Originally Posted by filtherton

This is shocking for most iraqi war supporters, i would imagine, because syria recently completely abandoned any links to anything anti-american in direct response to our invasion of iraq. I remember this because it was part of the "invading iraq == world is safer from terrorism" argument.

I myself would be just shocked if i found out syria was just paying the u.s. lipservice. Shocked! But, wait, does that mean that we might not be as "ensafened" by the iraqi invasion as one would have previously rationalized?