'If you weren't skeptical about intervention in Syria before, this should make you think twice'

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3. Yes, it's the same group urging the same neocon plan.

One precedent was Cheney's Energy Task Force that was already carving up Iran before we invaded Iraq.

Now, they want to get rid of Syria, and planning for that goes back to the PNAC documents, including the 1997 "Clean Break" manifesto, part of the New Israel Project written for then PM Benjamin Netanyahu by a group of American neocons,including Doug Feith, the Wurmsers,and Richard Perle who went on to head up the Pentagon unit in charge of cooked intelligence for the Iraq invasion. The Clean Break document called for grand strategy of serial regime changes starting in Iraq, followed by Syria and Lebanon, and finally Iran: http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm

Then, there is the religious war against the Shi'ia, a 1,200 year old Jihad, spreading across MENA, financed by Saudi oil revenues . . . there's a whole Perfect Storm of influences at work pushing the US into war in Syria.