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Boy the Gods must be crazy to allow such lunatics to control the helm of the ship of state. The Obama Administration has asked congress for $500 million to train “moderate Syrian rebels” in Saudi Arabia to fight ISIS. Are they nuts? If you want the truth about 9-11 and ISIS just follow the money to Saudi Arabia.
Excerpt:
US lawmakers unveil measure to continue
arming Syrian rebels
Republican lawmakers unveiled legislation
Sept 15 to give authority to equip and
train Syrian rebels through Dec. 11. The amendment is part of a stop-gap
spending bill that Congress must pass to keep the government functioning after
the Sept. 30 fiscal year ends. It does not include a previous request for $500
million…
President
Barack Obama on June 26 asked Congress for $500 million to arm and train Syrian rebels that have passed security
screenings as part of an ongoing covert U.S. intelligence initiative in Syria.
The request is bundled into a $65.8 billion foreign operations proposal…
The
CIA and U.S. special operatives have secretly trained Syrian rebels in the use
of antiaircraft and antitank weapons since 2012,
U.S. officials and rebel commanders told the Los Angeles Times. The CIA also
played a "consultative" role with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and
Turkey to send arms.
You
know something, congress must live in an alternate universe. The CIA has been secretly training Syrian
rebels since the beginning of the war, which the CIA more than likely
instigated to start with. That war would
have been over 2012 if hundreds of billions in arms were not sent to overthrow
the Assad government in Syria. The
overthrow of the Assad government has been number 2 on rightwing think tank’s
trillion dollar wish list.
While
congress is sending emergency funding for the Saudi’s to train moderate rebels
in Syria, people in Detroit have no water.
That’s Detroit, in the United States of America. The water has been shut off to more than
15,000 households for being past due. And
while the WATER is shut off to people too poor to pay their water bill, 40
businesses that have a past due account of $9.5 million have uninterrupted
water service. I guess congress finds no
urgency for Detroit or America.
Maybe
it’s just me, but I think paying Saudi Arabia to train “moderate rebels” seems
like a really bad idea. Or, maybe it’s
not just me, from ABC News:
Excerpt:
Top Syrian Warns Congress 'Moderate'
Rebels May Sell Weapons
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Sep 16, 2014, 12:04 PM
ET
By ALEXANDER MARQUARDT
In letters addressed to the Democratic
and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, the Syrian Speaker of
Parliament calls on the United States to refrain from arming and training
so-called moderate Syrian rebels and from entering into a coalition with
countries whose religious ideologies, the Speaker says, has fueled the growth
of ISIS. Speaker Jihad al-Lahham also writes that one of the two American
journalists beheaded by ISIS was sold to the militant group by the moderate
forces…
What? Letters were sent to Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. government
warning us that the “moderate Syrian rebels” sold one of the two American
journalists to ISIS” to be beheaded?
Are
you saying our Senators and Representatives, knowing that the moderate Syrian rebels
sold the U.S. journalist to be beheaded, are still voting to fund more arms for
these rebels? Really the Gods must be
crazy.
In his letters to the U.S. Congress,
Speaker Lahham argues that there is no such thing as moderate rebels and arming
and training those selected groups "is
a nonreversible action that will trigger a global negative chain
reaction."
Lahham
also singles out Saudi Arabia,
one of the U.S.'s closest allies in the anti-ISIS coalition the administration
is building. He says the "core engine generating jihadi terrorist[s]"
stems from the puritanical interpretation of Islam practiced and enforced in
Saudi Arabia. He points out that the
beheadings that ISIS has become infamous for "is a government legal
practice in Saudi Arabia."
Yep,
beheading
is a legal practice in Saudi Arabia.
And now Saudi Arabia is going to train the “moderate rebels” from
Syria. Sheesh, how stupid and corrupt is
our government? Have they learned
nothing from 9-11? Saudi Arabia has a
lot to answer for, but I doubt this congress will do their job in upholding the
U.S. constitution and protecting our country from all enemies, foreign and
domestic. From CounterPunch:
Excerpt:
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
An Interview With Senator Bob Graham,
Saudi Arabia, 9/11 and the Rise of ISIS
by PATRICK COCKBURN
The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government
to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of
jihadi movements such as al-Qaeda in the years since, says former Senator Bob
Graham, the co-chairman of the official inquiry into 9/11.
Senator Graham, who chaired the Senate
Intelligence Committee, said that successive administrations in Washington had
turned a blind eye to Saudi support for Sunni extremists. He added: “I believe
that the failure to shine a full light on Saudi actions and particularly its
involvement in 9/11 has contributed to the Saudi ability to continue to engage
in actions that are damaging to the US – and in particular their support for
Isis.”
Senator
Bob Graham, who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the
attacks of September 11th, has said Saudi Arabia was complicit in
the attacks.
It
occurs to me that the United States Congress is a greater threat to the people
of Detroit than ISIS, as a matter of fact the United States Congress is a
greater threat to the people of America than ISIS. I propose we send the $500 million to the
American people to help America.
Members
of congress have an incestuous relationship with the neocon Zionist think tanks
whose very existence depends upon unending war, and even more on unending war
profits. And, it’s no surprise that
those same members of congress have become obscenely rich.
The
ISIS crisis is just another bullshit threat cooked up by the CIA and their
think tank brethren. From Before It’sNews:
Excerpt:
David Haines and the Hundred Billion in
“Humanitarian Aid” Lost in Afghanistan,
Sunday, September 14, 2014 7:05
by Scott Creighton
Thanks to the “ISIS Crisis” and several
phony beheading videos, “humanitarian” and military contractors alike are
frothing at the mouth in anticipation for the big paydays ahead. They are
packing their bags, kissing their kids goodbye and heading over to Iraq to
provide whatever “humanitarian” service pays them the most. Let’s call them
“humanitarian mercenaries” shall we?
“Iraq this time around is not going to be
as big as it was before,” said Roger Carstens, a former special operations
officer who has served as a contracted military adviser in Somalia and
Afghanistan. “That said, this new war will present an opportunity for the
companies that have a resident train and advising capability to contribute to
this new effort.”
President Obama has asked Congress to
authorize $500 million to train a new Syrian opposition out of Saudi Arabia.
That money would be part of a $5 billion fund Obama requested this spring from
Congress to help train and equip U.S. allies to fight terrorists.
The
biggest threat to the United States of America isn’t ISIS, it’s our
government. These wars are all for
profit, so who’s lining up to play, “grab those bucks?” From Fortune:
Excerpt:
The war on ISIS already has a winner: The
defense industry
by
Tory Newmyer
@FortuneMagazine SEPTEMBER 13,
2014, 6:00 AM EDT
Makers of munitions and unmanned aircraft
top the list of private-sector beneficiaries.
It’s far too soon to tell how the
American escalation in the sprawling, complex mess unfolding in Iraq and Syria
will play out. But this much is clear: As our military machine hums into a
higher gear, it will produce some winners in the defense industry.
Presenting his vision for expanding the
confrontation with the terrorist group ISIS in a speech to the nation on
Wednesday night, President Obama outlined a program of intensified airstrikes
designed to keep American troops away from the danger on the ground.
So defense analysts are pointing to a
pair of sure-bet paydays from the new campaign: for those making and
maintaining the aircraft, manned and unmanned, that will swarm the skies over
the region, and for those producing the missiles and munitions that will arm them…
“The drone builders are going to have a
field day,” says Dov Zakheim, who served as Pentagon Comptroller during the
George W. Bush administration. That could mean a tidy profit for privately held General Atomics, maker
of the Predator drone, the granddaddy in the category and still widely in use,
as well as the second-generation Reaper, designed to carry 3,000 pounds worth
of bombs
We’re
in the money, we’re in the money. From
Eli Lake at The Daily Beast:
Excerpt:
Contractors Ready to Cash In On ISIS War
Obama pledged that the war against ISIS
won’t be fought with U.S. ground troops. He didn’t say anything about
contractors, who see this as “the next big meal ticket.”
America’s rapidly-expanding war against
ISIS won’t involve large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground, President Obama
is promising. And it’s clear that airstrikes alone won’t beat back the
extremist group. Which means that if the President wants to have any hope of
meeting his far-reaching goal of destroying ISIS, he’s going to have to rely on
private military contractors…
At the height of the Iraq war, these
firms hired hundreds of thousands of people: guns-for-hire, IT geeks, logistics
specialists, interrogators, and short order cooks to ladle out the slop at the
military cafeteria.
Over time, some of those contractors
became the symbol for everything that was wrong with the Iraq war: hugely
expensive, ineffective, and indifferent to Iraqi life.
Contractors were at the middle of the
war’s biggest scandals, from Abu Ghraib to Nissour Square. And it was the
abductions and murder of Blackwater contractors that sparked one of Iraq's
biggest battles.
None of the five current and former
contractors who spoke with The Daily Beast expected a replay of last decade’s
Iraq war. But they all said a major opportunity was coming—both for them, and
for Obama, who could use the private armies as a way to conceal just how many
people will be fighting in this new conflict.
Where
are the media? Where are the press, where’s
the fourth estate?
The Founding Fathers
gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of
government and inform the people.
Hugo Black
From
Fire Dog Lake:
Excerpt:
Obama
Vetted ISIS Speech In Off-The-Record Meeting With Establishment Media
By: DS Wright Tuesday September 16, 2014
5:02 am
According
to Michael Calderone at the Huffington
Post, President
Barack Obama met with over a dozen “journalists” in an off-the-record meeting
to get input on how he should sell his war against ISIS to the American people.
Not
surprisingly, the speech President Obama gave after meeting with the group of
“journalists” was inaccurate, hyperbolic, and manipulative. Apparently no one
told Obama to just be straight with the American people and tell the truth, but
then why would you need to be off-the-record to give that advice?...
The off-the-record meeting between
journalists and policymakers will likely symbolize to many observers the
incestuous and corrupt relationship between the government and the mainstream
media where friends are made, favors are traded, and truth gets buried.
The group, which met in the Roosevelt
Room of the White House in an off-the-record session, included New York Times columnists
David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo;
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New
Yorker’s Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and
Peter Beinart; The New Republic’s Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean
Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast’s Michael
Tomasky, a source familiar with the meeting told The Huffington Post.
Yes,
that is what we have, a pampered, cajoled press that will sell out their
country for a seat at the cool kids table.
Reminds me of when David Gregory asked Glenn Greenwald why he shouldn’t
be tried for treason for printing the revelations of Edward Snowden. That is how far the press in the U.S. has
fallen.
That,
my friends is where we are today. CIA
and rightwing think tanks control our government because they own the
politicians, and the media that protects them.
So
America if you want the truth about 9-11 and ISIS follow to money all the way
to Saudi Arabia.
By
Patricia Baeten
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