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Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Syrian Deception
Consortium News ^
| February 16, 2016
| Gareth Porter
Posted on 02/17/2016 5:15:35 PM PST by marvel5
Exclusive: President Obama, who once called the idea of “moderate†Syrian rebels a “fantasy,†has maintained the fiction to conceal the fact that many “moderates†are fighting alongside Al Qaeda’s jihadists, an inconvenient truth that is complicating an end to Syria’s civil war, explains Gareth Porter.
By Gareth Porter
Secretary of State John Kerry insisted at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the agreement with Russia on a temporary halt in the war in Syria can only be carried out if Russia stops its airstrikes against what Kerry is now calling “legitimate opposition groups.â€
But what Kerry did not say is that the ceasefire agreement would not apply to operations against Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, the Nusra Front, which both the United States and Russia have recognized as a terrorist organization. That fact is crucial to understand why the Obama administration’s reference to “legitimate opposition groups†is a deception intended to mislead public opinion.
The Russian airstrikes in question are aimed at cutting off Aleppo city, which is now the primary center of Nusra’s power in Syria, from the Turkish border. To succeed in that aim, Russian, Syrian and Iranian forces are attacking rebel troops deployed in towns all along the routes from Aleppo to the border.Those rebels include units belonging to Nusra, their close ally Ahrar al-Sham, and other armed opposition groups – some of whom have gotten weapons from the CIA in the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at consortiumnews.com ...
TOPICS: Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: consortiumpravda; iran; northkorea; nuclear; russia; russianpropaganda; syria; war
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:15:35 PM PST
by
marvel5
To: marvel5
Does Obama have any American troops fighting alongside Al Quaeda?
2
posted on
02/17/2016 5:18:33 PM PST
by
abclily
To: marvel5
Just imagine 3 years from now, a tri-parte press conference with Trump on one side Putin on the other and in the middle, Assad. Each one has a hand on Assad’s shoulder and another somewhere between his hip and back bown. Syria’s Assad in the center with a very nervous smile while the Russian President and American President are sporting huge grins.
Assad is a changed man they say. Turkey, under the bus because with all her duplicity.
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:22:37 PM PST
by
Fhios
(circa 2016: Truth will be outlawed unless pre-approved.)
To: marvel5
Obama’s ‘Moderate’ You Can Keep Your Doctor Deception
To: marvel5
If we were supporting the good guys, why are the Kurds aligning with Russia?
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:34:16 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
To: marvel5
If we were supporting the good guys, why are the Kurds aligning with Russia?
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:34:16 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
To: marvel5
If we were supporting the good guys, why are the Kurds aligning with Russia?
7
posted on
02/17/2016 5:34:16 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
To: marvel5
His foreign policy (or lack of it) in Syria is aimed at ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY: FORCING MORE MUSLIM 'REFUGEES' INTO EUROPE AND THE USA.
Wonder why ISIS has flourished and not been stopped? Wonder why we keep arming the 'moderates' instead of letting Assad have his way? STOKING THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA FURTHER EXPANDS THE CALIPHATE INTO EUROPE AND THE USA AND THAT IS THE GOAL.
U.N./NWO cabal conspiracy.
To: stocksthatgoup
why are the Kurds aligning with Russia? The Kurds will align with whoever is strongest. USA is now a greatly weakened power in the region and we are too close with Turkey, at least under Obama.
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:41:00 PM PST
by
palmer
(Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
To: marvel5
Iranians and other terrorists: bad guys.
Russia: still bad guys.
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:42:19 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
To: marvel5
Because they murdered 3000 Americans
.... and bombed the Pentagon,
the first Moslem pRes_ _ent is gladly
arming and protecting al Qaeda
(when he is not spawning crucifixions in
Egypt or Libya or Syria ...).
Were it not for the complicit GOP, he would
not get away with this treason.
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:43:01 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: marvel5
Obama, by the way: golfer with no military experience—irrelevant and outside the topic.
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:43:41 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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posted on
02/17/2016 5:54:18 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: marvel5
It's been a sham all along. Libya, Syria, the regime has armed and funded isis and al queda resulting in the slaughter and displacement of millions of Christians, Yazidis and Kurds.
All the while importing hundreds of thousands of muslim "refugees" into America and setting in motion the invasion of Europe.
14
posted on
02/17/2016 6:02:50 PM PST
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: marvel5
The Syrian Deception.
Sounds like a chess move.
Unfortunately, our President and the suave Francois over at State are not even good checkers players.
15
posted on
02/17/2016 6:10:41 PM PST
by
Captain Rhino
(Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
To: stocksthatgoup
To: marvel5
There never were any moderates.
Those were jihadists that McCain, Graham and Rubio met with.
17
posted on
02/17/2016 7:22:45 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Diogenesis
Were it not for the complicit GOP, he would
not get away with this treason.
*******************************************
No he wouldn’t because he wouldn’t be President.
They allowed Usurpation Day to happen because they wanted to run ineligible candidates too.
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posted on
02/17/2016 7:26:13 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: stocksthatgoup
KKP (Communist Party of Kurdistan) is still very strong among some Kurds and they have always followed Moscow.
19
posted on
02/18/2016 2:18:03 AM PST
by
Krosan
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