{"id":303874,"date":"2017-04-15T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=303874"},"modified":"2017-04-15T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:18:35","slug":"proof-trumps-attack-syria-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/proof-trumps-attack-syria-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"More Proof that Trump\u2019s Attack on Syria Was a War Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eric Zuesse<\/div>\n
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(RINF) – America\u2019s top expert on analyzing intelligence of the types that were involved in determining the cause of the April 4th gas-attack in Syria is Dr. Theodore Postol of MIT, and he has now thoroughly analyzed all of the \u2018evidence\u2019 that the White House alleges in its White Intelligence House Report on that event to have \u2018proven\u2019 that Syria\u2019s government perpetrated the gas-attack. He published his third study of the alleged evidence, this time concerning the video evidence on it, on Saturday April 15th at Washington\u2019s Blog, under the headline “Video Evidence of False Claims Made in the White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017\u201d<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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He says there that \u201cthe White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017 contains false and misleading claims that could not possibly have been accepted in any professional review by impartial intelligence experts. The White House Intelligence Report was produced by the National Security Council under the oversight of the National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster.\u201d He is here implicitly accusing the U.S. National Security Advisor of fraud, and of a war-crime (lying to \u2018justify\u2019 an invasion), and by further implication is alleging in this study, that the U.S. President is either a fool or else is himself complicit in this manufactured \u2018justification\u2019 for his U.S. invasion of Syria and thus an international war-criminal by this act.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Postol’s \u201cSummary and Conclusions\u201d opens by saying: \u201cIt is now clear from video evidence that the White House Intelligence Report\u00a0 was fabricated without input from the professional intelligence community.\u201d In other words: it is fake, and is, moreover, an amateurish fake, an incompetent fake.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Postol has made every effort he can to get the U.S. major \u2018news\u2019media to report his findings, not only this time but earlier of the evidence regarding the 21 August 2013 Ghouta gas-attack that President Obama was calling his \u201cred line\u201d<\/a>, but thus far only a few small-audience newsmedia such as the present one, have allowed his analyses to reach their respective publics \u2014 in other words, the U.S. Government and its \u2018news\u2019media prohibit the broad American public from having access to Dr. Postol\u2019s analyses and findings, which show that America\u2019s actions in Syria constitute unprovoked war-crimes, which are, moreover, crimes that might be leading to a global war between Russia and the United States \u2014 World War III, nuclear war \u2014 on cooked-up charges.<\/div>\n
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If this is not an impeachable offense, nothing is; but, America\u2019s Congress, and America\u2019s press, are clearly complicit in it; and, furthermore, Trump chose as his Vice President someone, Mike Pence, who was already on public record as being hostile towards Russia, and so too is the third-in-succession, Paul Ryan. The United States Government thus does now appear to be committed to fabricating a cause for war against Russia. Instead of Iraq, this time, or even just Syria this time, it would be Russia and global nuclear annihilation. This does appear to be the course on which the U.S. Government is now heading \u2014 continuing further from what Obama was doing. The only question is whether they will follow through on it. That, in turn, raises many other questions. Why are super-rich people now buying nuclear bunkers, such as here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>? Are these people investors in \u2018defense\u2019 corporations such as Lockheed Martin? Is the United States a democracy<\/a>? What kind of scam is actually operating here? How wide is the network of people that are participating in it?<\/div>\n
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Dr. Postol\u2019s most important of the three reports he has done of the White House Intelligence Report regarding the recent Syrian gas-attack was the first of his three, which I linked to in my April 13th “The Money-Quote from the Postol Report on the Recent Gas Attack in Syria\u201d<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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These reports from Dr. Postol are being ignored by the U.S. \u2018news\u2019media, as if his findings don\u2019t even deserve to be presented to the American people, and to the International Criminal Court. And the White House, of course, also ignores them. If a nuclear war comes, then the American people (the ones who survive its direct impacts) won\u2019t even honestly know why (except, perhaps, the billionaires and officials in those nuclear-proofed bunkers), and there will be no historians around who will be surviving and investigating to find what had actually caused it. The way Dr. Postol put it in what I labelled his \u201cMoney-Quote\u201d was \u201cThis is a very serious matter.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse (RINF) – America\u2019s top expert on analyzing intelligence of the types that were involved in determining the cause of the April 4th gas-attack in Syria is Dr. Theodore Postol of MIT, and he has now thoroughly analyzed all of the \u2018evidence\u2019 that the White House alleges in its White Intelligence House Report on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":294646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}