YOU KNOW WHAT, SYRIA...ONE DAY THIS IRAQ THING WILL BE OVER

And from your record over the last year, I'm thinking there is a lot of reckoning in your future.

Syrian President Bashar Assad described armed attacks against U.S.-led troops in neighboring Iraq as legitimate "resistance" against foreign occupation.

His remarks, aired Wednesday on the Qatar-based pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite station, are likely to strain already tense U.S.-Syrian relations.