YOU CAN'T TELL YOUR ASSAD FROM A HOLE IN THE GROUND (via Kevin Whited):

MANY SCURRYING RATS (Jed Babbin, APR. 2, 2003, National Review)

About sixty cars headed west out of Mosul today, carrying what's left of Saddam's extended family, and their fortunes, to Syria. Which is where intelligence sources say most of the WMD bad guys are headed with as much of their papers and handiwork as they can carry. That is, unless they're headed to one of the Baghdad embassies that will give them sanctuary from American troops on the hunt. The warning shot fired at the Russian embassy today may or may not have been an accident. If other warning shots are to occur, I suggest they be accidentally aimed at the Palestinian Authority's embassy as well as those of the other usual suspects. France and Syria, as well as China, are all helping the Iraqis hide people and papers. If our guys find proofs of WMD programs, it won't be because those countries -- and the PA -- spared any effort to hide it.

Syria's ruling party is the same Ba'ath Party that rules Iraq under Saddam. Syria's complicity in terror is too clear to debate. President Bashar Assad -- who is neither as smart nor as tough as his father -- feels the need to support the Saddamites, so in they come. Tony Blair is going wobbly at the thought of American invoking the idea of hot pursuit. Syria is not half the danger Iraq has been, but it aspires to be. That is why it is the destination of choice for Saddam's thugs. In another day or two, there will be more of them in Syria than in Baghdad.

Folks keep asking how we'll stage the provocation that justifies our Westward turn into Syria to topple the other Ba'athist terror regime. Have no fear, our foes will do it for us. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 3, 2003 9:36 AM