No shiat, and if the polls don't improve we may invade New Jersey.

People conspire that the gas prices will drop like a rock before the election... people conspire that we will bomb a country before the election.

Oh, you mean both actually happened?

Aww, jesus farkin' a christ. fark you, Bush. fark you long, fark you hard.

Pfft, unconfirmed.

It said that "American soldiers" who had emerged from helicopters "attacked a civilian building under construction and fired at workmen inside, causing eight deaths".

They were probably shooting their nailguns at the helicopters.

feckingmorons: No shiat, and if the polls don't improve we may invade New Jersey.

Why would they want to punish themselves?

feckingmorons: No shiat, and if the polls don't improve we may invade New Jersey.


Why should the Polish have anything to do with this?

Has anyone gotten anything even vaguely like a confirmation from a different news source?

4 years later, greenness.

/jesus wept.

netweavr: Pfft, unconfirmed.

If history is any guide, the soldiers most likely didn't even know they were in Syria.

Anaxphone: Has anyone gotten anything even vaguely like a confirmation from a different news source?

Hey, at least they didn't green the al-jazeera source.

The Iraq War is destined to become the war for the Middle East.

Would like to see more details here... and it's not like we are opening up a new front of the war. There has been a lot of activity on that border all along... if the bad guys are hiding just across the border in Syria I have no problem with a few operations to nab them.

Hopefully they got whoever they were targeting at least.

coarsesalt: 4 years later, greenness.

/jesus wept.

Congrats.

Anaxphone: Has anyone gotten anything even vaguely like a confirmation from a different news source?

BBC is not exactly the National Enquirer. I'm sure other sources will start chiming in soon.

Just another start of the work week in the foreign devil land and out looking for something to kill.

Impossible, Syria is our friend in the war on terror. After all, we rendition terrorists there to be tortured so that we don't have to soil our hands.

Yeah, like something like this hasn't happened before.

Gleiwitz Incident (new window)

Oh, and APPROVES

Wait...Seriously? Like...For realz? Is bush really going to pull something like this off?

The troops!

/next up: bahm bahm bahm, bahmbahm Iran

Hmmmm. Only 9 days until election day, fellas. Better hurry if you're going to catch Osama Bin Laden.

/ This is our October surprise

Anaxphone: Has anyone gotten anything even vaguely like a confirmation from a different news source?

I don't know, but the BBC is a pretty reputable source.

I wonder if this will make domestic news?

drudgereport picked up the story about 6 hours ago

Syria and Pakistan next?

Babbs: Hmmmm. Only 9 days until election day, fellas. Better hurry if you're going to catch Osama Bin Laden.

/ This is our October surprise

By Tuesday, the administration will conveniently release a tape by bin laden.

Another source

Link (new window)

Anaxphone: Has anyone gotten anything even vaguely like a confirmation from a different news source

It's on MSNBC (new window), although it isn't getting a huge headline.

Next, let's attack *throw dart at map on wall* Easter Island! We'll show those giant heads who's boss!

It's October, and yet this isn't a surprise.

It'll be interesting to see what we officially say about it - all we know to date is the Syrian side of the story. It'll also be interesting to see Syria's response.

Drakin020: Wait...Seriously? Like...For realz? Is bush really going to pull something like this off?

I was wondering why we haven't heard from him in a while...

CNN Still has a damn front page story on that American Idol farker.

/I farking hate this damn country.

It was ok that those men were killed... but a woman? God forbid that should happen. As everyone knows, woman are more important than men.

If they confirm it, it's news. Until then, it's Fark.

Ardilla: I don't know, but the BBC is a pretty reputable source.

BBC? Yes.

Syrians? Not so much.

Syriasly?

dukeblue219: Would like to see more details here... and it's not like we are opening up a new front of the war. There has been a lot of activity on that border all along... if the bad guys are hiding just across the border in Syria I have no problem with a few operations to nab them.

Hopefully they got whoever they were targeting at least.

So this is stretching it a little bit, but you wouldn't mind if the Mexican police crossed the border to catch a criminal, and ended up shooting 8 Americans? Or if some Royal Canadian Mounted Police rode south after someone trying to smuggle some bud, and ended up shooting some innocent bystanders? Or if Russian special forces intruded on that little island to catch a fugitive, and ended up killing some Americans? Or, ummm, if the sea people crawled up on Hawaii and killed a few people?

dukeblue219: There has been a lot of activity on that border all along... if the bad guys are hiding just across the border in Syria I have no problem with a few operations to nab them.

Attacking a sovreign nation just to kill a couple of bad guys is kind of overkill.

Unless you'd be fine with Mexico launching airstrikes against our border towns to kill a couple of people who've been assisting the drug cartels in their country.

The AP is also running the story.

phenn: BBC is not exactly the National Enquirer. I'm sure other sources will start chiming in soon.

Sorry, thought I was in the Al-Jazeera one.

Isn't this in line with Obama's policy? Tracking people over borders (admittedly, he was talking about Pakistan)?

O'course, not so sure he'd be down with the killing of a load of construction workers (and someone's wife) but meh.

Just a raid it says. Not a full blown "attack."

So...US Forces crossed the border into Syria in order to fire upon 8 civilian workers inside of a construction zone?

I would imagine if we had wanted to ignite foreign tensions by crossing into Syria, our target might be a little more militant, obvious, etc..

FormlessOne: It's October, and yet this isn't a surprise.

It'll be interesting to see what we officially say about it - all we know to date is the Syrian side of the story. It'll also be interesting to see Syria's response.

They'll do the usual. Basically, piss and moan that the US is coming across the border for the express purpose of killing innocent women and children. In other words, exactly what they're doing now.

Even as stretched as our forces seem now to be, Syria can't do one single serious thing in response.

The AP is reporting that Syria says (new window) we attacked NEAR the border. Can journalists get shiat straight?

Minnesota Twins: People conspire that the gas prices will drop like a rock before the election... people conspire that we will bomb a country before the election.

Oh, you mean both actually happened?

(sigh) Correlation is not causation.

They where asking for it. Just look how they dress!

FormlessOne: It's October, and yet this isn't a surprise.

It'll be interesting to see what we officially say about it - all we know to date is the Syrian side of the story. It'll also be interesting to see Syria's response.

Syria won't react (they didn't do anything when Israel bombed them back in the summer). Pentagon will be quiet. As always.

"The dead included a man and his four children and a married couple. "

Oops.

Vangor: So...US Forces crossed the border into Syria in order to fire upon 8 civilian workers inside of a construction zone?

I would imagine if we had wanted to ignite foreign tensions by crossing into Syria, our target might be a little more militant, obvious, etc..

If we wanted to start a war, yes. Igniting tensions, this is just the thing. Especially if we fark about for a bit before making an official apology, and then make it sound very insincere.