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Related: About this forumEx-Bush official: Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powells Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli false flag operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assads regime.
Wilkerson made his astounding assertion in an interview on Current TV, the network once owned by former Vice President Al Gore and recently purchased by Al-Jazeera.
Wilkerson said that the evidence that it was Assads regime that had used the chemical weapons was flaky and that it could very well have been the rebels or Israel who were the perpetrators. Asked why Israel would do such a thing, Wilkerson said: I think weve got a basically geostrategically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now.
I think we saw really startling evidence of that, Wilkerson continued, in the fact that President Obama had to tell Bibi Netanyahu Pick up the phone, you idiot, call Ankara and get yourself out of this strategic isolation youre in right now.
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/former-bush-administration-official-israel-may-be-behind-use-of-chemical-arms-in-syria.premium-1.519172
Here's the video from TYT where he made the comment
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I tend to believe Wilkerson, I don't think he's a bull-shitter and he's one smart guy.
rec.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Yep.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)K&R
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)More likely it's a rebel operation, or perhaps even accidental use of such munitions (remember the old mustard gas canisters found in an insurgent stockpile in Iraq?) by either side. I don't think Assad - who, bastard though he is, is a pretty smart guy - would undermine his own position like that.
Again, not that I don't think Israel's leaders aren't blitheringly stupid - I certainly do - but more an occam's razor thing. The simplest and most likelysolution, based on evidence we have, is that it was used by one of the sides in this fight in Syria.
cali
(114,904 posts)(and lots of people here and elsewhere do), you're going to believe it.
The cognitive dissonance that blares so loudly here is that as Wilkerson points to flimsy evidence, he makes this accusation with exactly no evidence.
I find it fascinating.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)not that that isn't doing enough to blow it all up.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Weakening Assad just the right amount might. But you never know with some of the Israeli leadership, they don't live in the same world I do.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)on Syria, that would make sense, whether there were really any WMDs used or not, and regardless of who used them, the mere assertion makes what happens to them an urgent matter. Hence the missile attacks.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I posted without comment I thought it was an interesting article period
BTW I find knee jerk accusations equally fascinating, why is it done? what is attempting to be accomplished? and is there a an actual goal?
King_David
(14,851 posts)I hate the jerk accusations that are a plenty in this forum.
cali
(114,904 posts)I wasn't accusing you hon. Or anyone else. but I do find it interesting that you get so defensive. invariably.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)your intent putting a question mark after such a statement does not make it innocent IMO
but your attempt to twist things even further is noted
or IOW I found your accusation offensive so obviously I'm guilty, but of what exactly you never seem to just come out and say what you mean, why?