OBAMA ON THE RED LINE AND ON THE
RAT LINE.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
04/13/2014.
Submitted by:
David
Stockman's Contra Corner
Based on original doct from Seymour Hersh’s Blockbuster:
Obama On The Red Line And On The Rat Line
BRIEF NOTE FROM HUGO ADAN April 13, 2014
This report makes clear that OBAMA
AND ERDOGAN FROM TURKEY SHOULD BE INDICTED AS WAR CRIMINALS IN INTERNATIONAL
COURTS because of their involvement on the issue gas-chemicals against the
civilian population of Syria
[Here only extracts]
For the first time in a half-century American voters
actually elected the “peace candidate” in 2008 and sent Obama to the White
House to end the interventionist foreign policy that had lead to disaster in
Iraq, and, implicitly, to wind down the vast war machine that had been left
over from the Cold War. The latter had been converted by the Bush’s
and Clintons into an armada of invasion and occupation that had rained death
and destruction from Bosnia to Baghdad to Kandahar for no reasonable or
justifiable purpose of national security. These aggressions were
simply what a war machine does, making up rationalizations as it goes along.
But the Warfare State was not about to let peace
happen. Soon Obama learned the Washington pivot, rehired the core of
Bush’s War Cabinet and became enmeshed in the “national security” plots
and schemes which were in the pipeline when he arrived at 1600 Pennsylvanian
Avenue— much like JFK inherited the disastrous Bay Of Pigs invasion. Like the despicable
Alan Dulles, he inherited ambitious scoundrels like so-called General David
Petraeus, who soon had him convinced that the non-sensical and bloody
“surge” in Anbar Province had been a roaring success, and that it should
be exported to the quagmire in Afghanistan.
Indeed, after the Afghan surge was launched in 2009
there was no turning back. The peace candidate had already become
co-opted—emerging as a pliant tool of America’s rogue Warfare State that
functions almost entirely outside of the Constitution and often
beyond statutory law, as well. […]The
spy agencies were nourished with massive new resources and widened
mandates; Rumsfeld’s disgraceful and illegal detention operation
at Guantanamo Bay was not closed as he had promised; Bush’s cowardly
and counter-productive drone wars were drastically escalated; and the
defense budget grew by more than $100 billion from the already bloated levels
he had inherited from the “decider”.
By 2011 Obama had donned the full regalia of
the imperial presidency. the peace candidate conducted an air war and
subversion campaign in Libya because he could. Upon the bloody end of the
Gadhafi regime, Obama than turned to making war on the Assad regime in
Syria—without a sliver of logic as to why intervention in an age old sectarian
conflict between Sunnis and Alawites would make the citizens of
Nebraska one wit safer. This time he did it through the establishment of a CIA
annex in Benghazi to gather and accumulate the former Libyans dictator’s
lethal arsenals for transfer to the Syrian rebels—many of whom where jihadists
and terrorists of the type we were allegedly trying to erase from the earth.
Moreover, as Seymour Hersh explains, the Benghazi weapons were then transited by means of an
illegal CIA “rat line” through Turkey to the rebels. And the rat
line was absolutely illegal because all CIA covert operations since the 1970s
have been required as a matter of law to be disclosed to the Congressional
leadership—-for whatever that has become worth in the post Frank Church era
where shaking down the military-industrial complex for campaign money, rather
than thwarting its propensity for rogue operations, has become a
bipartisan pursuit of choice.
But our constitutional scholar-in-chief apparently had no
problem splitting hairs. The “rat line” was deemed a “liaison” operation with
England’s MI6 and thereby exempt from reporting requirements. So when the
rat line operation blew up in Benghazi during the middle of the
Presidential campaign in September 2012 in the incident that lead to the
death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, the Obama White House just lied. No, the
consulate where the deadly attack occurred was not a CIA annex and weapons
depot; and, no, we never supplied any weapons to any rebels in Syria. All a pack of lies.
But when you are knee deep in intrigue and covert
operations and enmeshed in plots to overthrow governments with thugs like
Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey, one calamity soon leads to another. As Hersh
explains, Barrack Obama in his usual manner had authorized an outright
aggression, but than wimped out after the Benghazi fiasco and abruptly
shutdown the rat line.
Needless to say, this left Prime Minister Erdogan and
his chief of clandestine operations high and dry. By the fall of 2012, the
latter were deeply committed to the overthrow of Assad and the establishment of
a client regime in Damascus. But the tide of war had already turned—the
squabbling gangs of rebels were in retreat, notwithstanding the
substantial aid and support they had received from Saudi
Arabia, Qatar,Turkey and the West. And from there emerges the main theme
of Hersh’s expose.
Obama had foolishly drawn a “red line” on Syrian use of
chemical weapons in a civil war which was already engulfed in bloody savagery
from both sides. So the Turks decided to call his bluff, and enable their
main rebel ally, the jihadist al-Nusra Front, to stage a false flag attack with
what was known to be the signature weapon in Assad’s Soviet supplied chemical
weapons arsenal– the deadly sarin gas.
Seymour Hersh explains in chapter and verse,
based on a DIA secret report among other high level sources, how this abomination
unfolded, and became the horrific gas attack in Ghouta on August 21, 2013.
But the gravamen of the piece is his description of how the Obama White House
came within two days of launching a Bush style war on Syria after it had
already been warned that the proof of Assad’s complicity was lacking; and that
a weapons testing lab in England had already concluded that a sarin sample
obtained on the scene was of a homemade variety and not of the military grade
known to be in the Assad arsenal.
Despite all this, the White House apparatus pushed an
increasingly resistant Joint Chiefs of Staff through more than 35
iterations of an attack plan that had nothing to do with spanking Assad for his
alleged barbarity or surgically disabling his chemical weapons capacity. The
attack was to involve an armada of British, French and American air strikes
along with sea-based barrage of Tomahawk missiles to take out Assad’s entire
military capacity.
In short, a power-drunk amateur in the White House came
within two days of launching a massive military campaign to bring about
regime change in Syria—-an action of stupendous folly which would have
ignited a cauldron of fire throughout the Middle East like never before:
In the aftermath of the 21
August attack Obama ordered the Pentagon to draw up targets for bombing. Early
in the process, the former intelligence official said, ‘the White House
rejected 35 target sets provided by the joint chiefs of staff as being
insufficiently “painful” to the Assad regime.’ The original targets included
only military sites and nothing by way of civilian infrastructure. Under White
House pressure, the US attack plan evolved into ‘a monster strike’: two wings
of B-52 bombers were shifted to airbases close to Syria, and navy submarines
and ships equipped with Tomahawk missiles were deployed. ‘Every day the target
list was getting longer,’ the former intelligence official told me. ‘The
Pentagon planners said we can’t use only Tomahawks to strike at Syria’s missile
sites because their warheads are buried too far below ground, so the two B-52
air wings with two-thousand pound bombs were assigned to the mission. Then
we’ll need standby search-and-rescue teams to recover downed pilots and drones
for target selection. It became huge.’ The new target list was meant to
‘completely eradicate any military capabilities Assad had’, the former
intelligence official said. The core targets included electric power grids, oil
and gas depots, all known logistic and weapons depots, all known command and
control facilities, and all known military and intelligence buildings.
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RELATED NEWS:
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian
rebels ... involved in using the Syrian army's chemical weapons
arsenal. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
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Intelligence Expert: Syria Chemical Attack a False Flag
followed up with Misinformation
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Syria’s sarin whodunit: Assigning responsibility for war
crime. http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-war-crime-sarin-345/
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New exposé by Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack to
provoke US war on Syria, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html
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