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Syria’s getting nervous

With Saddam out of Iraq, now Syria is getting fidgety and appears to be taking US threats more seriously:

“We welcome the statement of President Bush and hope that this statement marks the beginning of a serious and constructive dialogue,” Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara said on Monday. “We in Syria do not like argument … we are for dialogue.”

On Sunday, Bush said Damascus was “getting the message” that it should deny sanctuary to fleeing members of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s government, one of the issues that fueled tensions between Syria and the United States in recent weeks.

LGF had a very fitting cartoon by Cox & Forkum the other day on the subject. Now that the US has proven it is willing to back up words with actions, other countries are sitting up and taking notice.

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