Bush's Executive Order Puts U.S. on Escalation Path with Syria and Iran

Kucinich Blasts Bush Executive Order on Lebanon
August 4, 2007 (LPAC)--An executive order that President Bush issued on Thursday holds that anyone deemed to be undermining "Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions..." constitutes "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
The order, which freezes the assets of any person determined to be such a threat, is aimed at Syria, which the Bush Administration claims is trying to retake control of Lebanon.Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rightly charged, yesterday, that the order is "reckless and dangerous" and "would further hurt the United States' standing in the world." Kucinich noted that the French are trying to organize a national unity government in Lebanon, and that Syria is on record supporting that effort.
"The Bush Administration is trying to block national unity and continue with its strategy to destabilize the region by targeting Syria and Iran, instead of seeking a diplomatic resolution. The administration is using the same rhetoric and political posturing that led to the unjustified war against Iraq" and is "putting the United States on a path of escalation with both Syria and Iran," he said.