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Now that the Plame-Wilson Fiasco is more or less over, it’s time
for the neocons to get back to business. “Syrian army officer Amid Suleiman
told Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper that US cross-border attacks
into Syria had killed at least two border guards,” reports the
Australian.
“The charge follows leaks in Washington that the US has already engaged
in military raids into Syria and is contemplating launching special forces operations
on Syrian soil to eliminate insurgent networks before they reach Iraq, the report
said.” Of course, there are no “insurgents” in Syria, unless
one considers the Assad regime an insurgency.
Before Scooter was wrist-slapped and “forced” to leave
his job as Cheney’s top henchman, Condi
Rice, on a walking tour of Alabama with fellow war criminal British
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, promised “a shared effort to promote democracy
worldwide,” in other words bomb countries and kill babies. Rice
said the “international community must find a way to hold Syrian authorities
accountable for the death of a leading Lebanese reformer.” Of course,
for the Bushcons don’t do “international community” and in
fact the world consists of two radical Manichean polarities—those who
are with the Bushcons and those who are not. Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee “the president doesn’t take any of his options off the
table and that I will not say anything that constrains his authority as commander
in chief.” Obviously, not even the Constitution—prohibiting the
president from attacking defenseless countries without first securing a declaration
of war from Congress—stands in the way.
“The statement that should scare all Americans (and the world)
is the assurance by Secretary Rice that the President needs no additional authority
from Congress to attack Syria,” writes Ron
Paul of Texas. “She argues that authority already
has been granted by the resolutions on 9/11 and Iraq. This is not true, but
if Congress remains passive to the powers assumed by the executive branch it
won’t matter. As the war spreads, the only role for Congress will be to
provide funding lest they be criticized for not supporting the troops. In the
meantime, the Constitution and our liberties here at home will be further eroded
as more Americans die.”
No doubt the Bush neocons are blessing their lucky stars for the foolishly
inopportune comments of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who believes Israel
should be wiped off the map. “Evil men who want to use horrendous weapons
against us are working in deadly earnest to gain them. And we are working urgently
to keep weapons of mass murder out of the hands of the fanatics,” Bush
declared the other day. For Bush and the Straussian neocons, “us”
includes Israel, essentially the 51st state.
Here we go again.
Bush is simply recycling the threadbare lies and fabrications used
against Iraq—lies and fabrications that are at the heart of the so-called
Plame Affair but were glossed over—and Bush will use likewise lies against
Syria and down the road Iran. Congress has no choice but to go along. And the
American people have no choice but to sit back and watch the horror unfold on
Fox News.
As spectators, our only choice is to wave little plastic flags made
in China and support “our troops” who are in fact mass murderers.
If you do otherwise you are of course with Assad and Ahmadinejad and al-Qaeda.
