Obama probeer Kongres oorreed om Sirië te bombardeer

knikbamaAmerika se president Barack Obama het die Amerikaanse Kongres gevra om die stemmery vir goedkeuring om militêre aanvalle op Sirië te loods, uit te stel.

Obama sal nie die nodige steun vir sy aanvalsplan in die Kongres kry nie. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) en Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) het naarstiglik probeer om die aanval te regverdig.

Die Guardian het vroeër onthul dat McCain omkoopgeld van superryk bankiers, die Rothschilds aanvaar het.

Die Amerikaanse president het gesê die uitstel “sal aan Rusland kans te gee om Damaskus te oorreed om sy chemiese wapens te oorhandig”. Damaskus het reeds ingestem.

Die voorsitter van die Senaatskomitee vir gewapende optrede – Carl Levin – sê Obama wil Sirië en Rusland daarop wys dat hy ernstig is oor die chemiese wapenkwessie.

Die Senaat het Dinsdagaand met debatvoering begin ter ondersteuning van Obama se aanvalsplan. Die Senatore wat die aanval steun kry meer as 80% van hul skenkings van militêre kontrakteurs.

Obama het intussen weereens argumente probeer vind om optrede teen die Siriese regering te regverdig.

Hy het in ‘n toespraak wat regstreeks op Amerikaanse televisie gelewer is, benadruk dat die Siriese regering ongetwyfeld vir die chemiese aanval op Siriese burgers verantwoordelik is. Die VSA beweer dat die bewyse “logiese afgelei” kan word.

Amerika beskik oor geen vaste bewyse dat Sirië vir die gifgasaanval verantwoordelik is nie. Rusland het intussen gesê dat bewyse gevind is dat die beeldmateriaal wat die Withuis gebruik, vervals is.

Twee Europese joernaliste van twee afsonderlike gesaghebbende koerante, ‘n Belg Pierre Piccinin en Italianer Domenico Quirico, bevestig dat die Amerikaans-gesteunde rebelle vir die gifgasaanval verantwoordelik is.

Die Amerikaanse president het in sy toespraak, onder andere, gesê dat “ander tiranne” ook moontlik gifgasse sal aanwend indien die VSA niks omtrent Sirië doen nie. Amerika het ‘n aantal jare gelede die grootste gifgasaanval ooit in die Midde-Ooste teen duisende Koerdiese burgerlikes gesteun.

Hy sê ook dat al-Kaida bemoediging uit die wêreld se daadloosheid sal put. Dié opmerking het vir heelwat verbasing gesorg, aangesien die VSA al-Kaida in Sirië aktief oplei, bewapen en finansieel steun.

Obama se toespraak kom te midde van toenemende internasionale verdeeldheid oor en druk op die VSA om af te sien van die voorgestelde bombardement van Sirië. Frankryk het skielik hul ywerige steun teruggetrek.

‘n Vergadering deur die Verenigde Nasies Veiligheidsraad is ter elfder ure afgestel, nadat Rusland sy versoek om ‘n sessie onttrek het.

26 thoughts on “Obama probeer Kongres oorreed om Sirië te bombardeer”

  1. Wat sou Obama se motiewe wees om so oorlogsugtig te wees ??
    *
    12 very high-level former intelligence officials wrote the following
    memorandum to Obama today:

    We regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling
    us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most
    reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the
    chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and
    that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief
    report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your
    advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as
    “plausible denial.”

    1. Wanneer ons in die toekoms terugkyk, sal ons 23/03/2003 herken as die begin van WO3.

      Obama voer bloot eenvoudig `n voorafbepaalde agenda uit. Soos NIKS Bush sou stop om Irak in te val nie, sal NIKS Obama stuit nie, want die agenda bepaal dit so.

      Die motief agter alles is mag, want die meeste van die aardse rykdomme is reeds onder gesentraliseerde beheer.

      Ek vermoed ons stuur op `n beplande en super-uitmergelende WO af, wat so erg sal wees dat almal, wereldwyd, gretig sal wees om gesentraliseerde beheer te aanvaar, om die oorlog tot `n einde te bring.

      Die Amerikaners (wat eintlik net `n geografiese verskuiwing van die Britse Ryk verteenwoordig), kan hulle met hulle oorlogsugtigheid lelik misreken met hul eie bevolking en met Sjina. Die Sjinese sal baie makliker ‘austerity’ aanvaar ter wille van nasionale oogmerke as die Amerikaners, wat vet, lui en eie-geregtig (volgeprop met ‘basiese menseregte’) is.

      Die uiteindelike resultaat van die komende wereldkonflik sal bepaal word deur die mate waartoe Amerika daarin slaag om sy burgers binnelands te beheer en Sjina militer te vernietig.

      Die chemiese aanval in Sirië (wat m.i. aktief deur die Amerikaners gefasiliteer is), is `n gefabriseerde casus beli, wat lyk of dit nie gaan slaag nie. Daar sal wel `n volgende sneller geskep word.

      Die vraag is wat genoeg van `n insident sal wees om die hele lot aan die gang te sit.

      Die laaste plek waar jy jou op hierdie stadium moet bevind is in die noordelike halfrond.

        1. Dankie. Die Sjinese akkomodeer gemaklik regering by wyse van dekreet.

          Daar was onlangs `n demografiese bevinding dat obesiteit kop uitsteek in Sjina. Gevolglik het die regering daar `n verpligte oefeningsroetine (gevarieer oor ouderdomstrata) afgekondig. Sover ek weet het die breë publiek die instruksie sonder klag aanvaar en hulself in die belang van nasionale welvaart daarote verbind.

          Die punt is, die Sjinese gemeenskap is relatief gemaklik met `n meer paternalistiese owerheid. Hulle is stil en reageer vinnig en effektief as die ‘rooi lyn’ oorgesteek word.

          Sjina se ekonomie is gebaseer op (goedkoop) produksie en uitvoer, en hierin lê Amerika se houvas. Maar, Obama moet pasop vir hulle. Die Sjinese sal baie makliker aanpas by ekonomiese rampspoed en oorlog, as die Amerikaners. En as Obama die ‘rooi lyn’ oorsteek sal daar min tyd wees vir onderhandeling, anders as met Putin.

  2. Assault on
    Christian Town in Syria Adds to Fears Over Rebels

    By ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA
    SAAD

    September 10, 2013 New
    York Times online

    BEIRUT,
    Lebanon — For Syrian rebels fighting in recent days around the ancient
    Christian town of Maaloula, any gains made in battle could be wiped out in the
    war of perceptions.

    Their
    incursion into the town, led by extremist Islamists, reinforces the worst fears
    of Syrian Christians and could bolster President Bashar al-Assad’s claims that
    he is the Christians’ protector. It may also complicate President Obama’s task
    as he struggles to convince Americans that a military strike against Mr. Assad
    will not strengthen Islamic extremists.

    Some
    of the rebels, apparently aware of their public relations problem, said in
    interviews that they meant Christians no harm. They filmed themselves talking
    politely with nuns, instructing fighters not to harm civilians or churches and
    touring a monastery that appeared mostly intact. They said they had withdrawn
    from most of the town, posted videos of shelling there by Mr. Assad’s forces
    and argued that the government had given the fight a sectarian cast by sending
    Christian militiamen from Damascus to join in.

    But
    the damage was already done. Most of the town’s residents have fled, and
    Maaloula, one of the last places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still
    spoken by Christians and some Muslims, has become a one-word argument against
    Western support for the rebels — at the worst possible time for Mr. Obama and
    the opponents of Mr. Assad.

    Syrian-Americans
    lobbying against the proposed American missile strike flooded Congressional
    message boards with appeals for Maaloula. A common refrain was that Mr. Obama
    was throwing Syria’s Christians “to the lions.”

    It
    was a powerful accusation in a region where a decade of unrest and rising
    sectarianism, from Iraq to Egypt, has threatened and displaced large sectors of
    the Middle East’s Christians, a population that had already shrunk
    significantly through emigration over the past century.

    Reached
    by telephone on Monday night, Mother Pelagia Sayaf, who is in charge of Mar
    Taqla, a monastery in Maaloula that is among the country’s oldest, said that
    the 53 nuns and orphans staying there had not been harmed and that the
    principal damage was shattered windows. Another nun said some of the fighters
    were local men who promised to protect the monastery.

    But
    the encounter with the rebels had done little to reassure the nuns that in the
    long run Syria’s Christians would retain the peaceful existence they had long
    enjoyed.

    “If
    Maaloula survives, it will be a miracle,” Mother Pelagia said. “Maaloula is
    empty. You see ghosts on the walls.”

    The
    situation in Maaloula underscores the core problems that bedevil the movement
    against Mr. Assad: the opposition, rooted in Syria’s Sunni majority, has failed
    to win over enough Christians, who make up 8 percent to 10 percent of the
    population, or other religious minorities. More than 450,000 Christians have
    fled their homes, church leaders say, during more than two years of war.

    On
    the battlefield, well-armed radical Islamist groups, including foreign
    fighters, show little inclination to coordinate with local battalions, and
    sectarian killings and references to non-Muslims as infidels further intimidate
    Christians. In Maaloula, according to fighters, the rebel attack was led by
    members of the Nusra Front, a group with ties to Al Qaeda in Iraq, even after
    local fighters affiliated with the Western-backed Free Syrian Army tried and
    failed to dissuade them.

    Last
    week, as the battle began, opponents of American military action in Syria
    circulated a recent video of a Syrian Christian woman accosting Senator John
    McCain, a proponent of military action, accusing him of abandoning Christians.
    “I could trace my family’s name to the Bible,” she said. “We refuse to be
    forced to leave.”

    Maaloula
    has long symbolized Syria’s history of diversity and coexistence. Legend has it
    that as an early Christian saint, Taqla, was fleeing persecution, the cliffs
    parted to help her escape, giving the town its name, which means entrance in
    Aramaic. More recent lore says a small Sunni population sprang up after a
    Christian man converted to marry a Muslim.

    Even
    after a movement for political rights morphed into a civil war, local Sunni and
    Christian leaders worked to maintain calm. Local groups of rebels have long
    occupied the Safir hotel on the edge of town. But until last week, Mother
    Pelagia said, residents moved unmolested between rebel and government
    territory.

    “We
    don’t have any problem with Christians, they are living among us for thousands
    of years,” said Abu al-Majd, a rebel from nearby Yabroud who, like others, gave
    only a nickname for safety. “Before, with and after Assad.”

    But
    on Wednesday, fighters from Homs, to the north, attacked an army post outside
    the town that had long shelled surrounding areas. The Nusra Front sent a
    Jordanian fighter to blow himself up, and a Free Syrian Army unit from Homs
    took part over angry objections from local fighters, rebels said.

    “Wrong timing, wrong location,” said
    Mahmoud, an antigovernment activist in Yabroud. “Now the regime has the perfect
    excuse to show us in a bad
    light.”

    On
    Saturday, rebels seized the town. One leader was filmed telling his men to
    safeguard civilians and churches. Another video showed masked rebels with
    grenade launchers saying they had entered for “military reasons” because the
    checkpoint was “harming Muslims.”

    The
    nuns huddled in monastery rooms tunneled under the cliffs. About 25 fighters
    entered, including some who appeared to be Saudi, Mother Pelagia said, and one
    who did not understand Arabic. But one fighter, a local worker, gave his phone
    number and told the nuns to call if they needed help.

    A
    rebel video shows Mother Pelagia flinching at the crash of shells but otherwise
    calm — at one point answering the phone, “We’re in a meeting,” and saying all
    is well. That statement angered some residents who fled to Bab Touma, a
    Christian enclave in the old city of Damascus, said Abu Tony, a leader of a
    neighborhood militia there. He said three residents were taken hostage and
    others were told, “Convert and you’ll be safe.”

    Rebels
    and Bab Touma residents said the government sent reinforcements that included
    Iraqi Shiites and Christians from Bab Touma who joined “popular committees,”
    local government militias that are said to protect neighborhoods but that
    analysts and residents say are increasingly being deployed elsewhere.

    The
    government has been shelling near the hotel and a monastery, according to
    rebels and Russia Today, an official television outlet that supports Mr. Assad.
    Rebels say they pulled out of the town to minimize the damage; others say they
    still occupy much of it.

    The
    nuns could not tell what was happening outside but heard shelling and rocks
    falling from the cliffs, Mother Pelagia said. She tried to look on the bright
    side, seeing evidence of miracles. “Neither crosses nor statues were broken,”
    she said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

      1. Gas, Ek stem saam, maar die withuis se doekkop het gedink dit gaan n “Walk in the park” wees. Hy gaan beslis iets viesliks op sy eie mense trek, dit is duidelik te sien hoe sy “Home Guard en Fema reg maak vir iets katastrofies, iets groots. Hy is haSatan se boetie, maar dit is flippen great as Putin hom terug stamp en opstaan vir die snert van die VSA.
        Selfs die VSA se Generaal het gese hy sal nie aanval as die senaat dit teenstaan nie.
        China le en wag….. klaar n 1000 troepe in Sirie, Iran het die boks handskoene aan getrek en elke doekkop in die wereld is reg om hulleself die ewigheid in te blaas, dinge gaan nog baie interesant raak.
        Die kroeskop in die Withuis, gaan seker net nog een van sy vele “executive orders” teken en sie daar.

  3. En toe dit tyd was vir die Siriese domino om te val, en baie
    duidelik deur buitelandse hande, het die sameswering teoretici geweier om in hierdie
    vieslike affêre betrokke te raak. Wat het hierdie waansin laat begin. Wie trek voordeel
    uit hierdie oorlog. Wie stuur die Mujahedin om hierdie onheilige oorlog te veg
    om die weg te baan vir nog ‘n oorname deur Islamiete. Wie het die volmag om
    hierdie oorlog te voer. Gaan Katar en Saoedi-Arabië met hul petro-dollars of
    die Chinese en die Russe met hulle onstuitbare verskaffing en vervoer van swaar
    wapens … En die belangrikste aspek; watter rol gaan die Mossad agente speel
    in die naburige inferno. Maar terwyl dit lyk asof ons nie antwoorde op hierdie
    vrae het nie, is ek oortuig hierdie oorlog gaan by die Arameërs spook vir ‘n
    lang tyd om dit sag te stel.

  4. Watter magte ookal in die agtergrond sit en kyk wat se voordeel hulle uit n VSA aanval in Sirie kan trek , kan mens net oor bespiegel.

    Te veel onskuldige mense en jong Amerikaners het doodgegaan in daardie onnodige Irak en Afghan oorloë.

    Ek wens hierdie politieke leiers moes self daar gaan veg het en ledemate, vriende of hul eie lewens verloor.

    Die VSA moet hulle neus uit ander lande hou. Wat het die laaste dekades aan hulle bewys. Om te help, help nie. Dit maak net groter gemors.

    Hulle kqn hulle binnelandse probleme liewerbegin oplos.

  5. Die anti Islam agente van Mossad wil ‘n stuk van of die hele Sinai woestyn bekom van Egipte vir die “belofte” om nie in die konflik betrokke te raak nie. Hierdie strategiese skuif sal moontlik deur die VSA gesteun word. Daar is egter genoeg VSA magspeile in die golf om amok te maak indien die risiko te groot word! Israel kan selfs getaak word om die vele strategiese vyandelike (Islam) stellings in die Sinai aan te val wat hom en Egipte bedreig terwyl Egipte Plan B van die Weste in plek probeer kry.

  6. Rusland het ‘n groot belegging gemaak met die verskaffing van wapens
    en geld aan die Assad regime en dit word vermoed Poetin sal enige stem
    veto by die Veiligheidsraad van die VN om op te tree teen Sirië. Nietemin, ‘n
    Amerikaanse senaat komitee het verlede week vir ​​Obama goedkeuring gegee om
    betrokke te raak in ‘n “beperkte” bestraffende re-aksie teen Sirië se
    beweerde gebruik van dodelike chemiese wapens op 21 Augustus. Daar is egter
    rede om te glo so ‘n reaksie sal lei tot weerwraak teen Israel en chemiese
    wapens mag oor gedra word aan Israel se vyande.

  7. Al-Qaeda’s
    air force still on stand-by

    By Pepe Escobar

    It was 12 years ago today. Historians will register that, according to the
    official narrative, 19 Arabs armed with box cutters and minimal flying skills
    pledged to a transnational Terror Inc turned jets into missiles to attack the
    US homeland, fooling the most elaborate defense system on Earth.

    Fast forward to 2013. Here’s a 15-second version of the President of the United
    States (POTUS) address on Syria, one day before the 12th anniversary of 9/11:

    Our ideals and principles, as
    well as our national security, are at stake. The United States is “the anchor
    of global security”. Although the United States military “doesn’t do
    pin pricks”, we still carry the burden to punish regimes that would flout
    long-held conventions banning the use of biological, chemical and nuclear
    weapons.

    That’s why I have decided to pursue an unlimited, targeted military strike
    against Washington DC.

    For countless global citizens, this alternative version predictably
    sounds as far-fetched as the official version of what happened 12 years ago.
    The fog of war obscures in mysterious ways. But the fact remains that the
    current, “reluctant” (farcical) Emperor continues to stake his – and
    his nation’s – “credibility” on a “limited”,
    “kinetic” operation to reinforce his self-defined red line against
    chemical weapons.

    Lose face, will travel

    In theory, the Russian plan of having Damascus surrender its chemical weapons
    arsenal works because of its inbuilt Chinese wisdom; nobody loses face – from
    Obama and the US Congress to the European Union, the UN and the even more
    farcical “Arab” League, which is essentially a Saudi Arabian colony.

    Although Obama is on a media blitzkrieg stealing the credit for it, Asia Times
    Online has confirmed that the plan was elaborated by Damascus, Tehran and
    Moscow last week – after a visit to Damascus by the head of the national
    security committee of the Iranian Majlis (parliament), Alaeddin Boroujerdi. US
    Secretary of State John Kerry’s now famous “slip” provided the
    opening.

    So, essentially, it’s this “axis” – Damascus, Tehran and Moscow –
    that is helping Obama to crawl out of his self-inflicted abyss. Needless to
    say, that is absolutely unbearable for the plutocrats in charge of unleashing
    the new Syria (lethal) production. A brand new propaganda/manufactured hysteria
    campaign must be unfurled to justify war. And that’s exactly what the
    Anglo-French-American axis is working on.

    No wonder the French proposal for a new UN Security Council resolution falls
    under the UN’s Chapter 7 – which would explicitly allow the use of force
    against Damascus in case of non-compliance. As it is, this resolution will
    inevitably be vetoed by Russia and China. And that will be the new pretext for
    war. The (farcical) emperor may easily invoke plausible deniability, stress he
    made “every effort” to avoid a military conflict, and then convince
    skeptics in the US Congress this is the only way to go.

    And to think that a perfectly sound development of the Damascus-Tehran-Moscow
    plan is at hand. Syria’s chemical weapons may be transferred to Russian – or
    European – supervision. Syria joins the Organization for the Prohibition of
    Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and ratifies the Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC). OPCW
    inspectors start working in coordination with the UN. Every expert knows the
    whole process will take years.

    Damascus has already declared it’s ready to join the OPCW and abide by the CWC.
    So Damascus does not need a UN Security Council resolution forcing it to do
    what it wants to do. Any serious, comprehensive UN resolution on chemical weapons
    across the Middle East would have to include Israel’s chemical weapons. Note
    that nobody, absolutely nobody, is talking about Israel’s vast arsenal of
    chemical, not to mention nuclear weapons.

    The sound path, though, will not be followed – because Washington and its
    barking poodles afflicted with Sykes-Picot wet dreams, London and Paris, are
    already blocking it.

    Fly me to the (war) moon

    There are no signs that the Obama administration is prepared to even reconsider
    the yo-yo “Obama doctrine” all across the Middle East. This would
    imply dumping the Saudi-Israeli axis and making a concerted effort for the
    success of the Geneva II conference, the only possible diplomatic solution for
    the Syrian tragedy.

    I have argued before that the (farcical) emperor is just a paperboy – a docile
    employee. Those who are paying for the upcoming lethal production, as in the
    House of Saud, or cheering in the sidelines, as in the Israel lobby, simply
    won’t give up.

    The House of Saud wants regime change, now. The Israel lobby/AIPAC (American
    Israel Public Affairs Committee) and its masters in Tel Aviv want a massive
    spillover of the Syria war into Lebanon to entangle Hezbollah. Financial
    Masters of the Universe, significant sectors of the
    industrial-military-security Orwellian/Panopticon complex, and Western-propped
    petro-monarchies want an independent, secular Arab republic profitably
    integrated in their monopoly.

    The problem is the unilateral “kinetic” whatever may be too
    “limited” to satisfy the Saudi-Israeli axis and most of all the
    financial Masters of the Universe, and illegal enough to qualify as a war
    crime.

    At least there is a counter-power. Asia Times Online has confirmed that an
    outstanding meeting will take place later this week in Kyrgyzstan, during the annual
    summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Picture Chinese
    President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and new Iranian
    President Hassan Rouhani together, in the same room, discussing their common
    position on Syria. Iran is an SCO observer – and may soon be admitted as a full
    member. This is what the Anglo-French-American axis is up against.

    And that brings us back to 12 years ago – and the myth that aluminum jets are
    able to penetrate the thick steel perimeters of the Twin Towers and kerosene is
    capable of instantaneously melting steel perimeters and steel cores into fluffy
    steel dust. Check this out and draw the necessary
    conclusions.

    As for that “evil”, transnational Terror Inc, it didn’t even have a
    name when Jihad International hopefuls were being recruited in the early 1980s
    by assorted Islamic charities, and then trained and funded by the CIA and Saudi
    Arabia. One day the database was finally named – by the US – as
    “al-Qaeda”. Or, more appropriately, “al-CIAeda”. They were
    elevated to Ultimate Evil status. They did 9/11. They reproduced like rabbits
    from Mali to Indonesia. Now the CIA works side-by-side with them – as it did in
    Libya. And eagerly they await the US Air Force to clear their road to Damascus.
    Hey, it’s just (war) business. Allahu Akbar.

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