Washington Is InsanePaul Craig Roberts Polls demonstrate that 65% of the US population opposes US intervention in Syria. Despite this clear indication of the peoples will, the Obama regime is ramping up a propaganda case for more arming of Washingtons mercenaries sent to overthrow the secular Syrian government and for a no-fly zone over Syria, which, if Libya is the example, means US or NATO aircraft attacking the Syrian army on the ground, thus serving as the air force of Washingtons imported mercenaries, euphemistically called the Syrian rebels. Washington declared some time ago that the red line that would bring Syria under Washingtons military attack was the Assad governments use of chemical weapons of mass destruction against Washingtons mercenaries. Once this announcement was made, everyone with a brain immediately knew that Washington would fabricate false intelligence that Assad had used chemical weapons, just as Washington presented to the United Nations the intentional lie via Secretary of State Colin Powell that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction. Remember National Security Advisor Condi Rices image of a mushroom cloud over American cities? Propagandistic lies were Washingtons orders of the day. And they still are. Now Washington has fabricated the false intelligence, and president obama has announced it with a straight face, that Syrias Assad has used sarin gas on several occasions and that between 100 and 150 of his own people, a euphemism for the US supplied foreign mercenaries, have been killed by the weapon of mass destruction. Think about that for a minute. As unfortunate as is any death from war, is 100-150 deaths mass destruction? According to low-ball estimates, the US-sponsored foreign mercenary invasion of Syria has cost 93,000 lives, of which 150 deaths amounts to 0.0016%. If we round up, Washingtons 150 deaths comes to two-thousands of one percent. Yes, I know. Washingtons position makes no sense. But when has it ever made any sense? Lets stretch our minds just a tiny bit farther. Assad knows about Washingtons red line. It has been repeated over and over in order to create in the minds of the distracted American public that there is a real, valid reason for attacking Syria. Why would Assad use the proscribed weapons of mass destruction in order to kill a measly 100-150 mercenaries when his army is mopping up the US mercenaries without the use of gas and when Assad knows that the use of gas brings in the US military against him? As the Russian government made clear, Washingtons accusation is not believable. No informed person could possibly believe it. No doubt, many Americans wearing patriotism on their sleeves will fall for Washingtons latest lie, but no one else in the world will. Even Washingtons NATO puppets calling for attacking Syria know that the justification for the attack is a lie. For the NATO puppets, Washingtons money overwhelms integrity, for which the rewards are low. The Russians certainly know that Washington is lying. The Russian Foreign Minister Larov said: The [Assad] government, as the opposition is saying openly, is enjoying military success on the ground. The [Assad] regime isnt driven to the wall. What sense is there for the regime to use chemical armsespecially in such small amounts. Larov is a relatively civilized person in the role of Russias main diplomat. However, other Russian officials can be more pointed in their dismissal of Washingtons latest blatant lies. Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Putin said: The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the [Assad] regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing. We wouldnt like to invoke references to [the infamous lies of] Secretary of State Powell [at the UN alleging Iraqi WMD], but the facts dont look convincing in our eyes. Aleksey Pushkov, the chairman of the Russian Dumas Foreign Affairs Committee, cut to the chase. The data about Assads use of chemical weapons is fabricated by the same facility that made up the lies about Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction. Obama is walking George W. Bushs path. Here in America no one will ever hear straight talk like this from the US presstitutes. Orwellian double-speak is now the language of the United States government. Secretary of State john kerry condemned Assad for harming peace talks while the US arms its Syrian mercenaries. Washingtons double-speak is now obvious to the world. Not only Assad, but also the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and every US puppet state which includes all of NATO and Japan, are fully aware that Washington is again lying through its teeth. The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are trying to avoid confrontation with Washington, as war with the modern nuclear weapons would destroy all life on planet earth. What is striking is that despite 24/7 brainwashing by the presstitutes, a large majority of the American population opposes obamas war on Syria. This is good news. It means more Americans are developing the ability to think independently of the lies Washington feeds to them. What the neocon nazis, the bush/obama regime, and the presstitute media have made clear is that Washington is going to push its agenda of world hegemony to the point of starting World War III, which, of course, means the end of life on earth. Russia and China, either one of which can destroy the United States, have learned that the US government is a liar and cannot be trusted. The Libyan no-fly policy to which Russia and China agreed turned out to be a NATO air attack on the Libyan army so that the CIA-sponsored mercenaries could prevail. Russia and China, having learned their lesson, are protesting Washingtons assault on Syria that Washington pretends is a civil war. If Syria falls, Russia and China know that Iran is next. Iran is Russias underbelly, and for China Iran is 20% of its energy imports. Both Russian and Chinese governments know that after Iran falls, they are next. There is no other explanation for Washington surrounding Russia with missile bases and surrounding China with naval and air bases. Both Russia and China are now preparing for the war that they see as inevitable. Washingtons crazed, demented drive for world hegemony is bringing unsuspecting Americans up against two countries with hydrogen bombs whose combined population is five times the US population. In such a conflict everyone dies. Considering the utterly insane government ruling in Washington, if human life exists in 2020, it will be a miracle. All the worry about future Medicare and Social Security deficits is meaningless. There will be no one here to collect the benefits. This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. 