Author: Real History Lisa

(Crossposted from my Real History blog) Both were shot by bullets that couldn’t have come...

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(Crossposted from my Real History Blog)

I talked to an intelligence analyst not long ago who told me to keep an eye on Syria. He said we couldn’t get to Iran until we first secured Iraq, and the only way to do that would be to secure the borders, i.e. Syria, through which aid flows to insurgents in Iraq. (And I apologize for using the term “insurgents.” I’m sure they’d describe themselves as “freedom fighters.” Language carries amazing force, and is seldom neutral.)

Combine this with my long experience with government cover-ups, and you can imagine how skeptical I am of the UN Report, informally called the Mehlis report after lead Commissioner Detlev Mehlis, implicating the Syrian government in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. This seems to me to be the next “yellowcake,” the next “sexed-up” intelligence leading us to yet another war.

Is my skepticism warranted? You bet, and I’ll get to the specifics in a moment. Bear with me while I lay in some context.

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