@Amanda Matthews

for the reminder about that significant event in September.

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problems with one western (**cough the US cough**) country trying to destabilize the Syrian government? But it's okay when we do it. In a foreign country. In a part of the world that we have no business tearing apart. And that didn't do anything to us but have a leader, a barbaric despot like Hussein, that we don't like?

U.S. Admits Airstrike in Syria, Meant to Hit ISIS, Killed Syrian Troops
By ANNE BARNARD and MARK MAZZETTISEPT. 17, 2016

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States acknowledged on Saturday that its warplanes had carried out an airstrike in Syria that resulted in the deaths of Syrian government troops. American military officials said the pilots in the attack, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, believed they were targeting the Islamic State.

Russia’s defense ministry said the United States attack had killed 62 Syrian troops, wounded 100 more and opened the way for an Islamic State offensive.

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A senior Obama administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the strike was still being investigated, said the United States had relayed its regrets to the Syrian government through the Russians for the “unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces” fighting the Islamic State.

Russia, the Syrian government’s main ally, said it would call an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the strikes.

The Syrian government insisted that the strike was not a mistake. Instead, the government said it was “a very serious and flagrant aggression” that aided the Islamic State and proved its long-held assertion that the United States supports the jihadist group as part of an effort to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/world/middleeast/us-airstrike-syrian-...

EDIT: Added highlight to the US

EDIT EDIT: Finished sentence that got cut off

@Amanda Matthews

Paybacks maybe? Or just too many meddlers in this country's

problems with one western (**cough the US cough**) country trying to destabilize the Syrian government? But it's okay when we do it. In a foreign country. In a part of the world that we have no business tearing apart. And that didn't do anything to us but have a leader, a barbaric despot like Hussein, that we don't like? ...

We must never forget that this is more of the same old, same old, actually...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-...

Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern
Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow geopolitical competition to control Mideast oil, gas pipelines

Nafeez Ahmed

Friday 30 August 2013

... Whatever the case, few recall that US agitation against Syria began long before recent atrocities, in the context of wider operations targeting Iranian influence across the Middle East.

In May 2007, a presidential finding revealed that Bush had authorised CIA operations against Iran. Anti-Syria operations were also in full swing around this time as part of this covert programme, according to Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. A range of US government and intelligence sources told him that the Bush administration had "cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations" intended to weaken the Shi'ite Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria," wrote Hersh, "a byproduct" of which is "the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups" hostile to the United States and "sympathetic to al-Qaeda." He noted that "the Saudi government, with Washington's approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria," with a view to pressure him to be "more conciliatory and open to negotiations" with Israel. One faction receiving covert US "political and financial support" through the Saudis was the exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business", he told French television:

"I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria." ...

... So what was this unfolding strategy to undermine Syria and Iran all about? According to retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, a memo from the Office of the US Secretary of Defense just a few weeks after 9/11 revealed plans to "attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years", starting with Iraq and moving on to "Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran." In a subsequent interview, Clark argues that this strategy is fundamentally about control of the region's vast oil and gas resources.

Much of the strategy currently at play was candidly described in a 2008 US Army-funded RAND report, Unfolding the Future of the Long War (pdf). ...

So, now they're moving onto Russia, China and others. No wonder that the world's most absurdly humongous military must suck America dry in order to expand enough to cover the world the US PTB war against.

It'll be much easier very shortly when life is gone from the planet and robots and computers run the corporations and, as their Prime Directive, make futile efforts to make money of their global control, with no humans or economy or much of anything else.

But at least there's some point to all this, a point clearly visible on the top of the conspirator's heads.

I seem to be having trouble searching out some of the articles I can vaguely recall reading, but below, we see both British and American politicians claiming that the leader they both wished to depose in one of the countries they wished to subjugate gassed his own citizens...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-attack-blamed-on-assa...

By Tucker Reals CBS News August 30, 2013, 4:50 PM
Syria chemical weapons attack blamed on Assad, but where's the evidence?

... With the possible exception of the intercepted phone calls, and the claim by Cameron on Thursday that regime soldiers had taken precautions typical of chemical weapons use, the vast majority of the evidence of Assad regime culpability presented by both Cameron, the Obama administration and their allies in France, Turkey and other nations, is circumstantial in nature.

It hinges largely on the argument, as Cameron put it Thursday, that there are simply "no plausible alternate scenarios." ...

Much like 'Russia hacked/influenced US elections!'... by the proof of Clinton/DNC corruption in their own communications leaked to WikiLeaks via emails which a concerned insider delivered - and those released to the public by a judge.

Recycled propaganda actually isn't sustainable in any sense, and neither is the hostile corporate/military takeover of the Earth.

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problems with one western (**cough the US cough**) country trying to destabilize the Syrian government? But it's okay when we do it. In a foreign country. In a part of the world that we have no business tearing apart. And that didn't do anything to us but have a leader, a barbaric despot like Hussein, that we don't like?

U.S. Admits Airstrike in Syria, Meant to Hit ISIS, Killed Syrian Troops
By ANNE BARNARD and MARK MAZZETTISEPT. 17, 2016

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States acknowledged on Saturday that its warplanes had carried out an airstrike in Syria that resulted in the deaths of Syrian government troops. American military officials said the pilots in the attack, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, believed they were targeting the Islamic State.

Russia’s defense ministry said the United States attack had killed 62 Syrian troops, wounded 100 more and opened the way for an Islamic State offensive.

*

A senior Obama administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the strike was still being investigated, said the United States had relayed its regrets to the Syrian government through the Russians for the “unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces” fighting the Islamic State.

Russia, the Syrian government’s main ally, said it would call an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the strikes.

The Syrian government insisted that the strike was not a mistake. Instead, the government said it was “a very serious and flagrant aggression” that aided the Islamic State and proved its long-held assertion that the United States supports the jihadist group as part of an effort to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/world/middleeast/us-airstrike-syrian-...

EDIT: Added highlight to the US

EDIT EDIT: Finished sentence that got cut off

@travelerxxx
Syria: Obama authorizes boots on ground to fight ISIS.
There have been reports that special ops have been on the ground since at least 2012.

I doubt that the US government will allow Manbij to be taken by Turkish backed forces. They spent a lot of money and effort to remove ISIS from that area.

Here's a good report with maps and discussion of difficulties.

Revisiting Train-and-Equip in Syria to Clear the Manbij Pocket May 30, 2016
There are considerable challenges in northern Syria, particularly the restriction against U.S. forces deploying west of the Euphrates. Moreover, the Arab and Turkmen groups in the area remain divided, with weak commanders. But the need to defeat ISIL with indigenous forces requires adapting proven strategies to the current environment in the Manbij pocket. This strategy has obvious drawbacks – and will take time to fully implement – but to accomplish the task of defeating ISIL, the U.S. has few other options.

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Exactly!

The question is: What the fuck are our troops doing in Manbij?

And just how long have they been there?

This question needs be posed to Mr. Trump - like yesterday!