Bush and Cheney Wanted to Invade Syria

Not content with debacles in both Afghanistan and Iraq, new revelations by former Prime Minister Tony Blair confirm that the Chimperator Bush and Emperor Palpatine Cheney wanted to spread the war to Syria as well. How Obama can continue to give a pass to these war mongers - who have needlessly bankrupted the USA with their perpetual war model - is dumbfounding. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and with Bush and Cheney escaping all accountability for the squandered lives and wasted trillions of dollars the stage is clearly set for a repeat of the Middle East disaster in the future. Personally, I believe BOTH Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes and suffer the consequences. Of the two, I continue to put the majority of the blame on Cheney who led the brainless Bush down the primrose path. War crimes charges would be the best method to prevent future needless wars and deliberate flouting of the Geneva Conventions. It might also help improve the USA's batter moral standing with the rest of the world. Here are highlights from the National:
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Syria always feared that the White House of George W Bush and Dick Cheney would invade Damascus once it had dispatched with Baghdad in 2003 and, in his newly released memoirs, the former British prime minister Tony Blair confirmed those fears were well founded.
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Describing the former US vice president as an advocate of “hard, hard power”, Mr Blair said Damascus was next on Mr Cheney’s hit list. “He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it – Hizbollah, Hamas, etc,” Mr Blair wrote in his autobiography, A Journey. “In other words, he thought the whole world had to be made anew, and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency.”
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Syria’s correct assumption that powerful US forces wanted to attack it had profound implications, domestically and in Iraq. Although no friend of Saddam Hussein, Damascus had every reason to want the American occupation to fail and, therefore, no incentive to stop Islamist militants crossing the border to fight US troops.
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Faced with this very real US threat, the Syrian authorities also moved to quash growing domestic dissent, arresting and jailing dozens of pro-democracy activists. That crackdown continues to this day.