Glenn Greenwald: U.S. manufactured militant threat as pretext to bomb Syria

[sabrina 1]

134. Here's a simple question for you. For how long have you been aware of either ISIS and/or

the Khorasan Group?

I have been following events in Iraq pretty closely for years, especially since we helped install Makiki there. I followed the attempt by peaceful Iraqis to join the Arab Spring. I saw what happened to them.

I paid attention to what Chelsea Manning had to say, and followed the actions of the 'US Trained Iraqi Police and Military, for several years. You CAN follow these stories on various media, including on Social Media.

What I found especially odd was that the US media appeared to have lost interest in Iraq. Not so Democracy Now. They, like me and many others remained extremely interested in Iraq.

I saw that Iraq was plagued by violence, not of any interest to our MSM, definitely covered by many other sources.

Over the past six years or so, I was hoping eg, that the 4 million Iraqi refugees in both Syria and Jordan would be able to return. That was not possible because of the violence both in Iraq and then later in Syria.

I saw that torture was pretty common under Maliki, that the Sunni population were being excluded from pretty much everything, that in fact things were worse under Maliki than they had been under Saddam.

I have followed on Social Media, activists in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere for years now, but not ONCE have I ever heard of this 'Khorasan Group'. Not from anyone on any side of the conflict in the ME.

So, when we see the sudden interest in Iraq after YEARS of zero interest, despite the violence, the escalation of it over the past number of years, and are told about these groups that NO ONE has ever heard of before, naturally the curious among us want to know: 'How come no one ever heard of them before?' NO ONE, not the Iraqis or anyone else.

So, some good journalists begin to wonder, as did all of us who have followed Iraq so closely, and Libya and Syria for years now, where these groups came from. AND good reporters begin to write about it.

I think you've got it backwards. It's far more likely that seeing theses questions raised by good investigative journalists and literally hundreds, maybe thousands who are closely involved in online communities, a creep like Limbaugh would seize the story and twist it to his advantage.

I frankly do not care what the Right Wing, Limbaugh or anyone of those liars have to say.

I care only about the facts and if sometimes the facts benefit those morons, or they think they do, I could not care less. They simply do not exist in my world.

And that is another thing I don't understand. The obsession by some on the Left with what these morons 'think', which is a generous word to use in this instance. Who cares what they do or think? How about never even linking to them, reading them, listening to them? You are helping them do exactly what their job is, to create confusion and to help the liars who led us into this mess in the first place.

And how clever of them to latch on to the facts of this story for once, and then try to use it to persuade those who are trying to get the facts, the well, if Limbaugh says it it must be false. That IS clever, I admit. But see, I don't care. I care about what I have observed for years now, and I know that group was never heard of until now, nor was ISIS.