[Peace-discuss] The Neoconning of a Nation …

[Jenifer Cartwright]

This is EXACTLY what I tho't when we got "the story" this past week about Israel's "justified" bombing of the Syrian "nuclear" facility last year... and the pundits and interviewees went on to portray Iran as the same kind of (secret) menace.  Terrible if it's really their plan, and no way to stop them from going ahead w/ the attacks nor to affect what the voters will do as a result. It's just about the end of the world.
   --Jenifer 

"Brussel Morton K." <mkbrussel at comcast.net> wrote:
  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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