Anyone fear that W is MORE likely to attack Syria b/c of falling poll #s?

[StellaBlue]

According to *co thinking, another way is JUST what they need right now.

:scared:

Anybody else had this thought? That the low poll numbers, scandals, recent Democratic wins... might make it more likely that W will invade another country, such as Iran and Syria or Canada?

[LaurenG]

1. He is in way too much trouble already, I don't think

he's going to get away with anymore wars. So no, I'm not thinking it will happen.

[Al-CIAda]

19. You forget that all that is needed is another 'catalysing event'

on US soil.

[abluelady]

23. I Think He's in too Much Trouble, too.

Remember that "capital" he thought he had. I am betting even he knows there ain't none there.

[Ioo]

2. I say Vermont or Mass is next, they have been thumbing nose...

I think if he did, there owuld be a revolt on the streets.

Americans no longer trust *, it is that simple

[murray hill farm]

3. naw...that wont happen...not now...

he could never, never justify it at this point...no matter how much "credible" intellegence he had in his grubby little hands.

[one_true_leroy]

4. no way...

i mean, a quagmire is never aleviated by becoming mired in two areas. even 'they' have to recognize it would be the political gong ringing to close their show.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I think that is certainly an option for the WH and how so sad

that the reason for killing more humans is to make his religious base happy.

[Bike Punk]

6. it seems likely...

as well as already in motion. I think I read something here about how the troops in western Iraq are having firefights with insurgents at or near the border, and in some cases having crossed INTO Syria.

(With all due seriousness, its not like theres a big wall and passport control between those two countries. I'm sure there are miles and miles or sand, desert, etc... where you can meander between the two without seeing a thing.)

And taking into consideration, there have been rumors that Iran is not a 'If' but a "When" it would seem prudent to get Syria involved first, THEN Iran.

but I really don't want to think its possible.

[DemonFighterLives]

25. Welcome to DU!

I heard last night on the radio that the one area where the disputes were happening has been taken. Though I sincerely doubt that anything is under control, the sheeple will think that more deaths of innocents in the Syria/Iraq region will make us safer
I'm not sure if commander cuckoobananas will try it, but the new attacks in Jordan will surely stiffen his resolve to stay the course.
Terra and perpetual war, here we come.

[Doctor_J]

7. If he does this, he will be impeached

Even the Limpballs-saturated populace knows now that Iraq was a bit of deadly, expensive theatre whose purpose was nothing more than to provide photo-ops for the Coward In Chief. Another such stunt will have people at the WH with torches and pitchforks.

[Ready4Change]

8. Yes.

I do fear another distraction/triggerable disaster being used. I'm not sure if the current WH chaos makes it more or less likely, though.

[Debau2005]

9. No

but I am bracing for another terror alert. Or even an interrupted terror plot.

[rurallib]

10. Had that very thought the other night.

But I think he needs to drum up a little hype and that may be hard. Since diversion is the watchword of this administration and a 'small' war is a great diversion - yeah, I'd say it is very possible.

[The Icon Painter]

11. Invade?

With what? He's already used up his only Army.

[StellaBlue]

12. That was my second thought.

And while I think there might not be a revolt, as numbskulled as Americans are, if *co invaded another country... but they would have to institute a draft to do it - and that ain't gonna fly. Kids these days can't even be bothered to vote or protest - they sure aren't going to get forcibly shipped off to the sandbox.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. I don't think

he is quite that unhinged yet. He has no army, no money and no support.

[LisaLynne]

14. Actually, I think it's gotten to the point where it's less likely.

I few months ago, I was thinking that they would attack Syria soon to get people's minds off of Iraq or some other such nonsensical reason. However, I think things have slipped too far out of their control. People are actually starting to question the invasion of Iraq and the reasons it was done -- people who fully supported it before. I fully believe that their intention was to go Iraq - Syria - Iran, but when Iraq wasn't the cake walk they thought it was going to be, things got held up and that gave the public enough time (I hope) to actually start to wake up a little. So, I think their little perpetual war idea is pretty much out the window at this point.

[A Simple Game]

15. Canada might fit nicely into the troop rotation.

Some hot then some cold.

I am only 30 miles from Canada though, should I worry about collateral damage?

But seriously, I think he would like to, but doesn't dare. They know the smoke is thinning, and they can't falsify the facts and get away with it anymore.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. It's a scary thought, but I have always felt that poll numbers were

the reason we went to Iraq. His approval rating before 9/11 was under 50%. When he invaded Afghanistan, it went up into the 90% range. When it started dropping back into the 60's he decided that if the WOT had done so much for him before, he could do it again with another invasion so he decided the time was ripe for Iraq. He used to get a bump every time he hollered "terra", but people got wise to that. In his mind, it will take another invasion to improve his numbers because nothing else has done it for him recently.

Reminds you of the little kid who wants more attention than he's been getting. If he can't get it by being good, he'll get it by being bad. Bad attention beats no attention at all.

[USA_1]

17. Bush is likely to do anything

His ratings went down and WHAMMO! all of a sudden, 3 bombs go off in Jordan and American owned hotels are targetted. Then, we hear the magic words "this has all the ear marks of al-Qaeda". Immediately, AQ is blamed as happened in Lebanon when Hariri was killed.

In that assassination, we read that the car used in the Hariri murder was an American car stolen from St Louis. And it makes you wonder: if al-Qaeda stole the car, transported it all the way to the Middle East without being detected by Customs or the FBI, and used it to kill an American ally -- all in order to make war on the USA, why didn't they just blow up the car in an American city???

Answer: simple --- it wasn't stolen by al-Qaeda. It was stolen and used by the CIA. And it is likely to happen again.

[calico1]

18. I used to think that. That he would do it and

do it just before the elections so that people will vote out of fear and vote for Republicans to keep them safe or vote for them to avoid "changing horses" like many people voted for * because they didn't want to change presidents during a war. But I don't think that will happen now. In the first place he has no military left. Unless he just limited it to air attacks, which I guess is possible. The other thing is that the Republicans that are looking to get reelected next year do not want to go down the tubes with this Administration so voting in favor of another war would be political suicide for them. Of course, * is a desperate man so you never know. And he does have a habit of doing things without even consulting Congress. But he would be in big trouble I think if he tried to pull an air attack on Syria without consultation, and I don't even know if that would even be legal.

What I am fully expecting is more terra and fear mongering. Bird flu, swine flu, dengue fever. Who knows? I don't put that past him or the other repukes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Attack them with what?

[justabob]

21. No doubt he'd like to, but

he'd have to do it with air power alone. There are few, if any, boots to spare for ground operations. They *might* risk a draft in the name of the war on terror, but I don't think they are ready, or indeed willing, to go that far at this point.

[truebrit71]

22. Part of me does, it's in his "character" to lash out..

..as most big-mouth bullshit-artist bully-boys do....but I think that he is in way too much shit right now to be able to pull it off...Plus I think the military brass might just tell his Deserting-Ass to suit up if he's that fucking gung-ho about it....

[Spurt]

24. Not an option now.

He won't get UN sanction.
Bliar is swimming in sewerage at home and will never win his gov'ts support.
No other country will join any coalition either.
The under resourced military can offer nothing useful on the ground and air bombardment alone will not suceed.
Reqruitment is failing and a draft is political suicide (and takes lots of time anyway).
I would expect dissent in the top military ranks.
No US politician who wants to win election in a year will sanction another war.
There will be no money approved to pay for it.

Not an option now.

[ObaMania]

26. No, because that would sink him in the polls farther. .

and at this point, 'Murkins would want his head on a platter.

JMO

[s-cubed]

27. Do you think the military would go along with it?

I know - he's "commader-in-chief" and that would be mutiny, but the army knows how stretched and stressed the troops are.

Also, I think that would tank his numbers even more. If 57% of Americans believe we were misled into war with Iraq, they are not going to belief a "catalyzing event".