Last year Senator Joe Lieberman (R-Tel Aviv) started beating the war drum against Iran.

While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger war is emerging. On one side are extremists and terrorists led and sponsored by Iran, on the other moderates and democrats supported by the United States. … This bloodshed, moreover, is not the inevitable product of ancient hatreds. It is the predictable consequence of a failure to ensure basic security and, equally important, of a conscious strategy by al-Qaeda and Iran, which have systematically aimed to undermine Iraq's fragile political center. … Radical Islamist terrorist groups, both Sunni and Shiite, would reap victories simultaneously symbolic and tangible, as Iraq became a safe haven in which to train and strengthen their foot soldiers and Iran's terrorist agents.

Well, one would naturally wonder why Whining Joe is agitating for a third war when we can’t handle what we have on our plate right now. We get all the news from Iraq, and it’s all bad, if you ignore the MNF-I propaganda abut finding 217 weapons with Iranian markings in Iraq.

Also last year, Glenn Greenwald pointed out that this certainly wasn’t the reason for Senator Lieberman’s call to war:

Initially, it must be emphasized that whatever his reason is, it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the sentiments expressed by Israel's newest cabinet minister, Avigdor Lieberman (whose duties include strategic affairs and Iran) when he visited the U.S. earlier this month and gave an interview to The New York Times:

“Our first task is to convince Western countries to adopt a tough approach to the Iranian problem,” which he called “the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.” [Minister] Lieberman insisted that negotiations with Iran were worthless: “The dialogue with Iran will be a 100-percent failure, just like it was with North Korea.””

And it certainly wasn’t this:

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday compared Iran's nuclear ambitions and threats against Israel with the policies of Nazi Germany and criticized world leaders who maintain relations with Iran's president. . . .

Israel has identified Iran as the greatest threat to the Jewish state. Israel's concerns have heightened since the election of Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frequently calls for the destruction of Israel and has questioned whether the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews took place.

"We hear echoes of those very voices that started to spread across the world in the 1930s," Olmert said in his speech at the Yad Vashem memorial.

Senator Joe Lieberman succeeded in getting us onto a war footing against Iran. Shamefully, the vote was almost unanimous.

Now the Secretary of Vengeance (h/t Bill in Portland) has received new instructions from Bibi Netanyahu: The enemy is Syria.

The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq--but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda's road to Iraq through Damascus.

Thanks to Gen. David Petraeus's new counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, and the strength and skill of the American soldiers fighting there, al Qaeda in Iraq is now being routed from its former strongholds in Anbar and Diyala provinces.
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Recently declassified American intelligence reveals just how much al Qaeda in Iraq is dependent for its survival on the support it receives from the broader, global al Qaeda network, and how most of that support flows into Iraq through one country--Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq is sustained by a transnational network of facilitators and human smugglers, who replenish its supply of suicide bombers--approximately 60 to 80 Islamist extremists, recruited every month from across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and sent to meet their al Qaeda handlers in Syria, from where they are taken to Iraq to blow themselves up to kill countless others.

That’s right. The attack against Iran now being in the bag, it’s time to start agitating against Syria. Those evil Syrians are threatening our glorious victory in Iraq! Approximately 60 to 80 foreign fighters a month are all that’s stopping us from finding the ponies WMDs!

Before al Qaeda's foreign fighters can make their way across the Syrian border into Iraq, however, they must first reach Syria--and the overwhelming majority does so, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, by flying into Damascus International Airport, making the airport the central hub of al Qaeda travel in the Middle East, and the most vulnerable chokepoint in al Qaeda's war against Iraq and the U.S. in Iraq.

We can look forward confidently to GEN Petraeus, LTG Ray Odierno, MG Rick Lynch, and BG Kevin Bergner now rotating daily accusations against Syria, warning that something must be done to stop the suicide bombers.

The very first thing in Syria we must bomb is Damascus Airport. Only after we have destroyed that airport (and perhaps the surrounding 20 or 30 square miles, in case they have some camouflaged runways we don’t know about,) can we win in Iraq!

Prediction: after the Likud Party has engineered the destruction of Iran and Syria they will start moaning about those foreign fighters again, and specifically mentioning that more than half of them are Saudis.