Dat de PvdA heel diep gezonken is merken we op allerlei manieren. Het akkoord van Samsom met Rutte over het niet strafbaar stellen van illegaliteit in ruil voor een flinke lastenverlichting ... voor de hogere inkomens! is zo'n voorbeeld. Veel gekker kun je het niet maken. De strafbaarstelling was in feite toch niet uitvoerbaar. Dat akkoord was dus een schot in eigen doel. In de eerste plaats moest Samsom in het stof bijten na zijn eerdere stugge houding om die strafbaarstelling toch door te drammen. Ten tweede geeft hij Rutte een groot voordeel en succes in handen. En om het af te maken passeert de ChristenUnie de PvdA links door te eisen dat ook de lagere inkomens een lastenverlichting moeten krijgen. Diederik 'Mefisto' Samsom staat voor aap.
En dan heb je nog Fransje Timmermans. Ook zo'n lolbroek. In het kabinet van Mark 'Wammes Waggel' Rutte past hij als een geen ander. Hij vindt 'de Russische propaganda over Oekraïne doodeng'. Normaal zijn we in het westen en in Nederland zeer vlot met het meedoen aan oorlogen en subversie in het buitenland en dat met massavernietigingswapens, dus we zijn hier wel wat gewend, maar Frans vindt propaganda, dus vooral woorden komende van Russen, doodeng. Hij zag er ook geen been in om op de Maidan in Kiev zijn steun te betuigen aan neonazi's en hun daaropvolgende gewelddadige coup, maar hij is zeer, zeer geschokt door de Russische propaganda. Inderdaad, die is ook zeer treffend en slaat in als een bom, want Poetin heeft gewoon gelijk, en dat is onvergeeflijk natuurlijk. De westerse propagandamachine is volkomen platgeslagen. Ook Timmermans moet in het stof bijten.
In de London Review of Books is net een artikel verschenen van Seymour Hersh:
The Red Line and the Rat Line
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
"In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons. Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention. The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous.
The joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration’s public claims that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. The American and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons.
‘Previous IC [intelligence community] focus had been almost entirely on Syrian CW [chemical weapons] stockpiles; now we see ANF attempting to make its own CW … Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group’s CW aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future.’... ‘Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators,’ it said, ‘were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.’
Last May, more than ten members of the al-Nusra Front were arrested in southern Turkey with what local police told the press were two kilograms of sarin. In a 130-page indictment the group was accused of attempting to purchase fuses, piping for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin.
Obama’s premise – that only the Syrian army was capable of deploying sarin – was unravelling.
The full extent of US co-operation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in assisting the rebel opposition in Syria has yet to come to light. The Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating what the CIA calls a ‘rat line’, a back channel highway into Syria. The rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida.
In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the assault by a local militia in September 2012 on the American consulate and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others. The report’s criticism of the State Department for not providing adequate security at the consulate, and of the intelligence community for not alerting the US military to the presence of a CIA outpost in the area, received front-page coverage and revived animosities in Washington, with Republicans accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of a cover-up. A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer.
In spring 2013 US intelligence learned that the Turkish government – through elements of the MIT, its national intelligence agency, and the Gendarmerie, a militarised law-enforcement organisation – was working directly with al-Nusra and its allies to develop a chemical warfare capability.
Turkey’s willingness to manipulate events in Syria to its own purposes seemed to be demonstrated late last month, a few days before a round of local elections, when a recording, allegedly of a government national security meeting, was posted to YouTube. It included discussion of a false-flag operation that would justify an incursion by the Turkish military in Syria."
Met andere woorden, er zijn bewijzen dat Turkije bezig was Obama voor te liegen over het gifgas om een Amerikaanse aanval op Syrië uit te lokken. Dat is op het nippertje verhinderd. Maar Turkije gaat stug door met het leveren van wapens aan de Syrische rebellen. Omdat een YouTube filmpje de 'false flag operation' van Turkije om Syrië aan te vallen documenteert, blokkeerde Erdogan YouTube.
Vindt Timmermans dit eng? Ik heb van hem nog geen kritiek gehoord over Erdogan. En ook in dit geval wordt de PvdA door de ChristenUnie links ingehaald.
AD: "De ChristenUnie dreigt de steun voor de Patriotmissie in Turkije in te trekken. Als blijkt dat Turkije jihadisten steunt in Syrië, moet Nederland de luchtdoelraketten en de militairen terughalen."
Ik ben benieuwd wat Timmermans met zijn troepen doet. Nederland is momenteel de jihad aan het steunen met Patriotraketten. Timmermans is een heel eng mannetje. En wordt hij terechtgewezen door onze media? Ik dacht het niet.
Nederland en Turkije zijn NAVO-landen. Een fraaie boel. En toen Turkije Cyprus binnenviel en een deel ervan annexeerde, was er toen ook zo'n commotie?
ForeignPolicyInFocus: "NATO on Viagra
At 65, NATO should get off its new meds and act its age. It’s time for downsizing and memoir-writing, not hanky-panky in the east."