General Wesley Clark saying plans to attack Syria were hatched within weeks of 9/11/01

[DirkGently]

28. Of course it has something do with it. That's obvious.

I'm sorry, but you'd have to be stupid to claim that the fact American power brokers wanting an invasion of Syria since before 9/11 is irrelevant to the present situation.

Once again, it's not all about Obama and whether or not he "is" Bush.

WE have wanted to interfere in Syria for a long time, for strategic reasons. It is impossible to sever those motivations from the various voices pushing for invasion now.

There is no possible way the push to attack Syria now is wholly unrelated to the desire to attack Syria then. Plenty of the same players, foreign and domestic, are still around, and their motives haven't changed.

The fact Obama is President does not impart a magical dose of good faith into American foreign policy. For one, he's not running it all, and for another, he's now subject to the same pressures and politics as those before him.

You can argue the chemical weapons "punishment bombing" theory is valid, if you want, but you can't straight-facedly claim it's the only possible motivation now that Obama is President.