• Assad’s Death Warrant : Real Reason for Washington's War Against Syria

    Assad’s Death Warrant : Real Reason for Washington's War Against Syria
    (The Syria Pipeline War)
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/...death-warrant/

    “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009 … soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria.” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria, Politico

    The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation … The main driver of the conflict is the country that’s toppled more than 50 sovereign governments since the end of World War 2. … Washington is the hands-down regime change champion … But … No matter how compelling the evidence may be, the brainwashed American people always believe their government is doing the right thing.

    But the United States is … Arming, training and funding Islamic extremists — that have killed half a million people, displaced 7 million more and turned the country into an uninhabitable wastelands … It is the wrong thing, the immoral thing. …

    The US wants to install a puppet regime in Damascus so it can secure pipeline corridors in the East, oversee the transport of vital energy reserves from Qatar to the EU, and make sure that those reserves continue to be denominated in US Dollars that are recycled into US Treasuries and US financial assets. This is the basic recipe for maintaining US dominance in the Middle East and for extending America’s imperial grip on global power into the future.

    The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on protestors in the spring of 2011. That version of events is obfuscating hogwash. The war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria. … In 2009, Assad announced that he would refuse to sign the agreement to allow the pipeline to run through Syria … the Saudis, Qataris, Turks and Americans were furious at Assad, but what could they do? … Washington and its scheming allies decided to launch a clandestine proxy-war against Damascus, kill or depose Assad, and make damn sure the western oil giants nabbed the future pipeline contracts and controlled the flow of energy to Europe. That was the plan at least. …

    “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria."

    the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline” … was the catalyst for the US aggression that transformed a bustling, five thousand-year old civilization into a desolate Falluja-like moonscape overflowing with homicidal fanatics that were recruited, groomed and deployed by the various allied intelligence agencies. …

    Fortunately, Assad –with the help of Iran, Hezbollah and the Russian Airforce– has fended off the effort to oust him and install a US-stooge. … the principal that global security depends on basic protections of national sovereignty, and that the cornerstone of international law has to be a rejection of unprovoked aggression whether … by one’s own military or by armed proxies …

    what’s going on is regime change … Obama and Co are trying to overthrow a democratically-elected secular regime that refuses to bow to Washington’s demands to provide access to pipeline corridors … That’s what’s really going on behind the ISIS distraction and the “Assad is a brutal dictator” distraction … What Washington cares about is oil, power and money. … “only when we see this conflict as a proxy war over a pipeline do events become comprehensible.” …



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    http://www.politico.eu/article/why-t...-intervention/


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    1. wizardwatson's Avatar
      wizardwatson -
      Quote Originally Posted by AZJoe View Post
      A perfect example of pissing contests getting out of hand.



      You mean, after all these years of war...

      and all this death...

      and all these lies...

      this whole thing is about money???!!!

    1. puppetmaster's Avatar
      puppetmaster -
      Money. Money. Money....power
    1. Brian4Liberty's Avatar
      Brian4Liberty -
      Front page.
    1. jllundqu's Avatar
      jllundqu -
      War is a Racket.

      Reminds me of our misadventures in South America and the United Fruit Company, Sugar Corps, etc. This week it's nat gas.

      One thing is certain for this Harkonnen Diplomacy....

    1. Ender's Avatar
      Ender -
      Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
      War is a Racket.

      Reminds me of our misadventures in South America and the United Fruit Company, Sugar Corps, etc. This week it's nat gas.

      One thing is certain for this Harkonnen Diplomacy....

      Yep.

      Pretty much all the meddling in the ME has to do with their resources- that's why Iran has been on the list for so long.

      Hopefully everyone has read John Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He lays it our pretty straight.
    1. donnay's Avatar
      donnay -
      Blood for oil. Not surprising whatsoever. The other thing they make war for is if a country switches currencies and gets away from the dollar.
    1. Danke's Avatar
      Danke -
      Wonder why they couldn't just go through Jordan and Iraq. I think it has more to do with Israel and Turkey wanting more land.
    1. donnay's Avatar
      donnay -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Wonder why they couldn't just go through Jordan and Iraq. I think it has more to do with Israel and Turkey wanting more land.
      Because they can.
    1. Brian4Liberty's Avatar
      Brian4Liberty -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Wonder why they couldn't just go through Jordan and Iraq. I think it has more to do with Israel and Turkey wanting more land.
      Stop in Jordan? Seems like it would have to go through Israel too, which then runs into the NIMBY syndrome.
    1. Danke's Avatar
      Danke -
      Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
      Stop in Jordan? Seems like it would have to go through Israel too, which then runs into the NIMBY syndrome.
      Why would Israel care if it was through arid land which most of Israel is. I would imagine the fees they collect would be an advantage for them.
    1. Brian4Liberty's Avatar
      Brian4Liberty -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Why would Israel care if it was through arid land which most of Israel is. I would imagine the fees they collect would be an advantage for them.
      It would have to go close to somebody at some point. NIMBY.
    1. Danke's Avatar
      Danke -
      Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
      It would have to go close to somebody at some point. NIMBY.
      I still think there is more to it, otherwise Assad would let it be built under threat of total destruction. $#@!, he allowed us to send our prisoners to his country to be tortured. Extraordinary Rendition.
    1. Contumacious's Avatar
      Contumacious -
      Quote Originally Posted by AZJoe View Post
      Assad’s Death Warrant : Real Reason for Washington's War Against Syria
      (The Syria Pipeline War)
      http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/...death-warrant/

      “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009 … soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria.” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria, Politico

      The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation … The main driver of the conflict is the country that’s toppled more than 50 sovereign governments since the end of World War 2. … Washington is the hands-down regime change champion … But … No matter how compelling the evidence may be, the brainwashed American people always believe their government is doing the right thing.

      But the United States is … Arming, training and funding Islamic extremists — that have killed half a million people, displaced 7 million more and turned the country into an uninhabitable wastelands … It is the wrong thing, the immoral thing. …

      The US wants to install a puppet regime in Damascus so it can secure pipeline corridors in the East, oversee the transport of vital energy reserves from Qatar to the EU, and make sure that those reserves continue to be denominated in US Dollars that are recycled into US Treasuries and US financial assets. This is the basic recipe for maintaining US dominance in the Middle East and for extending America’s imperial grip on global power into the future.

      The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on protestors in the spring of 2011. That version of events is obfuscating hogwash. The war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria. … In 2009, Assad announced that he would refuse to sign the agreement to allow the pipeline to run through Syria … the Saudis, Qataris, Turks and Americans were furious at Assad, but what could they do? … Washington and its scheming allies decided to launch a clandestine proxy-war against Damascus, kill or depose Assad, and make damn sure the western oil giants nabbed the future pipeline contracts and controlled the flow of energy to Europe. That was the plan at least. …

      “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria."

      the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline” … was the catalyst for the US aggression that transformed a bustling, five thousand-year old civilization into a desolate Falluja-like moonscape overflowing with homicidal fanatics that were recruited, groomed and deployed by the various allied intelligence agencies. …

      Fortunately, Assad –with the help of Iran, Hezbollah and the Russian Airforce– has fended off the effort to oust him and install a US-stooge. … the principal that global security depends on basic protections of national sovereignty, and that the cornerstone of international law has to be a rejection of unprovoked aggression whether … by one’s own military or by armed proxies …

      what’s going on is regime change … Obama and Co are trying to overthrow a democratically-elected secular regime that refuses to bow to Washington’s demands to provide access to pipeline corridors … That’s what’s really going on behind the ISIS distraction and the “Assad is a brutal dictator” distraction … What Washington cares about is oil, power and money. … “only when we see this conflict as a proxy war over a pipeline do events become comprehensible.” …



      http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/...death-warrant/

      http://www.politico.eu/article/why-t...-intervention/
      I absolutely agree that " The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation, just like Libya and Iraq were regime change operations"

      The US wants to destroy Syria for Bibi, firstly , American Likudnicks have been advocating that Syria and Iraq be destroyed since 1996.

      The US wants Bibi to retain possession of the Golan Heights and wants to prevent Syria from retaliating in the event Israel attacks Iran.

      Saudi Arabia, Al Nusrah and ISIS want to remove Assad because he is a S h i t e.

      Assad can not support the Qatar-Turkey pipeline when in so doing it will harm the economic interests of its defender and benefactor, Russia.

      And so it goes.

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    1. AngryCanadian's Avatar
      AngryCanadian -



      With SAA and its allies, Russian forces Syria gov controls the majority of the country.
      While FSA,Radicals a tiny half of it.

      Even if regime change is their goal it wont happen in Syria.
    1. AngryCanadian's Avatar
      AngryCanadian -
      Quote Originally Posted by Contumacious View Post
      I absolutely agree that " The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation, just like Libya and Iraq were regime change operations"

      The US wants to destroy Syria for Bibi, firstly , American Likudnicks have been advocating that Syria and Iraq be destroyed since 1996.

      The US wants Bibi to retain possession of the Golan Heights and wants to prevent Syria from retaliating in the event Israel attacks Iran.

      Saudi Arabia, Al Nusrah and ISIS want to remove Assad because he is a S h i t e.

      Assad can not support the Qatar-Turkey pipeline when in so doing it will harm the economic interests of its defender and benefactor, Russia.

      And so it goes.

      .


      .







      Saudi Arabia, Al Nusrah and ISIS want to remove Assad because he is a S h i t e.
      Assad is not even a Muslim of Either Sunni or Shia but Alawite Shia Muslim.
    1. osan's Avatar
      osan -
      Oh gee... color me shocked.

      And whom may we thank for all this?

      Look in the mirror.
    1. osan's Avatar
      osan -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Why would Israel care if it was through arid land which most of Israel is. I would imagine the fees they collect would be an advantage for them.
      If there were a money opportunity like that in it for Israel, they would likely jump all over it. Either they were excluded, or they don't want it. If the latter, one must ask what is it about a pipeline they would reject in the face of lots of $$ to host it.

      One other question: Does Syria have a central bank under IMF/WorldBank control?
    1. anaconda's Avatar
      anaconda -
      Does anyone have a good explanation as to why the American voters are so perpetually clueless, decade after decade? The knee jerk "It's the media" explanation doesn't really seem fully satisfactory to me anymore.
    1. anaconda's Avatar
      anaconda -
      OK then, why doesn't Rand Paul talk about this like it's obvious as heck? Why not Massie or Amash as well? What is the big HOLDUP on telling the simple truth to the voters? What IS WITH this perpetual "hands off" on the glaringly obvious truth?
    1. enhanced_deficit's Avatar
      enhanced_deficit -
      It is incredible that Saudi dictators and violent Islamic Jihadi groups are neocons partners for freedom spreading and war against Christian friendly secular Syrian government.


      Neocons has same alliance with Jihadis/foreign fighters in 80s but that was before WTC1/2/7 events, neocons owners haven't learnt any lessons from history?


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