Submitted by Nikos Retsos, academic, Sep 19, 2007 10:04

Illeana Ross-Lehtinen article about Syria is so rediculous that would make Benjamin Netaniahu, the Israeli super-hawk politician, look like a dove. Any person of sound mind that claims that Syria is developing a SECOND NUCLEAR FACILITY [Where is the first located?], and that Syria also HAS DEVELOPED BALLISTIC MISSILES, is hereby certifying by those statements that they are just a psychotic anti-Syrian and anti-Arab racist, or that they are flying very low -at roof level-over a Cuckoo's Nest.

On a comment written on this paper on September 13, 2007, I said that any Syrian threat to Israel is a "joke." But at that time I didn't know that congresswoman Illeana Ross-Lehtinen had a better joke! I could have never immagined that Syria, which has only outdated Russian weaponry dated back to Leonid Brezniev years, would pass them to Iran to protect itself from a possible U.S. attack on its nuclear facilities, or if Iran would accept that military scrap as military aid. Iran has 29 new anti-aircraft missile batteries that Russian generals claim can bring down tactical U.S. aicraft.

Can Syria threaten the U.S. , as Illeana Ross-Lehtinen claims, when even bigger, well-armed, and nuclear powers like China and India cannot? Obviously not, and for anyone to claim so is quite preposterous -especially when such a claim is used under the title of a congressional office.

Ms. Ross is certainly an unrependant supporter of Israel, and she is not the only one. But she is certainly the most distinguished phenomenon of ignorance or hatemongering to to have ever served in the U.S. Congress.

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