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by susanhu
National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley asked the Italians to help with regime change in Syria:
I have it on good authority that Steven Hadley, the director of the US National Security Council, called the President of the Italian senate to asked if he had a candidate to replace Bashar al-Asad as President of Syria. The Italians were horrified. Italy is one of Syria’s biggest trading partners so it seemed a reasonable place to ask! This is what Washington has been up to. -- Joshua Landis
This Stephen Hadley? Whose ass is about to be indicted? Who was a member of the infamous WHIG group that sold the Iaq war? Who has his smudgy mitts all over the Niger forgery story and connived with Karl Rove to smear Joseph Wilson and his wife? Yup, that Stephen Hadley. In BooMan's "Holy Crap: My Pre-Indictment Stress Syndrome is Acting Up" he quotes Larry Johnson: "My friend told me that Hadley fully expects he will be indicted." We need to listen to Joshua Landis -- a Fulbright Scholar currently living in Damascus and Beirut -- who is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the History Department and the School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Landis has become an essential source for newspapers, including The New York Times. Landis's SyriaComment.com has become one of my must-reads. He writes well. He travels to Beirut regularly. He talks to international reporters daily. And Landis talks to Syrians on the streets of Damascus. We're not playing "DOOM" here, for chrissakes. You have to know the territory. As Patrick Lang -- a former DIA Chief of the Middle East and Terrorism as well as first professor of Arabic Languages at West Point -- pointed out last night here in "Syria and the Stone Wall": The Syrian government has a long established and time tested methodology for dealing with external demands placed upon it. It ignores them. Further, as Joshua Landis logically notes, what can Syria possibly do to placate the Bush administration? "Bashar cannot possibly do what Washington is demanding of it -- give family members to an international court. My guess is that the regime will stick together on this." But, really, none of that matters! Cheney and Hadley are hellbent on going after Syria:
US ‘seeks new Syrian leader' as pressure mounts Turkish Press reports that ''both Ankara and western capitals [are debating] by whom al-Assad can be replaced. This matter was also discussed during (U.S. President Bush's national security adviser) Hadley's visit to Ankara." Professor Landis has come into possession of a "most extraordinary letter from Syria's Ambassador in Washington Imad Mustapha to Congresswoman Sue Kelly." The letter from Rep. Kelly and 100 House members is highly critical of Syria. Prof. Landis has posted the ambassador's reply, [editor's note, by susanhu] [The ambassador's reply letter to Congress is up now.] and makes these key observations:
[The letter from 100 members of Congress ] is a demonstration of the US government's failure to appreciate how it is being railroaded by the administration into a confrontation with Syria. One must read Imad Mustapha's response, copied here, to appreciate just how the railroading is taking place. Congress is falling for another war trap? Looks like it:
For over a year Syria has been trying to cooperate with the West on the Iraq border, on the issue of terrorism finance, on the issue of stopping Jihadists from getting into Syria, on intelligence sharing, and on stabilizing Iraq. I've read all this before, and quoted sources, that verify what Landis says. Syria has conducted a ruthless crackdown against "Jihadists" -- but none of that matters to Bush's war cabal. As Patrick Lang wrote here in " Say it isn't so... Please.:
Hey folks, here we go. This guy is nobody in Syria but the Neocon, Jacobin crowd are pushing him as a neo-Lincolnesque figure. And what may become Bush's choices to take over Syria? As Patrick Lang wrote here in "The End of Ghazi Kanaan":
Why is he gone? Smart money has always been wagered that Rafik Hariri's assassination was the result of a cabal among Lebanese and Syrian security officials who feared Hariri's return to power by election, this time as a "reform" candidate with the full backing of the Bush Administration and, of course, of Chirac's France. In previous iterations of Hariri as PM, Rafik was not a "reform" figure. The circumstances in which downtown Beirut was re-built under Hariri's supervision by the company "Solidere" would not bear close inspection. A lot of money was made by Rafik and his associates in this and other business enterprises. > Was it Bush's endorsement that doomed him? Could be.
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