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Western media networks have ensured that a singular narrative of pro-democracy uprisings turning violent in the face of brutal oppression by the Syrian government after the so-called Arab Spring is disseminated across the public. In reality, pro-democracy protesters served as a tenuous smokescreen behind which armed foreign-backed extremists took to the streets and countrysides of Syria to execute a sectarian bloodbath years in the making. Here is a timeline that illuminates the true cause of Syrias current conflict and the foreign interests, not the Syrian government, responsible for the tens of thousands dead and millions displaced during the conflict.
1991: Paul Wolfowitz, then Undersecretary of Defense, tells US Army General Wesley Clark that the US has 5-10 years to clean up those old Soviet client regimes, Syria, Iran, Iraq, before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us. Fora.TV: Wesley Clark at the Commonwealth Club of California, October 3, 2007.
2001: A classified plot is revealed to US Army General Wesley Clark that the US plans to attack and destroy the governments of 7 nations: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. Fora.TV: Wesley Clark at the Commonwealth Club of California, October 3, 2007.
2002: US Under Secretary of State John Bolton declares Syria a member of the Axis of Evil and warned that the US would take action. BBC: US Expands Axis of Evil May 6, 2002.
2005: US State Departments National Endowment for Democracy organizes and implements the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon directly aimed at undermining Syrian-Iranian influence in Lebanon in favor of Western-backed proxies, most notably Saad Hariris political faction. Counterpunch: Faking the Case Against Syria, by Trish Schuh November 19-20, 2005.
2005: Ziad Abdel Nour, an associate of Bush Administration advisers, policy makers, and media including Neo-Conservatives Paula Dobriansky, James Woolsey, Frank Gaffney, Daniel Pipes, Joseph Farah (World Net Daily), Clifford May, and Daniel Nassif of US State Department-funded Al Hurra and Radio Sawa, admits: Both the Syrian and Lebanese regimes will be changed- whether they like it or not- whether its going to be a military coup or something else and we are working on it. We know already exactly whos going to be the replacements. Were working on it with the Bush administration. Counterpunch: Faking the Case Against Syria, by Trish Schuh November 19-20, 2005.
2006: Israel attempts, and fails, to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon after a prolonged aerial bombard that resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. CNN: UN: Hezbollah and Israel agree on Monday cease-fire, August 13, 2006.
2007: Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker reveals that US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Hariri in Lebanon as well as the Syrian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood were assembling, arming, training, and heavily funding a sectarian extremists front, many of whom had direct ties to Al Qaeda, to unleash in both Lebanon and Syria. The goal was to create and exploit a sectarian divide between Sunni and Shiia Muslims. Hersh interviewed intelligence officers who expressed concerns over the cataclysmic conflict that would result, and the need to protect ethnic minorities from sectarian atrocities. The report indicated that extremists would be logistically staged in northern Lebanon where they would be able to cross back and forth into Syria. New Yorker: The Redirection, by Seymour Hersh, March 5, 2007.
2008: The US State Department begins training, funding, networking, and equipping activists through its Alliance for Youth Movements where the future protest leaders of the Arab Spring, including Egypts April 6 Movement were brought to New York, London, and Mexico, before being trained by US-funded CANVAS in Serbia, and then returning home to begin preparations for 2011. Land Destroyer: 2011 Year of the Dupe, December 24, 2011.
Read more:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/us-planned-syrian-civilian-catastrophe.html
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*ON EDIT: Source has been changed.
MADem
(135,425 posts)No obvious, hate-fostering, anti-Jewish, nutbag agendas there....
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)Your best answer is "that's a conspiracy because of the tags"?
Really?
Cerridwen
(13,262 posts)Once upon a time there were three bears,papa bear, papa bear and baby bear. They all lived happily in the old abandoned fudge packing plant just south of Frisco. One drisly dampening day Golda-my-ear was strutting along amongst the florist and interior decorator shops and she wandered into the old abandoned fudge packing plant. She was attired from subverting and provocateering so she thinks she might cop some Z´s on one of the three water beds she found. Oh no,this one has brown bear stains on it,it just aint kosher and this steamy pile of stuff here, it aint porridge and definitely aint kosher So Miss My-Ear decides she will leave all the bears the hell alone and let them all just pack fudge in the factory and they will never notice how she and her Yehus are bilking all the bears and having them fight her wars and all the while she is depleting their precious bodily fluids by leaving them to wallow in shizig the likes of which no one had ever sunk up to.
The moral of the story, Never deplete your bodily fluids packing fudge. Dont excrete for a jewess that bears a grudge. THE END
That shit is published at that site.
Get it the fuck off DU.
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)If that impugns the website's credibility that's your problem.
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)I don't care if you find the website credible or not. They just republished the story.
This is just "attacking the messenger" to avoid addressing the argument technique.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Then why use it as a source?
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)But, anyway, I've changed it. What's the argument now?
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)FAIL.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)And I always thought that Lincoln looked great in those glasses!
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randome
(34,845 posts)I don't think so. And the Arab Spring is part of this nefarious plot? I don't think so.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)Are the facts being exposed lies?
Is it all a coincidence?
The US has been meddling in the Arab World for a long time. Not controlling, exactly, but definitely trying to control.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)The two parties have been at odds since -- ever. That in no way proves the Arab Spring was meant to gin-up a civil war in Syria. It's just lobbing a bunch of poo at a wall and hoping to paint a picture ending up with nothing more than a Rorschach test.
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)But that doesn't prove a conspiracy. It only proves the President gave a foolish directive.
MADem
(135,425 posts)using this piece of shit source is inappropriate.
Yet you double down and snark at people who flat-out are showing you that you've stepped over a line.
Why do you do such a thing, I wonder?
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)If you intend to divert the thread by attacking the source, I won't bother to play your game.
MADem
(135,425 posts)are on the wrong goddamned board.
ocpagu
(1,954 posts)And I am on the wrong goddamned board... BTW, the "source" has been changed. What's your lousy justification to avoid addressing the content now?
Turborama
(22,109 posts)ocpagu
(1,954 posts)Thank you. I saw it coming.
It's not about the source. It's the content that is bothering you guys... just admit it.
MADem
(135,425 posts)You've certainly shown us your true colors, though, if those are the kinds of sources you favor.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Please. Their "store" sells "We're All Gonna DIE!!!!!!!!" survivalist shit...and nothing else. http://www.activistpost.com/p/activist-store.html
Their "forum" is full of 911 truthers. The responses to the posted articles are full of intolerant comments.
They think the UN, that can't get a damn resolution passed, is about to take over the world: http://www.activistpost.com/p/writing-contest.html
Most people in a hole so deep they can't get out know enough to stop digging.
And no one is "cheering for war." If you didn't spend all your time on the flake fringes of the internet, you might realize that.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's not right, I'll grant you. But left to their own devices, you know what would change? My guess is not a thing. The middle eastern sectarian hatred long predates America's involvement.
Still, it would be interesting to see if that was true, wouldn't it?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)I'm surprised. I don't read too terribly much online compared to some here and I've seen every one of them at one time or another.
Although it's great having them all in one handy-dandy post.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
delrem
(9,688 posts)George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"