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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald: U.S. manufactured militant threat as pretext to bomb Syria [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)sources such as Democracy Now eg, during the Bush era of lies and deceptions.
I don't know about you, but I still seek out those sources, which were generally right in their reporting, when I want to find some facts among the propaganda.
They were right about Libya also airc.
So, I am inclinded to believe they are far more likely to be right about this issue.
But the issue isn't about the 'terrorist' groups we helped create when we started this 'crusade' into the ME back in 2003.
The issue is 'why are we doing it again' when all the evidence shows what a spectacular failure this, now more than a decade old, 'war' has been?
So people try to figure it out. The President just stated that the Intel 'underestimated' the power of ISIS. How could that be considering all the spying, on us too, to make sure we never again 'underestimate' anything? And considering the incredible violence that has plagued Iraq since Maliki was first installed, how on earth could ANYONE miss it?
Even if you were just following the Arab Spring as a civilian observer, or listened to Chelsea Manning eg, you would have known how powerful the 'opposition' in Iraq was growing.
But yet, nothing was done about it, until the failure to move into SYRIA. THEN suddenly, the Western powers 'noticed' these 'terrorist' groups who became WORSE than AQ all of a sudden? Not possible, not logical and when something doesn't make sense, you just can't make sense out of it.
I trust Democracy Now's reporting far more than our MSM. Because the reporting from the MSM simply makes no sense.