same old lies over and over and over again... 4/12/2017 0 Comments   Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli who was removed by a coup in 1949 but returned to power in 1955. Here signing a defense agreement with Gamal Abd al-Nasser of Egypt and with King Saud of Saudi Arabia, in Egypt on March 15, 1956. (The Big Three) by E.L. Christianson Jr. ​Deja Vu all over again and again and again... it never seems to end.  The same "plot" to depose leaders who don't follow 'our lead' is used over and over even when we can clearly see that we don't get the results we had in mind - but never mind the failure rate... let's do it again and again. The political poison we feed ourselves in this country is never in short supply.   It is just one lie after the other.  Currently, the news is filled with stories about 'fake news' as if the subject of fake news were new and news-worthy. At a certain point the question becomes 'just how dumb are the American people' and the answer seems to be that, at least in the eyes of our government, "very, very dumb indeed" as evidenced by the fact that our government believes that it can repeat the same lies over and over, again and again and the stupid people of this country will never catch on.  And, in truth, we don't seem to ever catch on.   In truth the process and the sequence of lies goes on decade after decade.  History demonstrates that since the end of the second world war, misinformation, fake news, lies and false propaganda have become our national speciality.  Anyone with the ability to think critically can automatically assume, upon hearing an official declaration from the United States government, that the truth is something other than that which is being expressed by our government. At some point in history (future history should there be such) a glance back at United States policies will demonstrate the folly of relying on lies to advance the national cause... whatever the purpose.   ​It is important history, a CIA coup in Syria in 1949.  This coup was followed by a series of coup’s that led Syria away from democracy and into dictatorship.  What would have happened if the US government had stayed out of Syria, not supported the coup plotters and encouraged their democracy continue to develop?  Would the US be planning a military attack today if not for the past misdeeds of US foreign policy? Intelligence and Military Sources Who Warned About Weapons Lies Before Iraq War Now Say that Assad Did NOT Launch a Chemical Weapon Attack. ​ Former U.N weapons inspector Scott Ritter warned before the start of the Iraq war that claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction were false. Sunday, Ritter wrote that current claims that the leader of Syria launched a chemical weapons attack was false: So, by now it resembles a slap-stick comedy except for the tragic death and destruction of so many human lives along the way.  Otherwise, without the mass killings, it could be a comedy.  On one hand there is this super powerful 'superpower' wanting to own the oil of the region; and, on the other hand is this weak country struggling to exist.  The script would seem to indicate an easy victory for the one and a humiliating defeat for the other.  The humor (if it can be called such) is found in the long history of the weak holding off the super strong for a period of 68 years of hostility on the part of the super strong. And it is not even a 'good' script.  The fight involves moving oil in pipes and after all of these years there has been no resolution for a simple problem like moving oil in pipes.  Part of the slap-stick is in how bad the script is. The war in Syria is a conflict initiated against Syrian government by the United States starting in 1949. Bashar al-Assad and his family have been in power in Syria since 1971.  Unlike many leaders in the middle eastern countries Assad and his family have not been religious extremists. If, in fact, there is any extremism in the region, it is on the part of the United States.  We are obsessed.  And at the same time, we are clownish in that we can't seem to accomplish anything in spite constant effort on our part,  We can't seem to sustain any effort even as we exert ourselves endlessly.  And we continue to try the same failed policies time after time.  Our government seems incapable of learning from experience and the American people don't seem to recognize that fact... and that's the truth !!! We believe that it was Einstein who said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” It is like he was referring directly to the United States government... And, what is really tragic about things this time around... we don't seem likely to win this round either; plus, instigating world war three seems more likely than victory over Syria... and then the comedy suddenly turns dark... very, very dark. Except this time, the media is completely on board with the lies and propaganda... not a word of truth from the major media outlets... in fact, now, the media is a cheerleader for the deception and failed policies... Trump’s Bombing of Syria:  Continuation of a United States Policy Which Started Only ​3 Years After Syria Became an Independent Nation … When Trump Was 2 Years Old Posted by WashingtonsBlog ​The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria in 1949, a mere 3 years after Syria became an independent country. Clark University History professor Douglas Little notes: Recently declassified records… confirm that beginning on November 30, 1948, [CIA operative Stephen] Meade met secretly with Colonel Zaim at least six times to discuss the “possibility [of an] army supported dictatorship.” [“Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958,” Middle East Journal, Winter 1990, p. 55] As early as 1949, this newly independent Arab republic was an important staging ground for the CIA’s earliest experiments in covert action. The CIA secretly encouraged a right-wing military coup in 1949. The reason the U.S. initiated the coup? Little explains: In late 1945, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) announced plans to construct the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line (TAPLINE) from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterra- nean. With U.S. help, ARAMCO secured rights-of-way from Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Syrian right-of-way was stalled in parliament. In other words, Syria was the sole holdout for the lucrative oil pipeline. (Indeed, the CIA has carried out this type of covert action right from the start.) In 1957, the American president and British prime minister agreed to launch regime change again in Syria. Historian Little notes that the coup plot was discovered and stopped: On August 12, 1957, the Syrian army surrounded the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Claiming to have aborted a CIA plot to overthrow neutralist President Shukri Quwatly and install a pro-Western regime, Syrian chief of counterintelligence Abdul Hamid Sarraj expelled three U.S. diplomats …. Syrian counterintelligence chief Sarraj reacted swiftly on August 12, expelling Stone and other CIA agents, arresting their accomplices and placing the U.S. embassy under surveillance. More importantly, Syria also had control of one of the main oil arteries of the Middle East, the pipeline which connected pro-western Iraq’s oilfields to Turkey. The report said that once the necessary degree of fear had been created, frontier incidents and border clashes would be staged to provide a pretext for Iraqi and Jordanian military intervention. Syria had to be “made to appear as the sponsor of plots, sabotage and violence directed against neighbouring governments,” the report says. “CIA and SIS should use their capabilities in both the psychological and action fields to augment tension.” The plan called for funding of a “Free Syria Committee” [hmmm … sounds vaguely familiar], and the arming of “political factions with paramilitary or other actionist capabilities” within Syria. The CIA and MI6 would instigate internal uprisings, for instance by the Druze [a Shia Muslim sect] in the south, help to free political prisoners held in the Mezze prison, and stir up the Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus. Newly-declassified CIA documents show that in 1983, the CIA drew up plans to pressure the Syrian government by using Iraq, Israel and Turkey as proxies: Syria at present has a hammerlock on US interests both in Lebanon and in the Gulf — through closure of Iraq’s pipeline thereby threatening Iraqi internationalization of the [Iran-Iraq] war. The US should consider sharply escalating the pressures against Assad [Sr.] through covertly orchestrating simultaneous military threats against Syria from three border states hostile to Syria: Iraq, Israel and Turkey. Iraq, perceived to be increasingly desperate in the Gulf War, would undertake limited military (air) operations against Syria with the sole goal of opening the pipeline. Although opening war on a second front against Syria poses considerable risk to Iraq, Syria would also face a two-front war since it is already heavily engaged in the Bekaa, on the Golan and in maintaining control over a hostile and restive population inside Syria. Israel would simultaneously raise tensions along Syria’s Lebanon front without actually going to war. Turkey, angered by Syrian support to Armenian terrorism, to Iraqi Kurds on Turkey’s Kurdish border areas and to Turkish terrorists operating out of northern Syria, has often considered launching  unilateral military operations against terrorist camps in northern Syria. Virtually all Arab states would have sympathy for Iraq. Faced with three belligerent fronts, Assad would probably be forced to abandon his policy of closure of the pipeline. Such a concession would relieve the economic pressure on Iraq, and perhaps force Iran to reconsider  bringing the war to an end. It would be a sharp blow to Syria’s prestige and  could effect the equation of forces in Lebanon. If Israel were to increase tensions against Syria simultaneously with an Iraqi initiative, the pressures on Assad would escalate rapidly. A Turkish move would psychologically press him further. Recently-declassified CIA documents show that in 1986, the CIA drew up plans to overthrow Syria by provoking sectarian tensions. Neoconservatives planned regime change in Syria once again in 1991 and again in 2001. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes: According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: “I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business,” he told French television: “I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria.” Leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, including notes from a meeting with Pentagon officials, confirmed that as of 2011, US and UK special forces training of Syrian opposition forces was well underway. The goal was to elicit the “collapse” of Assad’s regime “from within.” Indeed. A leaked communication shows that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in 2012: The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. What Israeli military leaders really worry about — but cannot talk about — is losing their nuclear monopoly. And high-level American and Turkish officials say that Turkey supplied Sarin gas to Syrian rebels in 2013 in order to frame the Syrian government … to provide an excuse for regime change. ​ Indeed, the U.S. has carried out regime change in the Middle East and North Africa for six decades.