>From (one of the last real journalists) Glenn Greenwald today - Obama, Congress and Syria
The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/01-2 An especially noteworthy extract - Secretary of State John Kerry, this morning on CNN, said this when asked whether the Congressional vote would be binding: "[Obama] has the right to do this no matter what Congress does." > ROFL! > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Alain Sepeda" <alain.sep...@gmail.com> > To: "Vortex List" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Subject: [Vo]:Shocking Story That Could Derail Attack on Syria > Date: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 7:03 PM > Another vision focussed on Saudi role in that, and alredy happening > genocide against non > suni:http://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjacqueshenry.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F08%2F31%2Fsuite-de-mon-precedent-billet%2F > > > > > > Following my previous post > > Published August 31, 2013 > > > > I was talking with my son today via Google + (our conversation was > certainly recorded and analyzed) about events in the Middle East. From > Japan, he shows a fairly objective analysis of this particular > concern.According to him, everything is played in Riyadh, the stronghold > of the Wahhabi Salafi supporters. Saudi Arabia, the most obscurantist and > reactionary country imaginable on this planet, Iran and the mullahs are > amateurs in this field, pulling the strings of the puppets in his service > in the Middle East since the Al Qaeda loyalists unleashed like packs of > rabid dogs to fight roumi wherever it is located and the Shiite equally > despised the "cross" or Zionist. Concentrate hatred spread everywhere, > including in the suburbs of major cities in Western Europe, the > petrodollars help. What happened in Egypt is indicative of what will most > likely happen in Syria if the Americans, aided by the French far for a > good cause, engage in surgical strikes against the interests of the regime > in Damascus, multicultural, Interfaith and tolerant despite what the > Western media intoxicated by the White House. Indeed, the mad god > Salafists, funded by Saudi Arabia, have killed many roumis, mostly Copts > and small Christian communities of Armenian origin and also attacked the > Shiites, the sworn enemies of Wahhabis. The heart of the Syrian civil war > fomented by Saudi Arabia is a project pipeline to bring gas from Qatar to > the Mediterranean and Western Europe via Jordan. Qatar supported the > Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, choirboys compared Salafists, Qatar was > ousted from the Egyptian scene, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the > Egyptian army, supported by Riyadh, massacred many for otherwise > permanently deter at least temporarily to act for substantial financial > support from Riyadh, which was done after the fatal shooting of Cairo, 9 > billion, a drop of oil in Saudi Arabia. Now it is calm in Egypt, but the > Syrian Assad, Alawite-Shiite friends Mullahs in Tehran are in a critical > situation since the dead gassed the perpetrators remain unknown. In the > context I just described very schematically one wonders if the use of > Sarin is not a Salafi provocation, Chechen and other terrorists funded by > Riyadh working in Syria, killing deliberately for their successful > completion of strategic plans of Saudi Arabia, with the support of the USA > now confessed. Saudi Arabia, the country that has the most executions in > the world in relation to the population of thirty million people, where > women have no civil rights and are not allowed to drive a motor vehicle, > this country collapsing under the dollars, using slaves from the > Philippines to perform the menial tasks of daily life, wants to impose its > will in the region. And Holland, on behalf of the French who elected > President intends to support their policy. But Iran does not hear it that > way. Why Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons, just to calm Riyadh, its > king and princes of junk (not that much, they are drowning in dollars) and > its relentless political and religious police cut the hand of first thief > came and headed to light saber any gay or stone an adulterous > woman. Holland should enjoy after the wedding for all ... In short, > Holland wrong target and Russia and Iran have understood. The opening of > an international conflict in Syria would be an opportunity for Iran to do > battle once and for all with this medieval regime troublemaker East Timor > to Morocco and soon in English suburbs, French, Belgian or > German. Perhaps this is also the reason for the commitment of Holland to > Obama sides at all costs to preserve the apparent calm of the French > suburbs indoctrinated by Salafists remotely by Riyadh ... > > > > 2013/8/31 a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> > > > > > > > > > > Iâm very pessimistic that the general > population will hear > the real story until years after any attack. > This is the second report about groups other than the > Syrian government using > the poison gas and they all seem as unlikely as the official > story that Assad > did it. In many ways the > official story > is the least likely as Assad is rational as well as unpleasant, > so why would he > invite America to bomb him when he was already winning? > > >  > > > I canât see that America bombing Syria > will do any good what-so-ever.  All it > will do is kill a number of Syrians who were not responsible for > the gas > attack, destroy some buildings and infrastructure, and by > evening up the two > sides prolong the war. Does > the US > really want al Qaeda to win? > > >  > > > Appalling as all wars are, particularly > civil wars fought > over religious divides,  American > involvement > would simply make it worse.