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If You Want To Go To Heaven, You Had Better Get Busy Overthrowing Syria

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The United States government has been at war for 11 years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in "liberated" Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the US attempted occupation.

In Afghanistan 11 years of US attempted occupation has had no more success than a decade of Soviet occupation. The Afghans are still not worn down despite more than two decades of war with the two superpowers. Like the Soviets, the Americans have managed to kill many women, children, and village elders, but precious few warriors. In place of the Soviet puppet government there is Washington's puppet government. That is the only change, and Washington's puppet is no more secure than the Soviet one was.

In Libya, Washington used its corrupt NATO puppets and CIA-recruited bandits to overthrow another stable government, that of Muammar Gaddafi, leaving Libya mired in sectarian violence. A stable prosperous country has simply been destroyed by western governments that profess human rights values and condemn China and Russia for not having any.

Washington has also been killing civilians with drones and air strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, two countries with which Washington is not at war but has purchased the governments, paying the Pakistani and Yemeni governments for the right to murder their citizens and destabilizing both countries in the process.

And now in Syria, Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British-trained eye doctor.

Washington's 11 years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries -- war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis -- have resulted in civilian deaths far in excess of military casualties and in a domestic American police state that has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens. Washington and its presstitutes have emphasized that these costs are necessary to save Americans from al-Qaeda terrorists, none of whom have ever been apprehended in the United States.

Having listened to the propaganda line pumped out by Washington and its Ministry of Propaganda for 11 years, imagine my astonishment when I saw two juxtaposed headlines: "Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda" (BBC) and "Move to Widen Help for Syrian Rebels Gains Speed in West" (NY Times). Al-Nusra is the main military component of the "Syrian rebels," and it has allied itself with our mortal enemy -- Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.

Wait a minute! Our government told us for 11 years that we blew trillions of dollars on wars to protect Americans from al-Qaeda, endangering Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, the dollar's exchange value, the credit rating of the US Treasury, and our civil liberties in order to save America from al-Qaeda terrorists. So why is Washington now supporting al-Qaeda's overthrow of the secular, non-Islamist government in Syria which has never ever done anything whatsoever to Americans!?

The New York Times presstitutes, Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, elevated the terrorist al-Qaeda organization to the status of "the Syrian opposition." At a lunch meeting hosted by Washington's puppet, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and US Secretary of State John Kerry, "the Syrian opposition," aka al-Qaeda, requested antiaircraft and antitank weapons. A senior Washington official said: "Our assistance has been on an upward trajectory, and the president (Obama) has directed his national security team to identify additional measures so that we can increase assistance."

US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a $123 million "defense aid package" to "the Syrian opposition" that now includes al-Qaeda. Washington had already sent $117 million in "food and medical supplies" to "the Syrian opposition," and ordered its Middle Eastern puppets to send arms. Note the Orwellian language: support for an outside terrorist force seeking to destroy a government and a people is called a "defense aid package."

On April 11 the establishment French newspaper, Le Monde, reported that the al-Nosra organization affiliated with al-Qaeda is the dominant force in "the Syrian opposition," not democratic revolutionaries. Despite this fact, Washington's puppets, France and Britain, are pushing the European Union to send arms to the al-Qaeda affiliated "Syrian opposition." And Senator John McCain wants US airstrikes on Syrian government forces with whom the US is not at war, in order to provide air cover for al-Qaeda's takeover of Syria.

Meanwhile, the Islamist Shiites, whom the Americans left in control of Iraq, have announced that they have joined the battle against the American-supported al-Qaeda forces seeking to radicalize Syria.

So far at last count, the UN reports that the military attack on Syria organized by Washington's proxies has killed 70,000 people. But americans are preoccupied with the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three.

Once again "the indispensable people" are bringing death and destruction to an entire country in order to bring to the dead "freedom and democracy." No Syrian asked for this "liberation" from his life.

Be a Proud American. We are doing our duty to our rightful hegemony over the world and to Israel, which has purchased our government. It is our right to be the hegemonic power on the planet earth, and that includes the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore it is Washington's right to overthrow Syria in order to get rid of the Russian naval base there. The Romans would never have put up with a foreign power having a naval base in the Mediterranean, and we can do no less, unless we are some kind of pansy state afraid of our own shadow. The Mediterranean was mare nostrum -- our sea -- for the Romans. Now it is our sea, and by god we are going to claim it by overthrowing Syria.

Israel, of course, was given the rights to "Greater Israel" by God himself -- who am I to question the Christian Zionist preachers who are growing fat on Israeli money?-- and part of "Greater Israel" is the river in southern Lebanon that supplies precious water.

Hizbollah, provisioned by Syria and Iran has prevented Israel from confiscating southern Lebanon in order to acquire the water rights that God gave them. Therefore, to fulfill our obligations as Israel's puppet, we are required to destroy both Syria and Iran so that Hizbollah is isolated and out of the way and "Greater Israel" can be created.

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Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration. He was associate editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He is a contributing editor to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal. He has had numerous university appointments. His books, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is available (more...)
 

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