The same criminals who misled the world about the “Gulf ofTonkin Incident”
in order to openly wage a war of aggression against Vietnam, and who misled the
world about Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” in order to invade and occupy
that sovereign state are now misleading the world with allegations of Syrian
president Assad’s use of sarin gas in order to invade and occupy the sovereign
state of Syria.
With an estimated 65% of US citizens opposed to such a
course of action, perhaps it’s time to wheel out Colin Powell to make a
presentation to the UN about the use of sarin.
But that might not be possible, because the UN has already heard a report from one of its own.
On May 5, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte
alleged that the so-called “rebels” were likely to have used sarin against
Syrian government troops and civilian supporters.
Carla Del Ponte, a member of the UN Independent
Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said that testimony gathered from casualties
and medical staff indicated that the nerve agent sarin was used by rebel
fighters.
“Our investigators have been in neighbouring
countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to
their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete
suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the
way the victims were treated,” Ms Del Ponte said in an interview broadcast on
Swiss-Italian television on Sunday.
“This was used on the part of the opposition, the
rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added.
Del Ponte’s “strong,
concrete suspicions” are confirmed by Turkish state media reports that Turkish
police have seized sarin gas from Al Nusrah rebels preparing to leave Turkey
for Syria.
In 2012, the
President of US imperialism had made much of a “red line” that Assad would be
deemed to have crossed if Syrian government forces used chemical weapons.
But when del Ponte
made her allegations against the US mercenary “rebels” he was strangely silent.
So there is a “red
line” for those you are trying to overthrow, but no “red line” for your agents
in that overthrow.
To add to the
hypocrisy of the imperialists, there are reports that the CIA has supplied chemical
weapons to its proxies among the heart-devouring “rebels” and trained them in
their use.
The reports add
to suspicions that the US imperialists have used “rebel” forces to use chemical
weapons as a means of then laying the blame at the feet of the Assad
government, feet that will then be deemed to have crossed the “red line”.
There appear to
be no end to the crimes that imperialism can engage in.
There appear to
be no lies that imperialism cannot spread.
There appear to
be no hypocrisies that imperialism cannot create.
Either the “red
line” applies equally to the Assad government and to the US mercenary Al Qaeda “rebels”
OR US imperialism stands exposed and condemned for aiding and abetting a war
crime by its proxies at the same time as it alleges a war crime by a sovereign
state.
