Who Are We to Pick Syria's President? Could someone recommend one for us?

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by Paul Craig Roberts

Someone should tell Condi Rice that the game 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 U.S. 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 Oct. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. still doesn't know exactly whom it is fighting. Yet Mehlis blames Syria for an assassination on the strength of an informer described by the German news magazine Der Spiegel as a convicted felon and swindler.

AntiWar.com

[tularetom]

1. I really really hope they nominate rice in 2008

but what I really really really hope is that she doesn't do something in the meantime so stupid it costs the lives of many more Americans.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. The US knows who they are fighting..

They are fighting Iraqi citizens... The "insurgents" are IRAQI.

THEY KNOW THIS... they just lie!