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2018-04-26 02:09:55 UTC
"Rand Paul Says Syrian Gas Attack Was False Flag, or Assad is Dumbest
Dictator on the Planet."
From CNN: Wolf Blitzer interviewed ranking senator on Foreign
Relations and Homeland Security
Paul [to Blitzer's question about who, Trump or Haley, was on the
right about further US sanctions against Russia]:
Before we talk about further sanctions, we have to know what
evidence there is that Putin was complicit in the alleged chemical
attack in Douma of Syria.
... And with regard to this question, we don't have evidence that
Assad's regime did it. Yes, the US, UK, and France all claim that
they have seen evidence that Assad did it. But they can't share it
with us the denizens, can they? On logical grounds, like Senator Paul
said on the CNN program, Assad had to be the dumbest guy to lead Syria
by giving the West the excuse to bomb them when he also knows two
other hard facts: a) the ineffectiveness of CW as a weapon on
battlefield - the number of Syrians who have been killed by gas in
this US-initiated "civil war" is at best half a percent of the total
fatalities and b) that he was not only winning the war (due to the
help from Russia and other allies) but also had the upper hand on the
rebels in Douma at the time.
Paul's strong pushback on the pro-strike crowd in Washington finds an
echo in Kucinich's view on the same network a bit earlier. Kucinich,
when asked by his CNN host to admit that he agreed that there was
evidence of Assad's culpability in the alleged CW attack in Douma
based on the flight pattern of Syrian military planes, forcefully
refused. He said something to the effect that even if you can say that
only the Syrian planes fly that way, that is not evidence that Syrian
planes dropped the CW. But above all, Dennis Kucinich asked: Why
can't we do a thorough investigation before we start an airstrike?
What is the rush?
In any case, are we talking about flight patterns over the locality of
a city neighborhood? Don't make people laugh. And humor aside, it's
not forensic evidence. To my thinking, the affected area in Douma is
just a city neighborhood and therefore, it makes no sense to need the
planes to drop the CW into something so localized.
Finally, Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs told a network news panel
what he knew about the US's enduring effort in Syria to try to
overthrow Assad's rule. He told us about Operation Timber Sycamore
and the NYT also had an article last year about the sudden death of
the ultra-expensive CIA covert program named Timber Sycamore.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs' insightful analysis was brought to my attention
by the Jimmy Dore Show.
Bombshell: Professor Stuns MSNBC Panel On Syria [The Jimmy Dore Show]
Cheapskate Manny Macron came and tried to rally American politicians
from behind. He apparently brought along an oak sapling from a part
of France which he thought would remind the American people how going
to war together is such a glorious thing, especially if your enemies
start running away calling your rescuers "Devil's Dogs" as they did a
century ago.
But as Erich Maria Remarque told it, the soldiers who ran away from
the timely Teufel Hunden's rescue were just as tired of the war as
those who were under siege before. The US participation in WWI in the
last year wasn't necessarily a good thing, according to many
historians and analysts.
The soldiers who ran away didn't exactly kill babies for Wilhelm
Kaiser as the politicians in Washington loved to tell the people.
Just that one year of participation cost the loss of about 120 thousand
American lives, including those missing in action.
We should not assume too many US marines going AWOL because they were
cowards.
The loss was unbearable to their surviving families.
Why does Macron think that it was such a glorious thing to even remind
the American people of this decision that so cavalierly wasted the
lives of their sons?
Without the US participation and the ensuing Versailles Treaty, the
Germans probably wouldn't have rallied around a despot like Hitler.
And furthermore China probably would not have been slaughtered by
Japan's Imperial army which took advantage of the fact that it was on
the winning side of WWI to begin its rapid expanse of occupation of the
Northeast of China culminating in the Rape of Nanjing.
One thing that is still not understood by most people today is that
the modern Chinese thinking is a direct response to the 1919 Versailles
Treaty, which was so humiliating that they decided to look at
themselves in the mirror instead of blaming others. So they decided
that Confucianism and Buddhism were bad news for their future. The
May 4th Movement was the definitive statement of that line of thought.
Today, people say this and that about China. But without US
intervention in WWI, the world would probably be very different today.
Macron is such an ignorant and arrogant fool and he wants to lead
America from behind to repeat its terrible mistakes?
lo yeeOn
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Timber Sycamore From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program
run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
supported by various Arab intelligence services, most notably that of
Saudi Arabia. Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry
and training to rebel forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
in the Syrian Civil War. According to U.S. officials, the program has
trained thousands of rebels.[1][2] President Barack Obama secretly
authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013.
[3] However, the CIA had been facilitating the flow of arms from Libya
to Syria "for more than a year" beforehand in collaboration with "the
UK (United Kingdom), Saudi Arabia and Qatar."[4]
The program's existence was suspected after the U.S. Federal Business
Opportunities website publicly solicited contract bids to ship tons of
weaponry from Eastern Europe to [Turkey and Jordan].
. . .
Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html
By Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt
Aug. 2, 2017
Washington - The end came quickly for one of the costliest covert
action programs in the history of the C.I.A.
During a White House briefing early last month, the C.I.A. director,
Mike Pompeo, recommended to President Trump that he shut down a
four-year-old effort to arm and train Syrian rebels. The president
swiftly ended the program.
The rebel army was by then a shell, hollowed out by more than a year
of bombing by Russian planes and confined to ever-shrinking patches of
Syria that government troops had not reconquered. Critics in Congress
had complained for years about the costs - more than $1 billion over
the life of the program - and reports that some of the C.I.A.-supplied
weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda
further sapped political support for the program.
While critics of Mr. Trump have argued that he ended the program to
curry favor with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, there were in
fact dim views of the effort in both the Trump and Obama White Houses
- a rare confluence of opinion on national security policy.
The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive
efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency's program arming the
mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s, has forced a reckoning
over its successes and failures. Opponents say it was foolhardy,
expensive and ineffective. Supporters say that it was unnecessarily
cautious, and that its achievements were remarkable given that the
Obama administration had so many restrictions on it from the start,
which they say ultimately ensured its failure.
. . .
Dictator on the Planet."
From CNN: Wolf Blitzer interviewed ranking senator on Foreign
Relations and Homeland Security
Paul [to Blitzer's question about who, Trump or Haley, was on the
right about further US sanctions against Russia]:
Before we talk about further sanctions, we have to know what
evidence there is that Putin was complicit in the alleged chemical
attack in Douma of Syria.
... And with regard to this question, we don't have evidence that
Assad's regime did it. Yes, the US, UK, and France all claim that
they have seen evidence that Assad did it. But they can't share it
with us the denizens, can they? On logical grounds, like Senator Paul
said on the CNN program, Assad had to be the dumbest guy to lead Syria
by giving the West the excuse to bomb them when he also knows two
other hard facts: a) the ineffectiveness of CW as a weapon on
battlefield - the number of Syrians who have been killed by gas in
this US-initiated "civil war" is at best half a percent of the total
fatalities and b) that he was not only winning the war (due to the
help from Russia and other allies) but also had the upper hand on the
rebels in Douma at the time.
Paul's strong pushback on the pro-strike crowd in Washington finds an
echo in Kucinich's view on the same network a bit earlier. Kucinich,
when asked by his CNN host to admit that he agreed that there was
evidence of Assad's culpability in the alleged CW attack in Douma
based on the flight pattern of Syrian military planes, forcefully
refused. He said something to the effect that even if you can say that
only the Syrian planes fly that way, that is not evidence that Syrian
planes dropped the CW. But above all, Dennis Kucinich asked: Why
can't we do a thorough investigation before we start an airstrike?
What is the rush?
In any case, are we talking about flight patterns over the locality of
a city neighborhood? Don't make people laugh. And humor aside, it's
not forensic evidence. To my thinking, the affected area in Douma is
just a city neighborhood and therefore, it makes no sense to need the
planes to drop the CW into something so localized.
Finally, Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs told a network news panel
what he knew about the US's enduring effort in Syria to try to
overthrow Assad's rule. He told us about Operation Timber Sycamore
and the NYT also had an article last year about the sudden death of
the ultra-expensive CIA covert program named Timber Sycamore.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs' insightful analysis was brought to my attention
by the Jimmy Dore Show.
Bombshell: Professor Stuns MSNBC Panel On Syria [The Jimmy Dore Show]
Cheapskate Manny Macron came and tried to rally American politicians
from behind. He apparently brought along an oak sapling from a part
of France which he thought would remind the American people how going
to war together is such a glorious thing, especially if your enemies
start running away calling your rescuers "Devil's Dogs" as they did a
century ago.
But as Erich Maria Remarque told it, the soldiers who ran away from
the timely Teufel Hunden's rescue were just as tired of the war as
those who were under siege before. The US participation in WWI in the
last year wasn't necessarily a good thing, according to many
historians and analysts.
The soldiers who ran away didn't exactly kill babies for Wilhelm
Kaiser as the politicians in Washington loved to tell the people.
Just that one year of participation cost the loss of about 120 thousand
American lives, including those missing in action.
We should not assume too many US marines going AWOL because they were
cowards.
The loss was unbearable to their surviving families.
Why does Macron think that it was such a glorious thing to even remind
the American people of this decision that so cavalierly wasted the
lives of their sons?
Without the US participation and the ensuing Versailles Treaty, the
Germans probably wouldn't have rallied around a despot like Hitler.
And furthermore China probably would not have been slaughtered by
Japan's Imperial army which took advantage of the fact that it was on
the winning side of WWI to begin its rapid expanse of occupation of the
Northeast of China culminating in the Rape of Nanjing.
One thing that is still not understood by most people today is that
the modern Chinese thinking is a direct response to the 1919 Versailles
Treaty, which was so humiliating that they decided to look at
themselves in the mirror instead of blaming others. So they decided
that Confucianism and Buddhism were bad news for their future. The
May 4th Movement was the definitive statement of that line of thought.
Today, people say this and that about China. But without US
intervention in WWI, the world would probably be very different today.
Macron is such an ignorant and arrogant fool and he wants to lead
America from behind to repeat its terrible mistakes?
lo yeeOn
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Timber Sycamore From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program
run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
supported by various Arab intelligence services, most notably that of
Saudi Arabia. Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry
and training to rebel forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
in the Syrian Civil War. According to U.S. officials, the program has
trained thousands of rebels.[1][2] President Barack Obama secretly
authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013.
[3] However, the CIA had been facilitating the flow of arms from Libya
to Syria "for more than a year" beforehand in collaboration with "the
UK (United Kingdom), Saudi Arabia and Qatar."[4]
The program's existence was suspected after the U.S. Federal Business
Opportunities website publicly solicited contract bids to ship tons of
weaponry from Eastern Europe to [Turkey and Jordan].
. . .
Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html
By Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt
Aug. 2, 2017
Washington - The end came quickly for one of the costliest covert
action programs in the history of the C.I.A.
During a White House briefing early last month, the C.I.A. director,
Mike Pompeo, recommended to President Trump that he shut down a
four-year-old effort to arm and train Syrian rebels. The president
swiftly ended the program.
The rebel army was by then a shell, hollowed out by more than a year
of bombing by Russian planes and confined to ever-shrinking patches of
Syria that government troops had not reconquered. Critics in Congress
had complained for years about the costs - more than $1 billion over
the life of the program - and reports that some of the C.I.A.-supplied
weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda
further sapped political support for the program.
While critics of Mr. Trump have argued that he ended the program to
curry favor with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, there were in
fact dim views of the effort in both the Trump and Obama White Houses
- a rare confluence of opinion on national security policy.
The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive
efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency's program arming the
mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s, has forced a reckoning
over its successes and failures. Opponents say it was foolhardy,
expensive and ineffective. Supporters say that it was unnecessarily
cautious, and that its achievements were remarkable given that the
Obama administration had so many restrictions on it from the start,
which they say ultimately ensured its failure.
. . .