US WMD lies after lies

Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 08-28-2013 WED

 

If there is still any doubt that the US and Western ruling classes are intent on spreading war and madness in the world, then their latest lies on the "chemical weapons" attack in Syria should vaporize it all.  Despite the many evidence of Syrian rebel terrorist possession and use of poison gas exposed since May--amid an ongoing United Nations investigation of the last reported use of chemical weapons in rebel-held areas still have to reach any conclusion--the US and Western imperial countries are baselessly presupposing the guilt of the Bashar al-Assad government and are poised to launch cruise missile attacks even without US congressional and UN Security Council approval.

 

The US is making excuses for preemptively dismissing the UN investigation, claiming it is too late.  It says evidence may have evaporated already as snipers are said to be slowing down UN inspectors' entry in rebel-held areas.  It is not without reason that we are assuming they are likely to be rebel snipers.  But none of these realities on the ground will ever dissuade the US, the French, Turkish, their allied Gulf states, and others from attacking without any solid justification.  They just want war.

 

They know that since the final collapse of the Western economies is just months away, the ultimate goal is to eventually crush the ascendant economic powers, namely, Russia and China.

 

In May 2013, UN investigator Carla del Ponte said this about a sarin gas attack in a town in Aleppo, Syria: "Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims (and) doctors … According to their reports there are strong, concrete suspicions … This was on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities … This is not surprising, since the opponents (i.e. the anti-Assad opposition) have been infiltrated by foreign fighters."

 

When some Filipinos, such as Walden Bello, claim that Assad kills his own people, they feign ignorance of the fact that from the very beginning, US-funded terrorists have been killing civilians and blaming it on the Syrian government--just as they are doing elsewhere.

 

More recently, toward the end of May, Turkish state media Zaman reported that Turkish agents seized 2 kilograms of sarin gas in Adana City from Al Nusra terrorists heading for Syria.  Six days ago, opposition reports of a purported Syrian government rocket attack with toxic agents on the Ghouta region where hundreds died is now being used by Western imperial countries as a justification for an imminent attack.  But strangely, hundreds of videos showing apparent victims of a chemical weapons attack in Syria were uploaded on YouTube last August 20, a day before media reported the actual attack, which made Russia's Foreign Ministry suspect the incident to be a "pre-planned" provocation staged by the Syrian rebels.

 

Even as the Syrian War is thousands of kilometers away from the realities Filipinos face today (i.e. poverty due to the corruption of the ruling class and its political puppets), what they do not realize is that the destruction from war and mayhem in the Middle East is fast approaching the borders of this region.

 

Few even know and even fewer appreciate the portents from the US "pivot to Asia" announced by Barack Obama in 2012.  Agents of the US in the Philippines are expectedly re-directing the danger of US imperialism by deliberately barking up the wrong tree, i.e. fear-mongering on a non-existent "Chinese invasion"  (dispute, yes; but invasion, no), when it is US that has occupied the Philippines in all but name.

 

Conscientious Filipinos should hammer away with the truth about US and Western imperialist wars and hegemony, and crack the iron dome of misinformation and disinformation over the Filipino mind by CNN and Reuters et al. aided by local mainstream media and Western-funded NGOs.  We must expose and oppose these wars against humanity and open the people's resistance to them, just as US and international anti-war heroes such as Bradley (now transgender heroine, Chelsea) Manning and Edward Snowden have done.

 

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, only nine percent of Americans believe that Obama should now act while 60 percent, mindful of their government's lies, strongly oppose US intervention in Syria's civil war. 

 

Indeed, they've been served lie after lie--from Colin Powell holding up the vial allegedly containing evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction before the UN, to Secretary of State John Kerry concluding that Assad is to blame when the UN investigation has not even taken off the ground.

 

Sad to say, we have some "Filipino patriots" who see nothing wrong with the US--the same ones who see everything wrong with every other country that refuses to kowtow to that imperial trouble-maker.

 

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