Ex-Bush official: Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria

[azurnoir]

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli “false flag” operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad’s regime.

Wilkerson made his astounding assertion in an interview on Current TV, the network once owned by former Vice President Al Gore and recently purchased by Al-Jazeera.

Wilkerson said that the evidence that it was Assad’s regime that had used the chemical weapons was “flaky” and that it could very well have been the rebels or Israel who were the perpetrators. Asked why Israel would do such a thing, Wilkerson said: “I think we’ve got a basically geostrategically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now.”

“I think we saw really startling evidence of that,” Wilkerson continued, “in the fact that President Obama had to tell Bibi Netanyahu ‘Pick up the phone, you idiot, call Ankara and get yourself out of this strategic isolation you’re in right now.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/former-bush-administration-official-israel-may-be-behind-use-of-chemical-arms-in-syria.premium-1.519172

Here's the video from TYT where he made the comment

[russspeakeasy]

1. I, for one, believe he is correct.

[PearliePoo2]

2. Holy shit..not good, not good at all!

I tend to believe Wilkerson, I don't think he's a bull-shitter and he's one smart guy.

rec.

[bemildred]

3. “I think we’ve got a basically geostrategically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now.”

Yep.

[Jefferson23]

4. They're crazy enough...damn though.

K&R

[Scootaloo]

5. I would put that in the "long shot" category

More likely it's a rebel operation, or perhaps even accidental use of such munitions (remember the old mustard gas canisters found in an insurgent stockpile in Iraq?) by either side. I don't think Assad - who, bastard though he is, is a pretty smart guy - would undermine his own position like that.

Again, not that I don't think Israel's leaders aren't blitheringly stupid - I certainly do - but more an occam's razor thing. The simplest and most likelysolution, based on evidence we have, is that it was used by one of the sides in this fight in Syria.

[cali]

6. you WANT to believe Israel was behind it?

(and lots of people here and elsewhere do), you're going to believe it.

The cognitive dissonance that blares so loudly here is that as Wilkerson points to flimsy evidence, he makes this accusation with exactly no evidence.

I find it fascinating.

[bemildred]

7. I'm sort of hoping it's not Israel, that seems least likely to blow it all up. nt

[cali]

8. I think it's pretty unlikely it is- bombing seems more in keeping

not that that isn't doing enough to blow it all up.

[bemildred]

9. I just don't see how a WMD "false flag" really serves Israels interests now.

Weakening Assad just the right amount might. But you never know with some of the Israeli leadership, they don't live in the same world I do.

[bemildred]

11. But then, the WMD issue might be used as a pretext for these attacks

on Syria, that would make sense, whether there were really any WMDs used or not, and regardless of who used them, the mere assertion makes what happens to them an urgent matter. Hence the missile attacks.

[azurnoir]

10. and you are once again out of line with your accusations

I posted without comment I thought it was an interesting article period

BTW I find knee jerk accusations equally fascinating, why is it done? what is attempting to be accomplished? and is there a an actual goal?

[King_David]

12. Agreed

I hate the jerk accusations that are a plenty in this forum.

[cali]

13. you're being just a tad oversensitive here.

I wasn't accusing you hon. Or anyone else. but I do find it interesting that you get so defensive. invariably.

[azurnoir]

14. your subject line -" you WANT to believe Israel was behind it?" left few doubts as to

your intent putting a question mark after such a statement does not make it innocent IMO

but your attempt to twist things even further is noted

or IOW I found your accusation offensive so obviously I'm guilty, but of what exactly you never seem to just come out and say what you mean, why?