Bush Could Usher In A Very Dangerous New Year

By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted December 26, 2006.

Intelligence sources say President Bush -- along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair -- are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up.

   The first two or three months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to "double-down" his gamble in Iraq by joining with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair to strike at Syria and Iran, intelligence sources say.

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Baath Party To Retaliate If Hussein Executed

    I think that it was just yesterday that I made the statement that if Hussein is executed that there would be some retaliation for it.

    Well now! Saddam Hussein's Baath Party threatened to retaliate today (WED) saying that they would go after U.S. interest in other places.

    Here is a piece of the statement:

    "Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr. President and his comrades.                                         "The Baath and the resistance are determined to retaliate, with all means and everywhere, to harm America and its interests if it commits this crime," the statement added, referring to Baath fighters as "the resistance."                  "The American administration will be held responsible for any harm inflicted on the president because the United States is the decision-maker (in Iraq) and not the puppet Iraqi government."   BY SHAFIKA MATTAR, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 27,2006    

   

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