Ominous Signs That White House Advisers Want More Wars

[Ian David]

Is there a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the Bush administration?

By Jim Lobe, IPS News. Posted April 28, 2008.

Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more members of the revised 'axis of evil' before his term next January?

That's the big question here this week, particularly following Thursday's long-awaited intelligence briefings to Congress about alleged North Korean involvement in the construction of a 'covert nuclear reactor' in Syria that was destroyed in a raid by Israeli warplanes in September last year.

According to some interpretations, the briefing's timing and content appeared deliberately designed to raise tensions between Washington, on the one hand, and Pyongyang and Damascus, on the other, potentially derailing ongoing long-running negotiations between the State Department and North Korea and Turkish-mediated peace feelers between Israel and Syria.

That Vice President Dick Cheney, whose opposition to engaging both North Korea and Syria and support for 'regime change' in both countries is both well known and of long standing, had pushed hard for the briefing to take place has added to speculation that a major power play by the hawks to reverse the diplomacy that has dominated Bush's second term is underway.

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[spanone]

1. a term-limited dick cheney is a dangerous animal

[L. Coyote]

2. Hello EVERYONE!! Fear is PROFIT for Big Oil!! And distraction for Bush.

Everybody is making money, except the poor scmucks spreading the panic.

Buy more oil stocks and you will be very happy :sarcasm:

Talk about anything but the Pentagon and Iraq, and Bush is happy.

[Rex]

3. Dick is running out of time and needs another war to pump up his KBR portfolio.

So when he leaves office, he can go make money in his own private war. While Bush battles Latin America from his carrier group, his daddy had built just for him!

[Frustratedlady]

5. Am I wrong, or doesn't Rev. Moon also own land in that area?

That connection is a lot scarier than Rev. Wright/Obama.

[Rex]

7. Moon owns land in various parts of the world. He is a private dictator

and owns a large part of the DC political landscape.


This man makes Rupert Murdoch look like a pissant nobody.

[liberal N proud]

4. Those wars they want have been part of the bu$h master plan

since the day he was anointed king by the SCOTUS

[DonkeyOdie2000]

6. re: Those wars...

Face facts, Bush is too stupid to be the mastermind in any of
this. Check the record (as well as the series run in the
Washington Post last year). It's been Cheney since day one,
take it from someone who was in the military while he was Sec.
of Def. The man's been a menace since the seventies.

[Cerridwen]

8. Kick. n/t