Posted 6 years, 11 months ago in the early morning by moreno
Call me crazy but I’m just not interested in reading testimony by children in which they graphically describe being molested… nor am I interested in watching the live re-enactment on the E! channel. Strange. I guess I’ve got a lot of growing to do.
Has anyone confirmed that Syria was behind former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri’s assasination? As far as I know no one has claimed responsibility for the assasination. Now humor me for a second…
Does anyone rememeber that article written by Seymour Hirsch for The New Yorker in which he reports receiving information from “credible sources” about covert US operations in the Middle East. According to Hirsch ( or rather, according to my memory from reading the article in January) there are US covert agents in the Middle East fulfilling objectives that meet “interests” of the United States. The objectives of these agents are not known to the CIA or FBI, nor is there presence even known. To poorly sum up, the future Bush Wars are to be conducted via such covert operations as opposed to the old-fashioned method of bombing civilians in broad daylight from thousands of miles away. The Bush Administration learned a lesson from going into war despite international protest: its a pain in the ass. No one wants to hear the mother of some soldier whining on the local news about how her son was killed in Iraq…thats a buzzkill. A better way is to have the work done by spies of American and Arab descent, with less military casualties and, more importantly, less bad press. By manipulating public sentiment in these volatile areas, more can be achieved than with a big spectacle involving invasion and occupation. Surely American intelligance was able to conclude that just the simple assasination of one individual could trigger a nationwide protest and move the country towards “democracy”, aka “American interests”.
Which brings me to my first point. Well, not the part about Michael Jackson’s penis, but I guess my second point: Syria. No one has claimed responsibility for this assasination in Lebanon, but fingers (including the withered and limp finger of Uncle Sam) are pointed straight at Syria. “Syria needs to get out of Lebanon! Syria has gone too far this time! Lebanon wants Democracy, not Occupation!” Right. So what has been the outcome of this assasination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister? Syria is withdrawing its troops. Is Syria considered an “Enemy” of America” or a “Harborer of terrorists?” It sure is. So look at that, a victory for America, and America didn’t even have to intervene….or did we? It’s like Lennon said: The responsible party is the one that benefits from the action. Its just like Risk; slowly take away your enemy’s territory until they’re left powerless.
“The world is speaking with one voice when it comes to making sure that democracy has a chance to flourish in Lebanon and throughout the greater Middle East,” he said. “Freedom is on the march. It’s a profound period of time.
“So I look forward to continuing to work with friends and allies to advance freedom — not America’s freedom, but universal freedom, freedom granted by a Higher Being,” he added.”
thats an actual Bush quote (in case the obligatory religious rhetoric wasn’t enough of an indication). Now change the word “Lebanon” to “Iraq” and you’ve got a perfectly good answer from a 2004 news conference. its that easy!!
Anyway, to summarize for those of you who only read the last paragraph of my posts, I believe that there might be more to this assassination in Lebanon. Now that I have stated this theory, expect this to be my last post as I will most likely be found dead in an alley within the next few days. the press will blame drugs and depression, but you my dear reader will know who really was to blame…..Syria!!
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That was my first thought on the matter too. They were instantly blaming Syria even though it more than likely had nothing to do with the Syrian government; it certainly wasn’t in their interest to kill the ex-prime minister that all the Lebanese seem to love. I think you can learn a lot by asking: “who benefits?” and it clearly wasn’t the Syrians.
You ever see The Quiet American? I wouldn’t put it past em.
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I just got the title of this post, just now.
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i’m no george w. fan but i think it’s just as premature to think there’s a big kabal of us interests behind hariri’s assasination as it perhaps was to blame the syrians. the syrians have long had a pompous belief that they could do no wrong in lebanon due to one compelling fact: they did stablize the nation after the lebanese civil war. they simply never left. the government that recently resigned was a hair’s breath away from being a puppet government for bashar assad and hariri was fairly detested by the syrian government. it’s not hard to believe they had something to do with the assasination if you take into account that they likely simply didn’t believe they backlash that would be created due to their longstanding defacto control over their eastern neighbor
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what’s the purpose of U.S. influence or intervention or whatever? I am too ignorant on most middle eastern countries to know of any motivation on the part of the U.S. for an intervention other than say oil…like abogado stated…”who benefits?” yes, I know that stating “oil” as the only purpose for U.S. involvement in the middle east is oversimplification of U.S. motives but profit always plays a role in whatever military or covert action that takes place.
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so it was all a setup by internal affairs.
i mean, did you see the way emile was looking at mindy.
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One source says:
Syria’s main interest, apart from regime survival, is to maintain its enormous influence in Lebanon. This is a financial as well as strategic issue: The Syrians make a load of money doing business in Lebanon, and they don’t want to be replaced by foreign businessmen. To our minds, this might have been a significant factor in the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The universal suspicion is that the Syrians were behind the killing: They feared that al-Hariri, whose wealth made him one of the most powerful men in the nation, was trying to pry Lebanon loose from Syrian control. The thinking is that the Syrians took him out, possibly using the Iranian-controlled Hezbollah. We regard this as fairly sound thinking.
http://www.stratfor.com
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Daddy had the wall falling down, now Junior is looking for his own historic freedom and democracy shtick.