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Guest Post: Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just A Distraction From All The Scandals?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
Well, isn't that convenient? At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks.
As if on cue, Obama made headlines all over the globe on Thursday by claiming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels "multiple times", and that the U.S. was now ready to do more to assist the rebels. That assistance is reportedly going to include "military support" for the rebels and a no-fly zone over at least part of Syria is being discussed. Without a doubt, these are acts of war, and this conflict is not going to end until Assad has been ousted. But Assad will not go quietly.
And all it would take is for Assad to fire a couple of missiles at Tel Aviv for a huge regional war to erupt in the Middle East. And what happens if Russia or China decides to get involved in the conflict in Syria? Obama is playing with fire, but he has shown again and again that he is willing to do virtually anything if it will benefit him politically.
As far as the Obama administration is concerned, there is no such thing as a coincidence. The timing of this announcement regarding Syria was not an accident. If Obama wanted to use chemical weapons as an excuse to go after Syria he could have done it weeks ago, or he could have waited several more months before taking action. He chose to do it right now for a reason, and hopefully the American people will be able to see right through this.
So exactly what are we going to be doing for the Syrian rebels? Well, we will definitely be arming them and training them. And it is probably reasonable to assume that there will be American "advisers" on the ground inside Syria helping to organize the Syrian resistance. In fact, according to Debka, a large U.S. Marine force has already been deployed to the Jordanian border with Syria.
In addition, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. aircraft may be involved in enforcing a no-fly zone inside Syria...
A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials.
Asked by the White House to develop options for Syria, military planners have said that creating an area to train and equip rebel forces would require keeping Syrian aircraft well away from the Jordanian border.
To do that, the military envisages creating a no-fly zone stretching up to 25 miles into Syria which would be enforced using aircraft flown from Jordanian bases and flying inside the kingdom, according to U.S. officials.
No matter how you slice it, the United States is now in a state of war with Syria. The only question is how "involved" we are going to get.
And several prominent Republicans are already rushing forward to applaud Barack Obama on this latest move. The following comes from a CBS News report...
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who met with the rebels last month and has been a vocal critic of the president's Syria policy said in a joint statement with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: "We appreciate the President's finding that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on several occasions. We also agree with the President that this fact must affect U.S. policy toward Syria. The President's red line has been crossed. U.S. credibility is on the line. Now is not the time to merely take the next incremental step. Now is the time for more decisive actions."
But you know what? Many of these Syrian rebels have actually pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The whole point of the "war on terror" was to supposedly fight al-Qaeda, but now the U.S. military is allied with them.
Why in the world would we want to help the people who are supposed to be our greatest global enemy?...
A Syrian rebel group's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group's influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al Nusra as well.
Lebanese Sheik Omar Bakri, a Salafist who says states must be governed by Muslim religious law, says al-Qaeda has assisted al Nusra for some time.
"They provided them early on with technical, military and financial support , especially when it came to setting up networks of foreign jihadis who were brought into Syria," Bakri says. "There will certainly be greater coordination between the two groups."
This group of jihadists has been responsible for car and suicide bombings all over Syria, and they are the ones that have been doing the heaviest fighting on the front lines...
When the group Jabhat al Nusra first claimed responsibility for car and suicide bombings in Damascus that killed dozens last January, many of Syria’s revolutionaries claimed that the organization was a creation of the Syrian government, designed to discredit those who opposed the regime of President Bashar Assad and to hide the regime’s own brutal tactics.
Nearly a year later, however, Jabhat al Nusra, which U.S. officials believe has links to al Qaida, has become essential to the frontline operations of the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
Not only does the group still conduct suicide bombings that have killed hundreds, but they’ve proved to be critical to the rebels’ military advance. In battle after battle across the country, Nusra and similar groups do the heaviest frontline fighting. Groups who call themselves the Free Syrian Army and report to military councils led by defected Syrian army officers move into the captured territory afterward.
The prominence of Nusra in the rebel cause worries U.S. and other Western officials, who say its operations rely on the same people and tactics that fueled al Qaida in Iraq – an assertion that is borne out by interviews with Nusra members in Syria.
These are no "freedom fighters". In fact, if these guys take over they will be much worse than Assad. These "rebels" recently massacred an entire villages of Christians, and just two days ago they slaughtered a 14-year-old boy for supposedly insulting Mohammed...
The rebels, according to ABC News’ reconstruction of the Syrian groups’ reports, appear to have whipped Qatta. When they brought him back to where they’d taken him, his head was wrapped by a shirt.
The rebels waited for a crowd to gather; Qatta’s parents were among them. Speaking in classical Arabic, they announced that Qatta had committed blasphemy and that anyone else who dared insult the Prophet Mohammed would share his fate. Then, the shirt still wrapped around the boy’s head, the rebels shot him in the mouth and neck.
Is this really who the U.S. government wants to be allies with?
Are we that stupid?
And guess what? According to the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration is considering plans to bring all of the poor "refugees" that are allied with these "rebels" to the United States...
Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and towns.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.
But now we are committed to this conflict thanks to Obama.
There will be no backing down until Assad is gone.
Of course this could create a huge regional war in the Middle East or even eventually lead to World War III, but Obama doesn't seem to care.
For now, Obama is saving his own skin, and that is the most important thing to him.
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It's been obvious from his actions for years that Obama is full on Sunni. Also, his background from Kenya through religous school in Indonesia through his pilgrimage to Pakistan has been Sunni in orientation. So...Islam has been at war with itself since the death of Mohammed and now the US military has been assigned a side in that war, although for many more reasons than Obama's personal orientation.
There are only "war" dividends.
I have been reading articles over at Pravda.ru.
They have a very interesting perspective on this issue. Of course, there is some Rusian chest-thumping, but their take makes a lot of sense, IMO. Of course, the R Federation is not some altruistic outfit, but they do not want a war.
And why is our government gearing up for war with us? Why are more government agencies building their own paramilitary units?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/irs-wont-say-why-agents-are-trai...
What does the NSA say about this? They calling it a Marshall plan yet?
I think that is spelled Martial. As in Martial Law
There fixed that for ya.
What, no piece price for the eavesdropping groping faggot in chief?!
It's time for the people to give up something else...
What could it be...
OK, so we need to go to war to support a group of jihadist goons with clear ties to known terror orgs because they are supposedly rebelling against a Syrian regime they accuse of using chemical weapons against their own people's, despite the fact that the "rebels" have been observed transporting those same chemical weapons multiple times and had them actually seized from them and they have been observed to massacre some of these same Syrian peoples wholesale. Just makes you really want to rally to their standard doesn't it? What a great hill for a patriotic and idealistic young American soldier to die on. Or maybe there are other motives in play???
I thought the second term was supposed to free upa president from having to care about what others say???
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EAST ASIA. Yeah, totally, let's support the torturers and ideo/theological totalitarians, sounds like a great world to live in, but gotta get that oil/gas so the fat retards can go from box to box to make them frns.
If only people realised the depths to which this madness goes.
And concurrently, if they do and still support such action, then fuckem.
Our government needs to be shutdown by the people, it's our duty , this is madness. Maybe we should give Barry a call and say what's up.
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"Help, my country has fallen down and it can't get up!"
+1
"Our government needs to be shutdown by the people, it's our duty , this is madness." -- Crash Overide
At the next election then?
Considering that after it was confirmed by the Brits in early April, the WH scrambled to downplay the whole "red line" talk of the President, as with every single thing this WH has done, it is primarily for political ends. My guess is Barry & Co. had to intervene to stop the flow of news about his administration shitting on the Constitution because any lull about one scandal was seemingly being filled by another so now we have Syria. Are we arming, are we not arming? Are the rebels terrorists or are they freedom fighters? All this will serve to fill the news cycle for a little while. Once the previous scandals have been effectively out of the news for a few days or weeks, one of Barry's policy folks (i.e., spinsters) calls a loyal reproter to draft a story about how Barry has come through the scandals stronger than ever. After a few other of his media sycophants will follow up with the exact same story but with different by-line to give the appearance of consensus. The "come-back king" they'll call him. You'll hear the near orgasmic elation of NPR and MSNBC mouthpieces. Combine that with some emboldened House allies courtesy of recent fundraisers (3 by Barry in the last week alone; Biden's doing 6 of the next 7 days fundraising!) and their hope is a little Syrian blood will give Barry cover to do as he's told and read the sales pitches that come on his teleprompter for whatever his fundraisers bought.
The two parties overlap .... why is that so hard to understand .... it's the slop and buffer that helps them work out their differences ..... what is the newly discovered ideal .... the parties must have an ideological chasm .... or the system is flawed .... what a childish noveau standard of simplicity .... we elected theses MFers .... get over it .... they reflect us .... maybe not you or me .... maybe one party is more corrupt .... the leftist corruption skews the whole equation to the left ! I don't normally post .... when so many have posted .... I feel it dilutes my .... message .... but. I'll make an exception .... for the gravitas of the moment .... when your enemies are fighting .... and one of them drops his knife .... kick it back into the ring .... to keep the fight going .... but do it on the sly .... and enjoy the fratricidal spectacle ! Monedas 1929 Serious content served with a spoonful of sugar so low information posters won't get bored !
Most of the 20 somethings are into Hollywood stars and the Kardashians. Also into buying coach items and Tiffany trinkets.
They'll succumb to the banksters and take out more loans to pay for these goods, in addition to their massive school loans.
Then they will go to war and make more profits for the banksters and defense contractors. Going to war diverts attention from all the growing criminal/fraudulent behavior in Washington and on Wall Street.
The politicians in DC and the financial criminals have no problem with spilling other peoples blood as long as they make money on it.
while the timing of this might benefit obama in regards to the recent scandals, I don't think that is the reason why we are seeing the Bush WMD playbook 2013 edt. come out now.
more likely this is desperation on the part of the western PTB's to find manufacture some moral high-ground to get directly involved as their band of terrorists err...sorry freedom fighters are just about cooked. once Aleppo falls to the SAA and hezbollah, which it will if help doesn't come and quickly, then Assad effectively wins the war and the rest becomes a country side mop up operation.
so now it's time to throw WMD's against the wall and see if it, once again, sticks just long enough to get in there with yet another humanitarian, kinetic military action, non war, war.
though I don't think Russia, Iran and China are feeling particularly cooperative this time so this whole thing has an unsettling high potential to go sideways in a very bad way, very quickly.
once more unto the brink we go...
If anyone knows the truth on Obama's place of birth they better get the hell out of Kenya right now.
Birthers crack me up.
This time round folks the USA and UK have bitten off more than they can chew.
As a British citizen, and a man of dubious morals I have no part in this and I certainly dont condone it. I am fucking repulsed by the bastards in charge of my country for even contemplating arming the supposed people who brought down your twin towers and now support arming them to the hilt against a democratically elected leader of a country we have no business fucking around in.
Is this the best we are? Is this the best we can call ourselves as fucking human beings? We allow this, these bastards do it in our name. I am nothing like the fucking retards who run my country into the ground while blowing the fuck out of a country we have no business being in. I condemn the actions we and our countries have taken upon in the interests of themselves while making us hate targets for millions of other folk who would rather be left alone and sort their own problems out themselves.
I am fucking downright ashamed the people of my country dont have the balls to drag these self serving idiot bastards who proclaim to speak for me into the street and hang them like the dogs they are while wasting millions of pounds and more importantly lives in the pursuit of some fucking goal that doesnt have nothing to do with the population they SHOULD be SERVING.
We are nearing the end game, the turning point. I leave this as a note to the people of Syria. This was not in anyone I knows name, we dont want you ordinary folk to suffer, and I hope you hang fast and see this through as I have done all I can to change the game here and to stop the actions of a government out of control.
We will hit the end point and we will win out but by that time who knows? Just as an average American is not the 'O', just as an average Britisher like me is not Cameron, and just as an average German is not Merkel, what more needs said? Until we can stop this shit I hope and pray you can stop the carnage dealt by our countries.
You didnt deserve this and I will fight on trying to stop this shit in any way I can. This has got to end, I feel fucking physically sick for what we allow in our collective names.
England will have civil unrest just like the rest of the world. There were riots in 2011; the next riots will be worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
'Obama's African "Tabula`Rasa"... t`Tripp'd up by Colonial Entrophy?'
http://allafrica.com/stories/201306130699.html by Sreeram Chaulia 6/11/13 ___ ie.) <*original source> "Foreign Policy in Focus" @* http://allafrica.com/ *HeadBar Categories: Countries
etel.(eg.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/24/india.randeepramesh "India's Secret History: Holocaust, one where millions disappeared...'"
http://www.fpif.org/
great sites!? jmo
Let me just throw this out there at the risk of pissing some folks off. Why is the military joining in on the charade? Why don't the Joint Chiefs just say - "Uh, no Mr. President. We aren't going to cover your ass by putting troops in harms way." And I'll preface this by saying that I am a veteran from the Vietnam era. The military has done an outstanding job of marketing itself as unique and distinct from the rest of government. The president and congress have fairly low approval ratings, especially congress. But ask most people in this country and they highly approve of the military. Where have they been the last decade as the surveillance state has grown exponentially in this country? Where has the military been as the TSA has groped and abused our wives and children? Ostensibly each member of the military takes an oath to uphold the constitution and protect America from enemies foreign and domestic. Doesn't that mean they should be protecting America from those that now violate the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th amendment protections routinely? What I can only conclude is that either a) their word / oath isn't worth a damn or b) they simply care more for their retirement and other benefits than their oath or c) they are no different than the IRS who steals from us by way of direct taxation and justify doing so by saying "it's legal and constitutional."
I know that what most people will say is this: they are just doing their job. Right. Just like that TSA sticking his hand in your wife's vagina is just doing his job. As far as I'm concerned the military is not one whit different than any other part of government. They suck up tax revenue to enhance and grow their fiefdoms. They profess to care about freedom but in reality only care about getting a free education on the backs of the rest of us. They wrap themselves in the American flag while going out and fighting to protect the petrodollar and interests of the United Nations. Personally, I would never encourage my children to join the military.
Do you all know where Timmy Geithner is now?
I recently saw him doing television commercials -- as a Keebler ELF!
WARPED WORLD!
The United States middle class re-elected Barack Obama. The "scandals" are just a slow news day that no one in the middle class cares about. if you look, Mitt Romney not only lost the poll taken last 06Nov2012, his campaign was actually over in September thanks to the hidden video camera. That's wonderful.
What irony that I, an old Cold War Anti-Communist, is now disgusted with the US (and the West) and prays that the East led by Russia stops the West cold from any more excursions into 'humanitarian bombing' and aiding and abetting jihadis in their bloodthirsty rampages and conquests.
It's a sad truth, and bitter, is it not?
'feigned duplicity is a pigeon-hole'd writer's worst critique when standing in a hall-of-mirror's centrifuge after losing it's Mo`Jo?'
"Obam's Monica Moment" by M.K. Bhadrakumar 6/14/13 @ www.atimes.com/
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-140613.html
yours truly ;>0
i see more broken windows ahead.
Russia and the USA look like two lawyers in a civil suit. They sit behind and defend their client publicly all the while privately they're discovered out golfing together on the weekends having martinis like old friends both gaining something from their clients fighting. Obama creates the perfect distraction from the scandals and Putin gets to look like the only one who will stand up against warmonger USA. Its a win win for both.
Clinton = bomb the Christian serbs at the height of Monica-gate, much to the benefit of expansionist Islam
Obombhole = bomb the Syrians at the height of Everything-gate, much to the benefit of expansionist Islam
Apparently everyone is invited to this party. Iran sending 4,000 Revolutionary Guards along to join in.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/world-exclusive-iran...
...and Bibi is not impressed with Iran's new president.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=316688
So, AMERICA is going to send our troops to fight to establish the CALIPHATE for AL QUEDA.... swell
Is Congress OK with this?
I thought Congress had to approve WAR?
Yes I will order one of those CONSTITUTIONAL DOORMATS FOR king obama (who has not yet after 4+ years shown us anything other than his "negro rich" approach to golf, basketball and lavish vacations at taxpayer expense during "sequestration" and hard tomes... Did the guy ever leave Chicago on his own dime? muthafukka
And where is the display of his mental "genius"? He must be saving that for some real national problems... And is he really off coke and weed? This jerk has spent more time on golf and basketball than on economic issues.
I think it is time for Congress to reel this unamusing buffoon in.