McCain
Calls
Syria "Hormone
for Qaeda"
Needing More
Than MREs,
Reuters Spin
of Araud
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 18
-- The
schizophrenia
in Washington
about Syria
and its rebels
was displayed
by Senator
John McCain on
Tuesday night
at the Council
on Foreign
Relations.
On
the one hand
Senator McCain
called the
Syrian
conflict a
"growth
hormone for Al
Qaeda."
Minutes later
he said that
Saudi weapons
don't fall
into the hands
of Al Qaeda
and the Al
Nusra Front.
How can
he know that?
McCain
said he's been
to Syria, he's
met them. How
many? Did he
go to Raqqa?
To
Jarabulus
where ISIS
threatened to
kill
international
humanitarians
if they didn't
leave?
To
his credit,
McCain while
claiming that
with earlier
assistance to
the
Free Syrian
Army it "would
have been
over" for
Assad
admitted that
it is more
complex now.
Yes.
By
contrast to
Saudi Arabia
and Qatar --
pronounced
Cutter --
McCain
mocked US
assistance,
which he said
amounts so far
to Meals Ready
to
Eat with
expiration
dates unknown.
On
the UN, McCain
said the
General
Assembly
should condemn
Russia, whose
asylum grant
to whistleblower
Edward Snowden
McCain
called just a
"sign of
disrespect by
Russia."
Intriguingly,
McCain
said the
"French
Ambassador
told me" that
one
hundred people
from France
have done to
Syria for
jihad. Which
French
Ambassador?
Reuters
in
a long-read
propaganda
piece
datelined
Washington and
Paris has
French
Ambassador to
the UN Gerard
Araud on an
unnamed day in
Spring
2013 telling
an unnamed
Russian
diplomat
(Churkin?
Pankin?)
France
would come out
with a show of
Assad use of
chemical
weapons.
The
point of the
Reuters piece
seems to be
that France
was much more
central to the
drive toward
military
threats than
was previously
known. But in
the Kerry -
Lavrov endgame
in Geneva, Ban
Ki-moon
calling
Sellstrom's
report
"overwhelming"
before he saw
it
did not come
up,
as it did in
the Washington
Post's insider
piece.
What
about
Ban's faux
flashing of
the first page
of the report,
which
Reuters and others
liked so much?
It's a team
effort: these
reporters, at
least
one of whom
has been shown
to spy for the
UN, are
just
cogs in a
wheel of
propaganda.
Watch this
site.
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