“I don’t believe at this stage, therefore, if I’m president that we need to have a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has that capacity now.”
“Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the United States government created Al Qaeda and yet in some countries is still fighting them while in others is supporting them.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcZKso_Z6M8
“Pakistani Ambassador in Washington Sherry Rehman has called for an end to drone strikes ahead of Pak-US intelligence summit. Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States is calling for an end to CIA drone strikes ahead of an intelligence summit in Washington between the two countries expected next week. In a frank debate with White House war adviser Douglas Lute, Sherry Rehman said the drone attacks succeeded in damaging al-Qaida but are now only serving to recruit new militants.” [Only an Empire can be stupid enough not to admit this fact.]
http://www.sananews.net/english/sherry-slams-drones-ahead-of-cia-talks/
“Most Americans are Christians. But few know that the acts of our government are leading to the persecution of Christians in numerous countries. Saddam Hussein was a secular ruler who tolerated Christians … but Christians have been persecuted by the post-Saddam regime. Similarly, Christians were at least tolerated by Libya’s secular leader Gaddaffi. And Christianity is an officially-recognized and protected religion in Iran. But according to the Vatican’s official news service and many other Christian news sources, the Syrian opposition is targeting Christians. Priests and bishops on the ground in Syria confirm these reports.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/u-s-government-is-prosecuting-christians.html
“Are we supporting al-Qaida in Syria? That is a very good question. It clearly demonstrates that the United States has no business at all being involved in the Syrian civil war. In the 1980s we supported a resistance movement in Afghanistan that later gave birth to elements of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. When will we learn our lesson and stop intervening in conflicts we don’t truly understand, conflicts that have nothing to do with American national interests?”
http://www.thedailybell.com/4159/Ron-Paul-Moving-Toward-War-in-Syria
“Iran has been trying to guarantee the survival of Mr Assad, who serves as Tehran’s only reliable ally in the Middle East, by supplying Syria’s regime with funds, weaponry and expert personnel to aid the campaign against rebels. ‘Iran will never allow the resistance axis – of which Syria is an essential pillar – to break,’ said defense secretary Saeed Jalili. The ‘axis of resistance’ refers to the Middle East’s anti-Western powers: Iran, Syria and the armed groups, Hizbollah and Hamas, although in reality the latter has already broken away by ending its presence in Damascus.” [Obvious: A geopolitical proxy war under cover of ‘human rights’.]
“Plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Mellon said his legal team may seek the seizure of Iranian state assets overseas. Last year, U.S. District Judge George Daniels found Iran, its Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and the regime’s Lebanese client, Hezbollah, aided al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Mellon said international seizures are common in the business world, ‘but in the terror world, this is uncharted territory.'” [Oh look, a legal doctrine made up on the spot, which just happens to double as a pretext for war…]
“President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. The White House is for now apparently stopping short of giving the rebels lethal weapons, even as some U.S. allies do just that. A U.S. government source acknowledged that under provisions of the presidential finding, the United States was collaborating with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-secret-syria-order_n_1730712.html
“The US, France, Turkey and Israel have all finalized plans for attacking Syria. The biggest winner in such a scenario would be Israel, as it was in the US war against Iraq. Sending Syria into turmoil would eliminate the most important supporter of the Palestinians resistance, cut off Hezbullah, leave it vulnerable to a final assault, isolate Iran, and cement Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights.”
http://ericmargolis.com/2012/07/syrias-wmd/