CP-Why they want to go to Syria It's chemical Warfare alright but not the kind you're thinking of…

[Champion Jack]

Cross post from E and E
The song remains the same

Iraq wasn’t about “weapons of mass destruction.” It was about oil. We borrowed the money from the Chinese so that we could make it safe for the Chinese and Exxon to frack Iraq. Bombing Syria is not about “chemical weapons of mass destruction.” It’s about a gas pipeline that has been proposed to take gas from Quatar to Europe – via Syria and Turkey.

Russia does not want the proposed gas pipeline to Europe, where they export most of their gas. So they support the Assad military dictatorship, their client and puppet, who has blocked it on their behalf.

The gulf Arabs want a new gas pipeline to Europe. The Turks want the pipeline to Europe. So they support the rebels who are trying to overthrow Assad.

The Syrians, meanwhile have proposed an alternate pipeline – from the Iranian gas fields, through Iraq, Syria, then north to Turkey. Something Quatar is opposed to. Civil war broke out shortly after the Assad regime signed on for this route, cutting Quatar out and elevating Iran. The Syrian rebels are (of course) bankrolled by Quatar. . .

We are dependent on Arab oil. The Turks are our allies, as are the Israelis. So the Obama Administration supports Quatar, Turkey and Israel in opposition to the Russians, Syrians and Iranians. Over the ‘preferred’ route of a gas pipeline.

And meanwhile back in the States, who gets the first LNG export concession to ship US shale gas to Europe ? Quatar Petroleum International and Exxon.

http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. The Great Decodings

X is not about Y, but about Z!

Pffft.

You're right about the song remaining the same, though. Substitute for X, Y, and Z and you to can be a seer!

[Demit]

2. ??

[Hobo]

3. Assuming this thesis is correct.

Why does it have to go through Syria? Iraq and Turkey share a common border! In either scenario why does it have to go through Syria? Just asking.....

In this bloggers opinion the battle, it seems to me, should be between Qatar and Iran. Then my answer would be build two pipelines.

It's not like the gas won't be used.

Hobo

[Champion Jack]

4. Maybe the route is easier?

Perhaps because Russia has an established relationship w/them?

[Little Star]

5. US agitation against Syria began long before recent atrocities....

In May 2007, a presidential finding revealed that Bush had authorised CIA operations against Iran. Anti-Syria operations were also in full swing around this time as part of this covert programme, according to Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. A range of US government and intelligence sources told him that the Bush administration had "cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations" intended to weaken the Shi'ite Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria," wrote Hersh, "a byproduct" of which is "the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups" hostile to the United States and "sympathetic to al-Qaeda." He noted that "the Saudi government, with Washington's approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria," with a view to pressure him to be "more conciliatory and open to negotiations" with Israel. One faction receiving covert US "political and financial support" through the Saudis was the exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business", he told French television:
"I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria."

The 2011 uprisings, it would seem - triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and climate-induced droughts which led to massive food price hikes - came at an opportune moment that was quickly exploited. Leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor including notes from a meeting with Pentagon officials confirmed US-UK training of Syrian opposition forces since 2011 aimed at eliciting "collapse" of Assad's regime "from within."

So what was this unfolding strategy to undermine Syria and Iran all about? According to retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, a memo from the Office of the US Secretary of Defense just a few weeks after 9/11 revealed plans to "attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years", starting with Iraq and moving on to "Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran." In a subsequent interview, Clark argues that this strategy is fundamentally about control of the region's vast oil and gas resources.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines

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