Sabba – Just a quick reminder here which is rarely mentioned, if ever: the United States Of America have declared war on Syria on December 12, 2003 with the very official Syria Accountability Act. The pretext for the act was to end the Syrian presence in Lebanon – 2 years before the assassination of Rafik Hariri in 2005- but the reason was to kick off a regime change in Damascus similar to the one that was effected in neighboring Iraq.