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In reply to the discussion: General Wesley Clark saying plans to attack Syria were hatched within weeks of 9/11/01 [View all]cpwm17
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but corruption dominates the agenda of Washington DC. The mechanism may be different than stereotypical CT fantasy schemes, but the results of the corruption make it feel like the CT'ers are correct in some ways - they're mostly wrong though.
President Obama may not directly care about the war-mongers that hatched the plan that General Wesley Clark mentions in his talk, but various special interests push their agendas in Washington DC. It is in the nature of most politicians to play nice with powerful lobbies. That is how they obtain their positions. Obama is no different.
Several powerful lobbies want war. The Israel lobby in the US wants Israel's most powerful neighbors weakened. The MIC and other war lovers will take any war they can get, so war with Israel's neighbors is what we get. It works the same way with other powerful lobbies in the US. It's all blatant corruption, and the politicians themselves have made it all legal.
Syria has long been one of the main targets of the war lovers. This isn't about the chemical attack. Almost all military aggressions committed by the US in its history have been based on lies. They didn't care about the rebels' recent chemical attack, and the US had been and is continuing to support them.