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June 17th, 2013 
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President
Obama announced late last week that the US intelligence community
had just determined that the Syrian government had used poison gas
on a small scale, killing some 100 people in a civil conflict that
has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. Because of this use of gas,
the president claimed, Syria had crossed his red line
and the US must begin to arm the rebels fighting to overthrow the
Syrian government.
Setting aside
the question of why 100 killed by gas is somehow more important
than 99,900 killed by other means, the fact is his above explanation
is full of holes. The Washington
Post reported
this week that the decision to overtly arm the Syrian rebels was
made weeks ago in other words, it was made at
a time when the intelligence community did not believe with
high confidence that the Syrian government had used chemical
weapons.
Further, this
plan to transfer weapons to the Syrian rebels had become policy
much earlier than that, as the Washington Post reported that
the CIA had expanded over
the past year its secret bases in Jordan to prepare for the
transfer of weapons to the rebels in Syria.
The process
was identical to the massive deception campaign that led us into
the Iraq war. Remember the famous quote from the leaked Downing
Street Memo, where representatives of British Prime Minister
Tony Blairs administration discussed Washingtons push
for war on Iraq?
Here the head
of British intelligence was reporting back to his government after
a trip to Washington in the summer of 2002:
Military
action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam,
through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism
and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around
the policy.
That is exactly
what the Obama Administration is doing with Syria: fixing the intelligence
and facts around the already determined policy. And Congress just
goes along, just as they did the last time.
We found out
shortly after the Iraq war started that the facts and intelligence
being fixed around the policy were nothing but lies put forth by
the neo-con warmongers and the paid informants, like the infamous
and admitted liar known as Curveball. But we seem to
have learned nothing from being fooled before.
So
Obama now plans to send even more weapons to the Syrian rebels even
though his administration is aware that the main rebel factions
have pledged their loyalty to al-Qaeda. Does anyone else see the
irony? After 12 years of the war on terror and the struggle
against al-Qaeda, the US decided to provide weapons to the allies
of al-Qaeda. Does anyone really think this is a good idea?
The Obama administration
promises us that this is to be a very limited operation, providing
small arms only, with no plans for a no-fly zone or American boots
on the ground. That sounds an awful lot like how Vietnam started.
Just a few advisors. When these few small arms do not achieve the
pre-determined US policy of regime change in Syria what is the administration
going to do? Admit failure and pull the troops out, or escalate?
History suggests the answer and it now appears to be repeating itself
once again.
The president
has opened a can of worms that will destroy his presidency and possibly
destroy this country. Another multi-billion dollar war has begun.
June
17, 2013
Dr. Ron
Paul was a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
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2013 Ron Paul
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