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Bush Administration Explores Possible Opening With Long-Shunned Syria By Thomas Omestad US News and World Report, 15 October 2008 Late in the life span of the Bush administration, U.S. officials have cautiously reached out to Syria through contacts that, until recently, they had shunned because of alleged Syrian support for terrorists and for efforts to […]http://joshualandis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/mustapha_bush-300x248.jpg