{"id":14668,"date":"2015-11-22T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14668"},"modified":"2015-11-22T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T21:15:12","slug":"how-you-were-tricked-into-supporting-the-war-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14668","title":{"rendered":"How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n

Washington, DC<\/em>\u00a0(TFC<\/a>)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Those who don\u2019t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror\u00a0while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it when I wrote daily for The Anti-Media, and even before then when I wrote for a Canadian outlet called Digital Journal. It began long before that though.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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It started in\u00a02006<\/a>\u00a0when the US decided it wanted to oust Syrian President Assad and started laying the ground work. This was proven by leaked Saudi Arabian intelligence cables hosted on Wikileaks. Julian Assange\u00a0said of the leaks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat plan was to use a number of different factors to create paranoia within the Syrian government; to push it to overreact, to make it fear there\u2019s a coup\u2026so in theory it says \u2018We have a problem with Islamic extremists crossing over the border with Iraq, and we\u2019re taking actions against them to take this information and make the Syrian government look weak, the fact that it is dealing with Islamic extremists at all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The same year, the Islamic State was just a half-baked insurgent group in Iraq. The group would then migrate to Syria, where it was reinforced by\u00a0battalions of defecting<\/a>\u00a0Free Syrian Army troops who were trained by the United States. Many of those\u00a0claimed to have ties<\/a>\u00a0to the Central Intelligence Agency. The Islamic State truly became a\u00a0child of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the United States began secretly funding opposition groups within Syria and even provided\u00a0$6 million to Barada TV<\/a>, a UK-based TV channel, to produce propaganda to support \u201cregime change\u201d inside Syria.<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely, the US and its allies put this plan into effect until in March of 2011\u00a0spontaneous demonstrations<\/a>\u00a0popped up in Syria demanding Assad step down.<\/p>\n

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How you were tricked into supporting the war in Syria\u00a0 Washington, DC\u00a0(TFC)\u00a0\u2013 Those who don\u2019t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror\u00a0while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,1239,446,447,1426,655,1343,776,827,862],"class_list":["post-14668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-regime-change","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions\/14669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}