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How You Were Tricked Into 'Supporting' The Syrian War
Submitted by Justin King via The Fifth Column,
Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it when I wrote daily for The Anti-Media, and even before then when I wrote for a Canadian outlet called Digital Journal. It began long before that though.
It started in 2006 when the US decided it wanted to oust Syrian President Assad and started laying the ground work. This was proven by leaked Saudi Arabian intelligence cables hosted on Wikileaks. Julian Assange said of the leaks:
“That plan was to use a number of different factors to create paranoia within the Syrian government; to push it to overreact, to make it fear there’s a coup…so in theory it says ‘We have a problem with Islamic extremists crossing over the border with Iraq, and we’re taking actions against them to take this information and make the Syrian government look weak, the fact that it is dealing with Islamic extremists at all.”
The same year, the Islamic State was just a half-baked insurgent group in Iraq. The group would then migrate to Syria, where it was reinforced by battalions of defecting Free Syrian Army troops who were trained by the United States. Many of those claimed to have ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. The Islamic State truly became a child of the United States.
In 2009, the United States began secretly funding opposition groups within Syria and even provided $6 million to Barada TV, a UK-based TV channel, to produce propaganda to support “regime change” inside Syria.
Slowly but surely, the US and its allies put this plan into effect until in March of 2011 spontaneous demonstrations popped up in Syria demanding Assad step down. Of course, Huffington Post UK would later point out that these demonstrations weren’t spontaneous at all. They were orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency.
In October of 2013, the US was bombarded by television pundits who advocated airstrikes in Syria. Viewers were engrossed. The television stations that aired these pundits never told their viewers that the people advocating the airstrikes were employed by the companies that made the missiles that were to be used. This was the straw the broke the camel’s back, and activist began pressuring DC to deescalate.
In September of 2014, President Obama openly admitted the plan was for regime change. He boldly stated:
“We are not going to stabilize Syria under the rule of Assad.”
Throughout this time the West has tried various methods of justifying an invasion. There were claims of chemical weapon attacks perpetrated by Assad, but the only proof offered was the analysis that the weapons might have originated from the Syrian military’s storerooms. The average American was smart enough to realize that it’s a civil war and that the weapons of all sides came from the Syrian military, except of those “accidentally” dropped to Islamic State forces by the United States. The chemical weapons claim disappeared when the Kurds were hit by chemical weapons. The Kurds were fighting the Islamic State, not Assad. There were scores of unsuccessful airstrikes launched by the West. They accomplished nothing, and the Islamic State continued to destabilize Assad. NATO allies openly attacked those fighting the Islamic State. The plan was working and in June of 2015 the Brookings Institute published its paper on how to reorganize Syria.
Then suddenly, everything went wrong for the West. Russia announced it was going to begin providing air cover for Assad’s forces, and their airstrikes were just a tad more accurate. The Kurds in Iraq had massive successes against the Islamic State and bottled them up in two major cities. This offensive made thousands of Iraqi Kurds available for the fight against the Islamic State in Syria. Everything looked grim. It seemed that almost a decade of work was going to fly out of the window and Assad would remain in power.
Then a miracle occurred. Islamic State terrorists murdered more than 150 in Paris. The propaganda machine took over. Facebook asked if you wanted to change your profile photo to show solidarity with Paris. It created a social media frenzy and a propagandist’s dream. Suddenly, everybody wanted to get even with the Islamic State. Where is the Islamic State? Syria. The West now has its pretext to overthrow Assad. It will happen as a result of fighting the Islamic State in Syria. The average American is simply too stupid to understand that the Islamic State is Assad’s enemy. The West has successfully sold people on the idea that removing Assad is somehow benefiting the fight against the Islamic State. And people cheer.
That sounds crazy? A day after the attack, the US State Department released the statement of the International Syria Support Group. It reads in part:
“In this respect they affirmed their support for a ceasefire as described above and for a Syrian-led process that will, within a target of six months, establish credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance, and set a schedule and process for drafting a new constitution. Free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months. These elections must be administered under UN supervision to the satisfaction of the governance and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, with all Syrians, including the diaspora, eligible to participate.”
That’s right. Assad isn’t even out of power yet, but the new US-puppet constitution will be ready within 18 months.
Recap: The United States planted the seeds of revolt through propaganda, led the demonstrations against Assad, helped arm and train the Islamic State, repeatedly pushed a false narrative to gain a pretext to invade, denied proper air support to those fighting the Islamic State, and will now capitalize on the murders committed by the Islamic State to achieve its goal of ousting Assad. They’re so confident of success this time, there’s a timeline for the new constitution.
During all of this, over 300,000 people died and 6 million more were displaced. There will be more death and destruction. Unless, of course, Assad voluntarily steps down and allows Syria to become another US colony, which is highly unlikely.
The horrible part of this is that despite warnings, the American people did nothing. We’ve been had, but we’re the lucky ones. We’re still alive.
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But but but Assad killing his own people! CNN told it!
Obama is also killing his own people. What's you're point?
Exactly who are Obama's "own people"? I know that I am not one of them.
The truth summed up using m&m's......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/the-refugee-crisis-...
"How You Were Tricked into Supporting the Syrian War"
I wasn't tricked, nor did I have any more say in the matter than my "fellow Americans", the vast majority of whom wouldn't know ISIS from Ice-T.
So on we march toward WWIII, my "fellow Americans" ready and willing, in lemming-like fashion, to send their children into the slaughter:
Why, of course the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. … But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country. — Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering
I've noticed of late that the down votes I get, however few, never rebut me.
Could it be because they know what they feel but not what they think? Because they long ago succumbed to the scourge of humanity?
"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal." — Robert HeinleinCase in point!
The meta-level is these evil fucks are giving us no choice but to overthrow them! That is proof they are evil-fucks, imho.
Our Israeli-neocons have melded with our Deep State, they did 9/11 the FALSE FLAG operation. We have a large number of criminals of a criminal variety and criminal nature in our government, scattered here and there in positions of power like FEMA and the continuity of government structure. Desperate people in positions of great power, what do historical parallels suggest will happen next?
War.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/if-windows-crashes-wwiii/
Even better, in a world of electronics, it is all deniable. Just set up the conditions and wait for statistics.
And don't tell me that the command and control systems would prevent such obvious idiocy. Maybe, but there are so many obvious idiocies to protect against, they never think of them all, especially when their policies are forcing the events.
This is still the government that did 9-11. For me, that interpretation explains much more of what is going on than anything else my mind can wrap itself around.
For me, the alternative view is that the many people, apparently rational and reality-based people as I believe myself to be, are making major mistakes in their interpretations of evidence, and that our government has chosen not to counter those major mistakes with rational discourse. That does not pass my filters of possibilities, but that is how we go wrong, with those filters.
Another level of coverup and control I had not grokked before this : if they can keep it from being discussed, they win. Jesse Ventura disappeared because he insisted on discussing it.
Get the right set of visible tattoos and be guaranteed that no camera ever records your image. Say the right words in public and never be recorded again. I must use those ideas in a story.
Qatar has bought high-tech military equipment to Ukraine on behalf of ISIS. The operation took place in late September 2015, just before the Russian military action against the terrorist organization. It was approved by the US embassy in Doha.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189366.html
I wasn't tricked into "supporting" anything. Speak for yourself, Justin King.
The world just looks like an old james bond movie from the 70's where the Americans are the evil guys and the Russians the good guys.
We're kind of like Darth Vader, or maybe Luke if he's a badguy in the new Star Wars. We were good, but then became evil because of our anger and desire to protect / rule all. If Bernie gets elected, it will be more like Space Balls though, since we'll have the Schwartz.
Now that was a good movie :)
here's the link for the younger generation to see a real classic:
http://veehd.com/video/3109387_SpaceBalls-1987-PG
Yeah - the ones where an insane maniac with amazing technology takes over the world. I never thought the maniac would be us.
With Roger Moore as 007.He made a lousey Bond and he knos it.
Roer more will be 090 soon, making next episodes even more lousy.
No one was "tricked", the deep state no longer even pretends to "ask" the people or their "representation"...
What an idiot.
Tree of liberty and all that.
Yes, Assad steps down and a motley bunch of terror groups takes over. What could possibly go wrong? We must want a middle east in chaos and anarchy with no real power.
This article is missing something important. DAESH was also used to topple the Ghadaffi regime in Libya and then were sent to Syria.
listen up good zh commenters...soon the tribe from the sand negroes will be killing your own, then what? u gonna blame the jooooos for that too...probably!
you idiots dont have two brain cells to rub together collectively.
Yeah, that's not racist at all.
What a fucknut!
hey liberal....bite the fuck out of me, moron!
Liberal? LMFAO! You really are a moron, thanks for the confirmation troll.
liberals include libertarian jackasses too, troll
LOP doesn't need anybody to stick up for him but calling him a troll shows what a clueless moron you are.
Awww...another dumb troll calling smart people trolls.
Cute.
smart people, oh come now jughead, zh commenters have a collective IQ of 2, get real bubba!
So you're just here to halve the average ?
LOL, winston chuffer, no actually i am hear to be a pain in your stupid arse, how do you like that? dumbasses such as yourself, should check yourselves, because liberals and libertarians are full of shit, you get my drift son?
I didn't know you could have a negative IQ.
You've just been running out of vaseline which is not our fault.
https://archive.org/details/TheInternationalJew_655
not everyone here on zh blames the jews for everything...
Yeah well, a couple thousand years of trending is a bit hard to ignore...
Our blowhard dyspeptic generals look like a bunch of Dr Strangeloves on steroids. They shocked and awed the world and it didn't work. What now?
"Free and fair elections" like those in the U.S.? Hilarious!
The only thing I've been tricked-into is this idea that if we all keep paying taxes, the government will eventually work in the best interests of the people its there to serve.
You pay taxes, because if you don't, government goons will in fact take every asset they can from you at gunpoint and then prevent you from engaging in any "sanctioned" or "government approved" economic activity.
FYI, it's been this way for generations and still no revolt.
fucking sheep.
or like Schiff,,, chained to a table dying of cancer at 87.
They made an example out of him. Disgraceful...
There are people who deserve to hang for what happened to that man. I hope they will.
'The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything'
Wise man, Albert Einstein.
ZZZZZ...Syria, where is Syria? Who is Syria?.....ZZZZZ
S/
I wasn't tricked into supporting anything.
Engali you are too stupid to know what is going on in your own head, you listen to the voice in your head and you think it is God speaking to you, it isn't, it is just the ideas implanted every day, playing back for your education!
I wasn't tricked into anything. The enemy would have to be crossing our borders, killing the entire way, before I believed this government was in the right.
"The enemy would have to be crossing our borders, killing the entire way, before I believed this government was in the right."
Even that would probably be a false flag.
I might be forced to defend myself but nevertheless I will never believe anything emanating from Washington.
Does this mean more Pink Ribbons and Support our Troops Crap on cars?
Why would there be more Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbons?
Syria has 300,000 dead, and 6 million displaced innocent men, women and children. And no one gives a shit about them.
Russia had over 200 die in one plane accident over the Sinai desert in Egypt. Only Russians give a shit about them.
125 people die in Paris and it is a big fucking deal in the CIA controlled Western press. And now the French give a shit.
Bruxelles has been on high alert for days now. And now the Belgians give a shit.
Everyone has forgotten the Malaysian air disasters, Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and no one gives a shit about 911 facts anymore.
Tonight, after a day of football, on 60 Minutes (in the US), "How American cities are preparing for a terror attack."
And tonight, the fucking American messiah, Obama will be playing his fiddle and watching 60 Minutes, while Reggie gives him a blow job and fingering his shit in the Oval Orifice.
Welcome to the New Normal Nightmare, Droogies. When it reaches you and your family, then you will give a shit.
`"Vietnam`ization" : Winning over communism[?], means... containing 'IT', vis-a-vis by any means possible?'
answer: self explanatory!
fast forward-- ISIS or 'IS'!?!
the parallels are uncanny. contain, and collaborate with despotic/ tyrannical gov'ts. ie., 'the better of two evils?'
It seems that communism has been eradicated as the world once define'd as an irrational approach to a new world order predicated on equality?
Obama's neo-anti-ISlam jihadist crusade has taken up the baby'bush mantra of containing a ISlamic`tized global jihad... whilst, holding hands with its nemesis and backbiting its advarsaries[?], whom happen to be our allies[?]-- eg. ISlamabad {ISI/ CIA/ China} v. Delhi{RAW/ Mossad/CIA}, whereas, Afghanistan has absolutely nothing [nought`anything-period] to do with the current exogenous events regarding geopolitical conflagrations in MENA!
in short: what the fuck are we still doing in afghanistan when it's a russian/ indian/ pakistani/chinese problem!
the epicenter for ISlamic funding and contagion is incubated, nourished and fostered on the WESTERN Side of the Persian Gulf ie. GCC`Salifi-wahhabi sunni madrassas with America's own homegrown 'Gulen Movement'!,... providing the radical fodder-albeit!?!
Tricked the same way by the same people via the same controlled corporate-and-zionist msm
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
http://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant-crisis-syria-war-fueled-by-competin...
And for many of the same reasons.
http://theantimedia.org/isis-israel-iraq-and-syria-its-all-part-of-the-p...
The us media regurgitates us gov propaganda uncritically. It's telling that even Setmour Hersh coukdnt get published in the US with his 'who's sarin' and "ratline" articles.
Let alone the role of the Zionist lobby.
http://america-hijacked.com/2012/02/12/israel-lobby-pushes-for-us-action...
"Foreign meddling in Syria began several years before the Syrian revolt erupted. Wikieaks released leaked US State Department cables from 2006 revealing U.S. plans to overthrow the Syrian government through instigating civil strife, and receiving these very orders straight from Tel Aviv. The leaks reveal the United State’s partnership with nations like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and even Egypt to use sectarianism to divide Syria through the Sunni and Shiite divide to destabilize the nation to weaken Iran and Hezbolla. Israel is also revealed to attempt to use this crisis to expand it’s occupation of the Golan Heights for additional oil exploration, according to Wikileaks editor Julian Assange.
According to major media outlets like the BBC and the Associated Press, the demonstrations that supposedly swept Syria were comprised of only hundreds of people, but additional Wikileaks cables reveal CIA involvement on the ground in Syria to instigate these very demonstrations as early as March 2011."
http://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant-crisis-syria-war-fueled-by-competin...
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/10/us-russia-syria-problem-fak...
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
http://russia-insider.com/en/war-terror-joke-you-see-isis-guys-eating-mc...
holy shit, another moron in a long line. see you believe in nothing so you fall for anything...it sickens me to see such a waste of flesh such as yourself
wikileaks, really and u fall for that crap, u are are a moron
If you can disprove the source or the findings, go ahead.
2006 for eample put a single nation to shame because their military involvement in Lebanon wasn't a success, to tell it mildly. But of course, this country which usually loves to get revenge, is not involved in turning to the US for plans to oust the Syrian president...
The jooos aren't responsible for ALL misery on this planet..... just a huge disproportionate amount considering their population.
The words of Adolf Hitler.....whenever you find something foul, when you peel back the layers more often than not; you find the same bunch of maggots underneath.
anyone quoting adolf hitler
sucks...
We believe in nothing! you say, high praise but I doubt many really deserve it, as some wise one from the past said; "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal" But enough about us, what about you what do you believe in? Proclaim your manifesto, now is the time to enlighten the World, soon it may be too late to do anything.
LOL, I believe you are an idiot, how's that, I don't need to justify fuck all to you, now go play with your lego set
I wasn't tricked and I don't support it......
I do not like Barack Obam, I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like that sneaky crook, or how he lies and cooks the books.
I do not like it when he steals, I do not like his secret deals.
I do not like that metro man, I do not like his 'YES WE CAN.'
I do not like his spending spree, does he not know that nothing's free?
I do not like his smug replies, I do not like his constant lies.
I do not like his kind of hope, I do not like it nope nope nope.
nice rant, but its not just Ozero, you can add all liberals and rinos and libertarians to that as well
I never supported ANY war. That doesn't mean I would never support any "war", but only "organic wars" against invasion. If someone actually tried to invade anywhere regular folks are well armed, the fictitious "government" would not need to declare an official war, nor fund it, nor organize it.
If an attack without invasion happens (someone blows up some buildings with a missile-bomb for example), then whoever did that needs to be eliminated. But there is no need to "fight a war", since only one or a few individuals fired the missile-bomb, not the entire population in that region. So the perpetrators need to be eliminated. In an absolute worst case scenario where the specific individuals cannot be identified, everyone in the relevant government or organization is fair game (eliminate them).
The conventional notion of "war" is utterly corrupt and completely insane. Yet this insane notion has existed so long, and has been reported so many trillion times in schools and media around the planet, humans simply accept and assume "it must makes sense".
What does make sense is self-defense and retaliation... to exterminate those individuals who harm or attempt to harm. But the conventional notion of "war" is completely different. The actual instigators do not fight and suffer no harm, but they both send thousands to millions of their "citizens" == "slaves" to kill each other, leaving the instigators safe and comfortable in luxurious digs. That notion is so utterly and radically insane as to be mind-boggling... yet considered totally normal by almost everyone.
Let everyone [who wants to] be well armed and well trained. Let them defend themselves against harm and/or retaliate against those who already harmed them or their family or friends or neighbors. That's all that's needed. To hell with "war".
Damn, that was the most ignorant post i have read in a long time, honestly ann, fuck you
I'm glad to make your day, war monger.
BTW, I much prefer Linux.
Just like many were tricked into supporting the Iraq wars. An internationalist ethnic clique in finance, media, and government, always war profiteering, scheming, scamming, parasitizing, causing chaos and destruction.
The Ethnic Clique That Sold Us The Iraq War
http://zfacts.com/node/297
Eretz Israel Map
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eightiesby Oded Yinon, translated by Israel Shahak | KIVUNIM / Palestine with Provenance | February 1982
http://www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=A2298_0_1_0_M
Only the right wing supports war in Syria. Apparently I don't communicate with any of those people because I have not heard one person say, fuck yeah, let's go invade.
FUCK YEAH lets go invade, hey better yet lets nuke mecca and see if the fuck with us any more, and if they do, nuke tehran
fuck you libtard, we conservatives are done with your fucking bullshit, time for talking is now OVER!
I bet a majority of the TEA PARTY fakers in CONgress will sign off on the next war funding extension bill... just like they did in 2009.
hey i bet all the libtard fakers in congress will suck islamic dick! yay and they will also completley bankrupt the country ohhhh sorry they already did that, fiscally and morally...do you even know what those words mean moron?
God, fucking with you liberals and libertarians is so easy, your ignorance and stupidity is boundless
moron
I don't think we're that stupid.
I believe that American & its euroPeons propaganda against Assad is driving so many young people to join ISIS
There is no such thing as a spontaneous revolution.