As the propaganda coming from Washington regresses to an even more infantile level each year, so does the danger of that propaganda being used to justify a greater American military involvement in the Syrian crisis which Washington itself created. Always ready to invoke the memories of Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust at every opportunity, the U.S. State Department is now claiming that not only is Bashar al-Assad controlling massive prisons where mostly innocent civilians are starved and tortured, but that he is operating crematoriums where the bodies of victims are destroyed, thus cheating the moral West out of having any actual evidence of Assad's "crimes against humanity."
This new round of propaganda is based upon the debunked Amnesty International report released in February, 2017, entitled "
Human Slaughterhouse: Mass Hangings And Extermination At Sednaya Prison, Syria." The report contained great writing but it was totally
devoid of actual evidence. In fact, the only evidence contained in those pages was satellite photos that
showed a building that AM claimed was a prison. The photos thus showed the same thing that any American could have provided had they taken a picture of an American public school.
Still, the propaganda report was full of accounts gathered from "survivors" who
themselves had been terrorist fighters or affiliated with terrorist groups and from other anti-Syrian pro-terrorist NGOs. This and the satellite photos were all they were able to produce. Now, however, the U.S. has more to add to the story - crematoriums. With Americans so seemingly impervious to subtlety, the
Washington Post saw fit to point out the obvious - that the State Department briefing was "accusations of mass murder and incinerated bodies, evoking the Holocaust."
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