US 'Aiming At Syria Regime Change'

[Hardrock69]

By Anton La Guardia
Diplomatic Editor
The Telegraph - UK
10-6-5


Israel predicted yesterday that America would impose fresh sanctions on Syria in an attempt to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Shaul Mofaz, the defence minister, said he believed sanctions would follow publication of a United Nations report expected to implicate senior Syrian officials in the murder of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

"I won't be surprised if Syria gets a red card," Mr Mofaz told Israel radio. "[The United States] will take actions against Syria, beginning with economic sanctions and moving on to others, that will make it clear to the Syrians that their policies do not comply with UN decisions, the US's new world order or the prohibition of sovereign states to support terrorism."

On Saturday, President George W Bush and his national security council are to discuss America's options on Syria, ranging from tightening existing limited sanctions to military action.

Washington regards Syria as a transit point for fighters travelling to Iraq and a safe haven for Iraqi Ba'athists to organise and finance the insurgency. With US troops mounting repeated campaigns against insurgents in Iraqi towns along the Syrian frontier, some senior US officers advocate cross-border "hot pursuit" operations. Others call for assassinations of insurgent masterminds in Syria.

Any action will have to await the outcome of the UN investigation into Mr Hariri's murder in February.

Amid a wave of anti-Syrian anger and pressure from America and France, Mr Assad was forced to withdraw his troops from Lebanon after a presence of 29 years. He reluctantly agreed to allow the UN investigator Detlev Mehlis to question Syrian officials.

Mr Mehlis, a German prosecutor, is due to report by Oct 21. According to leaks, he will name Syrian officials, although it is unclear how far he will point the finger of blame at President Assad.

America has taken soundings from regional governments on possible successors to Mr Assad.

© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2005.

[Hardrock69]

An essay on the above article:

The Triumph Of
Ideology Over Reality
"Obviously, far from heeding demands from U.S. generals and
congressional members of his own political party for a plan to
withdraw from Iraq, Bush intends to widen the war."
By Paul Craig Roberts
10-6-5


Not content with the terrorist-breeding instability he caused by invading Iraq, President Bush is plotting with Israel to repeat the disaster in Syria.

The diplomatic editor of the London Telegraph reports (Oct. 5) that the U.S. is aiming at Syrian "regime change." The British newspaper quotes Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as saying that a report blaming Syria for the assassination of a former Lebanese government official will be the catalyst that starts the ball rolling. Mofaz says the report will be the pretext for Bush to impose sanctions on Syria, "beginning with economic sanctions and moving on to others."

The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reports (Oct. 3) that the Bush administration has asked Israel's government to recommend a successor for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. No doubt, the Bush administration will describe Israel's selection of Syria's new president as the workings of democracy.

The Stratfor Intelligence Brief reports (Oct. 5) that Bush's National Security Council is deciding whether to bomb Syrian villages along what are thought to be "the infiltration routes used by jihadists" and to have U.S. special forces conduct operations inside Syrian territory.

Obviously, far from heeding demands from U.S. generals and congressional members of his own political party for a plan to withdraw from Iraq, Bush intends to widen the war.

How can Bush, his National Security Council, and Israel be so blind to the consequences of destabilizing Syria? A CIA report concluded that the U.S. invasion of Iraq created a training ground for al-Qaeda. Doesn't Bush understand that creating chaos in Syria will have the same result?

The National Security Council needs to quickly consult some real Middle East experts before Bush's reckless policies in the face of seething anti-American sentiment cause the overthrow of U.S. puppet rulers in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan, and dethrone the princes ruling the American oil protectorates in the Middle East.

If the Bush administration cannot defeat insurgency in Iraq, how can it defeat insurgency in Iraq and Syria? In Iraq, Syria, and Iran? The Bush administration is fanatical, divorced from reality.

Last week, Lt. Gen. William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, said that Bush's invasion of Iraq was "the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history." This is quite a distinction for Bush and his government. Are the morons now going to double the distinction by attacking Syria and quadruple it by attacking Iran?

Why don't Congress and the American public understand that the U.S. cannot afford to worsen the disaster in which it finds itself?

Nothing better illustrates the reality-denying capability of the Bush administration than its Secretary of State Condi Rice's speech at Princeton University on Sept. 30. It is a fantasy speech, devoid of awareness that "regime change" in Iraq substituted Shi'ite clergy for a secular ruler. The U.S. secretary of state has no inkling of the conflict generated among Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurd by the U.S.-imposed attempt to produce and adopt a constitution?

The Bush administration's Middle East policy is the triumph of ideology over reality. Something must be done to stop Bush before he mimics in the Middle East Hitler's invasion of Russia. The American people cannot afford the blood and treasure that the fanatical Bush administration is willing to squander in the Middle East.

What can be done about a president who is immune to reason? A bill of impeachment is a good start.

The Bush administration has already done more damage to Americans than the Sept. 11 attacks. The American people and their congressional representatives must hold Bush accountable before it is too late. The Bush administration has no intention of stopping with Iraq. At Princeton, Condi Rice again declared the administration's intention to use U.S. military force to transform the societies in the Middle East. "Now is not the time to falter or fade," declared the U.S. secretary of state.

Such total oblivion to the "greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history" is far scarier than Muslim terrorists.


http://www.rense.com/general67/widen.htm

[Nickdfresh]

So Syria is kind of like the new Cambodia I guess?

[FORD]

Ezekiel 38-39 spells out what will happen when even GOD gets fed up with Israel's arrogance. What it doesn't say is what price will be paid by those who enable it.

[Hardrock69]

Fuck Ezekiel. He did not know any more than anyone else.

:D

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Fuck Ezekiel. He did not know any more than anyone else.

:D

Haven't you heard?

FORD comes from a great line of Prophets and WhizBang FaithDudes.

:rolleyes: ;) :D

[Hardrock69]

At least he does not have blind faith in a bunch of murderers....