The Neoconning of a Nation

[Joanne98]

www.smirkingchimp.com
April 27, 2008

PARIS — U.S. intelligence released a dramatic video last Thursday, supposedly taken by an Israeli spy, that purportedly showed North Korean technicians helping build a nuclear reactor in Syria.

The reactor was destroyed seven months ago by Israeli warplanes.

Until now Israel and the U.S. have remained silent about the attack. Syria claimed a warehouse was hit, but curiously said nothing more about what was an act of war. Washington offered no proof the reactor, if it was one, would have produced weapons rather than electric power. U.S. and Israeli intelligence have long stated Syria had no nuclear weapons capabilities.

Vice-President Dick Cheney and fellow neocons forced the CIA to release the James Bondish video in an effort to sabotage an impending six-nation agreement to end North Korea’s nuclear program. They bitterly oppose the deal for being too soft on Pyongyang. Neocons long have worried the possibility of North Korea selling nuclear technology to Arab states posed a potential threat to Israel.

This mysterious imbroglio also is being used by Israel’s rightwing Likud Party, a close ally of U.S. neocons, to attack political rival Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Kadima Party.

BACK-CHANNEL TALKS

Olmert has been involved in Turkish-brokered, back-channel peace talks with Syria for years. Likud and its U.S. allies are determined to sabotage any deal with Damascus that would return the Golan Heights, which Israel conquered in the 1967 war, to Syria. The Likudniks also sought to derail efforts by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter to encourage the Israeli-Syrian talks, and get Israel and the militant Palestinian movement, Hamas, to talk.

Under the purported deal, Israel would return the Golan Heights in exchange for Damascus’ agreement to sever its close links with Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Hamas. Syria also would grant Israel important water rights. The fate of up to 250,000 Syrian inhabitants driven from Golan remains uncertain.

Israel, backed by the Bush administration, certainly has been using the carrot of a return of Golan to entice Syria away from Iran. But there is also a big stick: Ever-stronger threats of a U.S.-Israeli attack on Syria. Israel’s September attack on Syria was a clear warning.

Cheney and fellow militarists are pushing hard for attacks on Syria, Lebanon and Iran before President George W. Bush leaves office. Neocons have flocked to Sen. John McCain’s banner — in spite of Hillary Clinton’s vow to “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. They believe U.S. attacks on Arab states and/or Iran would prove decisive in winning the presidency for McCain this November. A U.S. attack on Syria could well be the first step of a broader air war against Lebanon and Iran.

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[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. In this day and age, how can anyone believe videos or photos

to be real?

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2. The Syria building bombing is very curious

if it WAS a nuclear processing facility (breeder reactor?) for making plutonium from uranium...
i.e. weapons grade fissionable materials...

a) Why do it in Syria, why not just build it somewhere that Israel couldn't bomb easily?

b) Does Syria HAVE a nuclear power plant? If not, how were they going to obtain the uranium to process?

c) Why didn't the building (as shown in the video) have the necessary piping to be a plutonium manufacturing facility

d) Whey didn't the building site have security fences and guard towers and the like?

e) If it wasn't a nuclear facility... what was it? And why didn't the Syrians make a international stink about it being bombed?

f) It did, apparently, need access to a great deal of water (if the diagram of the underground pipes and tanks are to be believed, why aren't there photos of the Syrians putting in the pipes and storage tanks? The Israelis have a very competent intelligence operation and the US has many spy satellites, putting in pipes as described is not something that could have been done in secret.