Newly released State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the State Department had funneled millions of dollars secretly into funding Syrian dissident groups. The effort included some $6 million given to the Movement for Justice and Development.
The effort began in 2007, when the Bush Administration began efforts to support an opposition TV channel after breaking ties with the Syrian government. Though the Obama Administration has sought to restore ties with the regime, they also continued funding the opposition groups.
State Department Spokesman Mark Toner responded to the leak by insisting that the US was “not working to undermine” the Assad regime, and that the funding was simply an effort to “promote democratic processes.”
Indeed, the State Department may have given Assad a huge boost by funding the opposition factions, as it may allow his regime to paint the growing protest movement as a US scheme. Similar revelations of US backing have harmed other opposition factions in nations like Iran, where evidence of foreign backing has damaged the credibility of certain factions.
In Libya and Syria you can see from their so-called "Rebel" faces that these are Bimbos paid for by the CIA! And in times not so far away those guys will find out the hard way that they will be just citicens opf second class when their country is run by USG. Only a few of the ruling class then will be happy. The same way many of the former East German dissidents now feel that it would have been better to keep the status quo alive.
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Syria should also start funding disident groups within the US. How would the Americans like that? It would be a magnificent sight indeed.
workiing to promote the democratic process, let us have a look: Albania – D, Bosnia – C-, Gerogia – D, Egypt, Tunisia, Lybia – D-, USA – C-, if they were a business they would have been gone looooong ago with a good riddance.
Didn't we just go down this path eight years ago? False stories, manufactured evidence, and dubious "patriots" gave us the Iraq debacle. What was that Iraqi "George Washington"? Chalabi or Halabi? It only cost America a few thousand dead, tens of thousands of wounded, a few amputations, and a price tag that will reach $3 trillion over the coming years. As for the "liberated" Iraqis, over a hundred thousand dead (and growing), at least another hundred thousand wounded, sectarianism rampant, ethnic division as the Kurds and Shiites and Sunnis squabble over the oil in Mosul, internecine warfare between the Sunnis and Shiites, property damages in the billions of dollars, and now the complaint in DC that Iran has more influence in Baghdad then we do. With such an abysmal failure in Iraq, why should we think that the wonks of Washington should get it right in Syria. What is that old saying? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." How much more embarrassment can Americans take?
We are laying off teachers to pay for this.