Obama’s Turn to Congress: More Deception on Syria - Paul Street

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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

http://www.zcommunications.org/obama-s-turn-to-congress-more-deception-on-syria-by-paul-street.html

Excerpts:

Forget that the United States has repeatedly used chemical and even radioactive weapons against civilians. Forget that the U.S. stands in the vanguard of modern petro-capitalism’s gassing of all life on Earth through wildly excessive global carbon emissions that increasingly pose a grave threat to human survival. And that the United States policy makers have long felt entitled by America’s supposed “exceptionalism” to violate international rules and horrify “the global community” with abject impunity.

The administration knows further that most Western policy and opinion makers share its “patent lack of sympathy for [and] confidence in the Syrian popular uprising” (Achcar) and that responsible intelligence links raise serious doubts about the notion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad actively ordered the chemical weapons attack of August 21. Along the way, besides the fact that Obama’s attacks will kill civilians and the risk of broad regional spillover and catastrophe, there’s the tricky matter of Russian president Vladimir Putin reportedly making strange noises about attacking Saudi Arabia if the West attacks Syria. Putin has sent Russian warships into the Mediterranean, raising the specter of escalating U.S. tensions with what is still the world’s second leading nuclear weapons power.

In his race to war, Obama and his leading CML and humanitarian-imperialist advisors and operatives (Susan Rice and Samantha Power) must feel a little bit like the cartoon character Road Runner, caught ten yards off a cliff and realizing that there’s no solid ground underneath. With no safety net and fig leaf for imminent war crimes on offer from the UN, NATO, the Arab League, or even from the British junior partner in mass Muslim-killing, the Nobel Peace Prize-mocking president is gambling that Congress will grant him one. If the attack turns out to be yet another example of the longstanding futility of Washington’s belief that it can militarily manage the world from the banks of the Potomac, he can deal Congress in on the shame of the latest imperial fiasco.

The U.S. and its Commander in Chief feel that their use-of-deadly-force credibility is on the line, like a Mafia don compelled to generate some corpses to prove that he is still worth fearing. Reduced to missile-attacking and bombing a rogue state to maintain imperial authority, Obama remains poised to make Syria the eighth majority-Muslim country with which the U.S. has been at war during his term as president [10].

In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe

http://www.zcommunications.org/in-rush-to-strike-syria-u-s-tried-to-derail-u-n-probe-by-gareth-porter.html


How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria

http://www.zcommunications.org/how-intelligence-was-twisted-to-support-an-attack-on-syria-by-gareth-porter.html

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1. Forget that Obama blames Syria for the very thing Obama wants to do:

Senate Draft Syria War Authorization:

"Whereas the actions and conduct of the Assad regime are in direct contravention of Syria’s legal obligations under the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions,."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023594187

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon suggested Tuesday that any US action in Syria absent the approval of the UN security council would be illegal,

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/01/congress-to-amend-obamas-broad-syria-strike-plan/
and numerous news reports

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2. Fallujah. nt

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3. WAR WAR WAR

NO!