White House Liars on the Defensive by Gary Leupp

Already U.S. forces have clashed with Syrians within Syria. The U.S. accuses Syria of actively abetting the influx of "foreign" (non-Iraqi Arab) jihadi fighters into Iraq. The best U.S. intelligence estimates indicate that only 4 to 7% of the anti-occupation fighters in Iraq are non-Iraqi, but the neocon reality creators teach us that al-Qaeda-linked al-Zarqawi and his terrorists (who were they not facing our brave troops in Iraq would be slaughtering our innocents in New York) are the Syria-backed backbone of the insurgency. So, they can say, it's totally fair to engage in hot pursuit actions, in self-defense, and to wipe out jihadi enclaves, and put pressure on Damascus. And they've been assembling a whole array of other charges to justify "regime change" in Syria. Bashar Assad, they'll say, arranged the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister!