Foreign Policy is portraying former Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich
as a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that allegations Syria used
chemical weapons are part of a manufactured pretext for war.
John Hudson,
who writes on national security issues for the magazine, believes
Kucinich may have been influenced by
Infowars.com and Wikileaks.
Hudson
points to our story
from March reporting that the United States and Israel decided to
escalate tensions inside Syria and confront Assad’s military directly
under the weapons of mass destruction pretext.
Events over the past week have borne this assertion out. The Obama administration says it will
continue its investigation of phantom chemical weapons while Senator
John McCain
of Arizona has called for international troops to prepare a Syrian
invasion under the pretext of securing chemical weapon stockpiles.
On Sunday, Senator
Lindsay Graham
said “there’s a growing consensus in the U.S. Senate that the United
States should get involved” in a Syrian intervention. Congress now
accepts the Syrian government chemical weapons pretext without question,
a fact demonstrated by Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who said on Face the
Nation that it’s clear the order to use chemical weapons came from the
al-Assad regime.
Despite the mindless stampeded toward war under the chemical weapons
pretext – virtually the same pretext used to turn Iraq into a hellish
failed state – a small number of establishment media journalists have
questioned the claim.
“Why use them knowing that you risk losing the diplomatic support of
Russia and China, knowing you risk bringing in western intervention, and
therefore risk losing the gains you’ve made militarily in the past few
weeks?” asks
Tim Marshall,
the foreign affairs editor of Sky News. “Why now? It doesn’t make
sense. If the evidence of use was overwhelming, the question would still
remain. But the evidence is underwhelming.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Mikhail Bogdanov,
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Middle East envoy, said from Beirut
last week the U.S. should not use the unverified use of chemical weapons
as a pretext to invade Syria. Bogdanov made his comment the same day
Syria’s Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi called the allegation “a
bald-faced lie.” The previous day, on April 26, Obama warned Damascus
that the use of chemical weapons would be a “game changer,” in other
words it would provide a pretext for an invasion of the country.
In March, the so-called rebels supported by
Saudi Arabia and
Qatar and
trained and armed by the CIA
were accused of launching a chemical attack in the Khan al-Assal region
north of Aleppo. “Terrorists launched a missile containing chemical
products into the region of Khan al-Assal in the province of Aleppo,
killing 15 people, mainly civilians,” Syria’s
Sana news agency reported.
“An alleged audio recording of a phone conversation between two
members of the Free Syrian Army contains details of a plan to carry out a
chemical weapons attack capable of impacting an area the size of one
kilometer,”
Paul Joseph Watson
wrote for
Infowars.com the following day, on March 20. “The video also
contains footage of western-backed FSA rebels announcing their intention
to carry out chemical weapons attacks while surrounded with bottles of
nitric acid and other substances.”
Despite a promise by the United Nations to investigate the use of
chemical weapons by the so-called rebels – who are, the New York Times
has admitted, primarily Salafist terrorists – Obama and other American
officials
dismissed the allegation, stating there was no intelligence to substantiate reports that rebels used chemical weapons against government troops.
Hudson discounts Kucinich’s assertion and writes him off “as a fringe
voice in U.S. politics.” He then says that Kucinich’s “remarks are part
of an ongoing effort to provide a counternarrative to the idea that
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an absolute tyrant and his
opposition are well-intentioned freedom fighters.”
In fact, the “freedom fighters” in Syria, as noted above, are almost
exclusively radical Salafists of the al-Nusra and al-Qaeda variety, a
fact ignored by Mr. Hudson despite the appearance of the information in
the New York Times.
Finally, it should be noted that Foreign Policy is a tool in the
establishment’s kit designed to shape propaganda and public consensus in
favor of war. After all, the magazine lists the PNAC neocon,
Robert Kagan,
as one of its “top globalist thinkers.” PNAC served as an institutional
vehicle for advocating the invasion of Iraq under the pretext that
Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical
weapons. The invasion resulted in the death of well over a million
Iraqis. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
This article was posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 10:27 am
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