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"It was just three weeks ago that our new “transformative” President Joe Biden joined that long almost unbroken list of war criminal presidents stretching back to George Washington.
Biden joined this disgraceful list by ordering a bloody aerial bombardment by US warplanes in eastern Syria.
The US bombs, which were reportedly dropped on a a location in the city of Erbil, according to the British daily The Independent, killed as many as 22 people in the targeted buildings (assuming all the bombs atually landed on their intended targets). Most if not all of the victims were Iraqis described by the US as being part of two “Iranian-backed militias,” which were accused of being behind a rocket attack 10 days earlier that killed a US mercenary and wounded a Louisiana National Guardsman . The Pentagon called the attack, which employed seven 500-1b bombs, a “proportional response” to that earlier attack, which raises questions about the meaning of “proportional” (or about what the hell dictionary they use in the White House).
The Oxford Dictionary defines “proportional” as meaning “corresponding in size or amount to something else,” but it seems unlikely that a rocket attack by a militia group or two could come close in explosive power to seven bombs totalling nearly two tons of explosive, and besides, 22 deaths is unarguably way out of proportion in relation to a casualty toll of one dead and one wounded.
Aside from the ludicrous misuse of that term by the Pentagon and the reporters who dutifully scribbled it own in their notes and quoted it in their reports of the briefing without comment, there is another point that was left out: That those who were killed, even if Iraqi, were there in Syria at the behest of the Syrian government. The US mercenary killed and the US soldier wounded in Syria were in that country as invaders, in violation of both Syrian national sovereignty and international law.
That is why Biden made himself yet another US war criminal president."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Syria is a criminal state which has massacred hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. It would have been a failed state were it not for the direct intervention of "Russian and Iranian armed intervention and supply of weapons which added to the massacre. You failed to mention that.
The truth is that armed Iraqi groups in Syria have conducted attacks in American troops in Iraq. In so doing it invited American attacks on it. That i the simple truth.
I am not a supporter of the failed policies of Bush and Trump in Iraq and in the entire region. Those administrations' mismanagement of both the issues in the region and of the conflict in both Iraq and Syria have contributed to the turmoil in the region. Biden is left with trying to do what he can to extricate the US from the damned mess in both Syria and Iraq.
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@wordywalt - sounds like Iran under the Shah after we murdered Mosaddegh. Also, the US hired Nazis for NASA, and helped put one in charge of NATO as well.
To explain Syria, you need follow the money. Assad blocked an oil pipeline deal the US wanted. And if you're worried about war crimes and chemical weapons, we supplied to ones Saddam used on Iran.
But yeah... our shit don't stink.
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@WilliamCharles There are huge differences and you damned well know. The rocket scientists were just that -- scientists, not not nazis. The gestapo leaders brought in by the Syran leaders are vicious and murdering nazi true believers. If you do not understand that, you don't understand much at all.
Yes, our foreign policy from many years ago did cause the death of Mosaddegh. That does not equate to the hundreds of thouswands killed by the current past Syrian leadership. Your lack of objectivity is more than apparent.
@wordywalt - in Syria, the US backs, arms, and funds Taliban and Al Qaida factions. Israel too.
@WilliamCharles That is an absurd falsehood as far as Al-Qaida aqnd Taliban are concerned. Yes, we have given too damned many arms to Israel.
@wordywalt - as usual, the extent you have to be corrected is substantial. ISIS/Al Qaida rebels fighting Syria has US support. Our alphabet agencies often back competing radical elements, as long as they'll do damage to Syria.
This excerpt discusses British intelligence, but it's all part of the same clusterfuck.
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"The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting."
@WilliamCharles Now you are trying to blame the US for British actions?????
@wordywalt - forget it, Walt. You refuse to connect the dots. And the article does mention the CIA. The UK and the US are part of the same coalition. They work in conjunction in most areas, in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. I'm sure British Petroleum stands to gain in Syria.
@wordywalt - re: the Syrian chemical weapons lie.
@WilliamCharles That is NOT a lie! There is videotaped evidence of the results for the victims.
@WilliamCharles I don't make connections unless there is clear evidence supporting connecting purported dots.
@wordywalt - sorry, you're mistaken.
@wordywalt - re: videotaped "evidence." This was HILARIOUS!!
@wordywalt - and this.
@wordywalt -
"While Joe Biden has faced some mild Congressional pushback for bombing the Iraq-Syria border, Tulsi Gabbard says her former colleagues are ignoring the larger issue: the ongoing US dirty war on Syria. After a decade of proxy warfare that empowered Al Qaeda and ISIS, the US is now occupying one-third of Syria and imposing crippling sanctions that are crushing Syria’s economy and preventing reconstruction.
While Gabbard has been vilified for her stance on Syria, many top White House officials — including Joe Biden himself — have already acknowledged the same facts that she has called out. Aaron Maté plays clips of Biden and some of his most senior aides admitting to the horrific realities of the US dirty war on Syria, and argues that Gabbard only stands apart in being wiling to criticize it."
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