One of my commenters, who goes by a pseudonym for obvious reasons, is suggesting that the perfidious Jews are the actual perpetrators of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Oddly enough, that's exactly what a lot of crazy Arab Jew-killers are saying. On the topic of the Mehlis Report:
At a Saturday news conference in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Riyad Dawoodi also condemned the report as politically biased, based upon “presumptions and allegations,” but “no proof.”Is this moron actually claiming that 30 years of Syria's occupation of Lebanon are irrelevant to the question of their knowledge of such a massive plot? This wasn't a fucking pipe bomb planted by an unemployed cabbie, you know. This was a major operation that killed a dozen or more people and left a crater in the middle of the street.
“There’s a presumption taken by the (UN) commission that the very presence of Syrian troops and the Syrian security organs in Lebanon is something which should imply so and so and so,” he said. “You cannot put any weight on the idea (that) because you are present in Lebanon, everything happening in Lebanon ... should be done according to your knowledge and you know about it.”
The foreign minister continued: “The report has a conclusion that this operation, the assassination of late Prime Minister Hariri, cannot be done without a means, a very sophisticated means which belongs to a highly equipped security organ. And you just look around you, who is very, very well equipped?”And the Syrians don't have "highly equipped security organs"? What crap. Syria is a police state and a major sponsor of terrorist organizations. I think they've probably got sufficient experience and knowledge to pull off the odd episode of mass murder.
While Dawoodi did not elaborate, the statement reflected suspicions within the region that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, may have organized the assassination in order to destabilize both Lebanon and Syria and create the conditions for US military actions against the Damascus regime.
But what's most interesting to me is the protestations from the anti-war/pro-terrorist element in our own country that the Mehlis Report is going to be used to threaten Bashar al-Assad and his Ba'athist government. What demo are these mindless shitheads trying to appeal to with that argument? Mehlis is a German investigator with the United Nations ---two factors that become qualifications for integrity and anti-American wonderfulness under normal circumstances, but not here? Why?
I haven't yet read the Mehlis Report, but why should I be concerned if the UN and France are behind its conclusions? Isn't that The Standard, comrades? Aren't they the imprimatur that makes resolutions stick?
Let this investigation draw the Europeans into finally contributing to the success of the War for Iraq by demanding that the Syrians stop stirring things up next door. Let's have sanctions and make the Syria Accountability Act mean something after all. Let's demand justice for Lebanon, too. They are, after all, the home of the Protest Babe ---and that is not to be dismissed.