From Consortium News (Robert Parry, "Bush wants wider war"}:
"George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as an opportunity to expand the conflict into Syria and possibly achieve a long-sought 'regime change' in Damascus, but Israel’s leadership balked at the scheme, according to Israeli sources.
"One Israeli source said Bush’s interest in spreading the war to Syria was considered 'nuts' by some senior Israeli officials, although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has generally shared Bush’s hard-line strategy against Islamic militants."
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