Before Scooter was wrist-slapped and "forced" to leave his job as Cheney’s top henchman, Condi Rice, on a walking tour of Alabama with fellow war criminal British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, promised "a shared effort to promote democracy worldwide," in other words bomb countries and kill babies. Rice said the "international community must find a way to hold Syrian authorities accountable for the death of a leading Lebanese reformer." Of course, for the Bushcons don’t do "international community" and in fact the world consists of two radical Manichean polarities—those who are with the Bushcons and those who are not. Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "the president doesn’t take any of his options off the table and that I will not say anything that constrains his authority as commander in chief." Obviously, not even the Constitution—prohibiting the president from attacking defenseless countries without first securing a declaration of war from Congress—stands in the way.

"The statement that should scare all Americans (and the world) is the assurance by Secretary Rice that the President needs no additional authority from Congress to attack Syria," writes Ron Paul of Texas. "She argues that authority already has been granted by the resolutions on 9/11 and Iraq. This is not true, but if Congress remains passive to the powers assumed by the executive branch it won’t matter. As the war spreads, the only role for Congress will be to provide funding lest they be criticized for not supporting the troops. In the meantime, the Constitution and our liberties here at home will be further eroded as more Americans die."

No doubt the Bush neocons are blessing their lucky stars for the foolishly inopportune comments of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who believes Israel should be wiped off the map. "Evil men who want to use horrendous weapons against us are working in deadly earnest to gain them. And we are working urgently to keep weapons of mass murder out of the hands of the fanatics," Bush declared the other day. For Bush and the Straussian neocons, "us" includes Israel, essentially the 51st state.

Here we go again.

Bush is simply recycling the threadbare lies and fabrications used against Iraq—lies and fabrications that are at the heart of the so-called Plame Affair but were glossed over—and Bush will use likewise lies against Syria and down the road Iran. Congress has no choice but to go along. And the American people have no choice but to sit back and watch the horror unfold on Fox News.

As spectators, our only choice is to wave little plastic flags made in China and support "our troops" who are in fact mass murderers. If you do otherwise you are of course with Assad and Ahmadinejad and al-Qaeda.