Syrias Recent Victories Betray Last Years WMD LiesTony Cartalucci The strategic turn in Syrias favor was noted by geopolitical analysts long before the Damascus chemical weapons attack in the summer of 2013. When Western nations used desperation as a motive for the attack, which they squarely blamed on the Syrian government, those watching Syrias systematic victories against the Wests proxy militants immediately suspected a false flag attack one that was carried out by either the West, or one of its regional collaborators. Image (top right): Syrian forces have made irreversible gains across the country against foreign-backed militants. Such gains began long before the August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Damascus exposing the pivotal event as not only a false-flag attack carried out by the West and its proxies, but as a result of not Syrian desperation, but rather Western desperation. The now fully discredited 4-page White House intelligence assessment regarding the attacks, claimed specifically: The Syrian regime has initiated an effort to rid the Damascus suburbs of opposition forces using the area as a base to stage attacks against regime targets in the capital. The regime has failed to clear dozens of Damascus neighborhoods of opposition elements, including neighborhoods targeted on August 21, despite employing nearly all of its conventional weapons systems. We assess that the regimes frustration with its inability to secure large portions of Damascus may have contributed to its decision to use chemical weapons on August 21. The document proposes a possible motive for the attack a desperate effort to push back rebels from several areas in the capitals densely packed eastern suburbs and also suggests that the high civilian death toll surprised and panicked senior Syrian officials, who called off the attack and then tried to cover it up. Of course, even at face value, nothing about the White Houses assessment nor the Washington Posts analysis adds up, including why the Syrian government would attack densely packed eastern suburbs and then be surprised by a high civilian death toll. More logically, those seeking to incriminate the Syrian government picked packed suburbs specifically to exact a high civilian death toll. Now with the Western media incapable of covering up Syrias tactical and strategic gains against even the most entrenched militant strongholds, the tenuous nature of August 2013s lies spun by the West, including citing desperation as a motive, are more apparent than ever. Image: Chemical weapons were used extensively during the 8-year Iran-Iraq War during the 1980s. Despite vast quantities of chemical agents being used, both mustard and nerve gas, these weapons of mass destruction would only constitute 2-3% of all of the wars casualties. Not only had the West lied about Syria using chemical weapons, but they also lied to the world about the threat posed by such weapons in the first place. With Syria clearly and irreversibly winning victories against the so-called rebels through the use of conventional weapons, it is clear that the supposed motive of August 2013s Damascus attack was also an overt and intentional fabrication. Lessons Learned? As the West pursues a dangerous confrontation with Russia via the Eastern European nation of Ukraine and the newly independent region of Crimea, the global public must recall how events like the August 2013 Damascus chemical attack were insidiously executed, lied about, and eventually buried when their political capital was spent. With snipers attacking both Crimean and Ukrainian troops in Crimea, seeking a pretext for the West to further intervene in the standoff, the public must draw from a much longer collective memory, or once again blindly grope from one crisis to the next with habitual, practiced deceivers holding their hands. 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. 