Gen. Wesley Clark: “ISIS Got Started With Funding From Our Closest Allies” By Daniel McAdams <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/daniel-mcadams> Global Research, February 22, 2015 Region: USA <http://www.globalresearch.ca/region/usa>
Who can forget his interview with Amy Goodman back in 2007 where he revealed <http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166> that one of the top generals in the Pentagon had showed him a memo from then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld not long after the 9/11 attack outlining US global war plans. According to Clark at the time, the general said: [W]e’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!” Well Clark is back with another very interesting blurt. Far from a spontaneously-arising root-of-all-evil organization, at least according to General Wesley Clark, ISIS was created and funded by our “closest allies.” As the General said: ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies… to fight to the death against Hezbollah. Which friends and allies, he did not say. But he did suggest that it has become a “Frankenstein monster.” So the insider, Gen. Wesley Clark, informs us that our closest allies in the Middle East have helped create ISIS — the organization we are spending billions of dollars to fight. We do know that Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf States have long been obsessed with fighting Hezbollah and Assad, and that both are keen to keep the US fighting on their behalf in the region. Could these be who he was thinking about? Maybe rather than continue to expand the US military presence in the region to fight ISIS, it’s time for the US to have a really good talk with its “allies” in the Middle East. On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 11:42:08 AM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > Feb. 26, 2015 > > *Why Iran Believes ISIS is a U.S. Creation *Kay Armin Serjoie/Tehran > > "We believe that the West has been influential in the creation of ISIS" > > Iran has taken a lead role in defending the regime of Syrian President > Bashar Assad and strengthening the Baghdad government in the war against > the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). But that doesn’t mean > Iran views the United States as an ally in that war, even if they share a > common enemy in ISIS. > > Abdullah Ganji, the managing-director of *Javan *newspaper, which is > believed to closely reflect the views of the government and the powerful > Iranian Revolutionary Guards, says that U.S. support for ISIS is in fact a > way of ensuring Israel’s security and disrupting the Muslim world in the > cause of advancing Western interests. > > “We believe that the West has been influential in the creation of ISIS for > a number of reasons. First to engage Muslims against each other, to waste > their energy and in this way Israel’s security would be guaranteed or at > least enhanced,” says Ganji. “Secondly, an ugly, violent and homicidal face > of Islam is presented to the world. And third, to create an inconvenience > for Iran.” > > Iran’s relations with the U.S. have been strained since the 1979 Islamic > Revolution ousted the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran and negotiations are > currently underway between Iran and Western nations, including the U.S., to > ensure the Islamic Republic does not produce nuclear weapons. > > Ganji went on to say that much of ISIS its propaganda, structure and > weapons were all the work of the West. “A group that claims to be an > Islamic one and has no sensitivity towards occupied Muslim lands in > Palestine but is bent on killing Muslims as its first priority, it’s not a > movement with roots in Islamic history. Not only many of its weapons but > its methods of operation, its propaganda methods and many of its internal > structures are Western, that’s why we are distrustful of the roots of > ISIS,” he says. > > “As the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Khamenei] also said, [the coalition > forces] have on a number of times even made weapon drops for ISIS. How is > it that they have laser-guided precision munitions and bombs but drop > weapons for the wrong people? And not only once but at least a number of > times,” he says, referring to incidents when weapons dropped from U.S. > aircraft landed in ISIS-controlled areas rather than the intended > Kurdish-controlled areas. > > “Iran cannot cooperate with the United States against ISIS because it > doesn’t trust America, it doesn’t believe in their honesty in combatting > ISIS. Iran can’t trust the U.S. to begin something and to continue to the > end. It acts patronizingly and will change its path whenever it feels it is > justified. We are also worried that the U.S. is using ISIS as a pretext to > return its troops into Iraq,” Ganji says. “I believe that the U.S. prefers > a weak ISIS that cannot be a major threat but will still cause > inconvenience for Iran, Iraq and Syria and generally what they themselves > called the Shiite crescent.” > > http://time.com/3720081/isis-iran-us-creation/ > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
