Conflict in Syria isn’t civil. All
anti-government forces are US-supported
terrorists (under various “jihadist” Al
Qaeda affiliated labels). Names of
different groups don’t matter.
They’re all cut out of the same cloth.
They can’t exist without foreign
support. State actors bear full
responsibility for turning Syria into a
charnel house.
After over six years of war, hundreds of
thousands are dead, mostly defenseless
men, women, children, the elderly and
infirm – millions internally or
externally displaced.
Their struggle is ours. The same goes
for their counterparts in other US war
theaters – victims of imperial
viciousness.
What country will America attack next?
How many more millions will die or
suffer unspeakable human misery? How
long will it take before full-blown
tyranny rules the United States, fantasy
democracy dispensed with altogether.
On
April 20 in Damascus, independent
journalists visiting Assad’s political
and media advisor
Bouthiana Shaaban explained
that
“terrorist(s) (are) terrorist(s) and
not…rebel(s).”
Falsely characterizing them is part of
the West’s great deception,
manufacturing false legitimacy for pure
evil.
“(T)he main problem lies in the
misleading (anti-Syria) media,
(creating) a wall which separates
the Western citizen from the reality
of events” on the ground, Shaaban
explained.
The April 4 false flag CW attack in Khan
Sheikhoun and Trump’s April 7
aggression, striking Syria’s Shayrat
airbase, are two of the latest examples.
Assad had nothing to do with the attack,
killing scores including dozens of
children, injuring many others.
Russia and Iran called for an
independent “unbiased investigation”
into what happened, involving OPCW
experts and others from Russia, Western
countries and regional ones.
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According to
Sergey
Lavrov, efforts to block the
Russian/Iranian proposal indicate “those
who are taking such attempts have
unclean conscience.”
“Evidence (is) multiplying that this
was an orchestrated event…(T)here
are too many discrepancies in the
(official Western) version.” Their
officials are blocking “steps that
could help establish the truth about
what happened.
Separately, Lavrov said it’s
“evident…that…false information”
about the Khan Sheikhoun incident is
part of “the longstanding…regime
change” plan. “I’m sure that we must
prevent it,” he stressed.
Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart
Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced
Trump’s Khan Sheikhoun attack as “an act
of aggression against a sovereign
nation.”
On
Thursday, Russia’s Armaments
Non-Proliferation and Control Department
director
Mikhail
Ulyanov explained
“no steps (so far) have…been
taken…to investigate” the April 4 CW
incident.
Blaming Damascus for happened is
“groundless,” he stressed. He blasted
Britain and Washington for claiming
Syrian culpability is “absolutely
certain.”
“We heard them say the same things”
ahead of Bush/Cheney/Blair’s 2003 Iraq
invasion.
Assad said his government formally asked
UN authorities “to send a delegation in
order to investigate what happened in
Khan Sheikhoun.”
“Of course till this moment they didn’t
send (any) because the West and the US
blocked any delegation from coming” –
wanting hard truths about what happened
suppressed, proving Syria had nothing to
do with what happened.
OPCW British nationals said samples from
Khan Sheikhoun indicated sarin or a
similar toxin was used in the April 4
attack – despite not visiting the site
first hand, invalidating their claim.
What happened was a state-sponsored
“false flag,” Assad stressed – to blame
his government and justify Trump’s
aggression.
On
April 16, he tweeted:
“Our military is building and is
rapidly becoming stronger than ever
before. Frankly, we have no choice!”
Is
he planning to unleash it more
aggressively on humanity than already –
to justify the unjustifiable at a time
America’s only enemies are invented
ones?
Stephen Lendman
lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His
new book as editor and contributor is
titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the
US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
- Visit his
blog site at www.sjlendman.blogspot.com
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