Warmongers Jump at Secret Cable Leak About Syrian Chemical WeaponsBrandon Turbeville Indeed, while Assads lengthy holdout against the NATO-backed death squads of fundamentalists, dupes, and mercenaries as well as the occasional Western special forces or intelligence agent, may have held the more overt invasion at bay for a short time, it appears that the attempt to engage Syria directly is fast becoming a real possibility. Thus, pro-war propaganda is being churned up yet again, this time from the reliably pro-imperialist Council on Foreign Relations. In true remedial fashion, the company line comes complete with suggestions of the use of chemical weapons, civilian casualties, and even weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This time, however, the confirmation of the use of chemical weapons against Syrian rebels (i.e. terrorist death squads) comes in the form of a secret State Department cable that was leaked to mainstream news outlet The Cable. As many may remember, the Obama administration has repeatedly described the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime as a red line that bears consequences for which Assad and his government will be held accountable. Nevertheless, according to Foreign Policy, the mouthpiece magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. diplomats stationed in Turkey have conducted a detailed investigation in regards to claims that Bashar-al-Assad has, in fact, used chemical weapons against the Syrian death squads. Interestingly enough, however, the investigation, which was described as one of the most comprehensive efforts the U.S. government has made to investigate claims by internal Syrian sources, utilized a series of interviews, with activists, doctors, and defectors to make its determinations. Of course, anyone educated on the Syrian destabilization should immediately recognize this list of sources and research material as nothing more than the Syrian death squads themselves, with actual Syrian traitors thrown in for good measure in the form of defectors. Those who have followed the Syrian situation should recognize the designation of activists, protestors, and rebels, as simply a more politically expedient term used for what should more aptly be deemed death squads. Even some of the doctors with whom the interviews were conducted are of questionable relation to the death squads. Foreign Policy reports that it was the rebels Homs medical committee that circulated the report that detailed the symptoms of several of the victims who were brought to a makeshift field hospital inside the city and claims that the victims suffered severe effects of inhaling poisonous gas. So far, claims are centering around the death of 5 people. Foreign Policy writes, Another interesting comment, however, is that the doctors are incapable of providing the enthusiastic Western media and war propaganda machine with the exact type of chemical weapon which was used. As Foreign Policy reports, Considering the track record of the Western governments involved in the Syrian destabilization and the Western media as a whole, it would not be completely without merit to assume that these cases of alleged chemical weapons-based poisonings simply never occurred to begin with. After all, we must remember the blatantly invented cases of Saddam Husseins WMDs or incubator babies of years past or the equally false claims that Ghaddafi had handed out Viagra to soldiers in order to rape civilian women. Yet, another option might be that the death squads themselves may have been hoisted by their own petard. Let us not forget that it has been the death squads, not Assad, who have threatened to use chemical weapons against the Syrian army and, as a result and by default, the Syrian people. Indeed, the death squads even recorded a video which was distributed to media outlets where these threats were made, as well as a video demonstration of the effects of the chemical agents in their possession on captive mice. Perhaps the death squads were struck by a shell while in possession of chemical weapons of their own making? Perhaps the death squads were in the process of transporting the chemical weapons and, demonstrating the intellectual prowess they have become so renowned for, made a mistake and damaged the canister, releasing it upon themselves? While we may never know the answer to these questions for certain, the history of the Western media outlets and the governments and corporations they serve in peddling their pro-war propaganda shows that their reports cannot be trusted in any event. Still, the Council on Foreign Relations, via Foreign Policy is openly, yet cleverly, promoting direct military intervention in Syria by the United States. In a calculating presentation, Josh Rogin attempts to paint Barack Obama as weak on Assad, even as Obama and his administration has been supporting and operating terrorist death squads, with all the requisite civilian casualties, in order to overthrow him for the entirety of his first term. One does not have to read to deeply between the lines to understand that Foreign Policy is insinuating that Obamas failure to launch a full-scale attack against Syria early on has led to the use of chemical weapons against peaceful protestors and innocent civilians a lie which itself should cause the entire report to be questioned and almost entirely disregarded. Foreign Policy writes, In the end, this entire scenario should be considered nothing more than war-propaganda aimed at tugging on the heartstrings and overwhelming the minds of the American people with an entirely false narrative. Obviously, it does not take a seasoned intelligence analyst to understand that this document was not truly leaked in the sense that the general public might interpret it. This cable was most likely created entirely for the purpose of being leaked in the first place. It is nothing more than carefully crafted misinformation aimed at drumming up support for direct intervention in Syria. Of course, out of all the variables that exist amidst such a volatile situation, one thing is almost for certain no one will be Bradley Manningd for this leak. Read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here. Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident.Turbeville has published over 190 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 