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Bernie Sanders Is Getting Advice From Expert Who Cited Possible Israeli Ties to Chemical Attacks
New York Times ^ | February 26, 2016 | First Draft

Posted on 02/27/2016 5:46:13 AM PST by Fasceto

Senator Bernie Sanders, looking to shore up his credentials on foreign policy, is seeking advice from a patchwork of experts, including Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and who has speculated that Israel might have carried out chemical attacks in Syria.

Mr. Wilkerson, a former Army colonel who has become an ardent critic of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, speculated about Israel’s possible role in a May 2013 interview with Cenk Uygur of Current TV.

“This could’ve been an Israeli false-flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria,” he added, saying that the attacks also could have been carried out by Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president. (The United States believes the Syrian government was in fact behind the chemical attacks.)

“But we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given,” he added. “And what I’m hearing from the intelligence community is that that evidence is really flaky.”

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1 posted on 02/27/2016 5:46:13 AM PST by Fasceto
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To: Fasceto
Democrats and other communists are getting their advice from anti-Israeli pro-Palestinian commentators.

The pro-Communist deck is being stacked against the West and our allies, more than it already has been.

2 posted on 02/27/2016 6:01:40 AM PST by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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To: Rapscallion

muslims have a lot of mopey to spread around.


3 posted on 02/27/2016 6:06:45 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Fasceto

Bernie will deal with the muzzies like he dealt with the black lives matter crew when they just took over his rally and pushed m=him aside.


4 posted on 02/27/2016 6:31:14 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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