A Response to John Kerry’s Syria ‘Evidence’ Speech

Psycho war monger John Kerry has been trying to con the world, yet again, into supporting an attack on some dark-skinned people ‘oceans away’. As I watched his speech a few days ago, I had lots of things I wanted to say in response. Sadly however, I wasn’t invited to attend the event. So I’ve written my responses here, for the only people who actually matter in this world i.e. not John Kerry or his coterie of psychopathic masters and servants. Of which there are many. Too many.

President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria.

And last night the president asked all of us on his national security team to consult with the leaders of Congress, as well, including the leadership of the congressional national security committees. And he asked us to consult about what we know regarding the horrific chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs last week.

I will tell you that as someone who spent nearly three decades in the United States Congress, I know that that consultation is the right way for a president to approach a decision of when and how and if to use military force. And it’s important to ask the tough questions and get the tough answers before taking action, not just afterward.

Yeah good point Johnny boy, “fixing the fact around the policy” in 2002/3 didn’t work out too well huh? And it’s creating a bit of a problem for the effort to fool the rabble yet again with the same old unimaginative, emotionally-charged lies.

And I believe, as President Obama does, that it is also important to discuss this directly with the American people. That’s our responsibility, to talk with the citizens who have entrusted all of us in the administration and Congress with responsibility for their security.

Oh, of course! You just go right ahead and “discuss” it with us all by talking directly at us about that new “very bad man” and all of the horrors he has committed on the world, and don’t forget to mention the poor children and how much you empathize with them.

That’s why this morning’s release of our government’s unclassified estimate of what took place in Syria is so important. Its findings are as clear as they are compelling. I’m not asking you to take my word for it. Read for yourself, everyone, those listening, all of you, read for yourselves the evidence from thousands of sources, evidence that is already publicly available.

And read for yourselves the verdict, reached by our intelligence community about the chemical weapons attack the Assad regime inflicted on the opposition and on opposition controlled or contested neighborhoods in the Damascus suburbs on the early morning of August 21st.

Yep, we’ll all read for ourselves the four page document that some tea-boy in the state department threw together, but there really isn’t much point because you’re basically reading it to us now.

Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and re-reviewed information regarding this attack. And I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment. Accordingly, we have taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves.

That’s really good to hear, that you won’t repeat “that moment”, that single moment that somehow spanned several years where you and your ilk plotted behind closed doors to work up a plan on how to convince the world that Saddam was such a “bad man” that the US military had to invade and occupy the country for 10 years and kill 1.5 million Iraqis in the process. Tell us also about “that moment” when you spun the 9/11 attacks into a justification to launch an unending ‘war on terror’ on the entire planet. Tell us about, “that moment” when you thought you might blame 9/11 on Saddam, and when that fell through, you came up with “WMDs”, and when that was exposed as a lie, you just said, well, we’re here now!

But still, in order to protect sources and methods, some of what we know will only be released to members of Congress, the representatives of the American people. That means that some things we do know, we can’t talk about publicly.

Of course! You absolutely MUST keep the ACTUAL evidence from the public, and instead just make claims that, you say, are supported by the actual evidence that you can’t show us, because, well, national security would be seriously threatened if everyone realised that you evidence doesn’t actually exist. So yeah, better keep those blanks sheets of paper “classified”.

So what do we really know that we can talk about?

Well Johnny boy, at times like these I like to remember the worlds of one of your co-psychos in power:

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” – Donald Rumsfeld.

See what I mean?

Well, we know that the Assad regime has the largest chemical weapons programs in the entire Middle East.

Eh… just a second. What about Israel’s chemical weapons program? When Israeli El Al Flight 1862 crashed en route to Tel Aviv in 1992, 190 liters of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a CWC schedule 2 chemical used in the synthesis of sarin nerve gas, was discovered in the cargo. In 1993, the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment WMD proliferation assessment recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities. Former US deputy assistant secretary of defense responsible for chemical and biological defense, Bill Richardson, said in 1998 “I have no doubt that Israel has worked on both chemical and biological offensive things for a long time… There’s no doubt they’ve had stuff for years.”

Former Jerusalem bureau chief for United Press International and author of “Triple Cross,” a 1990 book on the leaking of Israel’s nuclear secret,  Louis Toscano, said: “I’ve never had much doubt that they [Israel] were producing a limited arsenal of chemical weapons. In fact, it was widely rumored that a chemical factory was operating under the guise of a university research center around Haifa,” Toscano said. “What makes it all the more dangerous is that they, unlike Saddam or any of the other Middle East bogeymen, have developed weapons systems capable of delivering such weapons. ”

And maybe you missed it, but Syria’s CW’s program is decades old. Which kind of makes this picture of you in 2011 a bit embarrassing.

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