Monthly Archives: August 2013

It Looks Like Obama Miscalculated

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“Despite all the efforts of Obama to prevent important information from being made public, intelligence officials still decided to undercut the president’s directives. This suggests that Obama miscalculated and acted hastily, and that suggests that he was anxious to find an excuse for intervening on behalf of the rebels, who have been losing ground for months now. It also indicates government in-fighting. The intelligence officials are trying to protect their turf. They do not want again to be pressured into or accused of fixing the intelligence around the pre-decided policy. They do not want another case of being blamed, as occurred with the WMD’s absence in Iraq.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/it-looks-like-obama-miscalculated/

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Rand Paul opposes U.S. attack that could ‘kill Christians in Syria’

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“In an interview with conservative radio host Mike Huckabee, Paul said that President Barack Obama needed to understand that ‘there are 2 million Christians living in Syria, more than just about any place in the Middle East.’ ‘And I just don’t want to see my kids or weapons of the United States being used to kill Christians in Syria,’ he explained. Paul called on the president to ‘try and convince’ a joint session of Congress that action in Syria was necessary. ‘You know, I think a good place to start when things are muddled and confused is to start with the Constitution,’ he told Huckabee.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/29/rand-paul-opposes-u-s-attack-if-it-could-kill-christians-in-syria/

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The War Powers Act and Syria

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“The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) a specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.  All this talk about ‘consultations with Congress’ is disinformation, unless first the language in the section quoted above is triggered which would then authorize the president ‘to introduce’ the U.S. armed forces into ‘hostilities’.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/the-war-powers-act-and-syria.html

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Bomb Syria, Get Cyber Attacked

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“The U.S. used to parade around the world, and life would go on as usual back home. But American military muscle isn’t the be all and end all anymore. Land, sea, air and space superiority are so 20th century. Cyberstrike capabilities have leveled the battlefield. And the scrappy countries are holding more bargaining chips. ‘One of the risks is that you’ve got Iran talking to Russia,’ says James Lewis, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. ‘You have Iran talking to North Korea; you’ve got the Syrians talking to Iran.’ The Pentagons realize the catastrophic damage that cyberattacks pose. And they want to be able to cause that damage just as much as they want to prevent it here at home.”

http://dailyreckoning.com/bomb-syria-get-cyber-attacked/

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The risk of taking on Syria

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“I lived in Lebanon in the fall of 1983 when the Reagan administration ordered the Marine peacekeepers deployed in Beirut to open fire on a Muslim militia. The commander bluntly warned Washington that a strike would have dire consequences for U.S. policy and his troops. ‘We’ll get slaughtered down here,’ he predicted. Nonetheless, the cruiser Virginia stationed offshore fired 70 deafening rounds on the Lebanese fighters. It was supposed to be a quick hit. It was supposed to send a warning. But 34 days later, on Oct. 23, a yellow Mercedes truck carrying the equivalent of 6 tons of explosives drove into the Marine barracks as the peacekeepers slept.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0829-wright-syria-consequences-20130829,0,7387106.story

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Syrian rebels get 400-ton shipment of arms

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“Gulf-based supporters have sent a 400-ton shipment of arms to Syria’s outgunned rebels, one of the biggest to reach them in their two-year-old uprising. The consignment – mostly ammunition for shoulder-fired weapons and anti-aircraft machine guns – came into northern Syria via the Turkish province of Hatay in the past 24 hours, and was already being handed out. Syria’s conflict, pitting mostly Sunni Muslim insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect follows an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam, has ignited sectarian tensions across the region. Qatar and other Sunni-led Gulf states have backed the insurgents, while Shi’ite power Iran remains one of Assad’s main allies.”

http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/08/26/syrian-rebels-get-400-ton-shipment-of-arms/

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Politics of Bombing Syria Is Secondary to the President’s Power

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“He will claim that it is not an act of war but a one-time retaliation. He will claim that he has the authority by his power to conduct foreign policy. Precedents that go back to the earliest days of the republic support the latter claim, even if the Constitution has nothing to say about the conduct of foreign policy. Obama, the constitutional lawyer, understands this. If he decides to bomb Syria, he will. His only political calculation will be what degree of public and Congressional support he wants to secure, but he has no doubt that he has the power to bomb. He already has been using this power in Libya, Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere since he became president.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/politics-of-bombing-syria-is-secondary-to-the-presidents-power/

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Amnesty International Sells Out

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“From my perspective, you have caved in to the special interests of the US government, treading softly with them and their allies and jumping on the abuses of their designated enemies. I even notice that one of your options on this questionnaire is ‘Amnesty’s investigative efforts to shine a light on war crimes being committed in Syria.’ Talk about a drumbeat for war! We heard this blather before in the runup to Iraq. If you are so interested in war crimes, why are you so accommodating to the war crimes committed by the United States? It’s a shame. I have been a proud member for decades, but no longer.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/amnesty-international-sells-out/

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The Last Secular Arab Country

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“The US regime, with its trained and financed local jihadi army, is in the process of destroying the last non-Islamist Arab regime: Syria. Like all empires, the US seeks to make trouble in order to dominate and enrich itself and its compatriots, governmental and corporate. Oh, and here is one effect of a jihadi takeover: the ancient Christian communities in Syria, there since the time of the Apostles and protected by Assad and his father, will be ethnically cleansed, with many murdered in the process. So the cannibal rebels promise.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-last-secular-arab-country/

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US Admits What Ron Paul Said: “Nobody Knows Who Set Off The Gas”

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“The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no ‘slam dunk,’ with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria’s chemical weaponsstores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say. [..]  An intercept of Syrian military officials discussing the strike was among low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to an Assad insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said.  Another possibility that officials would hope to rule out: that stocks [..] were deployed by rebels in a callous and calculated attempt to draw the West into the war.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-29/us-finally-admits-what-ron-paul-said-nobody-knows-who-launched-chemical-attack

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