Condi Rice wants war with Syria:

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HOWARD

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:00 PM

October 25, 2005

Condi Rice and Syrian Regime Change
Could Somebody Recommend a President?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Someone should tell Condi Rice that the gig is up. With the Bush administration dissolving in illegalities committed by key officials in their attempts to protect the lies that they used to justify the US invasion of Iraq, the secretary of state is trying to ramp up war against Syria.

Grasping a UN report that uses unreliable witnesses to implicate Syria in the assassination of a former Lebanese government official, Condi Rice told the BBC on October 23 that Syria's crime cannot be "left lying on the table. This really has to be dealt with."

This is amazing for many reasons. Here is the person in charge of US diplomacy acting as if she is the secretary of war unsheathing military force. Whoever heard of an American diplomat wanting to start a war because a former Middle Eastern government official was assassinated?

The UN investigator, Detlev Mehlis, has no more idea who assassinated the former official than the US knows who is responsible for assassinating the many Iraqi officials under its protection. After more than two and one-half years of war in Iraq, the US still doesn't know exactly who the enemy is that it is fighting. Yet Mehlis blames Syria for an assassination on the strength of an informer described by the German news magazine, Der Spiegal, as a convicted felon and swindler.

On the basis of the word of a convicted felon and swindler, Condi Rice wants a high level UN Security Council meeting to condemn Syria so the Bush administration can bring about "regime change" in Syria.

With the US department of state doing everything it can to demonize and destabilize Syria, Condi Rice's mouthpiece, Adam Ereli, declared that Syria must end attempts to destabilize its neighbors. This is the type of propaganda we were fed about Iraq. Syria is not destabilizing any country. It is all Syria can do to maintain its own stability. The US is the great Middle Eastern destabilizer.

Isn't the secretary of state aware that the government of which she is a part is in dire difficulties because it went to war based on highly unreliable "intelligence" supplied by highly unreliable people?

Does the secretary of state read the CIA reports? Doesn't she know that the US has created extraordinary instability in Iraq? A country that formerly had no terrorists now serves as a training ground for al Qaeda, according to the CIA.

Is this the time to repeat the Iraq blunder in Syria?

The American people should be terrified by the warmongering ideologues that President Bush has put in charge of his government. The greatest danger that the US faces are the fools in the Bush administration.

Why is Syria being demonized? Syrian troops were part of the US coalition organized by President George Herbert Walker Bush that liberated Kuwait in 1991 from Saddam Hussein. The current head of government in Syria is a mild mannered ophthalmologist who inherited the post five years ago when his older brother was killed in a car crash.

Syria has done nothing to the US and poses no threat to the US. The Syrian government is concerned about Syria becoming unhinged by schisms like the Sunni-Shi'ite schism set loose in Iraq by the incompetent Bush administration.

Why does Condi Rice think the Bush administration has the right to decide who heads the Syrian government? According to news reports, the Bush administration has asked the Israeli and Italian governments to nominate a replacement for the current president of Syria.

A country incapable of choosing a better president than George W. Bush has no business choosing a president for any other country. In place of aggressive interference in the internal affairs of other countries, the US needs to find a competent president for itself.

Maybe we should ask the Italians who they would recommend.
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Paul Craig Roberts has held a number of academic appointments and has contributed to numerous scholarly publications. He served as Assistant Secretary of the

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:10 PM

Quote:
The American people should be terrified by the warmongering ideologues that President Bush has put in charge of his government. The greatest danger that the US faces are the fools in the Bush administration.

I'm far more terrified at the appeasing fools who want to blame the U.S. for all the world's problems, and think that merely being nice to murderous cut throats will lead to any lasting peace.

PCR is nothing more than a petty Left wing myrmidon and a zealot for the Hate Bush clan in the likes of Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore. Nothing he says is of any worth.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

HOWARD

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:43 PM

Nothing you say has an ounce of intelligence
and everything you say is pure reactionary,
salute-your-Fuhrer mindlessness.

An article such as the one above is simply
beyond the bounds of your corporate media
controlled mind.

FALLENANGEL

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:03 PM

Does this mean that this is gonna be World War 3? If it is, well, I guess it's time to start building a bomb shelter! Anyone got a shovel?

Gorram it, Condi Rice! Do we really another war?? Do we really need more men and women to die and sent home in casket to their families. Can't we all just...get along?? If not, then I need to get a Vera.

"If anyone gets nosy just, you know, shoot them."

"Shoot them?"

"Politely."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."-Wash.

HOWARD

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:16 PM

Thank you FALLENANGEL

some folks around here seem to have
a 2 plus 2 = -22 kind of death wish
all wrapped up in flag waving and
self-deluded glorification.

Like you said no one needs anymore killing
it just makes people hate more which
means more killing and then more killing.

By the way I could use some moral support
over on the GOD BLESS ROSA PARKS thread
that I responded to after seeing that the
guy who posted links in his no logic mind
a woman who showed courage against injustice
with a President who backed injustice.

The wild dogs over on that thread are showing
me their teeth and wanting my blood. But of
course what they can't figure is that don't
make 'em any smarter. You can boil someone
alive but you can't boil away facts or the
truth.

PS if you do feel the need to ever get a Vera
and I sincerely hope you don't; please aim it
at the top at home not the bottom abroad. If
you know what I mean?

TWEEK128

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:51 PM

Every time I read your posts, I just hear the guy from GTA III calling about nannies...

I see. Disagreement means stupidity and sheep-tendencies. Agreement means intelligence and wisdom.

You are clearly an unbiased and even-handed individual worth listening to and respecting, Howard.

And if you believe that...

Well, who am I kidding? You do. When you meet a "hate-filled war-monger" you respond with hate and bile and vitriol the very second you see something indicating this truth to you.

Ad hominem is a tactic you use while condemning it in others. And while to you your hypocrisy may not be apparent, to others it is.

Also, what was it about speaking in absolutes?

Quote:
Nothing you say has an ounce of intelligence
and everything you say is pure reactionary,
salute-your-Fuhrer mindlessness.

An article such as the one above is simply
beyond the bounds of your corporate media
controlled mind.

Emphasis mine, of course.

I really love the last part. If you disagree, you just don't get it. Great. I guess that means you just don't understand Condi Rice and Bush, using your "logic." It's just...above the bounds of your indie-media controlled mind.

By your reasoning, anyway.

GHOLA

Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:13 AM

That you again Ghoulman?

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Howard:
Nothing you say has an ounce of intelligence
and everything you say is pure reactionary,
salute-your-Fuhrer mindlessness.

An article such as the one above is simply
beyond the bounds of your corporate media
controlled mind.

It's funny that you call others unintelligent and purely reactionary. Suits you to a T, and you exhibit nothing but a vast disconnect w/ reality. Figures you'd post such tripe as this absurd post.

Reminds me of the religious zealots who warned that Clinton would use Y2K as a reason to declare martial law. Or better, that JESUS himself would return. Keep sucking down that Left wing kool-aid.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

CHRISISALL

Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Howard:
Nothing you say has an ounce of intelligence
and everything you say is pure reactionary

I disagree, Howard, some of these folk who are just plain wrong most of the time are quite intelligent in how they express their fantasy view of the world.

Quote:

An article such as the one above is simply
beyond the bounds of your corporate media
controlled mind.

And as such, you should be more forgiving, for there are non so blind as... well, people who're blind...
you know what I'm sayin'...

Chrisisall, above judging the STUPID

CHRISISALL

Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Figures you'd post such tripe as this absurd post.

Reminds me of the religious zealots who warned that Clinton would use Y2K as a reason to declare martial law. Or better, that JESUS himself would return. Keep sucking down that Left wing kool-aid.

Lot of anger here. I usually reserve this level of animosity for people who get others killed...
but that's just me.

Chrisisall

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