The Truth About Syria: A Manufactured War Against An Independent Country

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The Truth About Syria: A Manufactured War Against An Independent Country
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-tr...ed-war-against-an-independent-country/5527668
http://www.mintpressnews.com/truth-syria-manufactured-war-independent-country-2/216688/

In late April, President Barack Obama announced that 250 U.S. special operations troops are being deployed to Syria. … The U.S. military personnel have entered Syria against the wishes of the internationally recognized government. In terms of international law, the United States has invaded Syria, a sovereign country and United Nations member state. …

the new U.S. boots … will most likely be working to achieve … the Pentagon’s longstanding foreign policy goals: violently overthrowing the Syrian government. … as millions of Syrians have become refugees, the heavy costs of the U.S. government’s “regime change” operation in Syria should come into question. …

Like almost every other regime in the crosshairs of U.S. foreign policy, Syria has a strong, domestically-controlled economy. Syria is not a “client state” like the Gulf state autocracies surrounding it, and it has often functioned in defiance of the U.S. and Israel. It is this … that motivate Western attacks on the country. …

the primary goal of almost every insurgent organization is creating a Sunni caliphate … a perverted politicized version of Sunnism created by Saudi Arabia … The unifying religious perspective of the Syrian “rebels” is the interpretation of Sunni Islam practiced and promoted by Saudi Arabia, known as Wahhabism. …

A large number of the insurgents are not Syrian. … Facilities in Bahrain train recruits to kill, and send them to Syria. Terrorist training facilities exist in many other U.S.-aligned Gulf states. … The flow of violent insurgents into Syria is not accidental. It has been directly facilitated by the U.S. and its allies. The CIA has spent billions of dollars on training camps in Jordan for anti-government fighters.

The U.S.-aligned regimes of Turkey and Saudi Arabia are openly supporting the Nusra Front, the Al-Qaida-linked organization that has already killed tens of thousands of innocent people in Syria. Gen. David Petraeus has called for the U.S. to join these efforts and begin sending arms directly to the Nusra Front.

The Israeli government has made a point of aiding the Wahhabi extremists by providing them medical care in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel has also made a point of targeting allies of the Syrian government with airstrikes. …

While Western media has highlighted allegations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons … United Nations confirmed that the foreign-backed insurgents have long been using sarin nerve gas and other chemical weapons.

As the insurgents make life unlivable in Syria, kidnapping for ransom, bombing schools and hospitals, beheading people, torturing people, they do it with thousands of child soldiers among their ranks. …

While the barrage of foreign fighters and extremists, aligned with a minority of the population and armed by Western powers and their allies, is committed to bringing down the Syrian government, the Syrian people clearly disagree. …

The Syrian government has made huge sacrifices to aid the Palestinian people … Syria has close economic relations with Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. … This is a war imposed on Syria by Israel, the U.S., and other Western capitalist powers. The primary promoter of Wahhabi extremism around the world has been the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a U.S. client state. Turkey and Jordan, U.S.-aligned countries bordering Syria, keep their borders open so that weapons, supplies and money can continue to flow into the hands of Daesh and other anti-government terrorists.

At least 470,000 people are dead, and millions of others have been forced to become refugees … The insane chorus of “Assad Must Go” has transformed a small, domestic episode of unrest into a full-scale humanitarian crisis. The war has nothing to do with the calls for democratic reform and the peaceful protests of 2011.

As Daesh now threatens the entire world, the consequences of the [Washington’s] regime change operation … are becoming far more extreme. … The only real peace plan for Syria is for the U.S., France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, and other powers to end their neoliberal crusade. The internationally recognized and recently re-elected Syrian government could easily defeat the insurgents if foreign meddling ceased.

… the people of the world should ask Western leaders and their allies: Why are you prolonging this war? Why can’t you just leave Syria alone? Why do you continue funding and enabling the terrorists? Isn’t five years of civil war enough? Is overthrowing the Syrian government really worth so much suffering and death?
 
The insane chorus of “Assad Must Go” has transformed a small, domestic episode of unrest into a full-scale humanitarian crisis.

It's no different than when we made the same statements about Saddam. This insanity needs to stop, yesterday. But it won't. Look at the destruction we have caused in that part of the world and to what end? Who has benefited? Certainly not Christians or anyone else you would think this country would be sympathetic to. More and more holy sites and historical sites are being destroyed, the disgusting violence and death intensifies making Sherman's march to the sea look like a charity benefit.

Just remember, they hate us for our freedoms.
 
Syria war started with protesters. They were peaceful until the government sent in tanks to deal with them. It went downhill from there. Once fighting started, it attracted all kinds of groups.
 
Syria war started with protesters. They were peaceful until the government sent in tanks to deal with them. It went downhill from there. Once fighting started, it attracted all kinds of groups.

Oh hell, here come zippy with the revisionist history. And the US government/CIA had nothing to do wit these "peaceful protests" right zippy?
 
Oh hell, here come zippy with the revisionist history. And the US government/CIA had nothing to do wit these "peaceful protests" right zippy?

We need to ignore him. It was suggested in the new site guidelines by Bryan. Zippy should be getting a silent treatment.
 
Oh hell, here come zippy with the revisionist history. And the US government/CIA had nothing to do wit these "peaceful protests" right zippy?

What is the "official version"? Here is what Russia Today says: https://www.rt.com/news/335711-rt-syrian-war-timeline/

March 2011: First anti-government protests

The conflict in Syria, which will enter its sixth year in March, started as opposition protests fueled by Arab Spring uprisings that in 2011 toppled governments across the Middle East and North Africa.

The spark that lit the flame began in the southern city of Daraa. It starts with a protest against the arrest and alleged beating of 15 schoolboys for painting anti-government graffiti on the walls of a school.

After nearly two weeks of bloody protests, President Assad accepts his government’s resignation in a move to tackle the unrest**, which sweepingly spread to other cities, including Baniyas, Homs and the suburbs of the capital, Damascus.

As part of wide-ranging reforms, Assad promises to lift the state of emergency that had been in place for almost 50 years and release hundreds of political prisoners. Yet, his efforts fail to stop the unrest – demonstrations continue to gain momentum.

April 2011: Unrest escalates

Activists across Syria gear up for what they call the 'Great Friday' protest, hoping that it will become the largest anti-government rally. April 22 becomes the deadliest unrest to date, with 75 people killed in clashes with security forces.

May 2011: Violence between government forces and opposition unfolds

The Syrian Army starts deploying heavy armor into major cities to tackle the nationwide uprising.

Both the EU and the US impose sanctions on Assad and his inner circle for the first time in an attempt to stop the bloody confrontation between the government and the opposition.

August 2011-December 2012: Opposition tries to de-legitimize Assad

Despite widespread condemnation, from the Arab League to the UN, the Syrian president says he will not step down. He reiterates that changes will be made to the constitution to appease the demonstrators.

“Their words are meaningless. They speak this way of a president who was elected by the Syrian people and not appointed by the West – the president is not a minion of the United States,” Assad said. “We have chosen political means of solving our problems within the first days since the onset of those events.”

Assad stated that national elections would take place in December.

On August 24, the Syrian National Council (SNC), a coalition of groups in and outside the country opposed to Assad, was formed in Istanbul.
 
They did the same thing in Libya with spectacular success and they decided to give it another go in Syria.

Watch how the technique was used in Libya. Fortunately for us all, it was well documented there.

 
They did the same thing in Libya with spectacular success and they decided to give it another go in Syria.

Watch how the technique was used in Libya. Fortunately for us all, it was well documented there.



Looks like that coup was actually perpetrated by MI6.
 
Looks like that coup was actually perpetrated by MI6.

CIA, MI6 what difference does it really make? Anyway, I am off to write an article on how unstable middle eastern and North African secular dictatorships are and I am going to use Syria, Libya, and Iraq as my examples. Btw, not going to mention anything about US/western shenanigans because it is very inconvenient to the story I am about to tell.
 
They did the same thing in Libya with spectacular success and they decided to give it another go in Syria.

Watch how the technique was used in Libya. Fortunately for us all, it was well documented there.



Thanks for posting. Nice short concise video.
 
Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov is the chairman of the Russian Parliament’s Defense Committee. He was involved in the planning of the Syrian mission.

Vladimir Komoyedov: We know why the opposition was formed. It was formed due to the mistakes of the president of Syria himself.

Bill Whitaker: I’m just wondering if you believe that Assad has a role in the future of Syria?

Vladimir Komoyedov: The problem is that he has lost some of his authority. The people themselves must figure out, in elections, whom to follow and how to build their lives, which have been essentially ruined in Syria.

https://alistairreignblog.com/2016/02/12/transcript-bill-whitaker-the-road-to-syria-documentary/
 
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I don't think any intelligent, informed human being, believes the protesters in Syria weren't BACKED by foreign intelligence officers OR the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
https://alistairreignblog.com/2016/02/12/transcript-bill-whitaker-the-road-to-syria-documentary/

Bill Whitaker: I’m just wondering if you believe that Assad has a role in the future of Syria?

Vladimir Komoyedov: The problem is that he has lost some of his authority. The people themselves must figure out, in elections, whom to follow and how to build their lives, which have been essentially ruined in Syria.

Bashar Assad has _repeatedly_ stated that he wants internationally monitored elections and that if the people of Syria vote him out of power that he will gladly step down. Last year he asked for internationally monitored elections and the U.S. refused saying he must step down. So the elections went on and he overwhelmingly was voted to stay in power. Since most of those who voted were Sunni (they are Syria's majority), it would seem that Sunni's in Syria felt that they were not repressed by his administration.

So the answer is simple: Allow Assad to be on the ballot and if he loses then he steps down. If not, those arguing with his policies will need to figure things out for themselves. Remember there are a lot of foreigners in the Syrian "rebel" areas right now: by far the largest rebel area in Syria is the governorate of Idlib and within Idlib there are fighters from all over the planet -- including thousands of Chinese Uighers. Only Syrians should be allowed to vote in the election and foreigners creating the havoc need to be thrown out of the country.
 
...Allow Assad to be on the ballot and if he loses then he steps down........
.......Only Syrians should be allowed to vote in the election and foreigners creating the havoc need to be thrown out of the country.

THIS
 
Bashar Assad has _repeatedly_ stated that he wants internationally monitored elections and that if the people of Syria vote him out of power that he will gladly step down. Last year he asked for internationally monitored elections and the U.S. refused saying he must step down. So the elections went on and he overwhelmingly was voted to stay in power. Since most of those who voted were Sunni (they are Syria's majority), it would seem that Sunni's in Syria felt that they were not repressed by his administration.

So the answer is simple: Allow Assad to be on the ballot and if he loses then he steps down. If not, those arguing with his policies will need to figure things out for themselves. Remember there are a lot of foreigners in the Syrian "rebel" areas right now: by far the largest rebel area in Syria is the governorate of Idlib and within Idlib there are fighters from all over the planet -- including thousands of Chinese Uighers. Only Syrians should be allowed to vote in the election and foreigners creating the havoc need to be thrown out of the country.

There is an implied and unchallenged premise here about democracy being the only allowed form of government on this planet while, even in the region, there are countries excluded from this policy.
 
There is an implied and unchallenged premise here about democracy being the only allowed form of government on this planet while, even in the region, there are countries excluded from this policy.


Correct. I personally don't care what kind of governments exist in other countries as long as our government isn't involved. But other governments (including our own) are forcing democracy onto that country; my only point is that if all these other governments want to force democracy on Syria then Assad (who will accept democracy for his country and stand down if he's voted out) should be on the ballot.
 
In past Syrian elections either nobody else was on the ballot for president or opposition candidates were picked by Assad. No surprise he got 90% of the vote. The next regularly scheduled election (end of current Assad term) is in 2021.

Syria's parliament speaker, Jihad Lahan, announced the final results from Tuesday's election, saying Assad garnered 10,319,723 votes, or 88.7%. Laham said Assad's two challengers, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3% and 3.2% respectively. The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42%.

After the results were released, Damascus erupted into a thunderous, rolling clap of celebratory gunfire that appeared to include heavy weaponry. On the streets of the capital, men cheered and whistled. Some broke into the familiar pro-Assad chant: "With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice for you, Bashar!"

Assad's victory was always a foregone conclusion, despite the presence of other candidates on the ballot for the first time in decades.
 
It's no different than when we made the same statements about Saddam. This insanity needs to stop, yesterday. But it won't. Look at the destruction we have caused in that part of the world and to what end? Who has benefited? Certainly not Christians or anyone else you would think this country would be sympathetic to. More and more holy sites and historical sites are being destroyed, the disgusting violence and death intensifies making Sherman's march to the sea look like a charity benefit.

Just remember, they hate us for our freedoms.

You mean Sherman's March to the Sea WASN'T a Charity benefit? You mean Sherman's #1 advisor wasn't John Maynard Keynes? :eek:
 
In past Syrian elections either nobody else was on the ballot for president or opposition candidates were picked by Assad.

Thanks Zippy. Now all the mass death caused by Washington makes perfect sense. It completely explains and justifies Washington's illegal entry into sovereign nations with tens of thousands of drone assassinations, bombing, funding and arming terrorist groups, destabilizing a nation, throwing it into civil war, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, displacing millions and creating millions of refugees.

Why can't Syria just be like Washington's other current and previous BFFs like the Saudi dictatorship, or Oman dictatorship, or General Musharraf dictatorship, of the Imperial Shah dictatorship, or the Pinochet dictatorship, or Guatemala dictatorship, or Somoza Dynasty, or the el Savador military dictatorship, or the Hugo Banzer dictatorship, or the Idriss Deby dictatorship, or the Manuel Noriega dictatorship, or the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, or the Mobuto Seko dictatorship, or the Mubarak dictatorship, or the Kagame dictatorship , and the list goes on and on and on ...

Yes, such wonderful and consistent standards Imperial Washington has, and wonderful and benevolent friends it supports and props up into power. Yes, Washington is obviously so concerned about the people that it must take action to cause the extermination of millions of them or make them destitute. So generous and humanitarian - nothing but goodwill and the most fair and just policies.
 
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In past Syrian elections either nobody else was on the ballot for president or opposition candidates were picked by Assad. No surprise he got 90% of the vote. The next regularly scheduled election (end of current Assad term) is in 2021.

I'd like to wager that he will win again in 2021 too! Does that anger you Zippy?
 
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