U.S. Calls Raid a Warning to Syria

By Ann Scott Tyson and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post staff writers Tuesday, October 28, 2008

U.S. troops in helicopters flew four miles into Syrian territory over the weekend to target the leader of a network that channels foreign fighters from Syria into Iraq, killing or wounding him and shooting dead several armed men, U.S. officials said Monday.

U.S. officials have long complained that the Syrian government has allowed Arab fighters to pass through the country to enter Iraq, but since last year, top military leaders have praised Syrian efforts to curb the flow. In recent months, officials have estimated that as few as 20 fighters a month have been crossing into Iraq, down from more than a hundred a month in 2006.

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Punditman had this story yesterday. Today the Washington Post continues to quote unnamed sources to justify the raid. Is Bush trying to escalate the already out of control violence in the Mideast. Does this help McCain. Peacenik hopes a war crimes tribunal will be convened on November 5th.

Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd

Chris Floyd, author of the blog and the book Empire Burlesque, discusses some antiwar activists’ misplaced admiration for Adm. Fallon, his characterization of the Iranian people as “ants” to be “crushed,” the de-facto replacement of U.S. ambassadors by admirals and generals, the shallowness of the American media, the obvious and yet somehow unpopular fact that foreigners are people, the ongoing American atrocity in Somalia and the Democrats’ bankrupt “liberal interventionism.”

Chris Floyd is an award-winning American journalist, and author of the book, Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Regime.

Listen to the interview here -- courtesy of Antiwar.com.

punditman says...Chris Floyd tells it like it is. Will Americans ever wake up?

Nuking Iran: The Republican Agenda?

punditman says:
The Bush doctrine of preventive conventional war is bad enough because it mocks international law and norms of behaviour built up over centuries; but preventive nuclear war is a crime of cosmic proportions that mocks civilization itself. The fact that these crazy Republicans are even acknowledging it as an option against Iran means that they are unstable and unfit to govern. Thankfully, one lone candidate, Senator Ron Paul is talking some sanity to the American people. Hopefully he has some spillover effect in couch-potato land.

For further evidence of what is being planned, read this:
If You Think Bush Is Evil Now, Wait Until He Nukes Iran

And this:
US Foments Unrest and Spurns Overtures: Countdown to War on Iran

Let this be yet another wake-up call, folks.