Syria:
Another War Based on Lies. SAY NO TO OBAMA’S WAR!
Global Research, September 09, 2013
As the US Congress debates on a potential American
military intervention in Syria, Global Research brings you a selection of
articles on the latest developments pertaining to the war on Syria and the
blatant lies fueling the debate on a so-called “humanitarian intervention”.
Will the world be dragged into another war based on lies
and for which innocent people will pay with their lives?
We hope that by sharing these important articles, we will
contribute to undermining the process of media disinformation, which supports
this criminal undertaking.
Without war propaganda which consists manipulating public
opinion, Obama’s military agenda would fall flat. He would not have a leg to
stand on. The mainstream media bears a heavy burden of responsibility in
concealing the forbidden truth and endorsing another US sponsored war.
Our objective is to reverse the tide of war and avoid
another profit driven bloodshed.
You will find a short excerpt for each article we have
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Global Research Editors, September 9, 2013 (edited
September 11, 2013)
SELECTED ARTICLES
Americans have been repeatedly told that Al Qaeda under
the helm of the late Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Formulated in the wake of the tragic events of september
11, 2001, the U.S. and its allies launched a “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT)
directed against the numerous “jihadist” Al Qaeda affiliated terror formations
in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia. The first stage
of the “Global War on Terrorism” was the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan.
...
But
somehow, in the last few months, this “Al Qaeda paradigm” has shifted. The
American public has become increasingly skeptical regarding the validity of the
“Global War on Terrorism”
In
recent months, with the unfolding events in Syria, something rather unusual has
occurred, which has had a profound impact on the public’s perception and
understanding of Obama’s “Global War on Terrorism”.
The
US government is actively and openly supporting Syria’s Al Nusrah, the main
fighting force affiliated to al Qaeda, largely composed of foreign mercenaries.
Tax
dollars are relentlessly channeled to the “rebels”. In turn, Secretary of State
John Kerry meets with rebel commanders who oversee the Al Qaeda affiliated
entity.
According
to the French newspaper Le
Figaro, two brigades of anti-government fighters that were trained
by the CIA, Israelis, Saudis, and Jordanians crossed from the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan into Syria to launch an assault, respectively on August 17 and 19,
2013. The US must have invested quite a lot in training both anti-government
brigades. If true, some may argue that their defeat prompted the chemical
weapons attack in Damascus as a contingency plan to fall back on.
However,
how they came by chemical weapons is another issue, but many trails lead to
Saudi Arabia. According to the British Independent, it was Saudi Prince Bandar “that
first alerted Western allies to the alleged use of sarin gas by the Syrian
regime in February 2013.” Turkey would apprehend Syrian militants in its
territory with sarin gas, which these terrorists planned on using inside Syria.
On July 22 the insurgents would also overrun Al-Assal and kill all the
witnesses as part of a cover-up.
A
report by Yahya Ababneh, which was contributed to by Dale Gavlak, has collected the testimonies of witnesses who
say that “certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence
chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the gas
attack.”
There is proof the footage of the alleged chemical attack
in Syria was fabricated, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St.
James Monastery in Qara, Syria, told RT. She says she is about to submit her
findings to the UN.
‘I
have carefully studied the footage, and I will present a written analysis on it
a bit later. I maintain that the whole affair was a frame-up. It had been
staged and prepared in advance with the goal of framing the Syrian government
as the perpetrator.”
President
Barack Obama in an address to the Nation on Tuesday September 10 urged
Americans to support a “potential strike on Syria” while stating that “a
diplomatic effort to get Syrian President Bashar al-Assad” to turn over control
of the country’s chemical weapons” is underway.
Meanwhile,
a resolution in the US Congress is on hold.
Obama
said that “the US must be prepared to strike Syria to deter “other tyrants”
from using weapons of mass destruction”.
Who
are these other tyrants? The greatest stockpiles of WMD are in possession of
the USA.
The
Address is replete with lies and fabrications.
“Obama
is far worse than George W. Bush”
According
to Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich, the US corporate media is intimately tied into the
interests of the US military industrial complex. “They are working together”
Washington
is catering to the lobby groups and ignoring the people.
Obama
is a proxy.
I
think there’s a certain amount of disrespect for the United Nations and for
mechanisms that are set up by consensus in the Security Council. That is to
regret. Though, I think that the whole world will be interested in hearing all
the inspectors in Syria have found out. I think it will also be interesting for
the world to hear the evidence of the United States. It may be quite
interesting, but of course it is one of the factors and we have more confidence
in impartial international evidence.
The civil war which has raged in Syria for a period
exceeding a two year mark has now entered what will be its decisive phase. This
will determine whether the government headed by Bashar al Assad will prevail or
be dislodged.
It will also determine whether any military action
undertaken by the United States will meet a response of critical counter
measures by Russia; the nature of which could put both nations on to the
dangerous path of a possible confrontation.
It
will finally determine whether the conflict will lead to a full blown regional
war; the denouement of which will reveal the viability of the continued
existence of Syria as a nation state.
The
key to understanding this particular conflict and its significance is to keep
in mind what ultimately lies at its root: the confrontation between the United
States and its old adversary, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The
Obama administration has claimed the government of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad was behind a recent deadly chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of
Damascus, even though there is no evidence linking the attack to the government
forces. The White House is gearing up for military strikes on Syrian targets.
Citing
an August 2012 Los Angeles Times report, Chossudovsky says preparations for “a
false flag chemical weapons attack” in Syria began more than a year ago when
the Pentagon dispatched “small teams of special operations troops” to the Arab
country to destroy its alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
“These
initial US sponsored WMD special team operations had established the likely
scenario of a staged false flag chemical weapons attack.”
US,
NATO and Israeli military planners have laid the groundwork for a
“humanitarian” military involvement in Syria for years, Chossudovsky says.
Julius
Streicher, a German publisher and Nazi propagandist who was hanged at Nuremberg
after being judged complicit in crimes against humanity. All who were sentenced
to death were major German government officials or military leaders. Except for
Streicher. Julius Streicher was a journalist.
Editor
of the vehemently anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Streicher was convicted
of, in the words of the judgment, “incitement to murder and extermination at
the time when Jews in the East were being killed under the most horrible
conditions clearly constitut(ing) ... a crime against humanity.”
The
critical role of propaganda was affirmed at Nuremberg not only by the
prosecution and in the judgment but also in the testimony of the most prominent
Nazi defendant, Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering: “Modern and total war develops,
as I see it, along three lines: the war of weapons on land, at sea and in the
air; economic war, which has become an integral part of every modern war; and,
third, propaganda war, which is also an essential part of this warfare.”
White
House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough went on the Sunday talk shows to drum up
support for what he called a “targeted, limited effort” that will change “the
momentum on the battle field” in Syria. Yet he also acknowledged on CNN that the
evidence that ties Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Aug. 21 attack
outside Damascus that allegedly killed 1,429 people has more to do with a
“common-sense test” rather than “irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt
evidence.”
And
while McDonogh, and his collaborators both in Washington and abroad, claim
their planned assault on Syria is not a repeat of Iraq in terms of scale, it is
clear that in terms of deception it is.
Obama
is going on a whirlwind media blitz this
week in an attempt to sell a very skeptical public on war with Syria.
Yet
the Washington Post notes:
Obama’s
top aide says the administration lacks
“irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence” that
skeptical Americans, including lawmakers who will start voting on military
action this week, are seeking.
A
growing number of polls and studies show that a substantial well-entrenched
majority of Americans are opposed to the current war in Afghanistan , even as
the President and Congress continue to finance and dispatch US troops and
engage in aerial assaults in Pakistan , Yemen and elsewhere.
Across
the world huge majorities oppose Obama’s war: Two thirds of the French and
German public oppose the US bombing Syria , not to mention of the hundreds of
millions of Roman Catholics responding to Pope Francis’s passionate anti-war
message delivered on September 7 to over 100,000 worshipers in St. Peter’s
Square. It is only in Israel a majority of Jewish Israelis support Obama’s push
to war.
If,
as some scholars argue, militarism and ‘national security’ (and the police
state) have become the secular religion of the State, it is clear that the
majority of civil society are ‘non-believers’. The ‘true believers’ of
militarism as the road to empire building are firmly ensconced in Washington’s
political establishment, especially among the powerful lobbies and propaganda
mills known as ‘think tanks’. Militarist beliefs are widely embraced by
strategically-placed officials with deep and long-standing ties to the Israeli
power structure.
Syria
is prelude to attacking Iran. It’s Israel’s prime target. Washington wants
subservient pro-Western governance replacing its sovereign independence.
On
September 3, AIPAC
headlined ”Press Statement on Syrian Resolution,” saying:
“AIPAC
urges Congress to grant the President the authority he has requested to protect
America’s national security interests and dissuade the Syrian regime’s further
use of unconventional weapons.”
...
Obama
wants war. One way or another he intends to launch it. False flags are pretexts
to do so. They’re a longstanding US tradition.
Falsely
blaming Syria for the August 21 suburban Damascus toxic chemical attack is the
latest example. Doing so was a Big Lie. It was an anti-Assad provocation. It
was a classic false flag.
Notable
earlier ones go back to the 19th century. A previous article discussed them.
They’re relevant now. They bear repeating.
In
1845, America lawlessly annexed Texas. It was Mexican territory. President
James Polk deployed US troops.
...
Called
Operation Mongoose, a document titled “Justification for US Military
Intervention in Cuba” explained.
Plans
included assassinating Cuban Americans, manufacturing fake “Communist Cuban
terror” in US cities, shooting down one or more US commercial airliners,
blowing up a US ship in Cuban waters, attacking Guantanamo, and blaming Castro
as reason for war.
Full-scale
war against North Vietnam followed the fake August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin
incident. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Doing so authorized
war without declaring it.
In
October 1983, US forces invaded Grenada. Allegedly it was to rescue American
medical students.
Operation
Urgent Fury’s mission reflected US imperialism, Cold War politics, and
replacing the leftist New Jewel Movement government with a pro-Western one.
In
December 1989, manufactured incidents precipitated America’s Panama invasion.
Former US ally Manuel Noriega was deposed. At issue was forgetting who’s boss.
Operation
Just Cause killed thousands. Crimes of war and against humanity included mass
murder, indiscriminate destruction, extrajudicial assassinations, illegal
weapons use, and arbitrary detentions.
Pro-US
stooge Guillermo Endara replaced Noriega.
Numerous Intelligence Officials
Question Administration’s Claims
Without doubt, intelligence is being manipulated to
justify war against Syria. Here, here, here, here and here.
An
intercept of Syrian military officials discussing the strike was among
low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to an Assad
insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said.
So
while Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that links between the attack
and the Assad government are “undeniable,” U.S. intelligence officials are not so certain that the
suspected chemical attack was carried out on Assad’s orders,or even completely
sure it was carried out by government forces, the officials said.
Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high
confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack
near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are
telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the
Official Story.
MEMORANDUM
FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT:
Is Syria a Trap?
Precedence: IMMEDIATE
We
regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us,
categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most
reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the
chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and
that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief
report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your
advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as
“plausible denial.”
With
independent news reports providing firm evidence that the US sponsored Al Qaeda
rebels (recruited and trained by Allied Special Forces) have chemical weapons
in their possession, this delay does not favor the president’s political
credibility.
Moreover,
there is evidence that the US sponsored rebels used chemical weapons against
civilians. (see image right)
In
providing those chemical weapons to al Qaeda “rebels”, the US-NATO-Israel
alliance is in violation of international law, not to mention their own
anti-terrorist legislation.
Overtly
supporting Al Qaeda has become the “New Normal”.
When
the various pieces of evidence are put together, the picture which emerges is
that of a covert “flag flag operation” carried out by the US sponsored “rebels”
and special forces, intent upon blaming president Bashar Al Assad for killing
his own people. As mentioned above, the naval deployment was decided upon ex ante, before the 21
August chemical Weapons attack.
In
requesting weapons for the Libyan and Syrian rebels which clearly have ties to
terrorist organisations, Senator John McCain is supporting terrorism.
The
United States Code is unequivocal: “providing material support to terrorists”
is a crime:
18
USC § 2339A – Providing material support to terrorists
(a) Offense.—
Whoever provides material support or resources or conceals or disguises the
nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources,
knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in
carrying out, a violation of[numerous sections of this and
other titles], or in preparation for, or in carrying out, the concealment of an
escape from the commission of any such violation, or attempts or conspires to
do such an act, shall be
fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the
death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for
life [...]
Senator
McCain met with terrorists in Libya and Syria, has called for his country to
provide weapons to terrorist groups in Libya and Syria and should therefore be
prosecuted for the assistance he provided them with. There is ample evidence
that the armed groups supported by John McCain have committed horrible
terrorist acts, which resulted in deaths.
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