Issue:CNN.com - Bush: Syria must not interfere in Lebanon - Jun 10, 2005: "Bush: Syria must not interfere in Lebanon"

Specific:A senior State Department official told CNN that the United States has received what it believes are credible reports that Syria has drawn up a "hit list" of Lebanese political figures targeted for assassination in an effort to regain control of the country.

Comment:What flashes in my mind is reaction of a mindset that doesn't make mistakes. This smacks of picking a fight. A line in the sand - again.

Given the offensive that took heavy losses on the Iraq/Syrian border last month, combined with rumors that any WMD were moved to Syria before the war, how much more of a reason would the administration need?

I'm all in favor of homeland security and fighting terrorism.
With our relations with Iraq, Iran and Korea in militarily sensitive states, what is the President to do if the Syrians tell him to go blow it out his ass?

How is he to follow through?
How "credible" is "credible reports" from the same administration that sold us a war on WMD as an imminent threat?

With a genocide taking place in Africa, which is allegedly an important piece in the President's foreign policy - how could he justify another war that would not benefit Africa or stop the genocide?

Isn't one of the charges against Saddam, that he killed thousands?
Isn't a genocide more serious than the tragic and unecessary deaths of those thousands of Iraqi's?

Not in the President book apparently.