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Obama has decided it is safer to buy Congress than go it alone

02.09.2013
 


By Paul Craig Roberts

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While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding him that to take the country to war without congressional approval is an impeachable offense and when he saw that no country that could serve as cover for a war crime, not even the puppet British government and the NATO puppet states, would support America's announced military aggression against Syria. 

Obama got away with attacking Libya without an OK from Congress, because he used Washington's NATO puppets and not US military forces. That ploy let Obama claim that the US was not directly involved.

Now that the lack of cover and the challenge from Congress has caused the would-be tyrant Obama to put on hold his attack on Syria, what can we expect?

If Obama were intelligent, and clearly anyone who would appoint Susan Rice as his national security adviser is not intelligent, he would simply let the attack on Syria fade into the background and die as Congress returns on September 9 to face the insoluble problems of the budget deficit and debt ceiling. 

A competent administration would realize that a government that is unable to pay its bills without heavy use of the printing press is in far too much trouble to be worrying about what is going on in Syria. No competent administration would risk a military strike that could result in a Middle East conflagration and a rise in oil prices, thus worsening the economic situation that Washington faces.

But Obama and his collection of incompetents have demonstrated that they have no competence. The regime is also corrupt, and the entire edifice rests on nothing but lies.

Now that the White House realizes that Obama cannot commit a war crime without cover, here is what we can likely expect. The argument will move away from whether or not Assad used chemical weapons and become an argument that Congress must not undermine US prestige and credibility by failing to support President Obama, the latest front man for American wars of aggression.

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Obama Will Ignore Congress And Attack Syria Anyway

Will Congress Endorse Obama’s War Plans? Does it Matter?

Ron Paul | Obama announced this weekend he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress.

Obama Now says the military is his.

See: http://www.fiscalconservatives.com/videos/lteHs5vs3Gk.html

Everyone should be calling their congressman to tell them - "If you vote to support Obama in warring against Syria - you will be unemployed after the next election." 

And given the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose a military strike on Syria, the phone lines and email boxes of every member of Congress should be blowing up!

If you follow the money, you can usually find the truth. The end game is Iran. If Obama and his war-monger NWO friends can get rid of Syria, they will have a straight shot at the real objective Iran. Iran refuses to sell it's oil using the dollar and the US is afaid other oil producing countries will follow, cause a run on the dollar and in the end Run-a-way inflation.

Write, Call and E-mail your Congressperson and tell them that if they vote for war with Syria to look for a new job after January 2014!!!!! They will be voted out of office.

The end game is Iran, exactly right. But I think the idea behind striking Syria is to draw Iran (Syria's ally) into the conflict, thereby establishing a justification for launching a strike on Iran. Don't buy into this bullshit coming out of the WH that America has to "send a clear message" to Syria, Iran and others that WMD will not be tolerated. That message was sent with the full-on assault of Iraq--despite the fact that Iraq didn't have any!

No, the real fear of Iran isn't based on its alleged nuclear weapons program. The real fear is that Iran will continue to control its vast energy reserves, sell those reserves in petrodollars to China, and create a pan Pacific hegemon that will challenge U.S.-Western dominance in the region. 

Of course Israel is hyperventillating over Iran's nuclear capability, because Israel feels threatened by the very idea that Iran might possibly one day have a nuke. Indeed, Israel thinks it's the only Middle Eastern country that's entitled to have a nuclear arsenal. They could obliterate the Arab world 100 times over, but they're still scared to death of what their enemies might do to them. 

You are absolutely correct.  The NWO has had this "move" on their agenda for quite some time.  Take out Syria to get to Iran.  Obama is a War Criminal.  Contact your Congressman and demand Obama be charged as a War Criminal and tried in the International Criminal Court of the Netherlands.

 With congress, vanity and a checkbook will take you anywhere. Millions in the Middle east killed under false pretenses by Americans. We need to turn these soldiers loose on the mewling piglets of congress. Redemption.

Excerpt:  "The president said that America recognizes that 'if the international community fails to maintain certain norms, standards and laws governing how countries interact and how people are treated, then over time this world become less safe.'”

I have a question for you, Mr. Obama. Do you honestly fail to see the glaring hypocricy of your statement? Or do you believe, as many of your predecessors did, that America is somehow exempt from maintaining the same norms, standards and laws which govern the international community? 

Because it seems to me that when you order up drone strikes that kill many innocent civilians; when you bestow upon yourself the power to detain (indefinitely and without charge) anyone, anywhere, anytime you so choose; when you refuse to close the torture chamber that is Guantanamo Bay; when you recruit and train mercenaries with terrorist affiliations who go about slaughtering Syrians; when you repeatedly trample on constitutional law, and lie to the American people, and reinforce the police state with ever-new and frightening powers; when you launch military strikes on sovereign nations, which is an act of war...you, Mr. Obama, are guilty of making the world less safe.

Obama is a "WAR CRIMINAL" and I hope Putin charges him as such at the G20 meeting as rumored - marshaling Obama to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands to stand trial.

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