Depravity Redefined: Selling US Slaughter in SyriaTony Cartalucci The headline of CNNs First on CNN: Videos show glimpse into evidence for Syria intervention, suggests that by watching the grotesque videos, some sort of evidence exists to justify an assault on Syria. Instead, the videos only show yet again, the crime, and only the crime a crime which no one, including the Syrian government, denies occurred. What is missing, as has been the case since the US leveled accusations against the Syrian government on August 21, 2013, is any evidence at all as to who actually committed this crime. Even upon reading the US own assessments of the incident reveal there is no evidence. The best the US can say is [emphasis added]: Assessing with high confidence is not enough to execute a single criminal within the US justice system, yet somehow is enough to justify a military assault on a sovereign nation on the other side of the planet, which poses no threat to the United States, and will inevitably lead to the death of Syrian soldiers and civilians, while assisting sectarian extremists, many of whom openly pledge allegiance to Al Qaeda. At face value, the US has no case against Syria, and no credibility after habitually using equally tenuous evidence as justification for military assaults against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and beyond. CNN and other Western outlets, have been caught overtly fabricating stories throughout the subversion of Syria, starting in 2011 when they disingenuously portrayed the flooding of Syria with armed extremists as the Arab Spring, up to and including featured interviews with Syria Danny, who was later revealed to be staging gun fire in the background of theatrical (and fabricated) casualty reports given to CNNs Anderson Cooper. Exploiting dead children to manipulate the public emotionally enables the US to circumvent not only its absolute lack of evidence, but hopefully the myriad of logical conclusions an otherwise rational, intelligent person might draw. Regarding US Claims US Claim #1: The Syrian Regime Used Chemical Weapons in a Desperate Bid to Save Damascus. Reality: The US claims in its assessment that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in a desperate struggle for Damascus: Yet it appears that mostly women and children were the victims of the attack apparently killed in the middle of the night while they slept. The US and its collaborators expect the world to believe: that the Syrian government risked using chemical weapons in Damascus, under the nose of UN inspectors, to clear out stalwart opposition fighters, and only managed to mass murder women and children in the process while giving the West a long-desired justification for military intervention. And despite employing nearly all of its conventional weapons systems and allegedly also sarin nerve gas, the Ghouta area was still under terrorist control after the attack. It should be noted that Ghouta is on the very edge of Damascus, facing open country that stretches to the Al Qaeda infested Syrian-Iraqi border and the extremist hotbed of Al Anbar province in Iraq implicating another, and the most likely culprit, Al Qaeda. US Claim #2: The Opposition Lacks the Capabilities to Carry Out Such an Attack. Reality: The US, in its assessment states: The opposition in Syria is Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda allegedly carried out the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, destroying three (including Building 7) World Trade Center towers in New York City and striking at the very heart of Americas trillion dollar military might, the Pentagon itself killing in a single day nearly 3,000 using nothing more than box-cutters, pepper spray, and 4 commandeered aircraft. The US State Department since the very beginning of the violence has acknowledged that the most prominent fighting group operating inside Syria is Al Qaeda, more specifically, the al Nusra front. The US State Departments official press statement titled, Terrorist Designations of the al-Nusrah Front as an Alias for al-Qaida in Iraq, states explicitly that: It is also confirmed that many fighters joining al Nusra come from abroad, including from the recently decimated Libya, where a significant arsenal of chemical weapons have fallen into the hands of a sectarian extremist government which is openly funding and arming terrorists in Syria. The US and its collaborators expect the world to believe: that despite Al Qaeda having struck at the very heart of US military might, after circumventing a trillion dollar defense system of unprecedented capabilities, it is now somehow incapable of obtaining and using against civilians, chemical weapons a scenario the US has warned the world of and in fact, used as justification for invading Iraq in 2003. Either weve been lied to about the official explanation regarding 9/11, or weve been lied to about the capabilities of Al Qaeda in Syria or more likely, both. Conclusion Clearly, at face value, none of what the US proposes regarding the alleged chemical attacks in Syria is rational. The propaganda rolled out against Syria is poorly retreaded lies from the illegal, abhorrent Iraq invasion and occupation and the more recent NATO atrocities committed against the Libyan people who are still suffering from NATOs humanitarian intervention there. What does it mean when the combined, multi-trillion dollar defense and intelligence resources of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others are categorically incapable of providing a single shred of credible evidence to make their case? That evidence does not exist? Or that it does, but simply points the finger unfavorably in another direction? Without actual evidence of who committed the crimes showcased on CNN, the first and most important question that must be answered is cui bono? or to whose benefit? Clearly, the chemical attacks carried out under the nose of UN inspectors, leaving shocking images of dead women and children used to manipulate the public on an emotional level, benefits the special interests driving US, British, European, and Arab policy. These are the same interests who in 2007 openly conspired to initiate a sectarian bloodbath to drown Lebanon, Syria, and Iran a documented conspiracy being realized in full, beginning in 2011. The danger of a Syrian government surviving the insidious machinations of Western special interests and restoring order in a unified Syria is an unacceptable outcome for Washington, London, Paris, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv. The unprecedented impetus behind this unpopular, universally opposed war with Syria reeks of desperation and a corporate-financier axis that has used and abused all of its tricks one too many times. Whatever the outcome in Syria may be, these corporate-financier interests have exposed themselves and have long-since resigned their legitimacy. All that they do now, they do in the open, against the will of the world, amidst growing dissent, and against the background of a socio-technological paradigm shift undermining their institutions and international rackets permanently. However vigorously these interests appear to be digging their grave, it is still, ultimately a grave. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 