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David H. Petraeus, former CIA director under President Barack Obama, told POLITICO on Saturday that military action in Syria is "necessary" in order to deter other "would-be aggressors" such as Iran and North Korea.
Petraeus, whose public career was widely admired until his resignation last year due to an extramarital affair, added that "Failure of Congress to approve the president's request would have serious ramifications not just in the Mideast but around the world."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.545674
Petraeus' Failures Were in Afghanistan and Iraq, Not Gmail
Gen. Petraeus, who commanded US occupation forces in first Iraq, then Afghanistan, continues to be hailed as a military genius and war hero.
Look again. Petraeus and his fellow generals used every weapon in the US arsenal against Iraqs eleven resistance groups (deceptively misnamed al-Qaida by Washington), including the mass ethnic cleansing of two million Sunni Iraqis, death squads, torture, and brutal reprisals.
UN officials assert that some 500,000 Iraqis, mostly children, died due to the US-led blockade under Saddam Hussein. At least another half million died from the US 2003 invasion until 2011. Yet after all this, the US forces were forced pull out of Iraq at the end of what Saddam Hussein vowed would be the Mother of All Battles.
Cost of Iraq: $1.6-2.4 trillion; almost 5,000 US soldiers dead, 35,000 seriously wounded. Some triumph. America has yet to accept the painful fact that while it won all the tactical engagements in Iraq, it lost the bigger war.
Petraeus was then sent to work his magic in Afghanistan before returning to Washington to head CIA. There, the brainy general, who had a knack for self-promotion and public relations, tried again to crush the Pashtun resistance by massive bombardments, billions in high tech gear, reprisals that wiped out entire villages, search and destroy missions. Torture and executions were as common as during the Soviet occupation.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/17-11
Kill syrians to stop Iran and North Koreans?
geez......
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)moving Assad to N Korea. I'm sure he could give Fat Kim a few pointers.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)McDonough says attack on Assad regime would send message to Iran
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that an impending U.S. attack on Syria would send a message to Iranian leaders that they should not feel free to develop nuclear weapons.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023622464
But Betrayus said it first?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)It NEVER works. Iran knows perfectly well what we want, we've been in their face ever since they kicked the Shah out.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)not surprising though.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Damn it, I want FOOTBALL analogies in my jingo news, not falling Dominoes! Dominoes are NOT macho.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)with a vengeance...
jsr
(7,712 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Gen Betrayus.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)we don't understand his power or power itself. Just because he's no longer running the whole Iraq, Pakistan
Afganistan central command or the CIA anymore.... he's got their ear.
and yes I agree with your rock
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)This is already an Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy war, that is to say a Muslim sectarian conflict.