ON April 16, the Post dropped the first shoe in publishing an opinion piece by Ilan Berman that seemed to call for a wider war, against Syria and Iran. Six days later, the Post dropped the other shoe, with the bloodthirsty psycho Peter Brookes calling for an attack upon Syria, and hinting that attacking Iran might also be necessary.
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Brookes claims that Syria must be helping infiltrate militants into Iraq because it could clearly stop them from crossing the arid wastes of their shared desert, but we can't stop Mexicans from coming across our own desert border!
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Among the 'crimes' of Syria that he wants us to punish is its occupying part of Lebanon. Hmm. It was okay for Israel to occupy part of Lebanon and is great for the U.S. and Britain to occupy all of Iraq, but it's not okay for Syria, a brother Arab nation, to occupy part of Lebanon. Curious reasoning.
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Brookes also says, without using the term, that Syria has or is developing WMD! How stupid does he think the people of the United States are? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
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At least he doesn't claim, this time, that Syria has the means to reach the U.S. with its (pretend) WMD. No, it's plain that Peter Brookes, and the Post, care only about Israel. I don't give a fig about Israel. It's not my country, and I don't want my country killing, and our kids dying, for Israel.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:36 AM