Why would the Syrian government use chemical weapons on it’s own people a few miles from the capital’s footsteps? They wouldn’t but the corporate media sure is working hard to make you think otherwise.

August 21, 2013

by Helen Tansey
The T-Room

Once again, as is becoming a rather obvious pattern, corporate media is reporting on yet another chemical attack in Syria today, and as is the norm such tips always seem to come from the “terrorists and militant mercenaries’ rather than the democratically elected Syrian government. Further, the corporate media dutifully storytells by framing the Al-Nusra Al Queada affiliated “terrorists and militant mercenaries” as ‘Freedom Fighters’ or the latest incarnation the ‘Syrian National Coalition’ when in fact they stand for anything but freedom and certainly resemble nothing remotely close to a coalition.

While reading about this latest “chemical attack,” the Fars News Agency is reporting the Senior military aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi claimed “the US and Israel as well as their Turkish and Arab proxies in the war on Syria have been defeated and Bashar al-Assad is just inches away from complete victory.”

Might the news that the Syrian Army is kicking the terrorists arse be related in any way to this latest provocation? Let’s see what else Safavi had to say –

“The war in Syria is actually the United States’ and the Zionist regime’s war which is fought by Turkey and Arab states as their proxies and Israel’s military attack on Syria disclosed the proxy nature of this war more than before,” Rahim Safavi said addressing university students in the Southern Kerman Province of Wednesday.

He said the Arab and even European states recruited, trained, armed and paid salaries to over 40,000 mercenaries and infiltrated them into Syria via the country’s borders with Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, adding that the main part of these militants were Al-Qaeda members trained and backed up by Qatar and Saudi Arabia during the Afghan war.

Safavi said supporters of these militants planned to disturb Syria and then push Iraq into instability.

“But Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian army have been fighting them for the last three years and now the terrorists have been almost defeated from the military perspectives and lost a major part of their positions and controlled areas to the Damascus army,” he said.

Gen. Safavi described the 50,000-strong popular resistance movement formed by the Syrian government as a main contributor to the Damascus victory over the rebels.

“Now the terrorists and militant mercenaries have been defeated from military viewpoints. They have sustained heavy casualties and surrendered to the Damascus in large numbers.

“What is left is the Geneva II conference. On one side, there will be the US, Israel, France, England, Turkey and some Arab states which supported the opposition,” he said and explained, “As a result of its domestic issues, Turkey has now realized its strategic mistake and left the front. Saudi Arabia is dealing with its Egypt project. The rest of the front is present but defeated.”

“But on the other side of this front, there reside Russia, China and Iran which aided Syria. Of course, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah aided Syria politically and internationally as they support restoration of peace, stability and tranquility to Syria,” Ayatollah Khamenei’s military aide said.”

As many are asking, following what Safavi had to say about the current state of conflict, why would Syria’s army use any chemical weapons on its own people in a Damascus suburb overnight while just the day before Safavi was claiming “Now the terrorists and militant mercenaries have been defeated from military’s viewpoint?” They wouldn’t. They have no reason too.

But the “terrorists and militant mercenaries” certainly do.  As Patrick Henningsen reported at 21st Century Wire “The West’s has already announced it ambiguous “red line”, stating that its policy will be to intervene militarily if either side is thought to be using chemical weapons in Syria – which makes it all to easy for the opposition to get what they want in the end – which is a Libya-style military coalition with NATO, and perhaps Israel, in order to take power in the country.”

Given the fact that the Syrian Army is indeed regaining control of its towns, cities and borders and given the fact O’Bush drew the red line in the sand on using chemical weapons, might those ‘terrorists and militant mercenaries’ who are being paid to fight this proxy war on behalf of the US, Britain and Israel make every effort to try to enrage the masses by orchestrating a chemical attack on the innocent people of Syria?  Haven’t we seen such provocations before? Honestly, I’ve lost count of how many.

But there appears to be an adult left in Washington and that would be Gen. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Maybe I’m reading to much into his recent letter to Rep Engel, but for the sake of America’s military families and the people of Syria, I certainly hope not –

Letter for Rep Engel 19 Aug 13 from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey