Posted on 07/13/2017 11:20:59 AM PDT by Lorianne
The policy of arming military groups committed to overthrowing the government of President Bashar al-Assad began in September 2011, when President Barack Obama was pressed by his Sunni allies—Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar—to supply heavy weapons to a military opposition to Assad they were determined to establish.
A declassified October 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report revealed that the shipment in late August 2012 had included 500 sniper rifles, 100 RPG (rocket propelled grenade launchers) along with 300 RPG rounds and 400 howitzers. Each arms shipment encompassed as many as ten shipping containers, it reported, each of which held about 48,000 pounds of cargo. That suggests a total payload of up to 250 tons of weapons per shipment. Even if the CIA had organized only one shipment per month, the arms shipments would have totaled 2,750 tons of arms bound ultimately for Syria from October 2011 through August 2012. More likely it was a multiple of that figure.
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This is why Chris Stevens was killed. We armed ‘friendly insurgents’ and they turned around and killed us with the weapons.
Our policy in Libya - destabilizing a stable ME country - and Syria shows we need to stay out of the region. We have no clue who the ‘good guys’ are - if there are any at all - and we create chaos. Libs love showing images of refugees and the need to help them ignoring the fact Hillary/Obama’s terrible policies created the crisis in the first place.
My God.
We gave TOW missiles to terrorists.
Maybe Obama could have given them some nuclear weapons, too.
We shut down everything one day because we couldn’t find three .45 rounds.
And Obama was giving TOW missiles to terrorists.
As with his Iran "deal", Obama once again empowered and actively supported those who seek our demise! Obama and members of his administration, including Kerry and Hillary, should be charged and tried for treason!
Obama indicated already - terrorists are not a concern. They are even useful, as undeclared proxies in greater strategic objectives, or as scapegoats and enemies when necessary. Politicians believe the surveillance state will disrupt any big threats from splinter groups anyway.
I’d term that, “Obama/Hillary Clinton/McCain/Graham, had no clue who our allies were.”
Assad was convicted of helping Al Qaeda and of killing Americans:
https://clarionproject.org/us-judge-rules-assad-helped-al-qaeda-kill-americans/
More crap like what was published from Consortium News yesterday, one of the biggest Russian Troll websites with Gareth Porter publishing. American Conservative allows no counter views.
Daddy Assad helped kill 250 Marines. Refugees are in the west because of Assad, the biggest buyer of ISIS oil. Russia and Syria do crap against ISIS, who is winning the battle for Raqqa?
Russia helping the Taliban and now, Russia probably helping the NORKS with ICBM technology.
Obama was told what to say by his Islamic Brotherhood advisors.
The guy openly had them into the White House to advise him.
Not a single whimper from the Republicans.
McCain was his cheer-leader.
The Benghazi mission with Stevens was a secret effort to arm Al Qeida. It was a disgusting outpost of anti-American activity.
Porter has regularly reported on political, diplomatic and military developments in the Middle East for Inter Press Service since 2005.[10] His analysis and reporting has appeared in Foreign Affairs,[11]Foreign Policy,[12] The Journal of Environment & Development,[13] Al-Jazeera English,[14] Press TV,[15][16] The Nation,[17] Salon,[18] The Huffington Post,[19] CounterPunch,[20] Antiwar.com,[21] and Truthout.[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter
Oh great, the Conservative here writes for Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, Counter Punch, Salon and Truth out. Press TV is Iranian.
Really getting conservative articles here.
According to wikileaks, the USAID and our embassy were explaining ways to grow and exploit tribal and ethnic differences in Syria to remove Assad.
This has been a NWO Neocon operation from way before the Obama days. There is no difference between republican and democrat goals in Syria.
They both want a Saudi and Gulf controlled sunni client state.
We can guess about that.
We do know on the record that Loral Corporation was given permission by Clinton to give China Gyro and MIRV technology.
The NORKS didn't develop everything by themselves, and my guess is they got the tech from China, thanks to the Clintons.
The Chinese were losing a lot of space shots on launch. The U.S. wanted them to be able to launch U.S. business satellites into orbit. That was the excuse for the transfer of technology. Who cared if it would directly benefit China's ICBMs.
Notice North Korea has a pretty solid missile system. While they did lose a few missiles, most of their shots are accident free.
Something seems fishy about that to me. When Russia supplies things, they usually send Russian techs with it.
I haven't read about Russian techs in North Korea. It may be out there, but I haven't seen it.
I'll bet there are Chinese techs there.
+1
Bought and paid for. McShame was/is Obama's prison b-yach. Its a role in which he is comfortable.
Google (or whatever) Soros and his social engineering network, in conjunction with North African nations.
You'll find out his organization was funding the Muslim Brotherhood over there.
They were implementing his foreign policy. Seriously!
Some of these will get you started: LINK
Thanks
last I heard, President Trump has yet to get around to cutting off Obama’s funding for the PLO/Abbas/PA terrorist murder gang, too
Chris Stevens was killed when the Obama/Hillary regime stood by and did nothing rather than risk the potential discovery of their ratlines to Syrian jihadis (ISIS?)
Total amateur hour at home and abroad. Dangerous, evil fools.
He’s turning out to be as pro-war-wherever as I feared Hillary would be. Very disappointing.
obama is a mass murderer. Be it in the mid-east or Mexican citizens or Americans. He is involved in the killing.
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