U$ sanctions towards Syria

[Comrade Latino]

What do you guys think about the U$ sanctions towards Syria?

[DaCuBaN]

Linkage? I'm googling, it's just if you had anything handy...

[Comrade Latino]

I have a link from a south american newspaper, but it is in spanish(sorry)
I'll give it anyway
Link (http://www.abc.com.py/articulos.php?fec=2004-05-12&pid=110138&sec=12)

[DaCuBaN]

For those who don't speak spanish, the babblefish tells us (http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.abc.com.py/articulos.php%3Ffec%3D2004-05-12%26pid%3D110138%26sec%3D12&prev=/language_tools):


Washington imposes penalties to Syria WASHINGTON, 11 (ANSA and AFP). The president of the United States, George W. Bush, today imposed económicas penalties to Syria, defendant to support to the international terrorism and of not to have prevented the enter Iraq of antiAmerican combatants, según sources of the Congress. The White House anunció this Tuesday that decidió to impose penalties against Syria, such as the freezing of Syria assets in the United States and limitations to exportación of some products. The penalties were imposed, según said the White House in an official notice, which had "to the support of the Syria Government to the terrorist groups, the maintenance of their military presence in LÃ*bano, its efforts to acquire arms of destrucción massive and their actions to mine the American and international efforts to stabilize and to reconstruct Iraq, asÃ* as alimentación of the tensions in the middle East". The official notice agregó that the Syria actions "constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, the outer polÃ*tica and economÃ*a of the United States and hereby declares a national emergency to fight with that threat". The sanctions especÃ*ficamente prohÃ*ben the ground of Syria aerolÃ*neas in American ground, and the exports to Syria, with excepción of foods and medicines. "implementación of sanctions happens after several months of ticos efforts diplomà to convince the Syria Government of which it changes his unacceptable behavior", it said the White House. "the Syria Government tomó steps significant nor concrete not to face those preoccupations". SYRIA the Syria Government REJECTS the MEASUREMENT very insistently rechazó the North American accusations, that broke out again as soon as president Sadam Husein was overthrown in Iraq. The sources, that confirmed that también prohibirà n in Syria the investigations of American petrolÃ*feras societies, compared the measures with the embargo against Cuba. A source of the Department of State reveló that està n outside of the embargo the sale of spare parts for the airplanes and equipment for the communications, supposedly because Washington does not want to put in danger the security of the Syria commercial flights nor to limit the outer access información.

A little messy, but not bad for a computer translation :D

[Morpheus]

Syria knows all about terrorism. The United States has been sponsoring terrorism against Syria for decades.

[Comrade Zeke]

I think the next place the U.S.A is going after is Syria....are excuse.........The Syrian Government is harboring Terriosts and they don't beilive in the Freedom of Democracy. This will happen in the next 20 years bets you anything and I am going to be one of those protestors when we march on Washigton D.C to stop the war....I can't wait it will be the 1960s all over not that I want people to die I just want to provve a point to the Pigs
Zeke

[Comrade Latino]

I am going to be one of those protestors when we march on Washigton D.C to stop the war
Right on! When it happens I'll be right there too.

[Intifada]

these sanctions will soften syria up and then they will bomb the hell out of it. a bit like iraq.

[Severian]

I wonder if these economic sanctions include a ban on exporting "suspected terrorists" to Syria to be tortured?

[Tchuncly]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 13 2004, 02:59 AM

I am going to be one of those protestors when we march on Washigton D.C to stop the war
Right on! When it happens I'll be right there too.
and do you think it will change the president's mind? ¬¬'
just do not vote for another president like Bush...or Clinton...or all the other americans presidents ¬¬''''

[VincentValentine]

It's no suprise to me, the usual USA interfearing with other countries.

[Comrade Latino]

and do you think it will change the president's mind? ¬¬'
just do not vote for another president like Bush...or Clinton...or all the other americans presidents ¬¬''''
All the capitalists are the same. They bomb countries to get money out of it.
And most of the candidates are a bunch of ignorant capitalists who will do exactly the same.