A group calling themselves the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) has written a "memo" to Empire in Chief Obama, just like they did to war criminal George W. Bush in the earlier part of the century.

"We write to alert you, as we did President George W. Bush, six weeks before the attack on Iraq, that the consequences of limiting your circle of advisers to a small, relatively inexperienced coterie with a dubious record for wisdom can prove disastrous.* Our concern this time regards Syria.

We are hoping that your President’s Daily Brief tomorrow will give appropriate attention to Saturday’s warning by Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova: “If the US launches a direct aggression against Damascus and the Syrian Army, it would cause a terrible, tectonic shift not only in the country, but in the entire region.”

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She's talking about "full scale war".

The group of VIPS seek to warn Obama, just like they did Bush thirteen years ago. In a nutshell, they're calling out Kerry and the Pentagon while pleading with Obama to side with sanity.

"In our view, it would be a huge mistake to allow your national security advisers to follow the example of the Post and Times in minimizing the importance of Zakharova’s remarks.

Events over the past several weeks have led Russian officials to distrust Secretary of State John Kerry. Indeed, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who parses his words carefully, has publicly expressed that distrust. Some Russian officials suspect that Kerry has been playing a double game."

Welcome to the club Russia. The VIPS warn about a Pentagon power play stating that "Policy differences between the White House and the Pentagon are rarely as openly expressed as they are now over policy on Syria." They bring up an interview Obama did earlier this year with Zionist propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic.

"We are aware that many in Congress and the “mainstream” media are now calling on you to up the ante and respond – overtly or covertly or both – with more violence in Syria. Shades of the “Washington Playbook,” about which you spoke derisively in interviews with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg earlier this year. We take some encouragement in your acknowledgment to Goldberg that the “playbook” can be “a trap that can lead to bad decisions” – not to mention doing “stupid stuff.”

Their recommendation to war criminal Obama:

"Still, in view of lingering Russian – and not only Russian – skepticism regarding the strength of your support for your secretary of state, we believe that discussions at the highest level would be the best way to prevent hotheads on either side from risking the kind of armed confrontation that nobody should want.

Therefore, we strongly recommend that you invite President Putin to meet with you in a mutually convenient place, in order to try to sort things out and prevent still worse for the people of Syria."

As stated earlier, this comes over 13 years after the VIPS sent a similar memo to President Bush.

"In a Memorandum to President Bush criticizing Colin Powell’s address to the UN earlier on February 5, 2003, VIPS ended with these words: “After watching Secretary Powell today, we are convinced that you would be well served if you widened the discussion … beyond the circle of those advisers clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason and from which we believe the unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic.”

Now, first off. Their memo thirteen years ago didn't do one bit of good. Trying to beg war criminals not to go to war doesn't appear to work. In fact, this memo could be rather ominous in that the last time the VIPS wrote a memo like this, the U.S. government under war criminal Bush did go to war, in Iraq. If a pattern forms, we could be looking at a military war with Russia very soon, not that such a war isn't already in progress.

Then there's this business about the power of the Pentagon, civilian vs military leadership, and how that can impact overall foreign policy agendas and decisions. One thing that's bothered me about how Obama has been viewed and treated by many/most on the left is this notion that he means well and is doing the best he can considering the competing interests involved. He's let off the hook because "Hillary Clinton was really the one spearheading the Libya war and John Kerry and the Pentagon were the ones championing the Syria war". He's seen as some kind of mediator who keeps U.S. imperialism at a lower roar then what others are wanting. He still carries an incredible almost 80% approval rating among Democrats and just recently achieved a 55% approval rating generally.

I say bullshit to that. Obama has been president for almost 8 years now. He's also been the Commander in Chief (CINC) of the entire U.S. military, intelligence, and security structure. The United States is officially (not constitutionally) at war and in a perpetual State of Emergency. During this time, the CINC has attacked seven different countries causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and the displacement of up to 6 million people from their homes. He has turned the office of President into the Assassinator in Chief, the Droner in Chief, and has institutionalized the utter fraud that is the Global War OF Terror. He is every bit the war criminal as George W. Bush (and his Dad). He's the one in the charge, the President, the CINC, and any criticism and accountability for U.S. war crimes has to start with him, not Clinton, not Kerry and not the Pentagon. It's ridiculous to let Obama off the hook even a little bit.

What's happening in Syria is first and foremost the fault of Barack Obama, the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of the vaunted global military machine of the Empire. Saying he should fight off the war-making, back-stabbing Kerry and the Pentagon and meet with Russia's president Putin to bring some sanity to Syria and a possible war with Russia is blatantly sidestepping the fact that Obama is the one driving the Syria war and the machinations for war with Russia and China.

I can't fault the VIPS for trying but like thirteen years ago, it won't do any good. Obviously there are multiple power players in Washington regarding U.S. imperialism (foreign policies). But Obama has been the one who has started the Syria war, restarted the Cold War with Russia and escalated it to a dangerous point, and is the primary danger to the planet. Talk about dangerous homicidal dictators, we have one here at home. He should be arrested and put on trial in the Hague before he can make any more "decisions".

That's what the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity should be calling for, the arrest of Barack Obama before he starts World War III. Take Hillary Clinton and John Kerry with him.