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Obama Authorizes "Defensive" Airstrikes Against Assad Regime In Syria
On Friday, we checked in on the Pentagon’s ongoing effort to recruit, vet, and train ambitious "freedom fighters" to join the battle against ISIS in Syria.
It goes without saying that covert US efforts to aid the multifarious groups vying for control of the country have met with disastrous consequences so far, but if there’s anything Washington is particularly adept at, it’s making bad foreign policy outcomes worse, which is why we weren’t at all surprised to learn that the commander of the Pentagon's new Syrian "force" was captured, along with his deputy, by al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra last week near the border with Turkey.
The NY Times called the kidnapping "perhaps [the] most embarrassing setback yet," for Washington’s ragtag contingent of volunteer militiamen and indeed, the fact that the Pentagon had hoped to field a "force" of 3,000 men by the end of the year but has so far only managed to train 54 speaks to the futility of the entire effort.
Or perhaps not. It all depends on what the real aim behind the program was in the first place. If the goal was to field a fierce band of well-trained warriors to rout Islamic State, then things aren’t going so well. If, however, the idea was simply to give the US an excuse to get directly involved in facilitating the swift demise of Bashar al-Assad now that his forces have been largely decimated by a three-front war, well it’s mission accomplished, because as WSJ reports, President Obama has now authorized US airstrikes against Assad’s army in the event they interfere with America’s very serious 50 solider effort to combat ISIS. Here’s more:
President Barack Obama has authorized using air power to defend a new U.S.-backed fighting force in Syria if it is attacked by Syrian government forces or other groups, raising the risk of the American military coming into direct conflict with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. officials said the decision ended a monthslong debate over the role the American military should play in supporting its few allies on the battlefield in Syria. Administration officials had been deeply concerned that defending the Pentagon-backed force could inadvertently open the first open conflict with the Assad government, which has denounced the U.S. program.
Though the new rules allow Pentagon strikes to defend the U.S.-allied force against any regime attacks, U.S. military officials played down the chances of a direct confrontation, at least in the near term. The newly trained force has committed to fighting Islamic State, not the regime, and won’t be fielded in areas the regime controls. U.S. officials say they believe the regime won’t challenge the new force.
Officials said another impetus for the decision was the recent insertion of the first group of Pentagon-trained fighters into northern Syria, where last week they were ambushed by al Qaeda-linked fighters.
The Pentagon has struggled to recruit and vet rebels for the new train-and-equip program which it launched last year, in part because the U.S. is asking them to fight Islamic State instead of the Assad regime. Most rebels see the government as their main enemy. U.S. military officials say fewer than 60 rebels have completed the Pentagon training program and re-entered the fight so far, casting doubt on the effort.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has acknowledged the recruitment problems, but he has said the effort is essential to the administration’s strategy to turn the tide against Islamic State.
While the new rules don’t explicitly name the Assad regime, officials said the guidelines will allow the Pentagon to defend the new force against any attackers, including the regime and the Nusra Front, Syria’s al Qaeda affiliate.
"For offensive operations, it’s ISIS only. But if attacked, we’ll defend them against anyone who’s attacking them," said a senior military official. "We’re not looking to engage the regime, but we’ve made a commitment to help defend these people."
Yes, the US isn’t looking for a fight with Assad, but now Washington is willing to concede that "engaging" the regime might be necessary should it inexplicably decide to attack a group of US-trained fighters who are ostensibly battling the same group that the regime is fighting.
Of course Assad might be forgiven for being a bit confused as to exactly what’s going on because after all, the CIA is conducting a parallel program explicitly designed to facilitate his ouster. Here’s WSJ again:
The U.S. hasn’t yet used air power to help defend the new force against the regime, and military officials made clear they hoped that day would never come because of the risk it could lead to a direct conflict between the U.S. and the Assad government, which is backed by Russia and Iran.
Last year, the Nusra Front attacked rebel groups linked to a separate train-and-equip program run by the Central Intelligence Agency. The assault pushed the CIA-backed rebels out of northern Syria.
In response, the spy agency has shifted its support to rebel units in the south. In contrast to the Pentagon program, the CIA program has been focused on fighting the Assad regime.
Obviously, this looks like a rather transparent effort to make it effectively impossible for Assad to avoid open conflict with the US. Recall that in June, when Obama was criticized for having no clear plan to combat ISIS, we suggested that in reality, the plan may be simply to wait until the Assad regime was on the ropes and then storm in to "liberate" the country from its "terror-linked" conquerors.
Of course that effort will need plenty of PR sparkle to ensure the American public gets behind the whole "boots on the ground" idea which the administration has so far pledged isn't on the table, so being able to say that the Assad regime is actively interfering with the fight against ISIS would serve as a nice cover story and indeed, don't be surprised when the reports start to trickle in that airstrikes on regime forces were necessary to "defend" Pentagon-linked freedom fighters.
Once again, ISIS is but a distraction here. The goal from the start was to destabilize the Assad government and ultimately to bring about regime change in order to facilitate the geopolitical and economic agenda of the US and its regional allies. Islamic State was and is simply a cover story. What's particularly unnerving is the degree to which the group is now being used by Turkey as an excuse to exterminate Ankara's political rivals. In other words, ISIS is no longer just a red herring for the willful usurpation of Assad - it now appears as though NATO members have been given free reign to capitalize politically and economically on the world's detestation of Islamic State.
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Dear Vlad,
Time to show the world what your Air Force is capable of. Wipe ISIS off the planet because the US has lost its fucking mind.
Sincerely, Haus
An errant nuke falling on DC and an apologetic, "oops" would be cool.
Disagree.
Bombing civilians is the worst form of war crime. Irrespective of how fucked up their government is.
Blow those IS fuckers off the planet and send them to be with their 72 Virgins. Destroy the CIA ISIS op. Set US foreign policy in the middle East back 100 years. Fine.
Kill old people & little kids?
Thats fucked up beyond belief.
I doubt there are many innocent civilians in DC
I guarantee you 99% of them are innocent, blind sheep.
I smell something. Either sulfur, bullshit, or freedom. Maybe a mix of the three.
pods
I'm not clued up on all the details of this conflict, but what I do know is that the Assad regime has been caught using chemical weapons against its opponents. This is something I simply cannot let stand, and for this reason alone, I support strong military intervention in Syria. ZHers may be against this conflict, but I guarentee the Syrian people are begging us to intervene. Call me old fashioned, but I believe that when innocent citizens cry out for our help, we have a duty as a nation to do something about it. We're long overdue for a new peaceful government in Syria, and with our help, I believe the Syrian people will overthrow their corrupt government and restore peace, freedom and prosperity to their country.
Not as strong as your normal work.
You forgot Democracy.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner just started another war of aggression.
America is in a mortal danger!
America is a mortal danger.
[fixed it for you]
WTF MDB, are you that obtuse? You still think it was Syria who let loose those chemical weapons? There is no hope for you.
Live re-run on CNN...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDmDZi05dY
Well, the last secular government in the region is finally in the crosshairs of the Peace Prize President.
And with the Iran deal giving them just enough rope, Israel's objective of taking over the entire Middle East is right on schedule.
You think OPEC was bad? Wait until the full force of JEWPEC is brought to bear against the goyim. Time to get long bicycles and tennis shoes.
...and Bathhouse Barry golfs away...
Cant believe you guys bantering about war when we just found out another doctor poached a completely different lion.
didnt we the people tell obama to stay the fuck out of it a while back?
He's a psychopath. Not a fuck is given about anybody but himself - and of course, his oligarch puppetmasters.
We The People Simply. Do. Not. Matter.
"America is in a mortal danger!"
Yes, the 'state of emergency' declared on 9/11/01 (and renewed each year since) continues. Hopefully, our COG (Continuity of Government) planning won't require the suspension of our treasured tradition of democratic elections, but if it should then I'm confident that our President will step forward for yet another term so that this critical 'bombs for democracy' campaign in Syria may continue.
he said last week that he has been a great president and would win another election.
The President's humility has been one of the keys to his success.
Also forgotten is that Turkey has a large and modern military themselves. If they're mad at ISIS, they should have no problem wiping them out without the "help" of peace-loving 'Murikans.
What a disgrace.
The recently declassified DIA report stated that "the West, Turkey and the Gulf States" created and funded ISIS specifically in order to create an Islamic State. So the Turks shouldn't be too upset or they wouldn't pay to keep ISIS up and running. Turkey has also been implicated in the purchase of oil from ISIS. They could stop doing that as well.
and who exactly authorized Obama to do this ?
Last time I check the President can not unilaterally authorize military action.
The lackey Congress has "authorized" the President to take unilateral military action so long as the President purportedly reports back to Congress after a few months ( or promises to).
Whether that is in violation of international law, treaties, and even the Constitution, in letter or spirit, is another matter. Whether that promotes the growth of government tyranny is another question.
But the President certainly "can" regardless whether he should.
This one is serious. Kids will be blown apart in my fucking name.
No room for satire in this one.
<junk>
pods
Biting satire is no joke.
It is when you are drunk, hic
pods uses an alternate name whilst fucking.
no room at all. this is extremely dangerous and is a clear escalation and provocation. the fact that americans cannot see the blatant doublespeak and orwellian perpetual war--we were always at war with east asia--truly saddens me. more innocent people will die while we stand by and do nothing, worse, many will support this whie chanting USA USA. there is increasing fragility in both the geopolitical and financial system. people keep talking about this fall, at this rate who knows.
We have always been at war with Islam infected peoples. It's a duty of theirs in their psychotic sacred books. Yeah I know their are other religious groups in Syria and I know Assad was protecting the Christians there, and I know Obama/Jarret are acting against our interests yet again. Still, we have always been at war with Islam, since its inception.
No - what we have are ZIONIST JEWS manipulating the US into wars for greater israel and jewish hegemony.
if you haven't heard, somehow, of the Oded Yinon plan - you don't know what the Zionist-Occupied-Government of the United States is doing.
It is most certainly not about Qatari pipelines [though preventing the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline was a bonus]
read up
The Unfolding of Yinon’s “Zionist Plan for the Middle East”: The Crisis in Iraq and the Centrality of the National Interest of Israel
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/07/the-unfolding-of-yinons-zionist-plan-fo...
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
The Infamous "Oded Yinon Plan". Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
The Jewish Plan For The Middle East and Beyond
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-jewish-plan-for-the-middle-east-and-...
Is the US Waging Israel’s Wars?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/25/is-the-us-waging-israel-s-wars/
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
The Chesed Gomel cemetary incident is critical to spread around the net.
Andras Szekely, a former IDF soldier, overhead Israelis talking about carrying out plans for planes to hit the towers months before 911. The FBI questioned him, but refuses to release their file
http://911blogger.com/news/2007-04-04/follow-%E2%80%9Cprior-knowledge-911-attacks-overheard-hebrew%E2%80%9D-story-fbi-looks-documents-where-they-cannot-be-found
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Explosive found at the WTC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUwmBsvrTQg
Want easy physics proof that the WTC were destroyed by bombs? This video at 1:17 shows the center of the WTC 1 rubble pile to be at street level. A few scraggily walls bend outward. Where is the concrete of the 15 by 20 foot mast of reinforced concrete that was 1200 feet tall. Both towers had them, a first in high rise design, to dampen swaying, and had more concrete than the floors. The Sears towers has it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJUP-Ry7d0
A pancake or gravity collapse has a rubble pile shaped like a hill, about 1 foot per floor high. WTC 7 had a 40 foot deep basement and a 60 foot high rubble pile at the center, while the towers had a 60 foot basement but were nearly twice as tall as WTC 7 yet the center of their rubble pile is at street level. The only explanation for the bowl shaped or crater shaped rubble pile of the towers is because they were exploded from the inside. WTC 7 was imploded normally by the criminals
You know MDB, In your comment you could replace the word Assad with Obama and the regime and Syria with Washington and have a very truthful and interesting comment. Just saying.
no, what Zio scum like yourself desire is to destroy yet another secular govt & state that opposes the Washington/Tel Aviv cancer. A cancer that has seen Iraq, Libya & now parts of Syria turned into chaotic, war-torn, Wahabbist breeding grounds. Just be honest about it.
You forgot to throw "greet us as liberators" on the end of that.
Correct. Haus is right.
It is not as good as his usual material.
That's the same rationale that was used to go after Saddam Hussein -chemical weapons used against the Kurds, but that hasn't ended well, or even ended period. Remember what George Washington said about staying out of foreign entanglements...but why would anyone listen to an old, dead, white guy.
Jew.
Khazarian Bankster Warlords, Any question?
Almost half of the united fascist states of amerika are on government assistance because corruput assholes in the District sold out to the corporations off shoring, on shoring and any other kind of shoring that'll put americans in the poor house.
Where is that duty of a nation to be responsible to it's citizens when they're crying out for help. Assholes like you want even more treasure and blood spent destroying other nations and peoples for western corporate profits. It's the damn banana wars all over again except now it's oil and gas.
You talk of corrupt government in Syria coming from a land with the most corrupt government ever known to man! And check out that peacful government we installed in Libya. That's what you want.... Incredible.
FU and your Langely friends.
You're mentally defective and need to be institutionalized.
if you haven't heard, somehow, of the Oded Yinon plan - you don't know what the Zionist-Occupied-Government of the United States is doing.
It is most certainly not about Qatari pipelines [though preventing the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline was a bonus]
read up
The Unfolding of Yinon’s “Zionist Plan for the Middle East”: The Crisis in Iraq and the Centrality of the National Interest of Israel
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/07/the-unfolding-of-yinons-zionist-plan-fo...
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
The Infamous "Oded Yinon Plan". Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
The Jewish Plan For The Middle East and Beyond
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-jewish-plan-for-the-middle-east-and-...
Is the US Waging Israel’s Wars?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/25/is-the-us-waging-israel-s-wars/
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February 1982: Article in Israeli Journal Says Israel Should Exploit Internal Tensions of Arab States
The winter issue of Kivunim, a “A Journal for Judaism and Zionism,” publishes “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties” by Oded Yinon. The paper, published in Hebrew, rejects the idea that Israel should carry through with the Camp David accords and seek peace. Instead, Yinon suggests that the Arab States should be destroyed from within by exploiting their internal religious and ethnic tensions: “Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon.” [Kivunim, 2/1982]
Entity Tags: Oded Yinon
Timeline Tags: Alleged Use of False Flag Attacks
Autumn 1992: Influential Neoconservative Academic Advocates Breaking Up Middle Eastern Countries, Including Iraq
Bernard Lewis.Bernard Lewis. [Source: Princeton University]Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis publishes an article in the influential journal Foreign Affairs called “Rethinking the Middle East.” In it, he advocates a policy he calls “Lebanonization.” He says, “[A] possibility, which could even be precipitated by [Islamic] fundamentalism, is what has late been fashionable to call ‘Lebanonization.’ Most of the states of the Middle East—Egypt is an obvious exception—are of recent and artificial construction and are vulnerable to such a process. If the central power is sufficiently weakened, there is no real civil society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common identity.… Then state then disintegrates—as happened in Lebanon—into a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions, and parties.” Lewis, a British Jew, is well known as a longtime supporter of the Israeli right wing. Since the 1950s, he has argued that the West and Islam have been engaged in a titanic “clash of civilizations” and that the US should take a hard line against all Arab countries. Lewis is considered a highly influential figure to the neoconservative movement, and some neoconservatives such as Richard Perle and Harold Rhode consider him a mentor. In 1996, Perle and others influenced by Lewis will write a paper for right wing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu entitled “A Clean Break” that advocates the “Lebanonization” of countries like Iraq and Syria (see July 8, 1996). Lewis will remain influential after 9/11. For instance, he will have dinner with Vice President Cheney shortly before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Some will later suspect that Cheney and others were actually implementing Lewis’s idea by invading Iraq. Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, will say in May 2003, just after the invasion, “The neoconservatives’ intention in Iraq was never to truly build democracy there. Their intention was to flatten it, to remove Iraq as a regional threat to Israel.” [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 330-337]
Entity Tags: Chas Freeman, Bernard Lewis, Richard Perle, Harold Rhode, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Neoconservative Influence
July 8, 1996: Neoconservative Think Tank Advocates Aggressive Israeli Foreign Policy
Richard Perle.Richard Perle. [Source: Public domain]The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli think tank, publishes a paper titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” [Washington Times, 10/7/2002; Chicago Sun-Times, 3/6/2003] The paper, whose lead author is neoconservative Richard Perle, is meant to advise the new, right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Other authors include:
bullet influential neoconservative academic and former Bush adviser Richard Perle, primarily responsible for the content of the paper;
bullet Meyrav Wurmser, the future director of the neoconservative Hudson Institute’s Center for Middle East Policy;
bullet her husband David Wurmser, the future chief adviser for Middle East policy for future vice-president Dick Cheney;
bullet neoconservative Douglas Feith, who will be the prime architect of the Iraq war;
bullet and a number of lesser-known neoconservatives, including James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Jeffrey T. Bergner, Jonathan Torop, and Robert Loewenberg.
Rebuilding Zionism by Abandoning Past Policies - It advocates making a complete break with past policies by adopting a strategy “based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism.…” [Guardian, 9/3/2002]
Aggressive, Militant Israeli Policy towards Arab Neighbors - Much along the lines of an earlier paper by Israeli Oded Yinon (see February 1982), the document urges the Israelis to aggressively seek the downfall of their Arab neighbors—especially Syria and Iraq—by exploiting the inherent tensions within and among the Arab States. The first step is to be the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A war with Iraq will destabilize the entire Middle East, allowing governments in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries to be replaced. “Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them,” the paper says. [Perle, 7/8/1996; Guardian, 9/3/2002; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 3/19/2003] Iraq is first on the list of nations to be transformed. Saddam Hussein must be overthrown, the authors say. But Iraq has long served as a counterweight to the Shi’ite theocracy of Iran; with the two at loggerheads, neither could pose as serious a threat to Israel as it could if not opposed by the other. To counter this, Perle and his co-authors propose restoring the Hashemites (an ancient Arab dynasty; King Faisal I of Iraq was a Hashemite) to power. Instead of the largely Shi’ite Iraqis aligning themselves with their fellow Shi’a in Iran after Hussein’s overthrow, the Hashemite government would align itself with the pro-Western Jordan, long a Hashemite regime. Unfortunately, the authors propose no plan to actually make such an extraordinary regime succession happen, nor do they seem concerned with some Iraqi Shi’ites’ alignment with Islamist terrorists or with many Shi’ites’ close ties to Iran. [Unger, 2007, pp. 145-148]
Abandoning Oslo Accords, Militant Palestinian Policy - Other suggestions for Israel include abandoning the Oslo Accords, developing a foreign policy based on a traditional balance of power strategy, reserving its right to invade the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of a strategy of “self-defense,” abandoning any notion of “land for peace,” reestablishing a policy of preemptive strikes, forging closer ties to the US while taking steps towards self-reliance, and seeking an alternative to Yasser Arafat as leader of the PLO. [Perle, 7/8/1996]
'Seeds of a New Vision' - All these questions need not be answered right away, according to co-author Meyrav Wurmser. The document is “the beginning of thought,” she says, “… the seeds of a new vision.”
Similar to American Christian Right's Vision - According to author Craig Unger, the ideology of “ACB” is, in essence, a secularized version of the theology of the American Christian Right. Christian Zionists insist that Jews were ordained by God to reclaim the Biblican land of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank; the paper asserts that claim as well. The paper echoes Christian fundamentalists by demanding “the unconditional acceptance of Arabs of our rights, especially in their territorial dimension.” Perle and his fellow neoconservatives want to push the boundaries even further: the Bible can be interpreted to countenance Jewish dominion over all or parts of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and even Saudi Arabia. Thusly, the authors claim that Israel and the US, by waging war against Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, would reshape the “strategic environment” in the Middle East and greatly expand Israel’s influence in the region.
Influence in Upcoming Bush Administration - Perle will later become chairman of President Bush’s influential Defense Policy Board and will be instrumental is moving Bush’s US policy toward war with Iraq after the 9/11 attacks, as will Feith and the Wurmsers. [Unger, 2007, pp. 145-148]
Entity Tags: Richard Perle, Robert Loewenberg, Meyrav Wurmser, Jonathan Torop, Richard V. Allen, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Benjamin Netanyahu, David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, Jeffrey T. Bergner, Douglas Feith
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, US International Relations, Neoconservative Influence
Late Summer 1996: Neoconservatives Push for War with Iraq, Reshaping of Middle East to Favor Israel
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States (see July 8-10, 1996), US neoconservatives mount an orchestrated push for war against Iraq and an overall reshaping of the Middle East (see July 8, 1996). At first, the offensive takes place in the pages of US newspapers and magazines. William Kristol and Robert Kagan write articles for the magazines Foreign Policy and the Weekly Standard; syndicated columnists Charles Krauthammer and A. M. Rosenthal use their columns to push the idea; Zalmay Khalilzad and Paul Wolfowitz pen op-eds for the Washington Post; “Clean Break” co-author David Wurmser writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and publishes a book, Tyranny’s Ally, in which he proposes that the US use its military to literally redraw the map of the Middle East (see Late Summer 1996). Neoconservatives are transforming Christian evangelicals’ argument that Americans are God’s “chosen people” into secular terms, and argue in their op-eds and articles that it is, in author Craig Unger’s words, the US’s “moral duty to project that greatness throughout the world—using American military power, if necessary.” [Unger, 2007, pp. 148-149]
Entity Tags: Robert Kagan, A. M. Rosenthal, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Wurmser, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Timeline Tags: Neoconservative Influence
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http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
Millstone Bonus - do you work for the CIA? You've just quoted their BS bullitin! Assad was not caught using Chem weapons he was merely accused by the CIA. The chem attack occured the day the UN monitors arrived in Syria to ensure no Chem weapons being used. Assad would have been nuts to use them in front of them. However the Rebels had Chem weapons and it was in their interests to let a few off and have their CIA buddies point the finger at Assad. The UN ran an inquiry which concluded that chems were used and MOST PROBABLY they were used by the Rebels as they were fired by large mortars from rebel held territory. Zero evidence was found to show it was Assads forces though both sides were known to possess them. Stop just being a mouthpiece for the CIA.
LOL that's some pretty good satire.
"I'm not clued up on all the details of this conflict, but what I do know is that the Assad regime has been caught using chemical weapons against its opponents" - so clearly completely clueless, given your first statement is false.
"I'm not clued up" but nonetheless "I support strong military intervention in Syria". Don't know the facts, but why let that get in the way of murdering more innocents, huh?
I know you're just a troll, but even you must struggle with writing this crap. This effort is particularly pathetic. Your self-esteem must be hitting rock bottom.
I was having a little fun with sarcasm Haus. Am looking forward to Game of Thrones Season 5 though.
As am I. Although GRRM makes me MAF so often.
I hate it when I have to look up acronyms.
moving post
All the more reason... Those innocent, blind sheep in Washington, D.C. are just as much of a problem as the political class in Washington, D.C.
As CONgress goes on their August Holidays, this is the perfect time for Obama to attack Syria.
Yeah, it would be a waste for Putin to drop a nuke then.
Haus/Putin 2016
Using old people and little kids as human shields is fucked up beyond belief.
At least Germany warned everyone before sending the floating ammo dump posing as a passenger liner (Lusitania) to the bottom.
Fuck D.C.
Yeup. That being said, part of war between civilized nations is not doing both.
I would assume that we can consider both the US & Russia civilized. At least for humanity's sake I hope so.
Bombing civilians is the worst form of war crime.
There are about 10 million animal and plant species on this planet. Many of them existed millions of years before humans. Earth is their home too. And killing them is also a very great crime.
We may have killed 200,000 to 250,000 humans at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But we killed billions of other life forms. No one speaks of their murder.
MDB does it better bro.
About 200 species go extinct everyday. Or more than 70,000 per year. Normal extinction rate has been 7 species a year. So we are now in the sixth great extinction period.
And about 7% of identified land species have already gone extinct.
Those with even a scintilla of spirituality know it is the same life that flows through all species.
I read about this. Most of these species that do go extinct are from South America and Indonesia. Idiot Third World'ers.
Those of us with a scintilla of education knows that evolution is not a tree hugging hippy and frankly doesn't give a shit... Are we not part of the ecosystem ourselves?
Let me tell you about saving endangered species ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Regards,
Cooter
Obviously no lions were killed in Nagasaki or Hiroshima or we would have fucking heard about it..
yes all those poor earthworms, fuck off observer. We are talking about little ali and sally. Not earthworm jim and ta rat.
That would be aawesome. Russia destroys (the CIA backed) Isalmic State in a "gesture of good will towards America and it's allies".
What would the Zionist fucks and their political puppets have to say then?
Oye Vay!
To the bunkers
I am quite sure they'd mustard gas more civilians, and this time plame Putin instead of Assad. Try to haul him before the ECtHR.
Ain't happening...
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150803/1025347364.html?utm_source=t.co...
Someone is eating pop corn. Long term play in effect.
This article is the peddling of bullshit. This latest round of rebel training ( of which isis and nusra members were graduates of ) is a smokescreen for direct action at worst and a waste of taxpayer money at best.
At most a couple hundred new rebels have been trained and the ones that havent been captured or killed by the other moderate beheaders are useless.
Hey zerohedge. Instead of reporting on no fly zones, the imminent fall of assad, or imminent us airstrikes, or catastrophic lack of saa manpower.. how about reporting on the meeting brokered by russia which saw a high level syrian minister go to saudi arabia, the advancement of the saa on jisr al shugr, the saa reclaiming zabadani, and the other massive failures of the west's army.
Is it just because fear headlines get more clicks?
They gave that nobel prize to the right guy.....
/sarc
you mispelled gay.
The US "Department of Defense" is considering a name change to IDF = Isis Defense Force.
This also brings it in line with it's bosses acronym - also IDF = Israeli Defense Force.
The US wants to draw Russia into war
DONE!
My Dear ZH Prostotutin groupies, he ones more has shown that he is just POS.
What exactly is a "defensive airstrike"?
Un. fucking. believable...
I would hate to see what the runner-up for the Nobel Peace Prize is up to.
Its what happens when your such a pussy, your lawyers write your press releases
It's Obama protecting is rear end from the random huge dong at the bathhouse.
ISIS's Air Force. What a proud day for America!
War is peace, baby.
Honor your president. Support the troops.
You fucking idiot.
Sarc detector broken?
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Sense of fucking humor broken with regards to that mother fucker.
Another War Criminal unauthorized Illegal War of Aggression by the Criminal CEO of the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
President Barack Obama has authorized using air power to defend a new U.S.-backed fighting force in Syria if it is attacked by Syrian government forces or other groups, raising the risk of the American military coming into direct conflict with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
That was always the plan. The Nobel Prize Winner always wanted a war with Assad. That is why US created ISIS. And Obama lied about sarin use by Assad
Forward
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html
Spot on! Now, if you can only send out a massive email to the American People & perhaps have the Presstitute Media report on the subject we'd get some response.
Never goi g to happen. The Fasle Narrative's & PsyOp Campaigns continue.
Obomba Peace Prize
O-Bombed-Ya Peace Prize
This guy wants a few more notches on his pistol handle before he leaves the WH.
Let's see, Bin Laden, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Viktor Yanukovych, and I'm sure I'm missing a few.
Wasn't the impending U.S. bombing of Syrian forces a conspiracy theory just a few weeks ago?
This shit is getting sooooooo predictable.
According to the Putin fan club it was an impossibility. Despite the frequent bombing runs by Israel and others. The Putin fan club still refuses to admit Syria is mostly destroyed already and entire cities are deserted.
IRAN, you are next in the que and Putin will not give you anymore assistance than was given to Iraq, Serbia, Yemen, Syria and others. Putin approved the sanctions against you Iran, approved the sanctions against the rebels in Yemen, the no fly zone on Libya, forced the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, forced E Uke to accept two cease fires and allow the W Uke's to safely withdraw when trapped - you get the idea.
The recent make nice agreement with Iran was typical of the US actions before things go hot in the near future.
Iran, has Putin delivered any of those modern missiles that Russia contracted with you to deliver many years ago and more recently were repromised again by Putin? NO.
And may your children be at ground zero when the world launches their nuke arsenal into israel.
Son, you got the Maidan brain?
There you have it folks "defensive airstrikes". That's big enough you could fly a stealth bomber through.
U.S.-backed fighting force = ISIS
This is what they spend 50% of your tax money on. billions to train 60 freedum fighters on the otherside of the world. Super tough guy special operators dont work for cheap. With that training, the best in the world, by the best in the world, they get captured and tortured like a guy who refuses to pay taxes.
Then we spend a few more billion to drop bombs and also kill people who had nothing to any of it. 'Merica, F*ck Yeah ! (gospel version)
More like 30% but it's still too damn much...
Fuck You neuvocon monsters! Obama is saying FUCK YOU to everyone who told him not to do this.
WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR ...starting wars , encouraging wars, inciting wars. What the fuck happenned to the country I was born into? How can people continue to accept this unholy immoral excuse for "leadership".
Obama is a murdering son of a bitch. Hope your daughters are paying attention
Oil price.................Action
$45........................."defensive bombing"
$42........................."air campaign for WMDs"
$40........................."drone Syrian leadership for justice"
$37.. ......................"Ground troops to protect civilian enclaves"
$35........................."bring full-on 5.56mm democracy to Damascus"
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it (the village)."
For once, can't USA mind its own business & leave the muzzles to fight amongst themselves?
How did Obama get the authority to bomb them? That mighty pen of his?
Obama IS a muzzie. They just can't live in peace. They've got to tell everyone else how to live. And, if they don't comply they bomb them. He's just doing what every other muslim has done for millenia.
BEST PEACE PRIZE WINNER, EVER!
Will ISIS have an Olyimpic scquad in Rio?
This is all part of the plan. Its good old mission creep.
Regime change in Syria has always been on the cards for the US government. Now they have the nerve to fly over Syria and tell them they can't interfere in their own airspace.
Fuck the US government and their "vetted" rebel assholes!
Yeah how dare Syria attack invaders inside their own country!
Bombing Assad means ISIS will win. Thanks Obama.
Assad's secular government allowed Christians, muslims, and everybody else to live together. No mas. ISIS will take over and form a caliphate and kill all non-muslims in a massive genocide.
Bath House Barry: a deranged, psychopathic gay Muslim who is free to suck dick in the USSA, bomb Musilms for his blackmailers in the Mossad, and fuck over anything having to do with the USA.
I mean, wow, the guy bursts upon the political scene as a Muslim, gets billions of dollars to win rigged elections, and catapults from Man's Country to the White Mosque in 6 years. Pretty fucking slick.
This is an open declaration of war against the lawful and elected government of Syria.
No other way of looking at it.
Been through Congress?
Been through the Senate?
No?.
Just another blatant overriding of the US constitution and of US law.
Just another vile destruction of human life and nation by the 'exceptional' regime.
An exceptionally vicious, wicked and brutal regime.
Its utter evil making it exceptional by any standard of decency, honour and civilization.
The most evil Empire in our known history as a planet.
Who cares?.
Damn few apparently.
Just the odd exceptional and decent Americans.
Incorrect. He was given the go-ahead to use force during that whole alleged chemical gas attack (that later turned out to be fake and the public didnt get behind) They gave him the 3 year window to use force and the 3 years is almost up.
The US fighting Assad - Turkey fighting the Kurds. So ISIS is on NATO's side?
Only with NATO in the mornings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. In the afternoons on Tuesdays and Thursdays they do a u-turn and fight anything Western. Fridays, they kneel and pray to the great allah pedophile in the sky. Sundays is piss-up day.
August is vacation time on Miami Beach.
Pleeease, get with the program ;-)
The US is fighting Asssad for the Zionists for control of Lebanon, then Syria, then Iran.
I'm thinking that Assad wishes he just gave those pissed off farmers some EBT cards 4 years ago.
Now he's got hired gunslingers and homegrown nutcases running around shooting up the place and basically making for a shitty golf day.
Assad has a better looking first lady !
Not according to a wookie.
And she doesn't have a "package".
Well, she has a pussy. Michael has a dick.
Article title: "Obama Authorizes "Defensive" Airstrikes Against Assad Regime In Syria"
A better title for this article would be:
"Obama Demonstrates Criminal Madness of His Administration"
Nice, all these conflicts around the world started by our peace prize president and NOBODY knows about them. Funny how the MSM is eerily silent on all this.
Syria's only crime was to have the misfortune of being in the path of the greater israel atrocity.
"We are going to assault you and if you resist,it will be considered an act of agression and I have authorized military action against your resistance." Like an abusive husband or wife justifying beating or killing their spouse for attacking them. Things can sure seem turned around at times....
passive agressive personality disorder is a requirement to work for or close to the US government. not joking. they actually filter employees on this criteria.
That dam Bush...Oh wait.
Funny isn't it. Not one liberal protesting about the negro starting another war. Where is all the food hunger strike lunatics? Cindy Sheenan and Code Pink.
Lapping the Socialists balls sack...Can't wait till their all eating out of trash cans.
Ha! They'll just rebrand it, and crow about how brave and progressive they are for subsiding on garbage. Expect the media to follow suit, and then it'll be unpatriotic to eat fresh food.
They had their payoffs, they are happy and silent.
How will Obama explain the arms we shipped to support the rebel army? Maybe the filed off the serial numbers this time around
Does this fall under the made up, alternative term for war?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/22/libya-war-kinetic-military-action
It's a Crime Against the Peace, which is prosecutable under international law. But who controls the UN and the Hague? Violations are selectively enforced. The whole thing is a sick, sadistic farce. All brought to you by the Red Shield, the Zionists, The Neocons, and the fluoridated slack jawed knuckledraggers of the western world who tolerate this Evil.
It's not murder if you call it something nice like kinetic action. I mean just look at Saudi Arabia- dropping cluster bombs all over Yemen these days. I was under the impression those were banned...
If we take out Assad, then ISIS will take over all of Syria.
If we take out Assad, then the CIA will take over all of Syria.
Fixed it for you
I would guess that is the Plan. It would reduce Russian influence, as Assad would have to seek asylum in Russia. The Road to Teheran goes through Damascus.
The Zionists need to control the vast Oil Reserves of Iran. The British financial Zionists have a hard-on against Iran, going back to the 1950s. Complete subjugation to Israel would be their dream goal.
Great move for them if it works out.
But, it is likely to cause a confrontation between the superpowers of USSA, Russian Federation, and China.
This is all connected to the plans for a greater Israel. The evil fucks (Zionists) want the nation to resemble that written about in the Old Testament. They truly think they are Gods people but they are of Satan, which it quite clearly states in the bible.
TAKE OUT asad, and have isis fill the void? Is this the goal? I am missing how this makes me safer
Not you ! Israel will have a friendly power on its doorstep. No Arab STATE can be permitted to exist on Israel's borders - it must be tribal chaos that the IDF can control as it seeks Lebensraum
Assad made the mistake of ruling himself. Israel and the Fabians can't allow this. As the old saying goes, you can't buy and Arab, only rent them. So even "controlling" ISIS is a fool's errand. It didn't work with the Muhajadin, and it won't work with ISIS.
All the Syrian troops need to do is wrap their heads in a black towel and wave black flags - the U.S. hasn't been targeting anyone like that.
if they follow your suggestion, they still might hurt them by airdropping brand new toyota trucks and rolexes on them.
The Americans really are "Ein Volk im Waffen". Maybe they can start a Global 100 Years War and re-shape society around Perpetual Global Conflict ? Orwell in 1984 had Oceania in permanent war with Eurasia and it seems the New Socialist Banker Order wants to seize control of society and build a Fascist State focused on perpetual conflict.
This is not going to end well. Already the detritus is washing up on Britain's shores in Calais having offloaded the Post-Ghadaffi Influx onto Italy from HMS Bulwark for Italy to give them all passage to the Gateway to the UK.
Europe itself will go into convlusions soon. With Germany now persecuting journalists as Franz Josef Strauss did in the Spiegel Affair and Merkel trying to extend the lifetime of governments to 5 years, there are wheels coming off the wagon
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcGz1a76Clk
The idiot has already told you we are training ISIS.
More "leadership" from our illustrious stup-nig fucktard...
This is more than the camel's nose in the tent. It's the head, neck, and both front feet in the tent. And it is not that Americans are asleep - surveys say we do NOT want to invade Syria. This is just making a message for the media to spread around as "cover" for the time when the latest military adventure turns into FUBAR yet again. The government doesn't listen to us.
After a year of bombing ISIS with poor results, isn't there anyone at the Pentagon that understands the importance of using ground spotters to direct where the air attacks need to go?
and slowly we are approaching a situation where everyone is fighting everyone.
Americans bombing isis, en assad. Assad is fighting isis, Turks are fighting Kurds, and kurdsds fighting Isis. And Turks being the ally of the americans. And then we have the other fighting groups in Syria, being islamistic but moderate, and thereby being allies of the americans and fighting Assad, but at the same time beind ismalistic and for that an eneemy of the free western world.
well done!
I think they cleared that with Putin last week. Don't have to worry about nukes this week.
Cool. Another country delivered to ISIS. With a bow. Jabbing the bear with a stick. To give US disaster capitalists more raw meat. Another crime against humanity for the nobel prize winning son of a marxist traitor-in-chief.
BANKERS NEED MORE VICTIMS!!!!
I think we need to have a new squadron and insignia naming contest for these lucky F-18 drivers who get to be the ISIS airforce. A few suggestions:
-Jihadi Express
-White Meatballs
-Jolly Mohammeds
(by the way. this is fucked up beyond all belief. the USAF/USN is officially the Air Force of ISIS. Sad fucking day.)