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Why ISIS Exists

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The most jaw-dropping and damning revelation of the entire Syria fiasco to date is hosted right on the whitehouse.gov website. It's received zero mention by the "free" US corporate press, and here it is: "President Obama spoke by phone today from California with Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey, at the Prime Minister's request, about developments in Syria and Egypt. The President and Prime Minister discussed the danger of foreign extremists in Syria and agreed on the importance of supporting a unified and inclusive Syrian opposition. The President and Prime Minister expressed concern about the situation in Egypt and a shared commitment to supporting a democratic and inclusive way forward. The two leaders agreed to have their teams continue to coordinate closely to promote our shared interests. The President gave his best wishes to the Prime Minister and the Turkish people on the beginning of their Ramazan holiday."

That is exhibit A for the treason trial. I'm quite shocked that I've been nearly alone in referencing this outrageously criminal admission concerning US policy in Turkey and Syria. You now have been informed of whom the White House considers an "asset." The Russians know it too, all too well.

Exhibit B for the prosecution would likely be Barack Obama's tinkering with the Arms Export Control Act, reported on September 15th of 2013: "The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A"The prohibitions contained in this section apply with respect to a country if the Secretary of State determines that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism."

This action can only be described as Orwellian hypocrisy, as the weapons Obama ships to Syrian insurgents meet the stated criteria. The United States is clearly supporting "international terrorism," with glee. US arms and ammunition have gone to Jihadists all over Syria and Iraq through many pathways. They have murdered many civilians there, and they continue to do so daily. Further, attacking the government of Syria by arming a proxy army is the "Supreme International Crime," a Crime Against the Peace, a blatant breach of the UN Charter, but it's happening.

The entire world knows that Syria's radical terrorists are supported by outside states, and yet no sanctions are ever proposed by our "democratic" leaders against those states. When Russia did things in Ukraine that Washington disapproved of immediate trade sanctions attacked its economy and certain named individuals. No such actions are even entertained against Turkish, Saudi, Qatari, Kuwaiti, Jordanian or other supporters of the ISIS terror state. This is clearly because the US, and Barack Obama specifically, consider these terrorists "American assets." It is the Brzezinski plan for regime change, and it has always been the Brzezinski plan.

They know exactly what they're doing. Obama's own Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told them in 2012 that their actions would lead to an Islamic Caliphate. "ISI could also declare an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create a grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory."

It's not ignorance, and it's not a mistake. It has been the deliberate policy of the United States and its partners to tolerate"and to even support"a terror Caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Redirections, Red Lines & Rat Lines

The most important investigative article of the post 9/11 era is arguably Seymour Hersh's March 2007 expose in The New Yorker: "The Redirection." Just what was being redirected?

Short answer: everything. The so-called "war on terror" flipped 180 degrees as the US partnered with Sunni extremists to redirect the fight and target Shi'ite Muslims: specifically Assad's Syria, Maliki's Shi'ite Iraqi regime, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the big one: Iran. "[The Saudi] message to us was 'We've created this movement, and we can control it.' It's not that we don't want the Salafis to throw bombs; it's who they throw them at"Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran."

As Americans went back to sleep, the American empire partnered up with the sponsors of the 9/11 attacks: Saudis and their Wahabbi friends, who can always be counted on to supply money and fanatical fighters. The formula that brought down the Soviets in the 1980s was to be "New American Century" Plan A.

"This is all part of the campaign of provocative steps to increase the pressure on Iran. The idea is that at some point the Iranians will respond and then the Administration will have an open door to strike at them," Seymour Hersh writes in "The Redirection."

By the time Syria exploded into chaos in 2011, Obama was in charge, and the strategy had steadily evolved. So had the clampdown on dissenting voices. Seymour Hersh was exiled to the London Review of Books, where his damning revelations would not be broadcast to the American public. In "The Red Line and the Rat Line" Hersh helped expose what was going on in Syria: "A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdogan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria."

In 2011 Obama destroyed Libya by acting as "Al Qaeda's Air Force" in violation of the Constitution and the UN Charter. He then set his dogs to work moving weapons and fighters from Libya across to the next target on the hit list: Syria.

By June 20, of 2013: "[Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)]"stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell: its programme, the paper said, was 'the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida's' pre-9/11 effort." (Hersh)

Meaning that the White House was lying throughout that period as to the Syrian rebels' chemical weapons capabilities. When a staged sarin attack killed numerous civilians in Ghoutta, on August 21 of 2013, Obama was quick to jump at the chance for military action and a new war. That was the "red line" cassus belli that his own administration had floated the previous year. But the actual perpetrators turned out to be Al Nusrah Front working with chemical suppliers in Turkey, aided by Turkish intelligence.

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Joe Giambrone is an American author, freelance writer and filmmaker. Non-fiction works appear at International Policy Digest, WhoWhatWhy, Foreign Policy Journal, Counterpunch, Globalresearch, , OpedNews, High Times and other online outlets. His science fiction thriller Transfixion and his Hollywood satire (more...)
 
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