by Stephen Lendman
April 7, 2017, a
date which will live in infamy - the Syrian Arab Republic was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval forces of the American empire - with attribution
to Franklin Roosevelt’s congressional address following Japan’s December 7,
1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Based on a false
flag CW attack, wrongfully blamed on Syria’s military, Trump launched naked
aggression on the country - a despicable act, a heinous war crime, unjustified
and lawless, likely more aggression to follow.
The buck stops
with him on all issues of war and peace - not Congress, the courts or Pentagon.
He’s culpable for authorizing naked aggression on Syria - along with continuing
the rape of Mosul and escalating US aggression in other war theaters.
He lied claiming
Friday’s attack (local time) is “in the vital national security interest of the
United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical
weapons.”
He lied saying
“(t)here can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated
its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of
the UN Security Council.”
He lied blaming
Syria for earlier CW attacks - carried out by US-supported terrorists.
He lied saying
Assad is responsible for “the refugee crisis continu(ing) to deepen…”
He lied blaming
him for regional destabilization, “threatening the United States and its
allies.”
He lied “call(ing)
on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and
bloodshed in Syria, and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types” -
while committing horrific high crimes in multiple war theaters, along with
supporting the scourge he pretends to oppose.
He lied saying
“(w)e pray for the lives of the wounded and the souls of those who have passed”
- because of endless US aggression, raping and destroying one country after
another.
He lied claiming
“America stands for justice…peace and harmony…”
Secretary of State
Tillerson lied, saying “(c)learly Russia has failed to deliver on that
commitment from 2013. So either Russia has been complicit or Russia has been
incompetent in its ability to deliver” - deplorable remarks ahead of his April
11 and 12 Moscow visit, US aggression destroying any chance for improved
relations with Russia.
Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov responded, saying “President Putin considers the US strikes
against Syria an aggression against a sovereign country violating the norms of
international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that.”
It’s “an attempt
to divert the attention of the international community from” mass slaughter of
civilians in Iraq.
It “impairs the
Russian-US relations, (already) in a deplorable state…”
“…Putin believes
that this (aggression) does not bring us closer to the ultimate goal in the
fight against international terrorism.”
“(I)t creates
serious obstacles to efforts to forge an international coalition to fight
against it and effectively counter this global evil.”
Pentagon spokesman
Capt. Jeff Davis said US warships in the Mediterranean launched 59 Tomahawk
cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat airfield in Homs governorate.
Claiming it’s
where Syria launched Tuesday’s CW attack is a Big Lie, a staged Gulf of
Tonkin-like incident used for more US naked aggression.
Straightaway in
office, Trump proved he’s the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents,
an aggressor waging war on humanity - proving nothing he said campaigning holds
water.
All politicians
lie, saying whatever it takes to get elected, doing what they please once in
office.
In two-and-a-half
months, he’s guilty of Nuremberg-level crimes in multiple US war theaters.
His saber-ratting
against China and North Korea risks more aggression. If further strikes on
Syria kill Russian personnel on the ground, possible confrontation between the
world’s dominant nuclear powers could follow.
On Friday,
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced “suspen(sion) (of) the Memorandum on
preventing incidents and ensuring flights safety during operations in Syria
signed with the US.”
“We’re urging the
UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the current
situation.”
The Ministry
called America’s aggression a premeditated act, prepared ahead of its attack,
using it as a pretext for its action.
Humanity is more
threatened in the wake of US aggression on Syria - holding its breath for
what’s next.
Stephen Lendman
lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as
editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive
for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog
site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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