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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Buchanan on why neocons support Syria strike: ‘Syria is the backdoor to war with Iran’ On Andrea Tantaros’ radio show on Friday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan warned against taking military action in Syria, especially without knowing a lot of the facts on the ground. “There is a natural healthy reluctance to launch a new war based on an incident, which appears to be the use of some kind of chemical weapon,” Buchanan said. “We don’t know who ordered it. We don’t know how it was delivered. We don’t know whether it was chlorine or serine. We have no idea or we have not gotten proof as far as I’ve seen that [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad ordered this done. And the idea that we would launch unilaterally a war against a country that has not attacked us or threatened us without the authorization of the Congress, which has the power to declare war — it seems to me is an act of almost insanity.” Watch: Video Buchanan, author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” explained what he thought could be the reasoning for the rush to attack the Syrian regime by neoconservatives, which he called “the backdoor to war with Iran.” “The neocons realize that if they can get us to attack Syria and there’s a real possibility that there will be retaliatory attacks on Americans or attacks on Israel which will then cause the Israelis or the Americans to attack Syria’s allies in Iran — Syria is the backdoor to war with Iran,” Buchanan said. “That’s been the objective of the neocons down the road all along. With the new Iranian government, which looks like it is anxious to negotiate with the Americans for the simple reason it is really hurting under the sanctions and the new president, [Hassan] Rouhani was elected basically to lift the sanctions and bring Iran back into the community of nations and to establish a working relationship with the United States. I believe the real hidden motive here is to get the United States into Syria, into making war and this war will naturally spread, they feel, and we will end up with a war on Iran.” He went on to say it was possible the chemical weapons attacks were a “false flag” operation, with the desire to draw the United States into the Syrian civil war because it would make little sense for Assad to draw the United States into a war he was winning. Buchanan added the urgency of the administration to pull the trigger on strikes was a product of that being the case and if it were put to a vote of Congress, authorization to strike Syria could go by the wayside as it did in the British Parliament earlier this week. “Now why is President Obama moving now?” Buchanan said. “There are two reasons. One, he has egg all over his face having foolishly run around and said ‘my red line will not be crossed and any chemical weapons used and I will act.’ He said that he doesn’t have the authority to attack a foreign country without the approval of Congress, but he went ahead and did it and they wanted to back out of it. Now you have got another incident here and people are saying, ‘Does Obama have the guts to step up by his word to not let them cross the red line?’” “Second, I do think Obama is a man of the left and this idea that it’s not when American vital interest are threatened, but somehow their morality is upset, is that is when they order Americans to go to war,” he continued. “But there is no vital American interest in this war. There is no certitude in what happened here. And there is no authorization on the part of Congress. There is no declaration of war. If the president moves forward on this, I think he at least risks the utter ruination of his presidency.” Tantaros closed the interview by asking Buchanan who would win a steel-cage match between he and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. Buchanan reminded Tantaros he was friends with Kristol’s father, Irving Kristol and that he had been a friend of his until they had a falling out over the first Gulf war during the George H.W. Bush presidency and the expansion of NATO. But, he added, he had been a boxer in his school years, implying he could win that match. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5.
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b. With the new Iranian government, which looks like it is anxious to negotiate with the Americans for the simple reason it is really hurting under the sanctions and the new president, [Hassan] Rouhani was elected basically to lift the sanctions and bring Iran back into the community of nations and to establish a working relationship with the United States. a. Absolutely! Last night after learning that the UK refused to join the US on the illegal war of aggression against Syria, I went to the Haaretz website to check out the Israelis' reaction. The Israelis' responses that I read to the UK breaking news confirmed what PB suggests - they were pissed that Syria might not be attacked by the USA BECAUSE the whole idea was to draw Iran into war. Israelis could care less about Syria and the alleged use of CW's on Syrians - one Israeli in fact remarked the more Syrians killed each other the better it was ( shish!). Israelis want Iran destroyed - that's the end game - and they think that can happen if Iran takes the bait to defend Syria. What I found interesting was that there were hardly any responses from Jews outside of Israel. I suspect they are totally uninformed about the Israeli gov'ts hidden agenda. They probably think - like many Americans and Euros do - that wee Israel is always defending itself from attack, never the one that provokes an attack through devious planning. b. It makes sense that the neocons have their backs against the wall - time is running out for the neocons to destroy, plunder Iran's resources now that a moderate President has been elected in Iran.
Thanks for further confirming izzy's motives (and madness).
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