This theory was being floated on the DU boards days ago. Supposedly Bush and Cheney enlisted the CIA to start the riots in order to divert attention from an investigation of Halliburton that is ongoing in France.
Wish I woulda seen that thread. I can just imagine their wild theories on that.
They said it was a Boston Tea Party like charade.
Actually Bush/Cheney enlisted the CIA to start the riots in order to topple the Fifth Republic. Anti-American governments in Denmark and Germany have also been targeted and should fall soon. We're doing this because we need European troops to join us when we take on Iran early next year, and the current governments would have undermined our efforts.
(I hope somebody from DU is trolling here and reads this. "Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep," etc.)
Don't laugh. When a government is in trouble they find some popular enemy to blame in order to draw fire. The problem in France is the French Youths, or Disaffected Workers, or Oppressed Minorities, or whatever the heck they are, but that group isn't a palatable scapegoat. Guess who is...?
I realize that this article is in jest, or the jest is that this guy is a wacko who really believes it, but expect the western news media to start 'speculating' about USA culpability in the Paris riots.