This morning an historian who reads Views from the Edge left this comment on yesterday’s post about Prevarication and Syria:
What happened to the “war on terror”? We are actually backing Al Qaeda in the Syrian civil war. The training we have given the anti-govt. Al Qaeda forces in Syria includes training in the use of chemical weapons. This civil war was induced by the US in order to create regime change in Syria in order to neutralize the rise of Iran & thus stabilize Israel’s future. By doing so we maintain Israel as a Western base for nuclear weapons that are able to threaten anyone that attempts to threaten the supply of Saudi oil to Europe. The fact that California Dem Diane Feinstein announced yesterday we would be making available new video showing gassed Syrian victims writhing in pain is so transparent it makes one want to vomit. Here we caused the death of 600,000 children in Saddam‘s Iraq with our trade embargo & backed Saddam’s use of gas against Iran in a war that killed a million or so. With calls against an attack running 90 to one the need for Feinstein’s video is a desperate attempt by the MIC to change US public opinion.
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I’m proud of N.Dak. Dem. Sen. Heidi Heitcamp of N.Dak proposing a 45 day option for Syria to sign a statement to not use gas. That’s that old N.Dak. populism coming out.
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Great to hear about Sen. Heitcamp’s proposal. Why not? What’s to lose? Let’s here it for populism!
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When I try to be optimistic I recognize that we may be getting closer to awareness of what is really happening. The extent of people’s resistance is a helpful sign. Having heard the CIAs confession to having fomented the uprising in Iran years ago that unseated the legitimate head of state to replace him with the Shah, we should be ready to believe how willing our government is to take whatever destructive and intrusive action it takes to enforce our will on other countries. We should also be aware of the disastrous consequences of that earlier Iranian event, to say nothing about our intrusion into Iraq.
Yes, my concern is for morality and humanity, but shouldn’t we have learned by now the cost of invading and manipulating other countries?
But then, what do I know. I’m just a concerned citizen.
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Mona, it’s hard to be optimistic. I hope you’re right. It’s ordinary citizens who will put a stop to this….or it will NEVER stop…because it will go on without dissent.
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Gordon, here is the BBC source about the dead in the 1981-88 Iran/Iraq war. It actually says one to 1.5 million killed.
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Thanks for the information.
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Here is the ref. to the 600,000 dead Iraqi children incd. info. about Madilyn Albright’s “worth it” comment in a “fairness in journalism” site.
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/we-think-the-price-is-worth-it/
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Gary, thanks for the link to the former Secretary of State’s comment.
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Gary, Thank YOU.
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And thanks for posting my comments as a story, Gordon!
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