Mad Dog’s Pathetic Syrian Chemical Attack Propaganda
Kurt Nimmo
It’s obvious Mad Dog and the war-makers take us for complete idiots.
On Wednesday Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, otherwise fondly known as Mad Dog, said Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government backed down on a chemical attack after a stern warning from the United States.
“It appears that they took the warning seriously,” Mad Dog told reporters. “They didn’t do it.”
It is common practice now for the government to make outrageous claims and not bother to offer a scintilla of evidence. This was certainly the case with Mad Dog’s claim earlier in the week that the evil al-Assad planned to gas his own people.
It’s equally common for the establishment media to not ask for evidence and report fantasy and fairy tales as granite-hard fact.
Members of Congress also take this fallacious “intelligence” as gospel truth, as demonstrated by Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He said Trump will bomb the be-jesus out of Syria if they launch a chemical attack.
It’s interesting Mad Dog’s claim came soon after Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the German publication Die Welt. Hersh questioned intelligence related to the supposed April 4 attack in Khan Sheikhun. Trump launched a Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in central Syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack.
“The available intelligence made clear that the Syrians had targeted a jihadist meeting site on April 4 using a Russian-supplied guided bomb equipped with conventional explosives,” Hersh writes.
A Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) by the U.S. military later determined that the heat and force of the 500-pound Syrian bomb triggered a series of secondary explosions that could have generated a huge toxic cloud that began to spread over the town, formed by the release of the fertilizers, disinfectants and other goods stored in the basement, its effect magnified by the dense morning air, which trapped the fumes close to the ground.
Intelligence sources told Trump Syria was not responsible for the alleged chemical attack, but the president ignored this and went ahead and launched a bevy of very expensive cruise missiles at the Shayrat Air Base regardless.
Last year Trump promised us a new government that would not engage in the reckless behavior of the past. Of course, this was offset by his remarks on bombing Syria, stealing oil from Syria and Iraq, waterboarding suspected terrorists, killing their families, and other belligerent statements. It was obvious at the time he would continue the agenda of his predecessors, albeit with typical Trumpian braggadocio.
Donald Trump does not have the fortitude or intelligence required to “drain the swamp” and close down the neocon war agenda. By and large, it is a mission impossible. Congress is largely in the neocon camp and a day does not pass that some member of the political class issues a violent threat against an array of manufactured enemies.
The tissue-thin transparency of Mad Dog’s claim reveals the bankruptcy of the ruling elite’s propaganda agenda. Either they are intellectually lazy or the population is so misinformed and apathetic it really doesn’t matter if outrageous claims are transparent nonsense.
If a poll conducted after the debunked Khan Sheikhun attack can be believed, nearly 60 percent of Americans supported Trump’s cruise missile attack.
“The poll, conducted by CBS, shows that many Americans support the attack because they believe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons—killing 87 people last week—was an immoral act,” the New York Post reported in April 10.
Meanwhile, no such moral outrage exists for the victims of illegal US bombings in Mosul and Raqqa. More than 4,000 civilians have thus far died.
June 29, 2017 @ 3:58 pm
“It’s interesting Mad Dog’s claim came soon after Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the German publication Die Welt. Hersh questioned intelligence related to the supposed April 4 attack in Khan Sheikhun.” What bothers me is that celeb journos get credit, because even progressives are enamoured of them, for reporting, often late, what other intrepid, non celeb journos are reporting, as Barbara McKenzie points out in her blog post about the rebranding of the anti-Syria Left. Her post (which I have a few quibbles with, but very few and only one serious criticism of) looks mainly at Max Blumenthal and Ben Nortons’ reportage. (Alternet is Soros funded…) I’ve always admired Blumenthal, but missed the important fact that he and his colleague were pushing a NATO, State Department narrative, from the Left, until it was no longer possible, and then they started to report the facts that Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett were reporting from the start (White Helmets are terrorists, Syrians support Assad, etc), but without giving any credit to those non celeb journos. I put Hersh in the same category and find it amusing and distressing that leftists react negatively to my views (informed by real activists, not journos embedded in the establishment [military, NYT et al]). Hersh, like other fakers like Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman, has done some good work, and still does (I loved his “Dark Side Of Camelot” and “The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden”), but… On his book about Kennedy, I’ve watched vids where he’s talking about it and I find that he almost lacks the courage of his convictions. An establishment journo, writing nasty things about JFK, would.
June 29, 2017 @ 5:26 pm
” It’s obvious Mad Dog and the war-makers take us for complete idiots. ”
Why wouldn’t he? Look at how infinitely stupid the masses are.
Either people are brainwashed stupid idiots who believe the bullshit in spite of the clear pattern of manipulation, or they are aware and too stupid to reject or fight the system.
Either way, the people are idiots who have allowed them to get away with it for decades.
I keep saying that the people need to not only wholly reject the government, but also mass up and start killing government employees and burning things. The sheeple don’t care though. Someone is eventually going to do so, and it will more likely be an alliance of foreign military powers.
So be it. Someone has to do it for the good of the world. And I am not going to pity my voting countrymen when they are picking through rubble of what used to be their homes and collecting their family’s body parts.
June 30, 2017 @ 1:53 am
The people are not going to “start killing government employees and burning things”. The people are too busy trying to survive, to pay their monthly bills. America is the Great Satan, no doubt. But its people are like retarded kids with Down’s Syndrome. You can’t blame them.