 for his mistake. As the story of Neak Luong reached the western press, Congress again demanded an end to the bombing. On August 15 Nixon halted the B-52 campaign. cardamom.org