The war in Syria
and you may actually hear
from grown-up reporters
who are lying through their teeth or ignorant beyond imagining
that oh the war in Syria yes Russia intervened in Syria well do you know that the
that Obama tasks the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government,
starting 4 years before Russia intervened.
What kind of nonsense is that? And how many times did the New York Times report on Operation Timber Sycamore,
which was the presidential order to the CIA to overthrow Bashar al-Assad
3 times in 10 years.
This is not democracy.
This is a game. And it's a game of narrative.
Why did the US invade Iraq
in 2003?
Well, first of all, it was completely
phony
pretenses. It wasn't, oh, we were so wrong. They didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
They actually did focus groups in the fall of 2002 to find out what would sell that war to the American people.
Abe Shulsky, if you want to know the name of the PR genius.
They did focus groups
on the war.
They wanted the war
all the time. They had to figure out how to sell the war to the American people, how to scare the shit out of the American people.
It was a phony war. Where did that war come from? You know what? It's quite surprising. That war came from Netanyahu, actually.
You know that? It's weird. And the way it is, is that Netanyahu
had, from 1995 onward, the theory
that the only way we're going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah
is by toppling the governments that support them.
That's Iraq,
Syria, and Iran.
And the guy's nothing if not obsessive.
And
he's still trying to get us to fight Iran this day this week
he's a deep dark son of a bitch sorry to tell you because he's gotten us into endless wars and because of
the power of all of this in the US politics
he's gotten his way but that war was totally phony so what is this democracy versus dictatorship
come on this is these are not even sensible terms
