[ETCM]

If you want to know a large portion of why Obama started a war against Assad, look up "Operation Timber Sycamore". This operation was meant to overthrow Assad so that Qatar and KSA could build a natural gas pipeline to Europe through Syria and Turkey. The billions of dollars in weapons that flowed through the operation were icing on the cake.

I posted this earlier today on a thread about Petraeus:

Note that Petraeus was the CIA Director who conceived Operation Timber Sycamore to arm dozens of Sunni Extremist Groups in Syria, many affiliated with Al Qaeda and ISIS, to overthrow Assad. Patraeus convinced Obama to support the operation, and Saudi Arabia to pay for it. Had Patraeus's plan worked, the Kurds would have been exterminated by the Sunni extremists once they succeeded in removing Assad.

In fact, NO ONE cared about the Syrian Kurds back then. Not Patraeus, not Obama, not Lindsey Graham, not John McCain, none of the people now crying that we have betrayed them. It was Trump who killed Timber Sycamore and moved all of our support to the Kurds.

Petraeus conceived and executed a war plan that would have given KSA and Qatar hundreds of billions of dollars in NG exports to Europe. Literally, 'Blood for Oil'. Trump spoiled that party, and THAT is why people are screaming.

[Lurkinanloomin]

This operation was meant to overthrow Assad so that Qatar and KSA could build a natural gas pipeline to Europe through Syria and Turkey.
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Exactly what it was all about.
Couldn’t have done Libya and this without the assistance of McCain, Graham and Rubio.