A Desperate Obama Administration Resorts To Lying And Maybe More

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A Desperate Obama Administration Resorts To Lying And Maybe More (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/a-desperate-obama-administration-resorts-to-lying-and-maybe-more-.html#more)

In a press event Friday, Oct 7, 2016,
before talks with the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault about a new UN resolution,
Kerry flat LIED about a Syrian Attack:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZCpLpRqvU


"Last night, the regime attacked yet another hospital,
and 20 people were killed and 100 people were wounded.
And Russia and the regime owe the world more than an explanation
about why they keep hitting hospitals and medical facilities and children and women.
These are acts that beg for an appropriate investigation of war crimes.
And those who commit these would and should be held accountable for these actions."

No opposition group has claimed that such an extremely grave event happened.
None.
No press agency has a record of it.
The MI-6 disinformation outlet SOHR in Britain, which quite reliably notes every claimed casualty
and is frequently cited in "western" media",
has not said anything about such an event anywhere in Syria.

The grave incident Kerry claimed did not happen. Kerry made it up.
(Was it supposed to happen?, got canceled and Kerry missed the memo?)
Kerry used the lie to call for war crime investigations and punishment.
This in front of cameras,
at an official event
with a foreign guest
in the context of a United Nations Security Council resolution.

This is grave.
This is nearly as grave as Colin Powell's false claims of WMD in Iraq in front of the UN Security Council.

Early reports, like this one at CBSNEWS (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kerry-russia-syria-should-face-war-crimes-investigation/), repeat the Kerry claim:
"Kerry said Syrian forces hit a hospital overnight,
killing 20 people and wounding 100,
describing what would be the latest strike by Moscow
or its ally in Damascus on a civilian target."

But the New York Times write up of the event (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/john-kerry-russia-syria-assad.html?ref=world&_r=1),
which includes Kerry's demand for war crime investigations,
does not mention the hospital bombing claim.
Not at all.
For the self-acclaimed "paper of record", Kerry's lie did not happen.
Likewise the Washington Post which in its own write up (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-kerry-urges-war-crimes-probe-into-syrian-and-russian-bombing-of-civilians/2016/10/07/8056426c-8c9c-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html) makes no mention of the false Kerry claim.

The latest AP write up by Matthew Lee also omits the lie (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-turns-up-heat-on-russia-as-ties-deteriorate/2016/10/08/9449e328-8d23-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506_story.html).

This goes on for a while. But there was no hospital attack in Rif Dimashq nor in Aleppo.
Later on DoS spokesman Kirby basically admits that Kerry lied: "I can’t corroborate that."

Kerry is only one tool of the Obama administration.
Later that day the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, made other accusations against Russia (https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/215-press-releases-2016/1423-joint-dhs-odni-election-security-statement):

Translation: "WE DO NOT KNOW at all ("we are confident", "we believe", "directed") who did these hacks
and
WE DO NOT HAVE the slightest evidence ("consistent with","based on the scope and sensitivity")
that Russia is involved, so let me throw some chaff and try to bamboozle you all."

The former British ambassador Craig Murray calls it a blatant neocon lie.

The Obama administration is losing it.
On Syria as well as on the election it can no longer assert its will.

MORE (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/a-desperate-obama-administration-resorts-to-lying-and-maybe-more-.html#more) @ MoonofAlabama

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Resorts to lying? Obama doesn't tell the truth when he can lie. Remember all those shovel ready jobs that Obama admits lying about? Remember, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."? Dude, where have you been?

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John Kerry is angry that the Syrian army is about to take eastern Aleppo. He’s angry because the U.S. has no viable force to stop this. He’s angry because Assad is still in power. He’s angry that Assad has allies in Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. He’s angry that the chemical rap didn’t stick on Assad. He’s angry that the U.S. didn’t launch a massive air attack on Syria’s infrastructure and military in 2013. He’s angry that no viable force of “moderate” rebels exists. He’s taking his anger out on Russia.

Kerry attacks Russia with phony charges because his other options are so unpalatable. … He acts as if it was not a crime for Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen, for NATO to attack Libya and for the U.S. to attack Iraq and Afghanistan. He acts as if the moral designation of acts of war has changed drastically from the time that the U.S. mercilessly bombed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. …

Kerry is so angry and frustrated that he launches a propaganda salvo to obtain what he cannot win [with his terrorists proxies] on the battlefield. He attacks Russia and Syria on grounds that apply to Israel, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in the 21st century. …

Kerry wants Russia and Syria not to attack the jihadists lodged in eastern Aleppo; but these jihadists are associated with al-Qaeda and ISIL and/or similar Islamic fundamentalist armed groups. Kerry is mighty confused. The U.S. signed onto a U.N. resolution just 10 months ago that called for attacks like these. … The document itself “Reiterates its call in resolution 2249 (2015) for Member States to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh), Al-Nusra Front (ANF), and all other individuals, groups, undertakings, and entities associated with Al Qaeda or ISIL, and other terrorist groups,…” …

The U.S. sold arms to Saudi Arabia and they supplied them to the jihadists. Jihadists were recruited from many nations beyond Syria’s borders. Turkey participated. Because of Kerry’s choice and the previous role of the U.S. government in cutting the jihadists a lot of slack, knowing full well what arms they were getting that were made in America, the American attack on Syrian forces on August 15, 2016 takes on a sinister look. It looks intentional. It looks like a rogue Pentagon in action. It’s the Pentagon that publicly resisted coordinating with the Russians against terrorists. It’s the Pentagon that has suddenly bombed bridges on the Euphrates. It is now military and neocon think tank people who are suggesting that the U.S. bomb the airplane runways of the Syrian air force. …

This is all because eastern Aleppo is about to fall to the Syrian forces. That victory will release forces for ongoing offensives in other parts of the country. The U.S. has no other options to prevent an Assad victory …

a president can with impunity send special forces into Syria uninvited and drop bombs too on Syrian territory … The U.S. has sought in vain to locate or train or build up moderate forces. … The U.S. strategists continually have pipe dreams of installing a viable puppet government supported by a force that will maintain order. … This didn’t work in Vietnam. It didn’t work in Iraq. It failed in Iran, although it took several decades to fail. It hasn’t worked in Afghanistan. The actual moderate forces in Syria are those of the government, of Assad. …

U.S. support of Israel and Saudi Arabia has never had a reasonable basis in terms of American interests. Such support has brought us nothing but grief, death and trouble … Now this same support of Israel and Saudi Arabia has brought us into confrontation with Russia in a country (Syria) where we have no interests. We have Kerry lambasting Russia for things that are a consequence of what the U.S. itself has done. We have sanctions on Russia. We have a notable deterioration in U.S.- Russian Federation relations including the nuclear area and plutonium destruction. What positive do we and the world get out of this? Really we get nothing positive. It’s all negative. …

see this document of the U.S. State Department. … The memo paints a picture of how to intervene and win, i.e., displace Assad. … whoever wrote this is clueless … Iran is painted as the feared … “Bringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel’s security” … “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.” Right off the bat, it identifies the aim as being for Israel to maintain a nuclear monopoly. Overthrowing Assad is the suggested means of attaining this objective. …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/kerrys-anger-assad-poised-win-u-s-still-serves-israel-saudi-arabia/

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