Ron Paul: Trump is Just Like CNN, Putting Out His Own False News to Start War in Syria

In a peculiar move, the White House announced Monday evening a chemical weapons attack in Syria will be carried out soon by the regime of Bashar al-Assad against civilians — the second government-launched attack on his own people in the past few months — and that the U.S. would pulverize Syrian forces as retribution.

If, that is, gargantuan holes in logic suit your fancy — because nearly every facet of the above ‘facts’ touted by the corporate press and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer depart so far from the truth as to be farcically unrecognizable.

Spicer tweeted,

“The United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children. The activities are similar to preparations the regime made before its April 4, 2017 chemical weapons attack.

“As we have previously stated, the United States is in Syria to eliminate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. If, however, Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price.”

Statements from @PressSec on #syria pic.twitter.com/gEqPAf6WBk

— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) June 27, 2017

Prognostication this specific must only have graced only Spicer, as Assad’s nefarious plot utterly baffled top-level military officials — whom, one would surmise, should be made cognizant of the need to retaliate — as the New York Times reports,

“An official with the United States Central Command, which oversees combat operations in the Middle East, said Monday night that he had ‘no idea’ what the White House statement was referring to.”

Further, the as-yet unproven narrative Assad carried out a deadly chemical attack against his own people — for reasons never made apparent — crumbled nearly beyond repair on Sunday, with an article from journalist Seymour Hersh citing communications between an active duty U.S. soldier and a security adviser indicating Washington and the Pentagon knew all along the April gassing was not only not Assad’s doing, it wasn’t an attack, at all.

Addressing the numerous conundrums and logical Gordian knots emanating from Washington and its mouthpiece mainstream press, foreign policy expert Daniel McAdams discussed the embarrassing truth of the matter with government critic and former presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul, for the Liberty Report. He writes,

“So President Trump is fighting against CNN’s ‘fake news’ while he is putting out fake news that the Syrian government is about to attack its citizens with gas? Trump has more in common with CNN than he would like us to believe.”

“Last night the White House released a shock statement that the Syrian government was about to use chemical weapons ‘again’ on its citizens and that the United States would launch a massive response. At the time, the AP reported that neither the State Department nor the Pentagon or intelligence agencies seemed to know anything about it. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned that any attack on citizens of Syria would be automatically blamed on Assad (as well as Russia and Iran). It seems Trump is ready for a massive attack on the Syrian government — coincidentally just a day after a major piece by Seymour Hersh showed that the US intelligence community knew that the April ‘chemical attack’ was no such thing but that Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles anyway.”

Without an impetus clear in purpose, the U.S. must enjoin support for its desired intervention in Syria through other channels, since aggressive military acts against a sovereign nation could be considered an act of war or war crime. Thus, to accomplish a goal of ousting Assad, an unpleasant narrative — such as his inexplicably gassing innocent civilians — must be proffered, no matter its veracity.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley pumped up the propagandic rhetoric Monday, as well, tweeting,

“Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people.”

Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people.

— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) June 27, 2017

Perhaps Haley made the statement unaware anyone with integrity would question why a ruler would choose to slay innocent civilians, knowing the U.S. military — which would swiftly respond — dwarfs all others on the planet by orders of magnitude in size and funding.

Of course, questioning that Assad would attack the people under his rulership — though verboten by a corporate press in bed with whatever agenda Washington throws its way — must be done, considering previous similar claims from other putative chemical attacks have collectively either been proven incorrect or inconclusive.

And as McAdams points out, the timing of this odd announcement Assad will be held responsible for any attacks against Syrians follows ridiculously close to Hersh’s earth-shattering report that the U.S. knew at the time the administration lobbed bombs into Syria, government forces did not, in fact, carry out any chemical attack, whatsoever.

Dr. Paul summoned the specter of former President George W. Bush’s elusive WMDs as a comparison, stating,

“Well, you remember the story about the Weapons of Mass Destruction that were about to ‘hit us’ back in the early part of this century, and the reason why we had to ‘protect’ the American people. We had to protect our freedoms and we had to protect our Constitution by going and killing a couple hundred thousand people […]

“This is really strong language … But, I’ll tell you one thing: There’s no evidence the people in Commerce or in the administration will sit down and think about it a little bit. You know, ‘What are the ramifications?’”

Dr. Paul notes not even the realists have paused to consider repercussions of pegging Assad responsible and then initiating retaliation.

In April, the U.S. blocked independent and U.N. investigations into the supposed chemical weapons use by Assad — a clear indicator truth did not comprise the central motivation for the claim. To believe that account of events, the public must compromise rationale, instead opting to surmise Assad acted in stupidity against innocents with no possible benefit to his regime.

Indeed, no logic exists in the idea Assad would pause conventional warfare pushing terrorists of various stripes out of Syria to kill his own people with chemical munitions, thereby alienating Syrian ally, Russia, and provoking the U.S. in the process, McAdams remarked.

While it’s still unclear how far the U.S. will go in pushing its pro-war agenda in Syria, Russia — Assad’s primary power ally — might not tolerate belligerent, obdurate posturing much longer. We could, as Dr. Paul opined, be heading into a far messier — if not detrimental — involvement than the empire can tenably sustain.

Smoking Gun — Video Exposes Evidence Tampering At Syrian Chemical Attack Site

To uncover a deception, sometimes it’s necessary to search for subtle indicators which may reveal that something just isn’t right. Immediately after the Trump regime announced the Bashar Al Assad government had gassed its own people, the president authorized a barrage of cruise missiles be sent into Syria purportedly in an attempt to send the message the U.S. would not sit idly by while a rogue government attacks its own people. Trump’s supporters stood as a bulwark behind their president as he led the nation as aggressors to attack a sovereign country.

However, others, such as MIT professor Theodore A. Postol, wanted more. They wanted proof. The proof never came before the cruise missiles were launched and still has not been provided to the American people. The only thing the Trump regime has offered are words, which it apparently wants all Americans to trust. That being said, the American people are smarter than they were when their government told them there were “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. All of which is no surprise to Postol, who is now calling the Trump regime to the carpet over its declaration a chemical attack took place in Syria, and over its motivations for doing so.

Postol isn’t your run-of-the-mill adjunct professor. He’s arguably the leading expert in the field of missile fired chemical weapons. Here’s his bio:

Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. Postol’s main expertise is in ballistic missiles. He has a substantial background in air dispersal, including how toxic plumes move in the air. Postol has taught courses on weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological threats – at MIT. Before joining MIT, Postol worked as an analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, as a science and policy adviser to the chief of naval operations, and as a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. He also helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in relation to defense and arms control policy. Postol is a highly-decorated scientist, receiving the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society, the Hilliard Roderick Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Richard L. Garwin Award from the Federation of American Scientists.

In his third report since the U.S. government declared a gas attack occurred in the Idlib Province in Syria, professor Postol said he has, “unambiguous evidence that the White House Intelligence Report (WHR) of April 11, 2017 contains false and misleading claims that could not possibly have been accepted in any professional review by impartial intelligence experts.”

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Reportedly using the same commercially available video footage the White House said it used to conclude a gassing had taken place, Postol examined YouTube uploads of the site where the U.S. says the Sarin gas was released.

In the first of two videos examined, a man can be seen handling a dead caged bird (reportedly killed by Sarin residue) with one surgical glove on one hand and a bare hand on the other.

“The implication of these actions was that the birds had died after being placed in the alleged sarin crater. However, the video also shows the same workers inside and around the same crater with no protection of any kind against sarin poisoning,” wrote Postol.

The poison gas expert said the preventative measures taken by the Syrians would have killed them.

Postol explained further, “The honeycomb face masks would provide absolutely no protection against either sarin vapors or sarin aerosols. The masks are only designed to filter small particles from the air. If there were sarin vapor, it would be inhaled without attenuation by these individuals. If the sarin were in an aerosol form, the aerosol would have condensed into the pours in the masks, and would have evaporated into a highly lethal gas as the individuals inhaled through the mask. It is difficult to believe that such health workers, if they were health workers, would be so ignorant of these basic facts.”

The MIT professor openly doubted whether they had any training at all, even though in the second video they were dressed in attire labeled “Idlib Health Directive” written in English (for what purpose other than to mislead an English-reading video audience). Postol also noted that other bystanders were wearing no protection at all in an area where nearly six dozen Syrians were reportedly killed in a lethal sarin gas attack.

He concluded the WHR itself was not properly vetted before it was released to the public.

Postol wrote, “the WHR was not reviewed and released by any competent intelligence experts (such as himself) unless they were motivated by factors other than concerns about the accuracy of the report.”

Professor Postol openly wondered about the motivations for issuing such a flawed report, as if there existed other motivations for knowingly deceiving the American people.

The MIT munitions and chemical weapons expert selected several statements from the WHR which apparently disturbed him, and for which he later said needs to be thoroughly investigated. The following statements were made by the Trump regime in the WHR, statements Postol says are based on flawed video evidence.

The United States is confident that the Syrian regime conducted a chemical weapons attack, using the nerve agent sarin, against its own people in the town of Khan Shaykhun in southern Idlib Province on April 4, 2017.

We have confidence in our assessment because we have signals intelligence and geospatial intelligence, laboratory analysis of physiological samples collected from multiple victims, as well as a significant body of credible open source reporting

We cannot publicly release all available intelligence on this attack due to the need to protect sources and methods, but the following includes an unclassified summary of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s analysis of this attack.

By 12:15 PM [April4, 2017] local time, broadcasted local videos included images of dead children of varying ages.
… at 1:10 PM [April4, 2017] local … follow-on videos showing the bombing of a nearby hospital …

Commercial satellite imagery from April 6 showed impact craters around the hospital that are consistent with open source reports of a conventional attack on the hospital after the chemical attack.

Moscow has since claimed that the release of chemicals was caused by a regime airstrike on a terrorist ammunition depot in the eastern suburbs of Khan Shaykhun.

An open source video also shows where we believe the chemical munition landed [Emphasis Added]—not on a facility filled with weapons, but in the middle of a street in the northern section of Khan Shaykhun. Commercial satellite imagery of that site from April 6, [Emphasis Added] after the allegation, shows a crater in the road that corresponds to the open source video.

The professor went on to declare, based on the video evidence, that the White House Intelligence Report itself (WHR) was, “fabricated without input from the professional intelligence community,” an explosive claim to say the least which points the finger of blame directly at the Trump regime for lying to the American people without any concrete evidence.

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The supposed gassing was reportedly carried out on the 4th of April, and by the 7th of April the president had already attacked Syria. The MIT expert accused the president of going it alone when he concluded, “It now appears that the president ordered this cruise missile attack without any valid intelligence to support it.” He then accused the Trump regime of covering up their own ineptitude. He wrote:

In order to cover up the lack of intelligence to supporting the president’s action, the National Security Council produced a fraudulent intelligence report on April 11 four days later. The individual responsible for this report was Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, the National Security Advisor. The McMaster report is completely undermined by a significant body of video evidence taken after the alleged sarin attack and before the US cruise missile attack that unambiguously shows the claims in the WHR could not possibly be true. This cannot be explained as a simple error.

Equally disturbing to some is the fact the president’s actions brings the United States closer to an armed conflict with Russia, a country who’s also, ironically, determined to defeat ISIS in Syria.

Yet, as The Free Thought Project has reported, members of Congress have spoken out against the U.S. Government’s funding of terrorists, the same ones featured in the video’s which purported to show a Sarin gas attack occurring in Syria perpetrated by the Syrian government on its own people.

Postol called for an independent investigation into the claims and actions made and taken by the Trump regime. He concluded:

It is now obvious that this incident produced by the WHR, while just as serious in terms of the dangers it created for US security, was a clumsy and outright fabrication of a report that was certainly not supported by the intelligence community.

In this case, the president, supported by his staff, made a decision to launch 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base. This action was accompanied by serious risks of creating a confrontation with Russia, and also undermining cooperative efforts to win the war against the Islamic State.

I therefore conclude that there needs to be a comprehensive investigation of these events that have either misled people in the White House White House, or worse yet, been perpetrated by people to protect themselves from domestic political criticisms for uninformed and ill-considered actions.

It remains to be seen whether or not members of Congress will actually call for a committee to investigate the Trump regime’s actions taken in Syria, but already, many Americans are calling for a regime change of their own. The movement to impeach Trump may gain steam as more and more experts like Postol are speaking out against their president’s thoughtless and reckless actions.

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Idlib Health Directorate Tampering with Alleged Sarin Dispersal Site Video

H/T: ZeroHedge

“In Violation of Int’l Law” — Russia Deploys Cruise Missile Frigate in Response to Syrian Strike

Russian President Vladimir Putin has now responded to the U.S. blasting Al-Shayrat airbase in Syria with over 50 Tomahawk missiles launched from two destroyers Thursday night, as quoted by spokesman Dmitry Peskov, saying he “regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” adding the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.”

Russian state media reported six casualties — including civilians — and several wounded in the first direct act of aggression by the United States in Syria.

That pretext being a chemical attack against civilians in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib Governate, for which President Donald Trump and other Western leaders pinned squarely on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — a claim which, despite a dearth of evidence and lack of independent investigation, became the impetus for the U.S. to jump head first into a war otherwise drawing to a close.

Peskov avowed “the Syrian army doesn’t have chemical weapons” — and that has been “observed and confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a special UN unit.”

Through Peskov, the Russian president deemed the airstrikes a distraction from one of the ‘deadliest attacks on civilians in recent memory,’ in which nearly 300 people were killed in an airstrike in Mosul, Iraq — widely suspected to be the work of the U.S.-led coalition, although an investigation is currently underway.

Worse, the abrupt show of military force prior to unassailable confirmation Assad had been responsible for inexplicably gassing to death civilians veritably decimated already tightly strained relations between the U.S. and Russia.

“This step deals significant damage to US-Russian ties, which are already in a deplorable state,” Peskov asserted.

“The main thing, Putin believes, is that this move [by the U.S.] doesn’t draw us nearer to the end goal in the fight with international terrorism and on the contrary, deals a serious setback to the creation of an international coalition in the fight with it.”

Putin, the spokesman said, accused the U.S. of repeatedly ignoring the use of chemical weapons by terrorists in Syria, which has only served to aggravate the situation.

“Without bothering to investigate anything,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized in a statement, “the US went forward with a demonstration of force, a military confrontation with a country that is fighting international terrorism.

“Obviously, the cruise missile attack was prepared beforehand. Any expert can tell that the decision to strike was made in Washington before the events in Idlib, which were used as a pretext for a demonstration.”

Before Trump green-lighted the astonishing use of force, a number of U.S. officials, analysts, independent journalists, and others conjured the memories of former President George W. Bush and the ramp up to the Iraq War under the premise Saddam Hussein had ferreted away Weapons of Mass Destruction. That claim, of course — doubted by critics at the time — later proved to be an utter fabrication, despite its championing as an excuse for the illegal invasion.

Abominable though the torturous deaths of at least 86 civilians to an as-yet-undetermined chemical agent certainly are, aggressive military actions will not only ensure further killing of innocents, it undoubtedly will worsen Syria’s humanitarian and refugee crises.

“When speaking about the military intervention in Iraq many years after it happened,” Lavrov elaborated, “Tony Blair (who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007) acknowledged that they had misled everybody. Now they did not even bother to provide any facts referring only to photos. They indulged in speculations on children’s photos, on evidence provided by various non-governmental organizations, including the so-called White Helmets, which staged various ‘incidents’ to instigate action against the Syrian government.”

Displaying utmost restraint at the U.S.’ hot-headed reaction, Lavrov insisted Moscow would still demand a thorough investigation of the dubious chemical attack in Idlib. Quoted by TASS news agency, Lavrov lamented,

“It is regrettable that all these causes do more harm to the already damaged relations between Russia and the United States. Hope remains that these provocations will not entail irreversible effects.”

Other top Russian officials were equally adamant U.S. missile strikes would further fray relations and could plunge the Middle East into even worse destruction and chaos — with little, if any, benefit to any of the parties involved.

“It’s a new round of escalation in the Middle East. These ill-judged, irresponsible actions don’t contribute to global security, security in the Middle East,” railed Russian Airborne Troops Colonel Andrei Krasov told state-run RIA, cited by Zero Hedge. “Other military conflicts, an expansion of military conflicts, are entirely possible.”

Russian officials expressed doubt broad international cooperation against terrorism would be possible if the United States continues raining missiles on Syria, as Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev surmised such a coalition now “bites the dust before it was even born.”

Still others shared concerns with Western critics of the military endeavor — that an already-boiling proxy war between the U.S. and Russia in Syria could explode into active engagement if extreme caution isn’t employed in the coming days.

“The U.S. is being dragged into the war in Syria in the full knowledge that Russia is supporting Syria and our troops are there, which means it’s fraught with direct clashes between Russia and the U.S. and the consequences could be the most serious, even armed clashes and exchanges of strikes,” admonished Russian lawmaker, Mikhail Emelyanov.

Indeed, with the tangible potential for Russian forces to come under fire, unintentionally or otherwise, Moscow suspended the memorandum of understanding on flight safety in Syria with the United States. Originally signed in October 2015, the memorandum sought to prevent blunders as both nations operated independently of one another inside Syria.

Although Washington’s immediate plans remain unclear, the revocation of that agreement gives the Russian military additional options for defending its operations — and possibly those of the Syrian government.

Notably, if portentously, Moscow also deployed the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s frigate, The Admiral Grigorovich — armed with Kalibr cruise missiles — which is slated to arrive in the Mediterranean later today before visiting a logistics base in the Syrian port of Tartus.

Whether or not the Grigorovich remains in place near the Syrian coast after that time will be decided by actions next undertaken by the United States, an unnamed Russian military-diplomatic source told TASS.

RIA reported just 23 of the 59 total Tomahawks fired by the U.S. met their intended targets, though media reports do vary. RIA, cited by Reuters, quoted an unidentified employee of Syria’s Al-Shayrat base, who noted, “All the aircraft on the base have been taken out of action, it’s safe to say they are completely destroyed” — though reports variously dispute that claim, as well.

“The US pretends it doesn’t get obvious things,” the Russian Foreign Ministry gently castigated. “It turned a blind eye on terrorist usage of chemical weapons in Iraq, which Baghdad officially reported. It dismissed documented cases of terrorist chemical warfare usage in Aleppo. All this does is abet international terrorism and bolster it.”

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Perhaps most ironically in the Trump administration’s lustful rush to retaliate is its playing directly into terrorists’ desires — embittering those previously moderate or apathetic to the point radicalizing and fighting back becomes an appealing option.

Blowback.

Provocation of this magnitude, the Foreign Ministry warned, would only lead to an increase in terrorist attacks “with weapons of mass destruction.”

Ron Paul Warns of Syrian False Flag Being Promoted by Media Propaganda Machine

President Donald Trump has vowed to unleash the full force of the U.S. military against Syria after President Bashar al-Assad launched an attack using a toxic chemical believed to be sarin gas in Khan Shaykhun, killing at least 86 people — including 30 children — and seriously injuring hundreds more.

Horrific images of the dead flooded social media and were put on display by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley for a meeting of the Security Council — all prompting Trump to declare the attack an “affront to humanity,” adding,

“When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies … that crosses … many lines.”

Of course killing children and other innocents with chemicals crosses lines — and anyone not repulsed and outraged would do the world a favor to examine their conscience.

But did it actually happen?

Did Assad, whose forces, with the assistance of Russia, have successfully pushed back against terrorist fighters — including groups like al-Qaeda affiliates, trained and armed by the U.S. and its allies — really feel attacking his own people out of the blue would be a prudent move at this late hour in the conflict?

Would the Syrian leader virtually guarantee his own defeat — if not death — by gassing noncombatant civilians, days after the United States loosened its stance on his continued efforts to wrest the war-ravaged nation from the clutches of extremist groups?

Further, would Assad seriously relegate long-sought peace negotiations to the dustbin of diplomacy, literally the day before talks were to take place?

Not likely.

‘FALSE FLAG’ — Ron Paul Says Syrian Chemical Attack ‘Makes No Sense’ https://t.co/IuvYgEWc3a pic.twitter.com/OzPMz0WePX

— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) April 5, 2017

In fact, the heinous act would be antithetical to any agenda Assad could possibly conjure — but the slaughter of 86 innocents would, however, serve the interests of other parties.

Cui bono? Who benefits? Who, exactly, stands to gain from such a gruesome act?

Beyond the immediate rush to finger Assad responsible, several luminaries already came forward to call the West’s bluff.

Dr. Ron Paul spoke with Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity executive director Daniel McAdams for the Liberty Report on precisely why the theory Assad would abruptly kill scores of innocent Syrians is strikingly less than legitimate — and why we need to be paying attention to the exponentially more likely culprit.

As the much-beloved former presidential candidate explained, the odious propaganda smearing Assad as a monster for using chemical weapons is strongly indicative of a manufactured opportunity — a false flag.

“Before this episode of possible gas exposure and who did what, things were going along reasonably well for the conditions,” Paul noted. “Trump said let the Syrians decide who should run their country, and peace talks were making out, and Al Qaeda and ISIS were on the run.

“It looks like, maybe, somebody didn’t like that so there had to be an episode, and the blame now is we can’t let that happen because it looks like it might benefit Assad.”

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“As you point out,” McAdams said, “we’re on the eve of peace talks — literally on the eve of peace talks — Assad has the upper hand in these talks; he’s almost … with his Russian and Iranian allies wiped al-Qaeda and ISIS out of the country. So, on the verge of this great victory that they’ve suffered [to ensure] for all these years, he decides, ‘I think I’m going to go out and kill some people with gas.’”

He added, “And if you just wanted to kill people, there are a heck of a lot better ways of doing it than using gas — which just guarantees that the entire world community, including allies, are going to turn against you. And as you say,” McAdams noted, addressing Paul, “you would have to be the most insane leader, probably in the history of the world” to carry out such a horrendously timed and ill-fated attack.

“The neocons and the Deep State,” Paul replied, “they’re making the plans, they rule the day — but they still know that they have to use their propaganda machine to get the people behind them. And I think that is what’s going on.

“They did that in Iraq successfully because people believed Saddam Hussein was a monster.”

Paul noted the Big Iraq Lie — that Hussein had accumulated Weapons of Mass Destruction to use against his own people — has been unfortunately long forgotten by the U.S. populace, or they would see the similarities in the Syrian chemical attack propaganda.

Because of this deficit in memory, Paul continued, “the people allow the Congress to keep spending all this money, you know, to ‘remake’ the Middle East — [but the situation] keeps getting worse. But … hopefully, we can make inroads with public perception of this,” because this mass gassing, as explained by Western officials and their corporate media mouthpieces, “makes no sense, whatsoever.”

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Paul isn’t the only reputable figure speaking out against the now-established U.S. narrative concerning the Syrian chemical assault.

In fact, former British Ambassador to Syria Peter Ford described those calling for active repercussions against Syria as “dogs returning to their own vomit.”

“Who benefits?” Ford rhetorically asked. “Not the Syrian regime or the Russians who are benefitting. And I believe it’s highly unlikely that either were behind what’s happened.”

However, Ford explained, “there are different possibilities.”

“One,” he continued, “is that all of it is fake news. The images, videos, the information, all come from opposition sources and not from any credible independent journalists.

“It’s also possible that the pictures show the aftermath of a bombing attack that happened to hit a jihadi chemical munitions dump. We know for a fact the jihadis were storing chemical weapons in schools in eastern Aleppo, because these were seen later by Western journalists.”

Ford, like Paul, harkened back to the lies told about Iraq to engender support for the U.S. invasion that was, in every sense of the word, illegal.

American interests in and actions pertaining to Iraq and Syria — particularly the recklessly false propaganda against leaders of both nations — have been uncannily parallel.

In August 2013, an eerily similar massive chemical attack took place in Ghouta, Syria — also the handiwork of Assad, according to United States’ agitprop.

But Texas-sized holes in that claim soon unraveled the given narrative, and the Ghouta ‘attack’ quickly faded from memory much as Hussein’s WMDs did years earlier — making the refutation of what took place in northern Syria this week a Herculean task, as Paul pointed out.

“What happened four years ago in 2013,” Dr. Paul continued, “you know, this whole thing about crossing the red line? Ever since then, the neocons have been yelling and screaming, a part of the administration has been yelling and screaming about Assad using poison gas.”

“It was never proven in fact,” McAdams affirmed. “U.N. official Carla Del Ponte said it was most likely done by the rebels.”

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“It makes no sense, even if you were totally separate from this and take no sides of this and you were just an analyst, it doesn’t make sense for Assad under these conditions to all of the sudden use poison gasses. I think it’s zero chance that he would have done this deliberately.”

It was Dr. Paul, himself, who — in anticipation of the incoming Trump administration’s designs on foreign policy — warned in November of the potential for a crisis manufactured by the West or foreign entities to snap the United States back into full-scale, vengeful war in the Middle East.

“All we need is a false flag and an accident and everybody will be for teaching them a lesson,” Paul told the Daily Caller’s, Alex Pfeiffer. “You know the deep state is very very powerful and they have a lot of control.

“I think there’s the shadow government, the military-industrial complex, the CIA, and all the things that can be done because they just melt away and they do exactly what the establishment says.”

For the time being, it appears the establishment needs you to believe Assad is a monster who would attack the very people he has struggled to protect from terrorists moderate or otherwise.

Posturing has already begun, in fact — seemingly on schedule, considering the warnings from Dr. Paul and Ford — as Haley strongly suggested the U.S. would act soon to deliver a knockout blow to the purportedly malicious Assad regime, as she admonished the Security Council,

“When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.”

And, after all, it is control of the geostrategic nation and its natural resources — not some moralistic or ethical fight against terrorism — that has the U.S. scrambling and desperate to depose Assad.

Because — with the Syrian war winding down, and tepid victory in Assad’s sights — there would be no other way than an atrocity of horrific proportions to garner support for further military action by the United States in the fraught conflict.

US Left Out As Russia And Turkey Broker Nationwide Syrian Ceasefire

December 29, 2016   |   Darius Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — The United States’ self-appointed position of peace broker in the Middle East has been steadily diminishing over the last few years. The superpower’s ability to waltz into a nation with its sophisticated military — proceeding to call the shots — has also seemingly disappeared.

Just hours ago, the Syrian government and opposition groups on the ground agreed to a nationwide ceasefire aimed at ending the bloody conflict. Despite the fact the United States military is on the ground in Syria, the United States had no hand in the ceasefire whatsoever; it was reached courtesy of regional powers Turkey, Russia, and Iran. Despite the fact Russia and Turkey have both openly supported polar opposite sides of the conflict, they have promised to act as guarantors of the ceasefire.

In addition to promising to scale back his mission in Syria, Putin announced that plans moving forward involved the signing of three main documents. An agreement between the Syrian government and armed groups on the ground was signed regarding the ceasefire. They also signed a document relating to the measures necessary for overseeing the truce, as well as an agreement to initiate peace talks.

Designated terror groups ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra/al-Sham were specifically left out of the agreement, calling into question the operation to retake Idlib, a city known to be held largely by the aforementioned al-Qaeda-linked group.

The ceasefire comes just days after Turkey publicly claimed to have physical evidence that the United States directly supports ISIS, which is especially noteworthy given Turkey’s longstanding practice of supporting all manner of terror groups in Syria, including ISIS. Turkey appears set to abandon its NATO ambitions in the region and strengthen ties with the Eastern bloc, including Russia and Iran.

Fortunately, theories that the recent assassination of a Russian ambassador on Turkish soil was an attempt to sabotage peace talks and pave the way for World War III seem to have fallen flat.

Although it is unlikely to hold, this peace deal may be the much-needed break that the people of Syria have been waiting for during the last five years of a brutal conflict.

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