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Oct. 4 issue - Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says. Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries. (Syria is regarded as a major route for jihadis entering Iraq, and Iran appears to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons.) Even hard-liners acknowledge that given the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, a U.S. attack on either country would be an unlikely last resort; covert action of some kind is the favored route for Washington hard-liners who want regime change in Damascus and Tehran.

—Mark Hosenball

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
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"Just as soon as we FAX them their orders!"

The assassination took place against the backdrop of a growing political crisis in Lebanon. This began in September 2004, when Syria successfully pressured the Lebanese parliament, in an act of dubious constitutionality, to extend the term of the unpopular pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, a move roundly condemned by the international community. War fever is building both in the administration and the Congressional leadership of both parties.

A senior British official, briefing correspondents in London, blamed Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

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Iran 'behind attacks on British'
British officials say Iran is directly linked to the killing of all eight British troops who have died in Iraq this year.

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Originally posted by Horemheb:
all we have to do is call the rodent exterminator. We could flush all of the rats out in no time. Don't worry Noor, some more americans might get killed today.

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Originally posted by Horemheb:
all we have to do is call the rodent exterminator. We could flush all of the rats out in no time. Don't worry Noor, some more americans might get killed today.

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Cheney warns of 'decades of war'

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades.

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Originally posted by Horemheb:
keeps that oil flowing to the rest of the world AND more importantly, oil revenue out of the hands of people who wish us ill. Checkmate.

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Originally posted by Horemheb:
who wishes us ill Noor...the French? Nobody cares what the French think. Their only objection is that they didn't get to keep their deal with saddam. The radicals in Europe bitch but nobody cares what they think. The third world? They have complained for decades because we won't pour even more money down a bottomless rat hole. From a diplomatic standpoint we have the full support of every nation that counts, who cares about the ones that don't.

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wow...that's as far as you see eah?

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The third world? ....From a diplomatic standpoint we have the full support of every nation that counts, who cares about the ones that don't.

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Ummm, don't you remember it was a so-called *third world* radical terrorist group who bombed us on 9/11?

I think you better care a little more....every single person on this planet *counts.*

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well, thats not the point she was making Susan, you changed the subject. President bush has a list in his desk drawer of terrorist leaders around the world. Every morning when he gets his CIA briefing he pulls out that list and scratches off the names of the people who are no longer with us. you still don't get it.

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I imagine in the winter Horemheb makes snowmen that look like this:
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you still don't get it.

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