Will Assad (or Russia, perhaps) now respond as Trump did: bomb one of America\u2019s military airports, in order to retaliate against what can only be called this additonal illegal invasion of Syria by the U.S. and by its jihadist allies (the foreign jihadists who had been brought in by the Sauds, Qataris, and America\u2019s other allies trying to overthrow Syria\u2019s government<\/span><\/a>), and now by America\u2019s firebombings<\/i> there?<\/span><\/p>\n Why not? Is it because Syria\u2019s government isn’t as barbaric, nor as hypocritical, as is America\u2019s government (which constantly condems Assad as \u2018brutal\u2019, for less)?<\/span><\/p>\n Usage by America of white phosphorous firebombs, and even of carcinogenic depleted uranium munitions, against populated areas<\/span><\/a>, is almost routine<\/span><\/a>. As I had documented on 3 February 2015, “Brookings Wants More Villages Firebombed In Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0the Brookings Institution had wanted the Obama Administration to increase military assistance to the racist-fascist regime that the Obama Administration had imposed upon Ukrainians in the wake of the Obama regime\u2019s\u00a0February 2014 coup overthrowing the democratically elected Ukrainian President for whom 90% of the residents in this far-eastern part of Ukarine had voted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 firebombed them in order to get rid of the people there, who had voted 90% for the man whom Obama\u2019s people had overthrown. And Brookings wanted even more of them firebomed to death by the U.S.-installed fascist regime\u2019s white phosphorous bombs.<\/span><\/p>\n But, this time, it\u2019s America\u2019s\u00a0own<\/i>\u00a0firebombing (and<\/span><\/a> depleted-uranium bombing<\/span><\/a>) of Raqqa, and of Mosul \u2014 not by a U.S.-installed Ukrainian junta \u2014 and also not the merely alleged<\/i> usage, by the Syrian government, of sarin; but the U.S. even admits to having done it. However, unlike<\/i> the alleged sarin attack, these firebombings and nuclear contaminations by the U.S., in both Iraq and Syria, receive very little attention in the Western press.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a video of that firebombing in Mosul Iraq on June 3rd:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/FazelHawramy\/status\/871331640630530050<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/FazelHawramy\/status\/871331640630530050<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The other examples are in Raqqa Syria. Here\u2019s one of the Syria videos from June 8th:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raqqa_SL\/status\/872911900727808000<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raqqa_SL\/status\/872911900727808000<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s another:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Raqqa.Sl\/videos\/1576588162352429\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Raqqa.Sl\/videos\/1576588162352429\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s another, the next day:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/video-us-warplanes-bomb-isis-neighborhoods-raqqa-illegal-incendiary-airstrikes\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/video-us-warplanes-bomb-isis-neighborhoods-raqqa-illegal-incendiary-airstrikes\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n And then another video later during that June 9th firebombing-series:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/web-beta.archive.org\/web\/20170611043038\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HKSL46Jeh0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/web-beta.archive.org\/web\/20170611043038\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HKSL46Jeh0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n And that last video also shows repeat firebombings by the U.S. there, and also some close-ups of the raging fires that night there:<\/span><\/p>\n But, is the U.S., this time, condemning the usage of illegal weapons, and at the same time prohibiting any independent analysis of the video evidence there, such as happened when the U.S. was accusing Bashar al-Assad of using \u201cbarrel-bombs\u201d and \u2018sarin\u2019? No. Instead, the U.S. is simply prohibiting any follow-up investigation at all of the evidence, even though the U.S. itself presumably (once ISIS is completely defeated there) will be able to control the area and to allow in investigators to examine what remains after those fires, and to have independent investigators determine whom is responsible for these firebombings \u2014 which the U.S. government would be roundly condemning if only the white-phosphous bombing had been perpetrated by the sovereign government there, instead of by the invading American government.<\/span><\/p>\n When America invades and commits war-crimes, it\u2019s supposed to be \u2018okay\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n 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><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse On June 14th, Human Rights Watch headlined\u00a0\u201cDanger From US White Phosphorous\u201d,\u00a0and linked to far more evidence of America\u2019s firebombings in Syria and Iraq, than had ever been presented regarding the alleged-by-America April 4th sarin gas event that allegedly resulted in Syria from one of Assad\u2019s bombs on that day having hit a \u2018rebel\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":317058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[96,3604,38,522,524,754,92,6257,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-317057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-cover-up","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-obama","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-trump","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-8.04.16-PM.png\")
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