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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   Listen to this:   
     Jeremy Bash, who served as chief of staff for the Pentagon and the   
     CIA, said Mrs Clinton would both escalate the fight against the   
     Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and work to get Bashar   
     al-Assad, the Syrian president, "out of there".   
      
     "A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the   
     world exactly what the Assad regime is," he said in an exclusive   
     interview with The Telegraph. "It is a murderous regime that   
     violates human rights; that has violated international law; used   
     chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of   
     thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children."   
      
   Just as an aside, it sounds like Jeremy Bash is describing our own   
   government.  His points all apply to it:   
      
     (1) "a murderous regime that violates human rights" (check: we do   
         that not just in the notorious Guantamano, but also everywhere   
         we've unload bombs or propped up dictators, from Korea to   
         VietNam to Serbia to Central America to Iraq to Afghanistan to   
         Libya to Yemen to a long list of other places).   
      
     (2) "has violated international law" (check: our war crimes against   
         Iraq are finally getting some attention even among our puppet   
         states in Europe).   And the new Philippines president Duterte   
         has said that he would talk peace with what used to be George   
         Bush's terrorists.   
      
     (3) "used chemical weapons against his own people" (check: we've   
         done similar, in providing Saddam with chemical weapons to use   
         against Iran, and of course in the more distant past we provided   
         small-pox infected blankets to Native Americans, not to mention   
         the Tuskegee syphilis experiment targeting African American men   
         and the Guatemala syphillis experiment, in Guatemala).   
      
     (4) "has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of   
         thousands of children" (check: good ol' Madeleine Albright, one   
         of Hillary's predecessors as Secretary of State, working for   
         philandering Bill C, said that our killing of 500,000 Iraqi   
         children was "worth it").   
      
   So I wonder if Bash realizes how ironic his statements are.  But in   
   any event, monumental hypocrisy is nothing new to the US government.   
      
   And it's probably not as surprising as it first seems if you allow for   
   the behavior known as "projecting".   
      
   What might be the actual information content of his message is that   
   Assad may have replaced Saddam as the mega-villian in the view of the   
   Deep State.  And its operatives are already hard at work in preparing   
   for the next administration in which Hillary will be the titular head   
   to sign off on their wars.   
      
   And it sounds like the girl in the white pantsuit with a load of   
   machisma is itching for a war with Syria and a showdown with Russia.   
   The UK Telegraph has already screamed:   
      
     "Hillary Clinton will order a "full review" of the United States'   
      strategy on Syria as a "first key task" of her presidency,   
      resetting the policy to emphasise the "murderous" nature of the   
      Assad regime," foreign policy adviser with her campaign has said.   
      
   The truth is that Hillary, as Obama's first secretary of state for 4   
   full years, played a large role in destabilizing Syria and creating a   
   condition for civil war in that country that would kill hundreds of   
   thousands civilians since.  Wikileaks released cables showed as much.   
      
   How convenient it is for the operatives of the Deep State to blame the   
   horrific deaths on their currently designated mega-villain then!   
      
   So, Jill Stein was right in telling "Democracy Now!" just days ago:   
     "... Hillary Clinton has a track record for doing absolutely   
     horrific things, for expanding wars, in the likes of Libya, for   
     example. There could hardly be an example of a more catastrophic   
     war, which has been more problematic for increasing the terrorist   
     threats. Finger on the nuclear button? I worry very much about the   
     air war that Hillary Clinton would like to start over Syria with   
     this no-fly zone against a nuclear-armed power in the form of   
     Russia."   
      
   And Jill was right about fearing an "air war that Hillary Clinton   
   would like to start over Syria".  Hill is gonna get ready to get rid   
   of Assad on Day 1 when she moves into the White House - just like Bush   
   was busy getting ready to invade Iraq on Day 1 of his presidency.   
      
   She knows her first job as president, as Bush knew his, was to launch   
   a regime-change war.   
      
   And this time, she is wading into a direct collision course with   
   Russia.   
      
   Does she really think Russia will roll over?   
      
   Even those who fall for the line that Putin is such a bad guy surely   
   don't want to get incinerated.  (And if he were bad, that would make   
   a nuclear exchange more likely rather than less likely.)   
      
   Even in the days of Stalin, Krushchev, and Brezhnev, we didn't want a   
   war with the then Soviet Russia.  So if you loath Putin, it's hard to   
   imagine you would want to see a war with Russia with Hillary's finger   
   on the botton.   
      
   Hillary the hawk as president is a frightening scenario!   
      
   And who knows, after she has put Putin in his "little man"'s place,   
   she may then want to do a "pivot" to South China Sea and maybe bring   
   NATO into doing an R2P of the poor little ASEAN victims from China in   
   the Pacific.   
      
   Does she realize that, in addition to having the world's largest   
   economy, China also has 1000 warheads mounted on ICBMs?   
      
   Does she realize that even 100 warheads exploded anywhere on earth   
   might cause a decade-long winter in both hemispheres where it dips   
   to freezing every day, even in summer?  This of course isn't known,   
   but it's not out of the question, and agriculture could not survive   
   it if it happened.   
      
   Hillary said she believes in Science.  Does she really?  She might   
   pretend to believe some opinions about some parts of science.  But no   
   one who takes science seriously does not see the harmful effect of   
   wars on the planet's climate condition, long term or short term.   
      
   If George Bush shocked you, you ain't seen nothin' yet if Hillary is   
   next in the White House.  The girl in white pantsuit has machisma!   
      
   "Imagine a world in which Hillary is there in the White House...", to   
   paraphrase W.   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
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   Hillary Clinton will reset Syria policy against 'murderous' Assad regime   
   By Ruth Sherlock, Philadelphia 29 July 2016   
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/29/hillary-clinton-will-   
   eset-syria-policy-against-murderous-assad/   
      
   Hillary Clinton will order a "full review" of the United States'   
      
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