Bush's John McCain October Suprise? US Attacks Targets Inside Syria

Could this be George Bush's gift to John McCain just one week before Americans go to the polls in one of the most important elections in the history of the world?

From Reuters:

Syria accused the United States on Monday of committing a "terrible crime" in killing eight civilians during a helicopter attack on a Syrian farm near the border with Iraq.

Syria has said four U.S. helicopters attacked the al-Sukkari farm in the Albou Kamal area in eastern Syria on Sunday and that U.S. soldiers stormed a building in the area.


The United States, which accuses Syria of failing to stem the flow of al Qaeda fighters and other insurgents into Iraq to attack U.S. forces, has neither confirmed nor denied the incident.

"This is an outrageous raid which is against international law. It is a terrible crime. I don't know the political meaning of it. We are expecting clarifications from the Americans," Syrian Ambassador to London Sami al-Khiyami told Reuters.

The US has complained for many years that the Damascus Government had not done enough to prevent foreign fighters who heavily traffic the border are between Iraq and Syria.

But why would the Pentagon act now? No doubt the operation involving US helicopters and American special forces soldiers, would have been given the go ahead by President Bush, given the sensitive nature of crossing into a sovereign nation proper.

Why send shock waves across the middle east and around the world with an operation that clearly violates Syrian territory to go after what appears to be a small band of either traffickers of foreigners into Iraq, or as some Arab media says was civilian targets?

Why did something like this not happen much earlier, when it was clear that fighters have been using this area to pour into Iraq for many, many years?

Either way this smells fishy. Given that many people consider Republican Presidential candidate John McCain the more capable candidate on issues of national security and foreign policy, the operation in Syria, though low key would no doubt shore up doubts in voters minds over the ability of the relatively less experienced Barack Obama to deal with such a crisis.

The McCain camp has even released a plethora of TV ads in an attempt to throw up these doubts in voters minds as they head for the ballot box November 4.



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