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Peter Hitchens splashes 'truth water' on the lies spread by media about the war in Syria.

We could use a lot more of it considering these Al-Qaeda elements fighting in Syria against Assad and the Russians have too many friends in high places like John McCain and Lindsey Graham in this country.

1 posted on 12/18/2016 8:43:54 AM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Much truth here, but as the Latin phrase has it, Mundus Vult Decipi, the world wants to be deceived.


2 posted on 12/18/2016 9:00:31 AM PST by Montaignes Cat
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To: Nextrush

Syrian rebels have been firing on Assad’s refugee trucks which are trying to transport people out of Allepo. Of course you won’t hear that on TV.


3 posted on 12/18/2016 9:06:32 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Nextrush

In other circumstances I’d be happy to see Assad replaced.

But we chose as our proxies Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda In Iraq.

And they have been systematically slaughtering Christians from the beginning. So it becomes impossible for any American to support this war.

It didn’t have to be this way, but through Obama’s sheer malevolent incompetence he has made it impossible to support the overthrow of Assad.

These proxies are our Frankenstein monsters. We have a responsibility to put them down like mad dogs. Trump has promised in essence to wipe out Al Qaeda In Iraq (ISIS), and let the Russians and Syrians deal with Al Qaeda In Syria. Too bad this leaves Assad in power, but if our brilliant plan was to replace him with genocidal monsters it is a plan that needs to fail.


4 posted on 12/18/2016 9:18:01 AM PST by marron
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To: Nextrush

Hitchens with Not Fake News. (#UnFake)


5 posted on 12/18/2016 9:26:15 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Nextrush

Are these “moderates” the same guys that McCain met with?


6 posted on 12/18/2016 9:56:40 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: Nextrush
In the past few days we have been bombarded with colourful reports of events in eastern Aleppo, written or transmitted by people in Beirut (180 miles away and in another country), or even London (2,105 miles away and in another world).

This has been a pet peeve of mine; news outlets bringing in people who couldn't know whats going on on the ground because they are no way near the action.

Fox news did this in the downing of missing flight 370 in Indonesia and CNN knocked Fox's ratings down by CNN actually putting on people close to the action, who knew something about the situation.
Another trick is to use people with British accents to tell Americans what's going on.
Like we don't have Americans gathering news anywhere.
Who knows maybe we don't anymore. - Tom

7 posted on 12/18/2016 10:08:57 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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Why did ISIS take back Palmyra despite BS stories the Russians were hitting them, now, we see the US has sent airstrikes to Palmyra.

Russia/Assad = ISIS


12 posted on 12/18/2016 11:07:09 AM PST by BeadCounter ( Drain The Swamp!)
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