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Propaganda War Begins: Russia's Syria Strikes Targeted US-Backed "Moderate" Rebels, West Says
With the US having officially lost control of the narrative in Syria now that The Kremlin has called Washington’s bluff on the battle to eradicate ISIS and eliminate the Sunni extremist elements that threaten to wrest control of Syria from President Bashar al-Assad, the only remaining question after Russian lawmakers officially cleared the way for airstrikes was how long it would be before the Western media began shouting about Russian warplanes bombing targets that aren’t affiliated with ISIS.
As we reported earlier today, Moscow wasted no time in launching its first round of air raids.

In turn, the West wasted no time in contending that Russia is targeting areas that aren’t known to be strategically significant for ISIS. Here’s a look at two headlines which do a nice job of summarizing all of the rhetoric which you’re about to hear emanating ceaselessly from every corner of the Western world in the coming days and weeks:
- U.S. IS CONCERNED RUSSIA'S INTENT IS PROTECTING ASSAD: KERRY
- U.S. HAS 'GRAVE CONCERNS' IF RUSSIA STRIKES OUTSIDE ISIL AREAS
And here’s WSJ with a sneak peek at the new narrative which Washington will be working hard to refine:
Russian President Vladimir Putin inserted his country directly into Syria’s war Wednesday, as Russian forces launched their first airstrikes against what Moscow said were Islamic State targets in the Middle Eastern nation.
But Western leaders raised doubts about whether Russia really intended to take the fight to Islamic State, or merely broaden the Syrian regime’s offensive against a wide range of other opponents.
For the U.S., the Russian strikes add new questions about the role of Russian forces in Syria. “While we would welcome a constructive role by Russia in this effort, today’s [meeting in Baghdad] hardly seems indicative of that sort of role and will in no way alter our operations,” a U.S. official said.
Warplanes targeted Islamic State military hardware and weapons stores, a spokesman for Russia’s Ministry of Defense told official news agencies hours after Russian lawmakers approved a request by Mr. Putin to allow the use of force abroad.
Framing the attacks as part of a fight against terrorism, Mr. Putin said that Russia will support the Syrian army from the air, without any ground operations, for the duration of the Syrian offensive.
“The only real way to fight international terrorism…is to act pre-emptively. and not wait till they [terrorists] come to our home,” Mr. Putin said in televised comments. He called for antiterror cooperation with other states through the Russian coordination center in Baghdad.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency reported Wednesday that Russian airstrikes hit areas under Islamic State control in Homs and Hama provinces, including the cities of Al Rastan and Talbiseh, near the town of Salamiyah, and the villages of al-Za’faran, al-Humr Hills, Eidoun, Salamiyah and Deir Fol. The strikes had successfully targeted Islamic State, SANA said, without elaborating.
But with the exception of the area east of the town of Salamiyah in Hama province, none of the areas listed by the Syrian regime have a known presence of Islamic State fighters. They are largely dominated by relatively moderate rebel factions and Islamist groups like Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front.
Yes, “relatively moderate rebel factions like al-Qaeda" (check the above, WSJ actually said that) which in July kidnapped the commander and deputy commander of the Pentagon’s ragtag group of US-trained rebels that was supposed to number in the thousands by now but has been reduced to just “four or five” men and which was humiliated last Friday when the remaining fighters were forced to surrender their pickup trucks and ammo to al-Nusra in order to “secure safe passage” to who knows where.
Considering that, and considering the "solid" relationship the US has always maintained with al-Qaeda, it sure would be a shame if a few al-Nusra operatives wound up as collateral damage in Russia’s air campaign.
Then there's The Telegraph with an epic attempt to spin the news with a single headline: "Putin defies West as Russia bomb 'Syrian rebel targets instead of Isil'".
Meanwhile, France - who recently went full-propaganda by using “self defense” to justify its newly launched Syrian bombing campaign - is out expressing its consternation about which groups Russia is bombing. Via Reuters:
France said it was "curious" that Russian air strikes in Syria on Wednesday had not targeted Islamic State militants and a diplomatic source added that Moscow's action appeared aimed at supporting President Bashar al-Assad against other opposition groups in the country's civil war.
The diplomatic source said it was in line with Russia's stance since 2012 that until there was a viable alternative to Assad, Moscow would not drop its support for him in the war that began in 2011 after a government crackdown on anti-Assad protests.
"Russian forces struck Syria and curiously didn't hit Islamic State," Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers.
A French diplomatic source said the strikes, which seemed to have been carried out near Homs, an area crucial to Assad's control of western Syria.
"It is not Daesh (Islamic State) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We shall see what they do with their other strikes," the source said.
And then Germany (which, much to Moscow's chagrin, recently announced it’s set to receive a shipment of new US nukes) jumped on the bandwagon. Via Bloomberg:
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia needs to explain its aims in carrying out airstrikes in Syria.
“In this highly charged situation in Syria there’s a big risk that there will be further misunderstandings between the partners, all of whom are needed to calm the situation”
“I hope that this isn’t slamming shut all the doors that were laboriously opened in recent days, including in talks between President Obama and President Putin”
“Only coordinated action can lead to a solution. Military action along won’t help us overcome the Syrian crisis. We have to get into a political process. We need the neighbors, Russia, the U.S., and we in Europe can be helpful, too."
There are two things to note here. First, there isn't anything "curious" about this and Vladimir Putin has made no secret of his intent to keep the Assad regime from falling. Indeed, it's not clear what else Putin could do besides invite Charlie Rose for a two hour interview and explain three separate times that Moscow intends to support Assad. Second, Germany's suggestion that Russia is "slamming shut all the doors to cooperation" is ridiculous to the point of absurdity. As the events that have unfolded over the past several weeks have made abundantly clear, it is the West that has slammed the door shut on Russia when it comes to cooperating to fight ISIS and the reason for Washington's trepidation stems directly from i) wanting to oust Assad at all costs even if it means allowing the extremists operating in Syria to remain active until the regime falls, and ii) the fact that no matter what line The White House trots out to the public, the US views the Russia-Iran "nexus" as far more dangerous to America's geopolitical ambitions than ISIS and therefore, allying with Washington's two fiercest foreign policy critics simply isn't an option even if such an alliance would swiftly eradicate Islamic State.
And of course the narrative wouldn't be complete without some on-the-ground Skype "intelligence". Here's Reuters:
Russian air strikes in northwest Syria which Moscow said targeted Islamic State fighters hit a rebel group supported by Western opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, wounding eight, the group's commander said.
He said the fighters were hit in the countryside of Hama province, where the group has a headquarters.
"The northern countryside of Hama has no presence of ISIS at all and is under the control of the Free Syrian Army," Major Jamil al-Saleh, who defected from the Syrian army in 2012, told Reuters via Skype.
Saleh said his group had been supplied with advanced anti-tank missiles by foreign powers opposed to Assad.
The Homs area is crucial to President Bashar al-Assad's control of western Syria. Insurgent control of that area would bisect the Assad-held west, separating Damascus from the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, where Russia operates a naval facility.
"In the early morning this aircraft conducted air strikes in Latamneh city. One targeted a civilian area, and the other targeted al-Izza," Saleh said, referring to his group which he said were set up around two years ago and has 1,500 fighters.
He declined to give further details on the exact location of the strike but said the bombs hit a cave which the group used as a headquarters and was near the front line with the regime in northern Hama countryside.
"Each strike had 8-10 missiles and there were two strikes so there is no way it was an accident," he added.
No, it probably was not an accident, but what the Western powers want you to believe is that because they steadfastly refuse to acknowledge what's going on even when it is patiently explained to them by The Kremlin, then anything that happens is thereby a mystery.
The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we've been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as "moderate" in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington's unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria. This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington's Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that's left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead.
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So Russia is stabilizing the region, taking out ISIS, and the US is mad? lmao The US has a serious choice to make here: Either admit they are the real terrorist and fight Russia or concede.
Good morning, Vietnam!
Putin should send a golf club to 0bama as a gift with ‘keep quiet while others are playing” engraved on it. ;-)
Looney
"U.S. IS CONCERNED RUSSIA'S INTENT IS PROTECTING ASSAD: KERRY"
I thought that's exactly what Putin said he was going to do.
“The only real way to fight international terrorism…is to act pre-emptively. and not wait till they [terrorists] come to our home,” Mr. Putin said
wow, sounds like bush.
Russia's Syria Strikes Targeted US-Backed "Moderate" Rebels, West Says ..."Brought to you by the "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." people.
Remember, there are moderate rebels and there are also moderate cannibals.
>Russia's Syria Strikes Targeted US-Backed "Moderate" Rebels, West Says
How many of them did the West say were actually left? In the last article I read, the count was down to 5.
They must have been holed up in that little green dot in the middle of the map. That's a very bad location to avoid Russian bombs...
Four plus one admin officer.
These two cannibals were having a clown for lunch, and one turns to the other and says, "Does this taste funny to you?"
LOL!
Is it me, or does this whole thing seem eerily reminiscent of something out of the Ribbentrop-Molotov playbook?
More like the day before WWI.
I don't remember a similar howl of angst in the press when NATO member Turkey started bombing the West's friends, the Kurds, instead of ISIS.
No hypocrisy here then.
That was exactly my first thought. The hypocrisy of the involved parties is obvious. Quid pro quo from Russian side.
The Russians have been missile striking (not bombing) the people who have been selling weapons to ISIS.
Methinks Vlad is talking about the USA.
Who is down voting this. This sounds excatly like the propoganda we are being fed here in the USA.
Russia is trolling america when they say "we have to fight them THERE so we don't have to fight them HERE"
how is the u.s. gonna call "bullshit" when we invented that bullshit line?
Spot on Bananamerican.
Anyone know where I can get a Vlad 2016 bumper sticker?
http://www.zazzle.com/putin_2016_car_bumper_sticker-128326822707246005
THANK YOU Malachi Constant!
Anyone know where I can get a Vlad 2016 bumper sticker?
Look no further than the KGB or the CIA.
<< Russia is trolling america when they say "we have to fight them THERE so we don't have to fight them HERE" >>
More international law precedent estabilished by GWB.
Well, it was established a long time before GWB...in the "modern era" look no further than LBJ. But its genesis goes back much much further...
Nations have been operating for their own interests since the beginning...
In the War on Terror, Vlad is showing them the real definition of the word on
stacking12321
"wow, sounds like bush."
Let's give it a few months and see if it looks like bush.
Maybe the "long war" can be greatly condensed if the Russians fight it.
He's clothing himself in language that Bush invented so that the US sheeple will have trouble contending with it- after all, they have already been conditioned to accept such logic as a given.
Putin is trolling the US leadership right now.
Seriously, did the WSJ just write "relatively moderate" about Al Nusra?
The same branch of that Al Qaida that purportedly downed the twin towers?
Fuck off WSJ. You're embarassing yourselves, not to mention direly offending 9/11 victims families.
The WSJ obamatron assclown progressive stupid, it burns.
Quite clear now this shit-show is OWNED by PROGRESSIVES.
Obirdbrain, Lurch and Hillary damn sure aren't constitutional conservatives, are they?
The French? Progressive as well.
You see now, don't you? I'll say it again, the progressive stupid, it burns.
Constitutional Conservative policy is NON-INTERVENTION and NO WARS.
Grimaldus
Meanwhile back in Amerika Trayvonville:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-artist-fatally-shot-oakland-...
Artist fatally shot while working on anti-violence mural in Oakland, CAIt's a crazy world. I used to hang on every word of the WSJ editorial pages and I despised the Soviets. Now it's the reverse (substituting "Russians" for "Soviets"). If Putin is in favor of boiled cabbage, well, I am too.
He didnt say that. He said the only way to stop Qatar's nat gas pipeline is to act pre-emptively
Moderate Rebels in Syria just means they cut your head off more quickly.
Kerry must have slept thru Putin's speech at UN
He had a tough day at the track and needed to rest. I heard he was so beat that he was ready for bed even with his feeding bag on.
He was getting re-shoed, perfect time for a nap.
Kerry and the State dept are the laughing stock of the world nowadays: Nudelman, Kerry, Psacki, and on and on.
http://myfunnyreaction.com/media/k2/items/src/a121e39f639f5564abd14d939c...
yes but they are destroying America, Europe, Canada, Australia and NZ with open borders from the third world so they are doing their job for Soros and the other zoligarchs.
U.S real concern is that nobody gives a fuck about them or their NATO puppets anymore.
You got that right. I saw some of that propaganda press conference by Ashton Carter this afternoon, and he was choosing words very carefully, trying hard to get just the right descriptions of the "moderate resistance fighters". Sure don't want to label them Al Qaeda, do we?
He also went on about what Russia must do to be taken seriously on the world stage. What a tool. All Russia has to do is tell the U.S. to bugger off, and bingo, the rest of the world takes them seriously. What world does this dude live in. He runs the Defense Department, so is it any surprised U.S. policy is so inane.
Oh, the horror! Russia is not acting in a constructive manner, and he was clearly pissed that Russia gave thee U.S. 1 hour notice to stay out of Syrian air space because they were about to go on the offensive. He seems so shocked that Putin wasn't just limiting attacks to "known ISIS areas". If it weren't such a dangerous situation, it would be funny. Instead, it is embarrassingly pathetic and lame.
Again, the progressive stupid, it burns.
Grimaldus
Meanwhile ...
Amid Taliban gains, US military favors longer presencehttp://news.yahoo.com/us-military-favors-keeping-troops-afghanistan-past...
Bullish for DC area house prices!
Takes patience to school horses.
Especially with lame ones.
"U.S. IS CONCERNED RUSSIA'S INTENT IS PROTECTING ASSAD: KERRY"
No, Russia is smart enough to understand that you cannot safely move into isis territory while leaving anti Assad rebel forces behind you. No sane commander would take such a risk.
What part of "secure the Assad regime" do people not understand?
Meh, I'm pretty sure that at airstrike altitudes, one group of thugs dressed in black, toting AK-47s whilst driving in white Toyota pickups looks like any other said group. IOW, if you're NOT wearing a Syrian Army uniform, you can expect some Russian/Syrian ordnance in yer future!
Putin should rather send him a chessboard.
LOL.
With an extra black queen instead of a king !
They should name a gay bar after him with that name. Two black queens.
Putin should rather send him a chessboard.
Putin should send him a cheeseboard. Michelle never lets Barry have a tasty treat.
Putin told Obama to hurry up and hit the ball, or he was going to play through.
Based on observation of his girly swing, I am not sure Obomber would know what to do with a men's golf club.
Then again, that is an insult to woman golfers. Sorry.
The allusion one could draw to Vietnam might be limited to this: the decision makers, town criers and mongoloids who make these policies, commit these crimes, cover them up, and smoke the dope given to us by the MSM are DONGS.
Let's let this sink in:
"They are largely dominated by relatively moderate rebel factions and Islamist groups like Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front."
If we are at a point that the mainstream media refers to al quaeda, the supposed cause of the war on terror, as moderate, then we're better off all being dead.
It doesn't get much more in your face than that.
That's just the way falsehood works: self-consumes to implosion
Will the US simply affix a new label to IS, er ISIL, er ISIS and tell Russia the newly labeled guys are now off limits?
Okay, how about US(le)SS?
So much to the chagrin of the moderat al quaeda supporters and the supporters of ISIL, Russia has apparently been fucking shit up for everyone all damn day.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/breaking-russian-planes-strike-isi...
Russian General delivers written note to the US:
Get the fukk out of the area please because we are going to bomb it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-bombing-russia...
Well, I guess they're saying AQ is moderate because they only want to kill us eventually while ICIACIS wants to kill us now. What a bunch of fucks the media is. Anything for empire.
We will have diplomatic finger pointing and name calling, which can go on for decades......
Sadly it already has gone on for decades, the end times, they are here. Check out your local church soon.
It's the end times because Nero!
It's the end times because Charlamagne!
It's the end times because the Anti-Pople!
It's the end times because the fall of Constantinople!
It's the end times because Thiry Years' War!
It's the end times because WWI!
It's the end times because WWII!
It's the end times because the Cold War!
Will you Jesus-tards give it a fucking rest already? There's no such thing as the end times.
all living beings die
all empires die
all planets die
all stars die
all currencies die
YMMV but i reckon if one lived through any calamitous time in the past, it was the end time for many
That's about it. I speculate that the widespread belief in apocalyptic prophecy is really just an extension of the individual's knowledge and fear of his own certain demise. Sometimes the prophecy becomes self fulfilling.
Yup. All the apocalyptism and salvationism and all that crap is just the audible manifestation of a person's total lack of faith in the goodness of God. So they think they have to outscream, out-promise, and out-threaten all the other religions with increasingly ludicrous claims, because otherwise, they might wake up to the fact that we're ALL God and in the end there's nowhere to go and nothing to worry about.
The happy ending is that there is no ending, just eternal transformation.
Upvoted despite my own certainty that I am destined to be worm food and little more. But I'm OK with that.
The view of the self as some kind of homonuclus that ends at the boundaries of your skin is something you ought to question. Are your gut bacteria still you? Is the air currently in your lungs you? Is the air pressure that keeps your liquids from leaking out of your orifices you? Realize that the picture of "you" as a bag of meat is a myth and "you" are the whole thing, which extends all the way out to the most distant quasar and beyond.
I thought that black hole felt a little bit tender. Now I know why.
You realize you're posting on ZH, right? You're not supposed to get this deep. Where's the anti-semitism? Where's the one liner plays on Obama's name? Where's the 9-11 truthiness?
You're doing it wrong, man!
One of those things is not like the others! We have not been told the truth about 9/11. Anyone with the tiniest modicum of intellectual honesty knows that.
Awesome to see on ZH. Rock on. The sooner we collectively realize this the sooner we can start exploring space inner and outer in peace forever. Hat tip to Bill Hicks.
You'll be worm food. But hopefully your genes will have been passed on (and not aborted out of existence). That's the point of life.
Humanity doesn't deserve my genes. Take that any way you want.
>The happy ending is that there is no ending, just eternal transformation.
Obviously you and I are not visiting the same asian massage parlors.yeah, but the blood moon---oo-oooooooooo. <-------------- That's my ghost sound.
The Economic Hitmen and the Jackals have utterly failed it seems...
Sadly no. they have wrecked Syria for the benefit of the people who took the Golan. They will swamp UK, Europe and America with refugees to make them all less Christian. They looted the US Treasury probably $100 billion with this op for MIC. They are probably very pleased with themselves.
'check',,,, mate in two.
My conspiratorial nature makes me wonder if TPTB are turning this shitshow into a "jihadist kill jar". If this conflict is a magnet for
militant Muslims e.g., Uyghurs and Chechens, who align themselves with various factions on and within the Sunni/Shia split, and then commence
to killing each other and providing target practice for air sorties and drone operators, then it would behoove the rest of the world to
facilitate these folks making it to the theatre of battle, but not in returning home.
I'm not endorsing the above game plan, just recognizing the possibility of its existence.
Extremists are often operatives for foreign governments whether they know it or not. I doubt that those nations are ready to sweep up their operations at this time and so your premise seems unlikely. It could happen at the point at which these operatives are no longer viewed as useful.
Good point, but all operatives aren't created equally. Some, especially the unwitting,
are I presume, expendible and viewed as a thinning of the "radical" herd.
Only one problem. The "jihadis" are largely mythical. They don't exist. Zio operatives on the other hand....
It's pretty obvious Russia isn't there to save itself from mythical jihadis. Nor the US. They are a convenient excuse.
So Russian bombed all 5 US trained moderate rebels?
FSA are just Islamist co-allitions now anyway. There are no moderate or rebels Syria Secular Uprising was hijacked by Jihadists long time back : http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/how-syrias-secular-uprising-was-h...
Funny how the West can find fault with Russia supposedly not hitting ISIS targets, but can't do the same themselves. You turkeys have had a year to get the job done, now shut-up and let the men finish what you started...
When is the US going to realise they have lied so much and so outrageously about almost everything, from 9 11 to claiming the Russians shot down MH17 , that noone believes them anymore? Lying nazi scumbags...stop it!
When they grow a brain.
Are people asleep???
You would think with all of the Google Earth hype that average-intelligent folks would ignore all propaganda and ask for proof. Instead of making allegations, the sheeple should ask the regime-stream-media for live "satellite" feeds or get the fuck out!!!
In the second video the guy says "its the Americans"
Oh the "Fog of War".
Couple that with the fog of hasbara and expect visibility of what's actually happening to be zero. It's fucking thick.
Why is this a big deal? If Assad is going to face ISIS, he cannot have rebel forces anywhere in his rear or on his supply lines.
Hell, don't blame him one bit! , I don't let anyone near my rear! Well except that one time,
but me and the Misses were way drunk. TMI Wed.
You can't eat just one lays potato chip.
Targeted all 5 of them??
exactly, how the fuck did they manage to locate those exact 4 or 5 so fast?
must be a mole there or something /lulz
All the US has to do is bomb the shit out of ISIS in Iraq so they slip across the border into Syria. Give the Russians 2-3 times the ISIS fighters to deal with. Of course, the exact opposite will happen and Iraq will be flooded with ISIS fighters soon.
Russia chases ISIS back into Iraq where Iraq/Iran coaltion wipes them out.
Sounds good to me and to HELL with the USA for supporting ANY kind of terrorists. Moderate or otherwise
One person's moderates are another person's radical terrorists!
Fuck you Obama, ZOG, and Shady Arabia!
Surprised that the US hasn't ressurected the old chestnut named "Freedom Fighter"!! That always gets the old patriotic juices flowing in the US public.
Rebel is better, Starwars is just that popular.
USA Ego is so Over-rated...let it go
Scooby is scared of guns and rockets and crazy fighters!
My government keeps me safe, and well fed. Yea!
How moderate are you? Please select one, the recommended choice is highlighted.
A. Moderately moderate
B. Highly Moderate
C. Crazy, Psychotically, Zealously Moderate <----- this is the right answer
With extra psychosis on the side....
Moderate fanatics vs. Fanatic moderates. It's on, bitchez - fight to the death.
I forget, do we support the People's Front of Judea or the Popular People's Front?
You picked the right day at least, tomorrow i give my drug dealer the money so i can enjoy the weekend.
Russia bombing Murica's backed terrorists. Boohoo
Russia taking out the ussa armed and funded terror..... er.... 'freedom fighters'.
awwww,,, poor babies. lol.
The only good terrorist....
We can expect politicians to lie.
Why aren't we hearing more directly from the Syrian people themselves?
Is it because no one cares?
Because they would largely support Assad against a rapacious influx of Saudi and Turkish trained and armed takfiri mercenaries?
The United States government has gone full Orwell - but what is frightening is the way in which, so soon after the obvious lies of Iraq, the corporate MSM is absolutely shamelessly peddling what amounts to "neocon" propaganda.
How can anybody really claim to know what's going on other than a lot of people being murdered due to the machinations of foreign states?
"Why aren't we hearing more directly from the Syrian people themselves?"
because they are in a hungarian train station, and haven't been able to get on wi-fi yet?
Well as bias as it is towards the Russians, RT.com (Russian Times news network) has had plenty of coverage from Syria with interviews of Syrians.
The difference between Russian and American (and French et al.) intervention in Syria is that the Russians are the only ones who had permission.
For news from the Syrian perspective, try this site:
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/
How would we hear from the people ANYWHERE in the world, and in the USA especially? Dead silence in the media.
Remember how Al-CIA-DUH was on our side before they became the boogie man and then they were replaced by a bigger boogie man known as CIA-ISIS and now thy're on our side again fighting against our CIA-ISIS side? Ah, good times..., good times.
Yeah but according to Aghani boy pedo General Adulterer Petreaus (can I get my biography written by a slut with big t*ts Petreaus) - Al See Eye Aye Duh are our friends again. Or did that change?
I thought ISIS was Ritz Katz new and improved Al See Eye Aye Duh with Hollywood videos and lots of really scary stuff. I really hope Rita's next video will show ISIS hostages in orange suits being eaten by zombies.
Cue some faux outrage from McAmnesty in 3...2...1...
maybe they were civilians, in which case O should be cool with it.
The Jews wanted Assad out because he was a moderate who opposed their dominance in the area. We created ISIS to get rid of Assad, but surprise! some of the people, actually most of the people, whom we armed turn out to be immoderates. Who knew?
Pretty sure the Sauds want him out (Shia ruler over 75% sunni state). Or are you one of those Sauds are secretly zionist jews guys?
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/syria/belt-text/1
Wasn't that long ago Assad made diplomatic overtures to the US, but his gestures were spurned. In my opinion the
die was cast long ago on the game plan for the fate of Syria. Neocon influence didn't dissapate with the change in the
White House. The ship of state doesn't turn on a dime, especially if the deep state's hand is on the tiller, and the neocons
moved the dime, (or more likely stuck it in their pocket)
Ater 7 years of following Neo-Con policies I think we can safely say they are "Neo-Libs" and quit blaming the conservatives for everything O continues from bad old days of bush.
the Neo cons and Neo Libs are both evil scum and the same people. McCain, Schumer, Graham-nesty, Feinstein, Boxer, Goldberg, Rubio, Flake, Corker, Cohen, Blumenthal and all the rest are puppets for Soros and the Zoligarchs, PNAC and AIPAC gang.
Actually, and not surprisingly, it has all been over oil, and border encroachment. The first oil drilling rights given by the Israelis in the Golan Heights (which used to be Syrian land) was to American interests.
Syrians objected to Israel unilaterally re-drawing the border between Syria and the Golan Heights (they wanted to move the border back another five kilometers into Syrian land to create a 'security zone.')
http://www.globalresearch.ca/srael-grants-first-golan-heights-oil-drilli...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-turkey-israel-and-the-greater-middle-...
Good point, and now with the advent and vastly improved horizontal drilling techniques, oil may be being siphoned out of other areas.
Supposedly that was one of the reasons Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait; after many warnings to stop drilling under the border, he
finally lost his shit and stormed in burning wells. That may be bullshit, but who knows, not me.
Agreed. See below.
The 'security zone' is an excuse for Israeli to extend its border and increase slant-drilling into Syrian territory to get even more oil. The Kuwaitis were also caught slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields. This started a war between Iraq and Kuwait, but when the US showed support for Kuwait, Saddam started to price his oil in Euros instead of dollars. The rest is, as they say, history - which looks like it is starting to repeat itself.
I'm changing my fucking name to:
"The Source"
I love how we call them "rebels" when we support their terrorist activities, but then we call them "terrorists" when we don't.
Orwell in action.
Starwars is just that popular.
Kinda like Latin American "guerrillas" vs. "freedom fighters".
"Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see"
This would be the 4 rebels we paid $500M to train?
Have you seen the price on new light sabers lately? Simply outrageous.
Fuck - when ISIS is being destroyed by Putin, it suddenly becomes moderate in the free and fair Western media.
Can you tell a more transparent lie?
Heck fire, I lie even when I tell the truth.
Russia says it’s bombing ISIS in Syria. It’s actually bombing their enemies.
Cornering America/NATO and helping Syria/Assad while eliminating ex Soviet terrorists in Syria.
Either America/NATO have to support Russia/Syria/Assad or they have to support ISIS! :)
Masterstroke of Putin!
What could POSSIBLY go wrong here??
2015.75 in action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-palesti...
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President, Says He’s No Longer Bound by Oslo AccordsDang, that took out like 3 city blocks. US is mad it probably got some of their plants
The final knife cut that cuts the Petro dollars throat to bleed out. A protracted war
Might ought to check Fort Knox when the New Neville Chamberlain wants paid. What do you mean Tricky Dikie left a fuckin note?
Can't we mediate at the UN with the ISIS chaps. This is getting too scary for Scooby!
Shaggy, where are you!
Hate to throw you an existential crisis but both you and ISIS were created by the ZIA.
We could mediate, if it wasn't for you meddling kids
Literally how did they do that?
There were only five of them, 2 of them defected to one of the "bad" sides and the other three had their weapons taken by AQ which is apparently not on the run.
Musta been book smart, street smarts just don't cut it anymore.
The fact that they have to use the word "moderate"so much says a lot.
Moderate what in that part of the world?