Hey, and here I thought all those borders were the unwanted product of Western Colonialism. Guess they have their merits, eh?


Jerusalem Post Internet Edition

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a speech during the opening session of the summit, said it was a mistake to identify the Iraqi leadership as the source of the crisis.


Assad accused the United States of being interested not in toppling a dictatorial regime, but in securing Iraq's "oil and redrawing the region's map and destroying Iraq's infrastructure."


"We are all targeted ... we are all in danger," Assad said.[...]

Well...to tell you the truth, it's mostly just you, Bashar.

Assad also called on delegated[sic] not to disassociate the Iraq crisis with that of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Of course, but as we mentioned earlier, it's not gonna happen in the order you'd like, B.


In other news, the UAE circulated a proposal to get the League to ask Hussein to step down, and a commentary in a Saudi paper suggested that asking Hussein to step down would be a good thing, and should not be opposed simply because it coincides with the desires of the USA.


Now who could imagine that anyone might be guided by irrational, childish anti-Americanism?