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GOP paymaster Sheldon Adelson to President Obama: 'I would be willing to help' on Syria

Shane Goldmacher
The National Journal
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:17 UTC
In an exclusive interview, the billionaire GOP donor offers to help the White House whip the Syria vote - if it's wanted, and needed.
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© AP Photo/Kin CheungSheldon Adelson offers to call a 'couple handfuls of friends' to drum up support for a Syria strike.
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat President Obama last year, has a message for the White House: Call me.

In an interview with National Journal, Adelson said he stands behind the White House's push for American military action against the Syrian government. Perhaps as important: Adelson said he's ready, if asked, to roll up his sleeves and help Obama - the "commander in chief," as he repeatedly called him - corral the needed votes in Congress for a strike.

"He is our commander in chief, whether we like what he says politically or not," Adelson said late Monday evening.
The 80-year old Republican, one of the most influential GOP moneymen in the nation, is no Obama apologist. He's still the financier who spent, along with his wife, nearly $100 million trying to defeat Democratic candidates, Obama chief among them, last year. But he is also a pro-Israel hawk who said that America's standing in the world is at stake in the showdown with Syria over chemical weapons.

"I would be willing to help out the administration because I believe it's the right thing to do. He is our only - we don't have any other commander in chief," he said.

The comments are Adelson's first public remarks on the Syria situation, although the Republican Jewish Coalition, an advocacy group that he chairs, did support a Syria strike last week. His offer of a helping hand comes as Russia floated a diplomatic solution in which Damascus would cede its chemical weapons to avoid a strike, something Obama called a potential "breakthrough" on Monday.

Comment: This is a stunningly blatant example of how a handful of billionaires completely control the US government. These billionaires want to start a war with Syria because it is GOOD FOR BUSINESS. They make big money off of every bullet and bomb sold, and they reap insane profits from the natural resources stolen from the indigenous populations in the invaded countries. The fact that thousands of innocent Syrians will be slaughtered does not matter to them in the slightest. The fact that American solders will be killed doesn't phase them either. They have no morals, ethics, or empathy... all they have is a pathological, unending desire for more power and money, and they don't care who dies, as long as they get it..

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Best of the Web: Syria: Assad not responsible for Ghouta gas attack, says freed hostage Pierre Piccinin

Umberto Bacchi
International Business Times
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:50 UTC
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© RTLBelgian writer and Syrian hostage Pierre Piccinin said Assad is not to blame for the Ghouta Chemical gas attack
A Belgian writer held hostage for five months in Syria has said that his own rebel captors denied that President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the Ghouta massacre.

Pierre Piccinin said that he and fellow hostage Domenico Quirico, an Italian war reporter, heard their jailers talking about the chemical weapon attack and saying that Assad was not to blame.

Quirico confirmed to La Stampa newspaper that they had eavesdropped such a conversation through a closed door but added that he had no evidence to substantiate what he heard.

Piccinin said the captives became desperate when they heard that the US was planning to launch a punitive attack against the regime over the gas attack in the Damascus suburb.

Comment: See also:
Assad did not order Syria chemical weapons attack, says German press
Putin: Syria chemical attack is 'rebels' provocation in hope of intervention'
Putin accused Kerry of lying about al-Qaida's involvement in Syria at the G-20 summit
Syria: Associated Press admits White House has no evidence whatsoever
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Bad Guys

Putin's challange to Obama: 'What will you do if rebels are the ones using chemical weapons?'

Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:39 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has a strange way of speaking straightforwardly, without all the artificial and "morally superior" airs one expects from Western politicians.

Putin to Obama: What will you do if it turns out that the armed rebels are the ones who used weapons of mass destruction?

Earlier, for example, he wondered why Western leaders were supporting cannibals in Syria:
You will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe for hundreds of years.
Putin was referring to the notorious video of a jihadi leader biting into the organs of a Syrian soldier while screaming Islamic slogans.

Now, the straightforward Russian has asked another equally important and straightforward question - the sort of question so full of common sense that most Western politicians never expect to hear a fellow politician asking (and, as usual, one the Western media have failed to report on, though Arabic media is abuzz with it).
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Eye 2

Best of the Web: Were Syria gas attack victims actually kidnapped supporters of al-Assad government?


Voltaire Network
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:47 UTC
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One of the children kidnapped by al Qaeda, then murdered in the false-flag attack against Syria
Following the broadcasting of the images of the massacre in Ghouta, distributed by the Free Syrian Army and relayed by US and French services, Alawite families from Latakia have filed a complaint for murder.

Some of these videos were filmed and posted on Youtube before the events they picture.*

They show children suffocating from a chemical intoxication that can't possibly be sarin gas (the latter provokes yellow drool, not white drool).

The children do not correspond to a sample of the population: they are all almost of the same age and have light hair. They are not accompanied by their grieving families.

They are in fact children who were abducted by jihadists two weeks before in Alawite villages in the surroundings of Latakia, 200km away from Ghouta.

Contrary to the sayings of the Free Syrian Army and the Western services, the only identified victims of the Ghouta massacre are those belonging to families that support the Syrian government. In the videos, the individuals that show outrage against the ''crimes of Bashar el-Assad'' are in reality their killers.

Comment: Are folks starting to see a pattern emerging here?

Russian journalist exposes lies about Houla Massacre

Houla massacre carried out by Syrian 'rebels', says Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Children shot, knifed, axed to death in Free Syrian Army's Houla massacre

Not only did al-Assad not kill his own people, his own people were in fact kidnapped, gassed to death while being filmed, then presented as 'evidence' that "al-Assad kills his own people".

The truth is that al-Assad is defending his people from 'al Qaeda', that proxy army set up, funded and managed by the CIA, the Mossad, MI6 and DGSE.

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Cult

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the CIA's Saudi agent behind effort to topple Assad


Press TV
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:20 UTC
Press TV has conducted an interview with author and political commentator Ralph Schoenman about Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia who is reportedly leading a secret Saudi-CIA effort to aid militants in Syria.


Comment: Syrian rebels and local residents testify that Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, supplied chemical weapons to 'al-Qaeda-linked group'

Saudi snake, Prince Bandar, tried first to bribe Russia to drop its support of Syria, then threatened to unleash Chechen terrorists at 2014 Winter Olympics

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Chess

Deal or no deal: John Kerry's historic diplomatic "mistake" proves that Obama does not want peace

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:07 UTC
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When it comes to diplomacy, Russia is playing chess, Syria is playing checkers and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is playing tiddlywinks. On Monday, Kerry said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid having his country bombed into oblivion by turning over "every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week." Of course Kerry just assumed that Assad would never do such a thing, but the Russians immediately pounced on his statement. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov quickly announced that Russia would encourage Syria to turn over their chemical weapons to international control in exchange for a guarantee that the U.S. will not attack, and subsequently Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem stated that his government was prepared for "full cooperation with Russia to remove any pretext for aggression." Later on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicated that he is thinking about asking the UN Security Council to support such a deal.

Do you know what they call such a move in chess?

Checkmate.

We were originally told that the primary goal of a U.S. military strike on Syria would be to prevent them from using chemical weapons in the future, and then John Kerry said that Assad could avoid a conflict by giving up all of his chemical weapons.

Well, the Russians and the Syrians have called the bluff.

So does this mean that we will have peace?

Unfortunately, the Obama administration does not seem to want that. The State Department has already come out and announced that what John Kerry said was a mistake. They insist that it was a "rhetorical argument" instead of an actual peace proposal.
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Light Saber

Russia's peace initiative: Syria encouraged to hand over its chemical weapons to avoid U.S. airstrikes, al-Assad's government agrees


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:01 UTC
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© AP/Ivan SekretarevRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, left, in Moscow, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013
Russia has urged Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent destruction to avert a possible military strike.

"We are calling on the Syrian authorities not only agree on putting chemical weapons storages under international control, but also for its further destruction and then joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons," Lavrov said. "We have passed our offer to [Syrian Foreign Minister] Walid al-Muallem and hope to receive a fast and positive answer," he added.

It is unclear if Syria will support the offer, but if it helps to avoid a military strike, Russia is immediately prepared to work with Damascus, Lavrov said.

The Foreign Minister's statement comes shortly after US Secretary of State John Kerry's comment that the Syrian President "could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community" to avoid a military strike on the country.

"Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week - turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting [of it[, but he isn't about to do it and it can't be done," Kerry said.

Comment: Syria has since accepted this Russian offer. So the ball is back in the Americans' court...

Syria welcomes Russia's offer to put its chemical weapons under intl control

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Oscar

Obama Drama: The Hill to the rescue on Syria? - Don't hold your breath

Andrew J. Bacevich
Al Jazeera
Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:51 UTC
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© Reuters"Obama has implicitly opened the door for a Great Debate regarding the trajectory of US policy in the Middle East," writes Bacevich, a former US Army Colonel
Sometimes history happens at the moment when no one is looking. On weekends in late August, the president of the United States ought to be playing golf or loafing at Camp David, not making headlines. Yet Barack Obama chose Labour Day weekend to unveil arguably the most consequential foreign policy shift of his presidency.

In an announcement that surprised virtually everyone, the president told his countrymen and the world that he was putting on hold the much anticipated US attack against Syria. Obama hadn't, he assured us, changed his mind about the need and justification for punishing the Syrian government for its probable use of chemical weapons against its own citizens. In fact, only days before administration officials had been claiming that, if necessary, the US would "go it alone" in punishing Bashar al-Assad's regime for its bad behaviour. Now, however, Obama announced that, as the chief executive of "the world's oldest constitutional democracy," he had decided to seek Congressional authorisation before proceeding.
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Red Flag

RT sources: Syrian rebels plan false flag chemical attack on Israel to blame Assad regime


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:28 UTC

Comment: Although any information that comes from unnamed sources is usually suspect to the journalistic eye, it is interesting that this one spells out a scenario that is normally foreseen only by the alternative media - in spite of the fact that books of history carry plenty of examples of false flag attacks used as excuses to trigger wars (9-11, anyone?).

The Russians, who are clearly opposed to letting the US start a regional or even global war, obviously know their history and understand that the possibility is real. They also know their enemy and how keen they are to 'make war by way of deception', and probably have real intelligence on what they might do next. By putting the possibility on a news outlet like RT, they may be making a clever attempt to spoil the plan for the CIA, Mossad, or anyone in control of the so-called 'Syrian rebels' to provide an indisputable casus belli for the US or Israel against Syria.

In other words, now that this scenario has been discussed publicly, it is less likely to happen. Perhaps that was the intention.

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Bad Guys

Assad warns 'expect everything' if US attacks Syria


RIA Novosti
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:28 UTC
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© AFP 2013/ CBS News / 'This Morning'Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, during an interview with CBS news anchor Charlie Rose, which aired Monday
The United States and its allies should "expect everything" if military strikes are launched against Syria, as the Middle East teeters on "the brink of explosion," Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in excerpts of an interview with a veteran US journalist that aired Monday.

"You should expect everything, not necessarily through the government," Assad told CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose in what CBS said was the first television interview given by the embattled Syrian leader since President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve military action against Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack last month that Washington has blamed on the Assad regime.

"Everything is on the brink of explosion - you have to expect everything," Assad said, warning that his government is not in control of the volatile situation in Syria, where the United Nations says at least 100,000 people have been killed in a three-and-a-half-year civil war, because it is "not the only player in this region."
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