HADACOL SPECIAL RECALL FOR BIRD DROPPINGS IN SYRIA!
September 9. 2007
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I have h ad
a lot of fun issuing the last three blogs, a s
well as this one. It is a very serious matter, but I enjoy all the ridiculous statements being issued by all those associated with, and directly or indirectly affected, by it. Of course, I could be wrong, but as a retired NSA analyst, having set through ep isodes like th
is one in the Command Post, as my specialty was required, it is like old home week at Ft. George G. Meade for me.
As you know from my previous blogs, I think this was a natural reaction by Israel to the installation of new Russian high tech intercept hardware that desperately needed to have its capabilities tested by F-151 Israeli aircraft. It would have had the full approval of the United States.
Such information would be vital in the event Israel and/or the U.S. decided to strike the Iranian Nuclear Complex and the Scud complex in Syria.
The Syrians are embarrassed as well as the Russians who sold them the equipment, which apparently wasn’t all it was chalked up to be, and the Iranians are no longer smug about the same Russian System being able to protect their Nuclear Complex.
Hence, no one is saying anything that resembles a failure on the part of anyone.
As regards the title of this blog – In the middle of the last century, some company came out with a wonder product that was supposed to give relief from everything from bubonic plague to housemaid’s knee bends. They called it HADACOL, and no one knew what it meant, so someone made up a joke stating:
Why did they call it HADACOL
?
Answer:
Well, they HAD A CALL it something!
I know it was “corny,” but back then “cool” was quite different from today, and “hot” meant the temperature broke 100 degrees F.
I looked Hadacol up on the internet after I reached this point in writing the blog, and found the following information. I was surprised to find I had spelled it correctly.
Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle’s label as a “preservative”), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States. It was the product of four-term Louisiana state Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc (1894-1971), a Democrat from Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. He was not a medical doctor, nor a registered pharmacist, but had a strong talent for self-promotion.
Time Magazine once described him as “…a stem-winding salesman who knows every razzle-dazzle switch in the pitchman’s trade”. (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The reason I bring this up is because this Russian System made me think of HADACOL for some reason. It was billed as a wonder drug, and believe it or not, it made all the old folks of that day really start to feel good, no matter what ailed them. The miraculous effects were later discovered to be its twelve percent alcoholic content. But for awhile in some of our churches the elderly deacons and shouting sisters became extremely active in service, not realizing they were tanked up and led by the spirits of alcohol. Once this was discovered, they went back to their chewing and snuff dipping, and the spirits were subdued.
The Syrians and Iranians were pumped up on this high fangled Russian equipment, but maybe its not as good as they thought.
I don’t believe this particular fiasco is going to start a major Middle East war, but some sort of incident, perhaps like it, when Syria and Iran are ready to strike in the future, will be used as justification before the international community that Israel started the last great war by an act of provocation.
Begin lDEBKAfile Article
DEBKAfile: A partial call-up of reserves is reported in Syria by Western sources in Lebanon
September 9, 2007, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Those sources say Syria has mobilized armored, missile, air crews and air defense units – partly in readiness for repeats of alleged Israeli incursions of Syrian airspace and partly in response to the partial call-up in Israel which began beginning last Thursday, Sept 6. The Syrian armed forces are on full alert.
DEBKAfile’s sources report that the silent war of nerves, started after the first Syrian allegation that Israeli bombers had violated of its airspace Thursday, continues.
Jerusalem and Damascus are straining to hold back from an open clash, but voices are rising in the Syrian army urging President Bashar Assad to retaliate militarily to the purported Israeli infringement and come out of his passivity in the face of Israeli incursions.
Assaf Shawqat, Syrian military intelligence chief and the president’s bro ther-in-law, is
the most insistent. According to Western sources, he has begun mobilizing his loyalists in the military officers’ corps.
Israeli ministers and spokesmen are under strict orders not to utter a word about the episode. Prime minister Ehud Barak opened the weekly cabinet session in Jerusalem Sunday, Sept.9, with the remark: “It is not always possible to show one’s cards.” Journalists were kept away from the ministers.
DEBKAfile’s sources doubt whether this silent poker game can be sustained either by Jerusalem or Damascus in the present state of suspense. Since the “no comments” stratagem serve Israel’s interests most, Syria is likely to make the first move; its call-up of reserves may be a straw in the wind.
In an interview with the American CBS network recorded Saturday, Assad dismissed Israel’s charges that Syria was funneling arms to Hizballah, including consignments from Iran.
He said: “Intelligence services, probably from all over the world, operate on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria and the Israelis fly over Lebanon … I told them provide us with a single evidence that we have sent one missile to Hizballah. These are fake claims.”
Syria, Assad said, supports Hizballah politically.
Assad also denied that Damascus airport is being used by terrorists as a springboard to fight the U.S. forces in Iraq. “They enter illegally across the border and we’ve managed to arrest them,” Assad stressed.
Asked to comment on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenjad’s call to wipe Israel off the map, Assad said: “This is freedom of speech.
Any person in the world has the right to express himself freely. This is just an expression.”
In Rome, meanwhile, Syria’s vice president Farouk a-Shara issued an angry statement Saturday. He said his government is considering responses to Israeli jet flights over Syria and the results will not be long coming.
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