Last week’s US-Russian deal on Syrian chemical weapons disarmament has been through a bumpy past few days, but seems to be on track again after the US and France backed off another round of attempts to get the UN to authorize war with Syria.
The nations began pushing again on the war after the UN report was released on Monday, and was threatening to destroy the deal outright since Russia was unwilling to go along with the resolution adding a “use of force” option.
It’s been incredible how many times Western officials have tried to revitalize the idea of authorizing a war in the deal, as Russia has made it clear repeatedly that they would not let that happen, and nothing has suggested that might change.
France in particular has seemed desperate to get some sort of war authorization out of all of this, with analysts saying that the Hollande government has been hoping to use its push for war on Syria to underscore its perception of France as a great power.
The warmongers have huffed and puffed, and still they can't get their war going. Is this merely a tactical retreat? Most likely it is. Having expended a great deal of public effort to unleash the bombs and missiles, they must be acutely aware that the world – Boobus Americanus excepted – has seen them for what they are. They'll double down on the capital they've already expended, and perhaps gamble for a pay-off in a new round of provocations against Iran.
Yes I think the expenditure on efforts to trigger conflict in that corner of the world will increase. They've lost too much credibility this one. When the air clears, whether it is the attempts to throw dust in the world's eyes over chemical weapons and their mercenary scumbags run amok or the smoke of the war they do eventually manage to start, their brand will be toast. This is the last hurrah from a mortally wounded beast. Really one just dying of self inflicted wounds, it has torn and munched and vampirised it's own body in so many ways. Flayed itself and howled revenge upon weak and unnassuming fall guys who it attacks with rousing blood curdling war cries and pathetic whining about defending itself. Yet the little guys inevitably kick the bully back into his corner, weaker and more lonely than before. Just a big stupid, dumbed down beast of burden and the burden it is carrying this time is it's own over inflated sense of itself.
The war freaks will just re target Iran, yes, indeed. If Iran should be sucked up into a Martain ship, there's always Kim Jong Un, and if His country is also sucked up, too, never fear. USrael will find a new punching bag.
Now Obama has granted himself a "waiver" on providing arms to terrorists! Of course, we knew already that arms provided to the so-called "Free Syrian Army" would end up in the hands of al-Nusra, but for him to arrogantly come out and brag that he's going to do it in defiance of the will of the American people is another step in the direction of Presidential supremacy.
Congress must not take this lying down. It is now the duty of the House, and in the interest of preserving its own Constitutional powers, to bring articles of impeachment. Call your Congressman NOW and insist they bring articles of impeachment.
See: http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/08/31/impeachment-co…
Impeachment: Congress Fires Opening Shot Across Obama’s Bow.
John Walsh, August 31, 2013
Yanks are fucking cowards!!!!
They are saying that Obama don't want war in Syria! Didn't he know that Hillary Clinton, his hand picked Secretary of State wanted this war to start and she bet on it for regime change in Syria. Now after two years he plays the people by flip flopping, manipulating and lying as if his not the guilty one.
It seems that numb-nuts, Napoleon Hollande, has been frothing at the mouth to sew carnage upon Syria. Let us not forget that Lebanon and Syria used to be the stomping grounds of French colonialism back in the day.
Thank God for "common sense" finally being used in this debate.
Thank God, also for Russia standing up against the "war mongers". Who would have thought in the years of the "cold war" that RUSSIA would emerge as the saviour of humanity.
"…saviour of humanity…"
Really??? How about Russia just being the "adult in the room." This Syria war just didn't fit into Russia's interests. Given another country in another situation (Georgia? Chechnya?) I don't believe there would be the same level of restraint for warring.
I would love to America's reaction were a foreign nation secretly funding and arming Christian Fundamentalists in the US southern states, who were then carrying out kidnappings and bombings in an effort to liberate their region from the rest of the country. Would America show restraint? I seriously doubt it. As for Georgia, their dictator is an idiot and deserved what he got for picking a fight with Russia.
Meaning Chechnya's still in your interest ?!?!? Like a second helping of Sarnayev maybe ?
"Perception of France as a great power"
That hasn't been true since the age of Napoleon's endless wars wrecked that country and dropped it from its previous position of most powerful nation in Europe.
Benjamin Netanyahu is also frothing at the mouth over Iran after he did not get what he wanted from Kerry over Syria.
As a Frenchman, I feel ashamed and sad. I didn't expect president Hollande, or even Fabius, our minister of foreign affairs, to push for war, knowing that we can't afford a war, and public opinion is against it. Hollande and Fabius are zionists. They don't care about the Christians of Syria, who will be killed, expelled or oppressed if the rebels win, they only care about Israel and Qatari money. Had we re-elected Sarkozy in 2012, we would be at war in Syria: Sarkozy pushed for war in Syria as early as the summer of 2012. It's high time we got rid of the corrupt clique that governs France.
Didn't the French invent the guillotine for a purpose back before the French revolution?
There are Christians in the world -I am one- that care not only about the Christians' suffering in Syria but also about Muslims' suffering in Syria.
If the rebels win, Syria will be worse than Libya, because the jihadis, who do most of the fighting, won't let the moderates (whatever that means in Syria) deprive them of their victory. The result will be catastrophic for the Christians of Syria, whose communities will be destroyed. The result will also be catastrophic for secular Muslims. Assad is a lesser evil, in every respect.
Assad isn't even evil on any level, people who say it are just clinging to some vestige of trust in the Corpse Media which has informed their views on the country and it's leadership. The good optometrist is up against some very violent factions as we're being schooled in. The USA, the Banker controlled intelligence agencies and their Saudi proxies didn;t create these cannibal, rapist, mass murdering scum. They just assembled them, armed them and set them loose. The Syrian government has always been a bit harsh, and as such Assad wasn;t popular. Not to mention the normal nature of people to blame the leadership for all that goes wrong, often unfairly and as the head of government in a dictatorship he was an obvious target. However today there is not enough ill feeling based on real enough grievances that his popularity has been stopped from soaring and he'd easily win a democratic election at this time. Not only would a Jihadist win in Syria be catastrophic for Christians, it would be no less, indeed even worse for Shiites and other Muslims. All but the most strictly conservative practising Sunnis which would be less than 20% of that group at most and includes mostly the Salafist element would be targets and instead of just being persecuted and murdered for being non-Muslims by some sick twisted phoney sect of Islamists, they will be treated as "Kafir" which is far worse.
You are right, Rabbitnexus, Assad isn't even evil on any level. A Western-style democracy would be impossible in Syria, Assad is doing what he can.
@ Bill Rood "Congress must not take this lying down". Don't you know the the US Congress is the other Israeli occupied territory that nobody talks about? The master wants that all potential enemies be eliminated, and the poodle Congress and the poodle President of the poodle country will comply….
Hollande is not pushing for the war to show the world that France is a great power, that is a silly notion that not even the rather dim Hollande could hold. Hollande is a weakling who is acceding to the demands of the Israel lobby in France. France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, so it is not surprising that we see the French government and Hollande (who probably owes his election to the Jewish community) agitating for war.
They all have a Jewish hand up their behinds and it is being manipulated to a degree which sacrifices all pretense otherwise this time. It's as if the use by date for their Shabat Goy is coming fast and they're throwing them all in without care for how they'll ever do anything like it again even if they do manage to get this one over the line.
France is a poodle that barks quite a bit, and unfortunately locks-step with the US industrial military complex, and Israel. Hollande, and Sarkozy have done nothing, but warmonger, and deliver nothing to the people of France. Let's hope they wise up, and choose a leader worthy to lead.
Obama is sending even more guns and money to the same Al Qaeda thugs we armed and supplied in Libya and Mali that now make up the "Free Syrian Army". But he wants to disarm us here in the US . What disaster this tyrant is. All for Israel and her American 5th column.
Worth reading you can get the rest of the questions from Pravda Ru
Syria – UN Report – 25 questions
18.09.2013
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Question 1: Why was the news of the chemical attack posted before the attack took place?
Question 2: Were the weapons home-made or were they produced in a factory?
Question 3: If the Iranians told the USA in 2012 that terrorists operating in Syria had chemical weapons, why did US Secretary of State John Kerry say they did not and why would it be outside the realms of possibility for them to have deployed such weaponry in Ghouta?
Question 4: Why would the Syrian Armed Forces have deployed such weaponry in an area where their own forces were massing on the eve of a UN inspection?
Question 5: Why was the first video to be released (Amer Mosa), which claimed to be a recording of the attack, showing the terrorists operating in Syria firing rockets at Government positions?
Question 6: Why does the date of the said video antecede the attack and how can its title referring to chemical weapons be taken seriously if the video was released before the attack took place?
Question 7: Why does the launching gear for the rockets in the video resemble a BM-14, used by terrorists in Afghanistan?Question 24: How can anyone call the UN Report squeaky-clean when the UN report itself lists under the rubric 'Limitations': "The time necessary to conduct a detailed survey of both locations as well as take samples was very limited. The sites have been well travelled by other individuals both before and during the investigation. Fragments and other possible evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation team".
Question 25: When the terrorist forces operating in Syria realized they had made a huge mistake and that the Russians were privy to what was really going on, did they panic and try to destroy the evidence?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Backs down?
These guys will be back. Hague-Cameron, Hollande, Obama and his liberventionist camarilla … promises were made and payment will be demanded if they are not kept. Economic blackmail. Political attacks. Maybe lone gunmen.
The extreme haste (and boy, did it spring onto the scene as if pre-readied – poof, any NSA problems gone in a second – I actually can't remember what we were talking about on the 20th; Egypt I think?), the obnoxious pushy fakery and the over-the-top emotional manipulation seen since "the event", with no hard data in sight anywhere, followed by the attitude of a temporarily stymied slouching thug just tells you that these guys are eager for some rape and liberation. They are looking for the next opening.
They will be back.
You can hear the moaning of all these whore leaders as the Zionist whip is applied to their backs. WAR! WAR! WAR YOU DOGS! They are being ordered and that is the source of their unseemly and undiginifed scramble for war at any cost to whatever delusions of credibility they themselves even believed they have. Whether it's the Whore Corpse Media or it's Whore Puppet Politicians or the behemoth might of the Tribal Bankster cartel which holds both in it's clammy embrace; each layer of grime is aware that it lacks the oomph to get this one going on its own and that their combined effort on this one was going to be a do or die show because they'd have to sacrifice every last vestige of cover and show their faces and hands. The curtain is drawn aside and there cannot be excuse for anyone soon. Your choice will be simple, between good and evil. We have the perrenial victimised Shiite Islam and moderate Sunnis who at least don't want to see all them killed and persecuted, along with the newly Christianised Russia, historically cautious and un warlike China and most of the world's rank and file, normal people especially the educated and informed among them on one side and the Zionists, USA and NATO, repressive and violent Wahhabist Arab regimes and cannibalistic al-Qaeda terrorists on the other side. So who's your daddy now?