The Obama Administration is publicly moving toward possible military strikes in Syria, a major escalation in yet another war for the United States. The reason is the likely use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government against rebel controlled areas. In the meantime, documents have been released that show that the United States has been hypocritical on the use of such weapons. According to Foreign Policy magazine (a highly respected publication), the documents show that the Reagan Administration not only knew of the use of chemical weapons by the Iraqi Regime in the Iran-Iraq war but supplied the intelligence and satellite imagery used in the attacks. The CIA then sat on evidence of the attacks while Iraq denied their use.
The Reagan Administration was concerned that Iran would win the war in 1988 and discovered build ups of Iranian forces near weak points in Iraqi lines. The United States supplied Iraq with detailed maps and images and intelligence on the location of the forces, their air support and other intelligence. A former official is quoted as saying that they knew Saddam Hussein was going to use chemical weapons and that the United States had evidence of the use of mustard gas and sarin prior to four major offensives in early 1988. The U.S. then assured the public that it had no knowledge about the attacks or acquiesce to the use of chemical weapons.
Of course, the great irony is that we later cited the use of chemical weapons in the war to justify our actions against Iraq in the second Iraq war — insisting that any maniac who would use them in 1988 would use them again. The government never told the American people that the earlier use of chemical weapons was done with our knowledge and tacit support.
Now, the Obama Administration is publicly moving military assets closer to Syria and is preparing for “all contingencies” after the Syrians “crossed the red line” set out by President Obama. Obama has been suggesting that the United States would attack if chemical weapons were used. He has already intervened in the supply and training of rebel forces in the country.
The recent release of documents, again, show a shocking degree of duplicity and dishonesty in our foreign policy on such issues. Notably, the Reagan Administration debated whether Iran could prove the attacks and advised that the international response was likely to be muted. Indeed, the biggest use of the attacks would come later . . . when we cited it in support of our second Iraqi war under George W. Bush.
Source: Foreign Policy
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let alone the content!
DASHCOM websites are springing up all around the world.
I am not really a PC player, please anyone assist me
to to remove Dell Inspiron password…” We usually hear such inquiry around us.
The vulnerability has apparently been fixed since the interview with Russo
took place, and usernames are again safe and secure.
@pete – It’s a good thing Kim Jung-un is not a nutty as his father and grandfather. Still a few a few bricks short of a load. At least he’s not worshiped like a god while his people starve. Oh well kinda’ not like that…
SouthPark creators need to update TEAM AMERICA to Part Deux…
The movie I like in where we “accidentally” on purpose invade North Korea is the movie Stealth (2005). And guess what? We now have a UCAS like EDI in our USN arsenal. Here it is landing on the USS George HW Bush (fancy that a flat top named after a LIVING ex-President). Note there is NOBODY in the thing and NOBODY flying it (much). It is a ROBOT that kinda’ thinks for itself just like EDI in the movie:
@bill mcwilliams – If we did not go to the moon who put the many laser reflectors there. You can use your own hi-power laser to ping them if you like. Also if you have a decent t-scope you can see the various stuff we left behind like the LEM platforms, lunar rovers, rover tracks, etc. How do you explain HAM radio operators intercepting SHF/UHF chatter from the Apollo missions? The radio signals were highly-directive since Yagi-Udas and parabolas were used. And the signals originated from the moon. Neat trick?
Here’s a scene from TBBT TV-show about just such a thing you can do:
Be AWARE Americans…………. Disregard whatever the Gov’t tells you, they’re lying….. They’ve been stirring the pot for many, many years…. just to keep the Military Industrial Complex busy……………….
bill,
Not at all. I don’t indulge children engaging in fantasy over a certain age. I’m certainly not doing so for an adult. Fantasy is fine . . . but it’s for entertainment purposes only. We went to the moon, your denials notwithstanding. It’s simply an empirical historical fact.
P.S. There is no Santa either.
GENE: I was right, wan’t I. You can’t refute the truth,so you tucked your tail between your legs and ran off. Chicken.
American Exceptionalism = Bloodlust for profits
Administration not only knew of the use of chemical weapons by the Iraqi army but SOLD the CHEMICAL WEAPONS to Sadam Husain during a moratorium knowing they would be used on the Iranian people.
Skipping ahead…Twice, the US military was ordered to invade Iraq on a lie. As a result, 2/3rds of the Iraqi population have been killed. The land and water is contaminated from depleted uranium.
Syria was invaded by US recruited, trained, and financially supported mercenaries. The govt can call them Rebels, Freedom fighters, Muslin Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, or Islamist. It matters NOT; they are all one in the same; TERRORIST!
Our tax dollars are being used to support terrorist. The same terrorist the US govt. claims who kill American’s. And what do the terrorist use to kill American’s with? The weapons our govt gives them that we pay for.
Bashar Assad DID NOT gas the Syrian’s. OBAMA with full consent of the rest of the Intraspecific Kleptoparasites that have taken over America. Congress is fully aware of what Obama is proposing and they say NOTHING! Under the circumstances, saying nothing is the same as voting yes. BTW, we already have boots on the ground.
It’s the same sequence of events. Blah, blah, and blah,…Congress threatens impeachment claiming ignorance to Obama’s intentions. A possible date for action is fed to us and it comes and goes. Flase Flag event. Benghazi is mentioned. Snowdon releases more useless info that we already know and the process of transferring the military to the UN continues… The End
USGOVBEHIND… Just who in Syria has been using chemical weapons has been a topic of debate for many months this year. Probably both but one has to wonder just where everybody is getting their weapons. There was some speculation that Saddam Huessein sent his stock to Syria, which would be ironic because he had gotten his stocks from us. That would make them very old though- how long does that stuff last?
Just to reiterate though: No, we should not become embroiled with the Syrian conflict. Not anymore embroiled than we may already be, and if we are, we should stop.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320223/UN-accuses-Syrian-rebels-carrying-sarin-gas-attacks-blamed-Assads-troops.html
http://shoebat.com/2013/08/27/evidence-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons-not-assad/
” No, we should not become embroiled with the Syrian conflict”
Even for those who might be inclined to intervene, there is the real question of what can we accomplish, what chance is there that intervention will lead to any change favorable to us or those we would support.
The US is not omnipotent. We cannot control every situation. We cannot always cause the results that we prefer. There seems to be a pretty good argument that for us Syria is a loose/loose situation.
And that does not even begin to get to your view that we have no right to intervene.
And for me there is still the question of who actually used the chemical weapons.
Last night CNN answered that question with a retired CIA agent who stated that only military units could combine the chemical precursors, load the munitions and fire them to launch a chemical attack. Therefore the attack had to be the work of military of the Assad regime and could not have been executed by the militias.
Call me a skeptic, but I think that analysis leaves a number of questions unanswered.
I don’t know who launched the gas attack. But I don’t think anyone speaking publicly is telling us anything useful or reliable in that regard.
GO READ THIS. LOOK AT DATE !!!
http://web.archive.org/web/20130129213824/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270219/U-S-planned-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-Syria-blame-Assad.html#ixzz2d93eCTzN
U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’
Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington’
Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that use of chemical warfare was ‘totally unacceptable’
By Louise Boyle
PUBLISHED: 14:16 EST, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:16 EST, 29 January 2013
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Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.
A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme ‘approved by Washington’ is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons.
Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against its own people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
king of the wild frontier.
i have a hard time getting worked up about a war or terror when we just went through a 40-50 year period that those in charge thought nifty little nukes were something we just had to have.
yet now the local sheriff has to have a platoon of storm troopers and a couple of apc’s and somebody in a concrete bunker needs to read my mail because jim baba might light off a kitchen appliance.
BettyKath
No argument from me on uninventing nuclear power either. I’m not overtly religious, at least I think of myself that way, but there is a part of me that religiously believes in my heart (certainly not my mind) that radiation is evil. Maybe it is not in itself so, but in the hands of humanity it often is.
The district I worked in the last couple years as a LEO was right across the river from the Hanford Site. A few times I had to go over there for some in-progress call to backup the other county and Hanford Security came out to help. Those guys are armed to the teeth and their BDU uniforms have dosimeters on them. I remember thinking of all the hair raising calls I had went to over the years, I would rather go through all that twice than spend one week in the boots of those Hanford guys with all that radiation lingering around. It’s one thing having to use a night vision scope to look for some wanted person running through the sagebrush, but to have to also carry a geiger-counter when chasing after some guy running through the brush at the Hanford site? No Way!
Many years ago there was a wildfire that broke out on the Hanford Site and the smoke was pretty bad. The background radiation there went up measurably, including tests for plutonium and strontium. The risk just never goes away it seems.
The DU munitions create these little Hanfords in battlefields wherever they are used. When will we learn?