AZJoe
08-29-2016, 10:32 AM
Blacklisted at CNN, and How Easily America Goes to War Now
by peter van buren http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2016/08/26/how-i-was-blacklisted-at-cnn-and-how-easily-america-goes-to-war-now/
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2016/august/26/how-i-was-blacklisted-at-cnn-and-how-easily-america-goes-to-war-now/
It was about two years ago to the day I was blacklisted at CNN. …
we were lied to again to drag us again into an open-ended war in Iraq-Syria. Last time it was Bush and those missing Weapons of Mass Destruction. This time is was Obama and saving the Yazidi people from genocide. …
Two years ago a group of Yazidis … were being threatened by a group called ISIS few American were focused on. Obama declared a genocide was about to happen, … The military drew up plans … No Congressional authorization was sought, no attempt was made to secure UN sanction, no effort was made to seek Iraqi military help … promises were made by the White House of having no American “boots on the ground” and that the airstrikes to kill people were for a humanitarian purpose.
Two years later the US has some 6,000 troops on the ground … The limited airstrikes have expanded to a 24 month broad-based bombing campaign, which has spread into Syria … complete collapse of democracy in Turkey, a Russian military presence in Syria, and an Iranian military presence in Iraq. For the record, the Yazidis are pretty much fine, as are ISIS and Syrian president Assad. …
In fact, other than a massive regional death toll and no progress toward whatever the actual goal for the United States is (um, whatever, “destroy” ISIS), things are pretty much the same after two years, +chaos. And whomever is elected this November will be the fifth US president to make war in Iraq. …
As the Yazidi situation was unfolding, I was invited to tape a discussion there alongside the usual retired US military colonel. … explained in my answer that the US was in fact using the Yazidi “humanitarian crisis/faux genocide” as an excuse to re-enter the Iraq quagmire, and equated it to George W. Bush’s flim-flam about weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
The host literally said I was wrong. I was not asked another question … My question was edited out, the colonel’s lengthy answer was played on air,
by peter van buren http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2016/08/26/how-i-was-blacklisted-at-cnn-and-how-easily-america-goes-to-war-now/
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2016/august/26/how-i-was-blacklisted-at-cnn-and-how-easily-america-goes-to-war-now/
It was about two years ago to the day I was blacklisted at CNN. …
we were lied to again to drag us again into an open-ended war in Iraq-Syria. Last time it was Bush and those missing Weapons of Mass Destruction. This time is was Obama and saving the Yazidi people from genocide. …
Two years ago a group of Yazidis … were being threatened by a group called ISIS few American were focused on. Obama declared a genocide was about to happen, … The military drew up plans … No Congressional authorization was sought, no attempt was made to secure UN sanction, no effort was made to seek Iraqi military help … promises were made by the White House of having no American “boots on the ground” and that the airstrikes to kill people were for a humanitarian purpose.
Two years later the US has some 6,000 troops on the ground … The limited airstrikes have expanded to a 24 month broad-based bombing campaign, which has spread into Syria … complete collapse of democracy in Turkey, a Russian military presence in Syria, and an Iranian military presence in Iraq. For the record, the Yazidis are pretty much fine, as are ISIS and Syrian president Assad. …
In fact, other than a massive regional death toll and no progress toward whatever the actual goal for the United States is (um, whatever, “destroy” ISIS), things are pretty much the same after two years, +chaos. And whomever is elected this November will be the fifth US president to make war in Iraq. …
As the Yazidi situation was unfolding, I was invited to tape a discussion there alongside the usual retired US military colonel. … explained in my answer that the US was in fact using the Yazidi “humanitarian crisis/faux genocide” as an excuse to re-enter the Iraq quagmire, and equated it to George W. Bush’s flim-flam about weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
The host literally said I was wrong. I was not asked another question … My question was edited out, the colonel’s lengthy answer was played on air,