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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (4061)	12/13/2003 4:23:24 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 was initially drafted by the Bush neocons. "Many of the same people both in and out of the administration who have favored making Syria a primary target in the U.S. 'war on terrorism' signed a report released four years ago [before Bush was appointed] that explicitly called for using military force to disarm Syria of supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end its military presence in Lebanon," writes Jim Lobe. Among the signers of the report, which was released by a pro-Likud research group called The Middle East Forum (MEF) and the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), were Bush's chief deputy on the Middle East on the National Security Council, Elliott Abrams; Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith; Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky; and two special consultants associated with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) who have been working on Mideast policy in the Pentagon and State Department, respectively, Michael Rubin and David Wurmser. The signers also included Richard Perle, the powerful former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, his colleague at AEI, former UN ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick; Michael Ledeen, another AEI fellow; Frank Gaffney, a former Perle aide in the Reagan administration who now heads the Center for Security Policy; and David Steinmann, chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). With the exception of Kirkpatrick, all of these figures outside the administration played key roles in urging Bush to go to war in Iraq. The study, "Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role?," was co-authored by MEF president Daniel Pipes, who was just named by Bush to a post at the U.S. Institute of Peace--despite widespread charges that he has promoted Islamaphobia--and Ziad Abdelnour, who heads the USCFL. Syria and Iran are phase two and three (not necessarily in that order) of the Likudite Master Plan to establish Greater Israel. "Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is defeated," said Rep. Eliot Engel (member of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon, i.e., in other words, an Israeli controlled Lebanon) back in April, "it is time for America to get serious about Syria. The United States must not tolerate (its) continued support of the most deadly terrorist organizations in the world, its development of weapons of mass destruction, and its occupation of Lebanon." Engel's "most deadly terrorist organizations in the world" are, of course, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah -- Israel's enemies, not those of the United States. The Bush neocons and dual-allegiance warmongers know that Israel cannot successfully fight Palestinian (and Lebanese) nationalism and realize the long-held dream (a nightmare for Arabs) of Greater Israel without using the US military and killing US soldiers. That's what the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 is all about -- making the US the Zionist hit man in the Middle East. Kurt Nimmo