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TechnoratiBush Invades Syria. Take His War Warrant Away
Bush just attacked another country over the weekend, this time Syria.
Not enough that he's got our troops bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not enough that he's attacking sites in Pakistan.
No, this self-described war president can't seem to get enough of war.
Using Iraq as a launching pad, U.S. forces attacked a village inside Syria on Sunday, killing eight people.
According to Agence France-Presse, Syrian state television showed a woman lying in a hospital bed saying, "I heard shooting, I ran to get my son and they shot me."
Another man said he was fishing when U.S. helicopters started raining down bullets. "I saw eight soldiers coming out with weapons. . . . I tried to flee and I was hit."
The Bush Administration contends that foreign fighters enter Iraq from Syria, but does this give Bush the right to attack Syria?
The biggest number of foreign suicide bombers have come from Saudi Arabia, and you don't see Bush bombing that country, now do you?
Hawks in the Bush Administration have long itched to go into Syria, and now Bush is scratching that itch.
The point is, by what right does Bush have to go into Syria?
He seems to believe that he has the right to attack any country he wants any time he wants.
This is what Rep. Barbara Lee warned us about when she was the lone person to vote against the sweeping grant of war power that Congress gave Bush shortly after 9/11.
That warrant should have expired by now, except for going after bin Laden and Zawahiri.
But those two aren't in Syria.
Congress must take Bush's war warrant away.
23 Comments so far
Show AllWhy have the two previous articles about Syria bombing - first one about civilians killed and second one about Abu Ghadiyah killed - disappeared from Common Dreams. Why do we bother writing comments only to find the articles are immediately pulled.
Ohter recent articles that have disappeared completely (from both the first page and the archives) had to do with voting problems in Pennsylvania and green activist Van Jones. I think Common Dreams should post an explanation when articles disappear. Otherwise it seems too much like the mainstream press censorship.
Joe
...and Bush said he stopped using cocaine, didn't he?
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Therefore Syria has the right to invade Iraq and kill US citizens.
"frank1569 October 28th, 2008 4:45 pm
Hey, MR - you forgot all about Somalia (like the rest of us and the world... except for the Somalis...)
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If those aren't acts of war, then what the f**k is?"
WELL, IT's an act of war, but definitely not the sole example. Try the U.S. attempt to assassinate Pres. Hugo Chavez in what year was it? 2002, I believe. Try the act-of-war coup d'etat against the strongly democratically elected government of Haiti and its population, Feb. 2004, only Haiti had no military to speak of for defence and was, therefore, easy prey. There's the act-of-war corruption of the Rambouilet Accord in 1999 and which gangster unit Pres. Clinton administration used (the gangster clause added after Pres. Milosevic accepted the initial accord, which should have not been allowed to be changed without authentically honest negotiations) to try to pretend that the subsequent launching of the war was supposedly justified. There's also the establishment of AFRICOM; the flagrant lies of the Bush administration about the war on Iraq and due to Saddam Hussein supposedly possessing and developing wMD, and threatening to use these against the U.S., when none of this was true and the Cheney-Bush cabal knew that it was all false; Colin Powell's flagrant lying to the UN on Feb. 5 2003 when he claimed that photos of the outsides of trailers in the desert in Iraq were certain proof that these boxes were being used for making WMD, without showing any evidence at all of what was inside these trailers and that they weren't just left there unused or no longer used for anything at all; and ... so on.
Flagrantly lying to the U.S. population on all of these matters is yet another act of war, this time against the population of the USA; too!
We don't need what happened in Somalia, or what's now happened in Syria, to have examples of U.S. acts of war! There are [many] examples; they're a regular matter with the U.S. govt and its Western Establishment rulers.
There are plenty of good articles at Uruknet.info on this recent U.S. attack, act of aggression and murder, in Syria; while I'll provide links to some of these.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48291
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48284
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48285
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48265
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzRAmgaSqg
The video's from AlJazeera.net, and the link was obtained from one of the above or else another Uruknet article.
Introducing the U.S. attacks in Somalia as if the attack in Syria isn't important or isn't an act of war is a BAD idea; it's bs! Both are acts of war of aggression, and aggression, murder carried out. And both are related to the overall GWoT!
I posted on another article about the attack. LinkTV had a news article from Syrian TV that was very graphic. It showed the construction site where most of the men were shot. The locals insisted that these men were just innocent laborers and did not mention that they shot at the US Special Forces. The US story was that they had a violent gunbattle with the Al-Qaida bad guys and killed them all,and none of our men were even wounded. The video shows the dead men stacked two to the gurney in a local morgue. One appears to be a boy about 15 years old. This would not be the first time that we were given bad information and went charging in helter skelter, trigger happy, without doublechecking. If this is the case, the military will never admit the mistake. The biggest danger in all this is that it could be a Cheney trick to create an incident that would justify our escalating to a bigger attack against Syria or Iran. That would bring out the flag waving idiots to vote for McCain. The neo-cons and Cheney have been trying very hard to get an attack going. I have a bad feeling this was done without the consent of the Joint Chiefs who have prevented Cheney from his Rambo fantasies so far.
Good, another LinkTV viewer. I am so glad it is available on my campus, but I never have time to watch it anymore :-(. Do you think they have the video of this on the website?
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Does this make us all war criminals?
The short answer is YES!
No, this self-described war president can't seem to get enough of war.
No, he can't. This closet Einsatzgruppenfuhrer will be killing people right up to the end. He should save the last bullet for himself. Prost!
The Democrats have a majority in both houses of Congress.
The Democrats were elected precisely with a mandate to stop exactly this.
So, what are the Democrats doing about it? Did they suddenly start impeachment hearings?
Its up to the Democrats. They are either with Bush and support these policies, or they oppose them.
Note: Doing nothing is the same as supporting Bush.
Anyone want to take a bet on whether the Democrats will stop this?
And, does anyone want to take a bet on whether all the people who whine that this must be stopped will really take an action to do so by voting for the Green Party?
The Democrats won't stop this. The Democrats will show they are on Bush's side. If you vote Democrat, you are also supporting this and are on Bush's side.
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The Democrats just want to win the elections on November 4th.
I'm sure they will come out like fearless wolverines on Nov 5th, and do a quick impeachment in November, December and January.
It's all part of their brilliant strategy for saving the country...
We are a goddamn rogue nation with a war criminal president and a war criminal government, and all the media keeps repeating is that "official sources say an arms supplier to al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed." No mention of civilian casualties, no mention of national borders, no mention of the USA attacking YET ANOTHER sovereign country without reason or declaration. Hell, the Army admits they were in Syria - they didn't even try to blame their faulty GPS gear.
Does this make us all war criminals?
Hey, MR - you forgot all about Somalia (like the rest of us and the world... except for the Somalis...)
Jan: "A Somali lawmaker says the second day of US airstrikes in the southern part of his country has left 31 civilians dead..."
March: "Two missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, in an attack the United States said was directed at a... The US bombed the same area a year ago..."
May: "A US military spokesman told the BBC that it had attacked what he called a known al-Qaeda target in Somalia..."
June: "U.S. bombs Somalia, resistance continues Tuesday..."
If those aren't acts of war, then what the f**k is?
And yet 90% of americans will vote to continue with these policies!! And the progressive ones (sic) will have the nerve to call themselves peace activists!
Maybe Obama will paint a peace sign on the side of the missiles he launches ... just to try to pretend he's a peace activist. I'm sure the people who die from Obama's strikes will appreciate the difference.
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Bush & his merry men have claimed the right to attack any country, anywhere, since 2002. No surprise here. Of course, it's time to throw the rascals out. But will the new rascals be any better?
Matthew is too funny! Asking for Congress to stop Bush's wars is about as futile as asking Bush to stop Congress's wars.
Yes, Bush is attacking Syria and attacking Pakistan for the flimsiest of reasons. Yet the silence from the [alleged] "dove" Barack Obama concerning the latest outburst of U.S. aggression is simply deafening. Unfortunately, this comes as no surprise since Obama also shares basically the same views as Bush does on foreign policy. The difference is that Obama will claim that he will [somehow] be able to "manage" these imperial adventures by the United States better than either Bush and/or McCain. Despite Obama's reticence in condemning Bush's actions, his followers still cling to the irrational belief that their candidate will somehow shift left once he is elected. Faith should not be used as a shield to deflect a person from realizing that someone like Obama, the "alleged" anti-war candidate, is just as militant, if not more so, than his Republican rival. If Obama carries through on his pledge to send more troops into Afghanistan and sends American forces into Pakistan, Syria, and elsewhere, the citizens of those countries will still wind up [unjustifiably] quite dead, no matter how Obama or his followers may attempt to rationalize those murders.
Will somebody find some spine and stop that man!
JaneM
Vote Nader
Elect a Green Congress.
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Yeah, vote Nader and elect McCain - then we can start dropping NUCLEAR weapons on IRAN!
It's not, "somebody". It has to be masses....and the masses do not have the courage, "time" or motivation. We are all too fat and satiated. THIS is what NO AMERICAN wants to hear!
Iraqis were just provided with yet another reason why no SOFA or UN figleaf ought to be emplaced and terrorist US forces thrown out on their ears.
Gee, sound like Laos and Cambodia a few decades ago at all?