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Broadening the War (before the elelction)
White House to impose sanctions on Syria
(The Associated Press, May 10, 2004)
President Bush will order economic sanctions against Syria this week for supporting terrorism and not doing enough to prevent militant fighters from entering neighboring Iraq, congressional and administration sources said Monday. The sanctions, which the White House will impose as early as Tuesday, are being ordered because the administration believes Syria has aggravated tensions in the Middle East by supporting militant groups. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa spoke of a "unanimous Arab decision" to condemn the sanctions, which would be reflected in a final resolution from a meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers under way in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Sharaa said U.S. allegations that his country is not cooperating in the fight against terrorism are unfounded since his country has agreed with other Arab countries on the need to combat terrorists. The United States is ordering the sanctions "because they will not fight terror and they won’t join us in fighting terror," Bush said in an interview last week... "We've asked them to do some things and they haven’t responded," Bush said. "And Congress passed a law saying that if Syria will not join — for example, booting out a Hezbollah office out of Damascus — that the president has the right to put sanctions on."

******Seems to me that Little Bush and his neocon handlers are attempting to expand the Theater of War before the election - just in case Little Bush loses (uh huh) - because if we are "engaged", as we are now in Iraq, the ability and "desire" to "cut and run" would not be there - therefore, if engaged before a Federal regime change took place here in January 2005, the table would have been set for the neocons to fund their military-industrial backers far into the future. Fait accompli. *******

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 8:02 AM