ANY US Attack On Syria Would Be A War Crime: Legal Expert

“Any attack by the United States upon Syria would be a violation of the UN Charter prohibition against aggressive war, which is the more serious [form] of war crimes,” said Alfred Lambremont Webre in a Tuesday interview on Press TV. 

Webre stated that, according to the Nuremberg principles that set the definition of the war crimes guideline, the US “is starting an aggressive war against another nation.” 

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization to attack Syria as an attempt to “get some political cover and some legal cover behind him,” according to Webre, who emphasized that the United States already has a record of presidents ruled as war cirminals in international tribunals. 

A senate committee voted for limited military action against Syria on Wednesday, but did so against international law.

“Under international law, the U.S. Congress cannot sanction or provide legal cover to any attack by the US,” the legal expert noted.

Western powers along with their regional allies, especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, are supporting the militant rebels operating inside Syria, allegedly responsible for the chemical attacks. 

[Watch Press TV's full interview with Webre.]

Calling for military action against Syria intensified after “foreign-backed opposition forces accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of launching a chemical attack on militant strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21,” Press TV reports.

Since then, three important revelations have been exposed, aside from the fact that the United States is supporting the rogue rebels who used the chemical weapons but then blamed on Assad to depose him:

1. The UK sent materials to Syria to make chemical weapon;

2. The U.S. intelligence machine has been involved in the attack;

3. The U.S. had already deployed its navy to Syria before the chemical weapon attack.

Saturday, Obama said he’d seek congressional authorization to attack Syria as Washington “cannot and will not turn a blind eye” to an alleged chemical attack in the Arab state.

The Obama administration says, however, that it “has the right” to attack Syria, even if Congress does not give authorization to do so. 

Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011, destined for that ever since The United States included it as a major target in 2002. 

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, as chair of the U.S. Energy Task Force, offically called the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), laid out plans to use aggression on oil and gas resource-rich Middle East countries. The plan was complete, with maps showing oil reserves, pipelines and planned pipelines and an emphasis on Iraq.

Less than six months later, a false flag – the 9/11 massacre that Bush ordered his 9/11 Commission to lie about in its official report - occurred so that those countries, one by one, starting with Iraq, could each be rapidly labeled rogue and part of Bush’s “axis of evil” to kick-start the war on terror. Nations in the “axis of evil” included Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. 

On May 6, 2002, then-Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton gave a speech, Beyond the Axis of Evil. In it, he added three more nations to be grouped with the already labeled rogue states: Cuba, Libya, and Syria. 

One by one, the United States would commit war crimes against each of these nations so that it and mainly Israel could benefit politically and financially from stealing their strategic positions and their oil and gas.

The world is watching the unfolding of a premeditated war crime against Syria.