War Propaganda Alert: Israel and US Floating Stories of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Again)

War propaganda alert! It's the same script everytime.

For the country you wish to invade, portray that country's leader leader as an evil villian based on the cookie-cutter super villian archetype of Adolf Hitler.

In this case , our newest supervillan is Bashar al-Assad, the current President of Syria, who has a background in medicine, specializing in ophthalmology.

The media will claim, with very little evidence, that the latest super villian is killing his own people. In this case, Western backed "rebels" are the cause of massacres, but the US media blames Assad. Meanwhile, elite connected non-governmental organizations such as Human Rights Watch, release questionable reports of massacres to the media, which are taken on face value alone.

The next step is for the US media to claim that the country has, or is willing to obtain "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMD).

In this case the lie/distortion of WMD's using Israeli sources and Israeli intelligence sources operating out of the Pentagon is now being claimed about Syria.

Where have we heard this story before?

Finally, if the US and Western powers are successful in invading that nation, the super villian will be found and either apprehended or and/or killed in a standoff after hiding in a hole or a bunker. It was the same for Muammar Gaddafi, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Slobodan Milosevic and yes...Adolf Hitler.

It's a script that works well and people seem to buy it every time.

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Syria's armed forces have taken steps to secure deadly chemical weapons in response to mounting international concern that they could fall into rebel or terrorist hands or be accidentally damaged in fighting, according to Israeli officials.

US sources said Bashar al-Assad's forces had started to move part of the stockpile out of storage facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Israeli officials monitoring the escalating violence believe that Damascus is working to protect its chemical warfare arsenal.

Syria's undeclared chemical arsenal, the largest in the Arab world, is believed to include mustard gas as well as nerve agents such as Sarin, Tabun and VX, which have been "weaponised, tested and deployed", according to the Israelis, for whom Syria is a priority intelligence target.

The Israelis fear that al-Qaida or other extremist groups could get hold of chemical weapons; that Assad might transfer them to Hezbollah in Lebanon; or in an extreme scenario that he might launch an attack on Israel as a diversion. "Is there a possibility that an Assad regime with its back to the wall would try to change the subject and try to do something against us?" asked another senior Israeli government source.

Eyal Zisser, an Israeli academic, said: "As long as he feels he can win the battle in Syria, Assad has no reason to open a new front with Israel. When he decides that it's finished he will want to take Asma and the kids and escape from the palace. Israel will not be on his agenda."

Syria is an example of the adage that chemical weapons are the poor man's nuclear deterrent. Israel has a large but undeclared nuclear arsenal in addition to chemical weapons. In 2007 it bombed and destroyed what it described as a nuclear reactor in north-eastern Syria. Neither country has signed the chemical weapons convention, the international treaty that outlaws their use.

Western diplomats admit that the faulty intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the 2003 Iraq war have made it extremely difficult to use the apparently more solid information about Syria's chemical arsenal to justify any outside military intervention.

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• maasanova commented on War Propaganda Alert: Israel and US Floating Stories of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Again) 1 day ago

  There was no reason for the US to make up lies about Iraq because it didn't benefit the US government to go to war. In fact it is the wars are bankrupting the US.

  The wars benefitted Israel and only Israel. The people who made up the lies, Perle, Wolfowitz etc were lying on behalf of Israel.

  "ISRAEL can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions."

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