US Syria claims raise wider doubts

[dipsydoodle]

More than half a year after the Israeli air strike that destroyed the alleged nuclear reactor under construction in Syria, Washington's release of what it says are still images of the facility before the raid amounts to the diplomatic equivalent of throwing a very large rock into a deep pool.
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Further distrust has been sown between the United States and the UN's nuclear watchdog - the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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But the revelations raise as many questions as they answer.
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Above all, why did the US go public now? And was this an effort to further isolate Syria or to bring additional pressure on North Korea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7366868.stm

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Syria is next on the list to be attacked per PNAC and the Bush's 5-year plan.

Here's what "The Village Voice" wrote Oct., 2003.

"In his new book, Winning Modern Wars, retired general Wesley Clark, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered a window into the Bush serial-war planning. He writes that serious planning for the Iraq war had already begun only two months after the 9-11 attack, and adds:

"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. . . . I left the Pentagon that afternoon deeply concerned."

A five-year military campaign. Seven countries. How far has the White House taken this plan? And how long can the president keep the nation in the dark, emerging from his White House cocoon only to speak to us in slogans and the sterile language of pep rallies?"

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0342,schanberg,47830,1.html

[peacetalksforall]

2. Just staging for the Cheney-Israel bombing of Iran.

Syria has to be included in the buildup to legitimatize Israel's claim against their enemies within Syria.

Not even Jimmie the Greek could come up with numbers to say if bombing Iran is pay back to Israel for its help in other endeavors, the entrenchment of Israel in the U.S., or the combined effort to rule and own. Stabilization with profit.

Few share their vision for stabilization.