[Peace-discuss] The Neoconning of a Nation …

[Brussel Morton K.]

An excerpt from the Toronto Sun's Eric Margolis:
  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/27/8548/


…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.(mkb emphasis)

SYRIAN REACTOR

Meanwhile, Cheney and allies in Congress and the media are also using  
the Syrian reactor hubbub to undermine efforts by the U.S. state  
department, a primary hate object for neocons, to implement the  
nuclear weapons freeze with North Korea. State department boss  
Condoleezza Rice has run for cover, leaving her chief negotiator with  
North Korea to twist in the wind.

As the latest furor builds over the nefarious North Korean, we should  
remember that this scare story comes from the same Washington fib  
factory that manufactured all the alarms and “evidence” about Saddam  
Hussein’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and links to al- 
Qaida.

North Koreans are pretty scary, but their nuclear capabilities and  
the threat they supposedly pose have been exaggerated. South Korea  
and European intelligence agencies, for example, are cautious about  
Washington’s claims about North Korea and Syria.

The New York Times revealed last week what this column has long said:  
The Pentagon has duped Americans and Canadians by organizing a bunch  
of retired U.S. generals — mislabelled “independent military experts”  
— to shill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Watch these rent-a- 
generals again prostitute themselves on TV by promoting the  
administration’s party line about the great Syrian nuclear menace.

–Eric Margolis
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