Very recently my wife and I met a soldier in the US Army, and he told us that some of his buddies are stationed right now in Syria, and through them he learned that there are 4,000 US soldiers (2,000 Marines and 2,000 Infantry) deployed, boots on the ground, in Syria, waiting for orders to shoot or to be shot at so they can begin the war. Naturally, the public knows nothing of this.
Here's a credible video making the case for the Syrian government having been framed regarding the use of chemical weapons (Obama's "red line" they supposedly crossed) and that it was the rebels themselves who have done this -- a conclusion supported by both a UN investigation and a Russian one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkamZg68jpk
Let's not forget to pray, meditate, or call on higher powers however we do that, to prevent this war, which is just one more (and the most dangerous yet) step that the sociopaths have long-planned to take toward dominating the oil-rich Mid-east and, perhaps, even start WWIII.
http://youtu.be/6PfPaptD82A
I know some say it makes no difference but it only takes a minute and perhaps congress will listen if they get flooded.
http://dontattacksyria.com/
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/no-u-s-military-intervention-in-syria
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-to-us-military-interventi
I think Joseph Farrell has a good idea of what this war is really about.
http://gizadeathstar.com/2013/09/the-covert-antiquities-war/
Since I'm living overseas, I don't hear much news from America. As I understand it, Obama is supposed to make a speech tonight (Tuesday) telling the public his decision about invading Syria.
If you would please, keep posting important updates on this subject. Or if you prefer, send me a private message or a link to a reliable, independent media source that is covering this topic.
Thanks so much,
Noa
http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-majority-of-americans-approve-of-sending-cong%2c33752/
I don't think this website is a news site, Wendy. First off, I don't understand how Congress has any bearing on policy within Syria.
Secondly, this website is loaded with tongue-in-cheek satires like this one: http://www.theonion.com/video/colorado-boy-asks-nation-not-to-find-his-missing-l,33464/
It's sort of like getting the news from Jon Stewart.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria -- why it matters, and where we go from here.
Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, America has worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement. But I have resisted calls for military action, because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The situation profoundly changed, though, on August 21st, when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. The images from this massacre are sickening: Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas. Others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath. A father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk. On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons, and why the overwhelming majority of humanity has declared them off-limits -- a crime against humanity, and a violation of the laws of war.
This was not always the case. In World War I, American GIs were among the many thousands killed by deadly gas in the trenches of Europe. In World War II, the Nazis used gas to inflict the horror of the Holocaust. Because these weapons can kill on a mass scale, with no distinction between soldier and infant, the civilized world has spent a century working to ban them. And in 1997, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved an international agreement prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, now joined by 189 governments that represent 98 percent of humanity.
On August 21st, these basic rules were violated, along with our sense of common humanity. No one disputes that chemical weapons were used in Syria. The world saw thousands of videos, cell phone pictures, and social media accounts from the attack, and humanitarian organizations told stories of hospitals packed with people who had symptoms of poison gas.
Moreover, we know the Assad regime was responsible. In the days leading up to August 21st, we know that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. They distributed gasmasks to their troops. Then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces. Shortly after those rockets landed, the gas spread, and hospitals filled with the dying and the wounded. We know senior figures in Assad’s military machine reviewed the results of the attack, and the regime increased their shelling of the same neighborhoods in the days that followed. We’ve also studied samples of blood and hair from people at the site that tested positive for sarin.
As reported on http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/running-transcript-president-obamas-sept-10-speech-on-syria/2013/09/10/a8826aa6-1a2e-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html
Rarely, if at all do we hear what is really going on from our political leaders. They tell us what they want while harboring an agenda they are not sharing with us. After listening to alternative news sources that share more than the MSM is willing to share, I believe that the real agenda has to do with Saudi Arabia and their desire to build an oil pipeline to the Mediterranean Sea to serve Europe.
If Obama could change the regime in Syria to a US & UK friendly regime, that would work perfectly for the Saudis and their desire to build that pipeline. It's sad to see our "hope for change" guy turn out to be just one more vetted compliant politician, not to mention the gross hypocrisy displayed in his address the other day.
Obama urged us to not turn a blind eye to the attrocities in Syria - I don't recall such an urging from our past Presidents to the American people and World when the American Military was spraying deadly chemical compound agent orange in Viet Nam, or when they were using deadly radio active depleted uranium core kinetic energy weapons in Fallujah and other locations in Iraq, and the Balkans during the Clinton admin years.
Those were sanctioned US directives that have caused and are still causing untold horrid birth defects and cancers throughout those regions. There is a geo-political chess game being played and we are still being treated like ignorant gullible chumps.... if the shoe fits....
Thank you for the Obama transcipt, Onesong. Sometimes I think that today's Obama is a twisted clone of the original, whose heart really was true to his campaign promises. (Other days, I feel he's just a greedy, bald-faced liar.)
I gave my students an assignment to write "one thing they want to do to change the world" (if money was out of the equation.) Every one of them said, "End hunger and poverty, end war and violence, live in peace, live in harmony with nature, etc.
These are things that everyone universally wants for our planet. Then why isn't so? I think we all know. We have more in common with the citizens of every nation than we do with our own governments who serve their own agendas.
Since so many people want the same thing -- world peace and abundance for all -- then I think that it's inevitable that such a time will come to pass, especially if our thoughts create our reality.
Hi Noa-
I didn't mean for my post to be a response to your request - just making a joke.
I get upset by the media war-mongering and needed a little comic relief.
Wendy
Funny stuff Wendy and Noa. @theonion