I wonder! How is it that Washington plans to go to war, yet it doesn't have the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria and it lacks the moral authority! Why? Because the U.S.A. has a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more horrific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad is dealing with from a warmongering Western military-industrial complex, hell bent on war.
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Americans and much of the world is not in the mood for war, as the British parliament has shown the last shred of democracy and stayed the hand of its Prime Minister, and polls suggest that some 63% of the US population is against a Syrian offensive. The UN has carried no solid proof, China and Russia oppose the move? Israel has nukes and has signed no treaty yet they are not bullied by Uncle Sam. Hilary Clinton has been quoted on TV and Newspapers as saying the US and Al Qaeda are on the same side in Syria. So it can be argued America supports terrorists. Hilary Clinton then lapsed and admitted America is waging and losing and information war. With that in mind check out Noam Chomsky's book MANUFACTURING CONSENT. Chomsky is a noted intellectual and academic, a linguist in america who has present copious evidence to prove America is nefarious and sinister in its intentions and operations, particularly the industrial war complex.
I and I chant Rastafari, I am definitely not a Christian, but I would like to quote Jesus to Christian nations, and ask, "Who among you has not sinned?" Yes, undoubtedly chemical weapons were used in Syria. Maybe it was the government; maybe it was the opposition; maybe no one knows for sure. But here's what I know for sure: America is no better... they have used chemical weapons on there own children... and ours... for decades! The chemical weapons used in U.S. Farming to wage a war on pests, weeds, and the greedy need for ever greater yields. While the effects of these "legal" chemical agents may not be immediate or direct, they are no less hazardous. Yet our mainstream media in Jamaica, in the region and otherwise fail to highlight these chemical dangers to our own food systems, nor are they willing to acknowledge the hypocrisy of Obama and Washington's Chemical Weapons Argument and stop the perpetuation of American propaganda politics and media blitzkrieg. In fact, the media locally and abroad encouraged it. As The Montegonian, a freelance journalist I am supremely disappointed in the profession.
How do Obama and the USA find any moral authority when a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians, can easily be produced, they are as follows:
- The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 - 1971
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands of Vietnam and neighboring countries, deliberately destroying food supplies, shattering the jungle ecology, and ravaging the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. In 2012, the Red Cross estimated that one million people in Vietnam have disabilities or health problems related to Agent Orange. - Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 - 2009
White phosphorus is a horrific incendiary chemical weapon that melts human flesh right down to the bone. An Amnesty International team claimed to find "indisputable evidence of the widespread use of white phosphorus" as a weapon in densely-populated civilian areas. The Israeli military denied the allegations at first, but eventually admitted they were true. - Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004
In 2004, journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq began reporting the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents. At the time, Italian television broadcaster RAI aired a documentary entitled, "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre," including grim video footage and photographs, as well as eyewitness interviews with Fallujah residents and U.S. soldiers revealing how the U.S. government indiscriminately rained white chemical fire down on the Iraqi city and melted women and children to death. - The CIA Aided Saddam Hussein Massacre of Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988
CIA archived documents now prove that Washington knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons (including sarin, nerve gas, and mustard gas) in the Iran-Iraq War, yet continued to pour intelligence into the hands of the Iraqi military, informing Hussein of Iranian troop movements while knowing that he would be using the information to launch chemical attacks which hit a Kurdish village occupied by Iranian troops with multiple chemical agents, murdering as many as 5,000 people and injuring as many as 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died in the following years from complications, diseases, and birth defects. - The U.S. Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s
In the early 1950s, the Army set up motorized blowers on top of residential high-rises in low-income, mostly black St. Louis neighborhoods, including areas where as much as 70% of the residents were children under 12. The government told residents that it was experimenting with a smokescreen to protect the city from Russian attacks, but it was actually pumping the air full of hundreds of pounds of finely powdered zinc cadmium sulfide. The government admits that there was a second ingredient in the chemical powder, but whether or not that ingredient was radioactive remains classified. - U.S. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011
The savage violence of the police against Occupy protesters in 2011 was well documented, andincluded the use of tear gas and other chemical irritants. Tear gas is prohibited for use against enemy soldiers in battle by the Chemical Weapons Convention. So civilian protesters in U.S. are not given the same courtesy and protection that international law requires for enemy soldiers on a battlefield? - The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993
At the now infamous Waco siege of a community of Seventh Day Adventists, the FBI pumped tear gas into buildings knowing that women, children, and babies were inside. The tear gas was highly flammable and ignited, engulfing the buildings in flames and killing 49 men and women, and 27 children, including babies and toddlers. - The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003
In Iraq, the U.S. military has littered the environment with thousands of tons of munitions made from depleted uranium, a toxic and radioactive nuclear waste product. As a result, more than half of babies born in Fallujah from 2007 - 2010 were born with birth defects. Christopher Busby of the Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, described Fallujah as having, "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied." - The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 - 1945
Napalm is a sticky and highly flammable gel which has been used as a weapon of terror by the U.S. military. In 1980, the UN declared the use of napalm on swaths of civilian population a war crime. That's exactly what the U.S. military did in World War II, dropping enough napalm in one bombing raid on Tokyo to burn 100,000 people to death, injure a million more, and leave a million without homes in the single deadliest air raid of World War II. - The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945
Although nuclear bombs may not be considered chemical weapons, they certainly disperse a lot of deadly radioactive chemicals. They are every bit as horrifying as chemical weapons if not more, and by their very nature, suitable for only one purpose: wiping out an entire city full of civilians. It seems contrite and hypocritical that the only regime to ever use one of these weapons of terror on other human beings has busied itself with the pretense of keeping the world safe from dangerous weapons in the hands of dangerous governments.
Bearing Americas Chemical HISTORY in mind, then look at Chemical companies like Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Bayer Crops Sciences, and others who go about poisoning children and the environment all over the world with Obama's support. Obama who received the Nobel Peace Prize contemplates another war, after he sanctioned depleted uranium in Libya.
Syria and its refugees definitely are in dire straits and urgent need of the World's help, not America's help, THE WORLD'S HELP. And I am certain that a violent military strike won't provide the results you are looking for. Children the world over and in Syria deserve the chance to grow up free from chemical contamination and warfare.
Sounding the War Trumpet... Hmm that is a well-worn tactic, road, trod, tradition that is littered with the bodies of children and soldiers, civilians and suicides, military and nonmilitary. It is a classic thought, where ego and history seemingly say a president must travel as some sort of rite of honor. It's also a path that leads to more grief, grudges and grievances, bitterness, more angst and anger, endless tragedy and infinite sorrow.
It is a decision that credits an old, outdated worldview that will try to justify the logic that, "any attack, any war is worth winning... even though there is no such thing as winning." Each war "won" sows the seeds of sorrow for only future wars will be reaped. Each attack leads to a counterattack. Each "win" sets the stage for which future generations of terrorists can perform some new horror: in the frail minds of children who have lost parents and homes, in the spirits of person, some of whom have felt betrayed by their governments, leaders and their neighbors, and in the wounded bodies and hearts that shall forever fester with hate.
I am no pacifist as such but at the stage of mankind's conscious evolution, we cannot envision a better solution, in an age where we roam Mars remotely and survey the moon as hobby, we cannot imagine a world without war, where America does not need to be a bully. It is time we took the less beaten path. For the future of humanity collectively,There's no clear map, but the rewards of the journey are much greater. It's the road of heroes like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. And many others whose names have been lost to history and the many more whose name echo on. These are people who were able to effect change by speaking the truth from the heart and refusing to engage in more violence. And through them, not only has change happened, but now is a time on Earth when the human spirits of the whole world, the anima mundi have to be lifted, our collective consciousness must be raised. This is the only beacons of inspiration left for mankind!
