Re: "...And the United States will continue to make it clear to Syria, and work with other nations to make it clear to Syria, that their behavior is unacceptable if we want peace in the Middle East."...from speech by President George W. Bush
This is all meaningless Orwellian "doublespeak"; spoken by the world's #1 Master of Lies.
If Bush was so concerned about terror in any way, shape, or form, then why, immediately following the events of 9/11, did Bush make a speech in which he declared Syria to be one of the U.S.'s primary "Allies in the War Against Terror".
Even further; why did Bush never once mention Israel as an American ally?
Worse still: Exactly one week after 9/11, with Bush looking on, Colin Powell publicly stated that "Attacks by "Palestinians" against Israelis are not terror...they are "legitimate acts of resistance to Zionist Occupation"
Our military and CIA have been sending kidnapped terror suspects, as well as captured "enemy combatants", to Syria to be tortured ever since 9/11.
Allied with every terrorist group on the planet, Syria has actively engaged in every act defined as terror by the U.S. State Dept., yet Bush & company never once seemed to notice.
This so-called "special rendition" is the lie our officials stand on and behind, in order to face cameras and state "We do not torture people...the U.S. does not torture people"...spoken once again by former CIA director George Tenet just this week.
I'll personally go one better than Bush...
Here's my offer to Syria:
We don't really care about any other nations intervening for us...your behavior is unacceptable. Period. And we also don't care whether or not there is ever to be any so called "Middle East Peace" resulting either before, during, or after, we incinerate the outdoor latrine we call Syria!