ISIS is Obama's Legacy: Strip Him of His
Nobel
By
Scott Stockdale
April 03, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- It's time for Barack Obama, the American
President, January 20, 2009 - January 20,
2017, to return the Nobel Peace Prize
because his support of ISIS has resulted in
untold death and destruction - the opposite
of peace.
Not
even 12 months in office, on October 9,
2009, when The Norwegian Nobel Committee
announced that it was awarding the Nobel
Peace Prize to then U.S. President Barack
Obama, for his "extraordinary efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples,” it did so with
the full knowledge that he was
Commander-in-Chief of the military of a
nation in the midst of two wars.
That alone would make the decision
questionable – at best.
But
now that the “poorly kept secret” that the
Obama administration helped create and then
support ISIS, is slowly leaking out, how can
he, in good conscience, keep the award?
For
years, Obama has misled the American people,
while his misdeeds have led to massive loss
of life and suffering for hundreds of
thousands of people, who will continue to
suffer – if they're lucky enough to survive
– for years to come.
A
Defense Intelligence Agency document,
formerly classified “SECRET//NOFORN”, dated
August 12, 2012, shows that as early as
2012, U.S. intelligence predicted the rise
of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL or ISIS). But the report envisions the
terror group as a U.S. strategic asset.
The
document - part of a selection of formerly
classified documents obtained from the U.S.
Department of Defense and State Department,
through a federal lawsuit filed by the
conservative government watchdog group
Judicial Watch– is a confirmation that
an “Islamic State” is desired in Eastern
Syria to fulfil the West's policies in the
region.
The
document – by the highest level of internal
U.S. Intelligence - states that the U.S. and
its allies see ISIS as their tool for regime
change in Syria.
This may explain why ISIS spiritual leader,
the Egyptian-born Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradai, was
able to issue fatwa after fatwa imploring
Muslims to join ISIS in an Islamic jihad
against the governments of Iraq and Syria,
while living metres away from a U.S. Navy
Base in Qatar, under the watchful eye of
Obama's CIA.
On May 26,
2016, on his website
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com,
Chuck Baldwin, an American politician,
radio host,
and founder-former pastor of Crossroad
Baptist
Church in Pensacola, Florida asked why the
mainstream media (MSM) in America isn't
reporting the fact that former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton admitted in public
that the U.S. government created Al Qaeda,
ISIS, Al Nusra, etc.
“It
is a sad reality that if one wants to get
accurate news reporting, one must mostly
bypass the U.S. propaganda media and look to
sources outside the U.S.,” Mr. Baldwin said.
He then
refereed to a Canadian publication that
covered the Hillary Clinton admission:
www.globalresearch.ca.
On
www.globalresearch.ca,
in an article entitled
Twenty-Six-Things-About-The-Islamic-State-ISIS-that-Obama-does-not-want-you-to-know-about,
first published on November 18. 2014,
Michel Chossudovsky, an award-winning
author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at
the University of Ottawa, Founder and
Director of the Centre for Research on
Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and Editor
of Global Research, said
that the Obama administration
is not telling the public the truth about
its policy toward ISIS.
He
said that although America’s “anti-terrorist
campaign’ consists in supporting a so-called
“moderate” Al Qaeda entity (Al Nusra), which
is supposed to be fighting ISIS – formerly
designated as Al Qaeda in Iraq - with a view
to going after another al Qaeda entity
entitled The Islamic State, the facts on the
ground indicate otherwise.
“Al
Qaeda is going after Al Qaeda, and both
wings of al Qaeda are supported covertly by
US intelligence. Moreover, the Al Qaeda
affiliated rebels responsible for countless
atrocities are trained and financed by
US-NATO and its allies including Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Israel.”
In the
above-mentioned article, Prof. Chossudovsky
also said the Obama administration's air
campaign against ISIS was really the US-led
coalition protecting ISIS, while bombing the
civilian infrastructure of Syria and Iraq,
as part of the “counter-terrorism
operation”.
And
all the while, the mainstream media has been
acting as cheerleaders for the slaughter.
Moreover, where does ISIS continue to get
its funding, year-after-year – which amounts
to tens of millions of dollars - to continue
its campaigns in Syria and Iraq? Meanwhile,
we're supposed to believe that year-in,
year-out, tens of millions of dollars are
passed through the international banking
system without the knowledge of the U.S. and
its allies.
Günter Meyer, Director of the Center for
Research into the Arabic World at the
University of Mainz, said he has no doubt
about where ISIS gets its funding.
"The most important source of ISIS financing
to date has been support coming out of the
Gulf States, primarily Saudi Arabia but also
Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,"
Mr. Meyer told Deutsche Welle.
He
said that the Gulf States' motivation in
financing groups like ISIS was to support
their fight against the regime of President
Bashar al Assad in Syria.
Three quarters of the Syrian population are
Sunni Muslims, but Syria is ruled by an
elite drawn mostly from the Alawite
minority. The Alawites are an offshoot of
Shiite Islam.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, a
number of terrorist financiers have been
operating in Qatar.
In
an interview broadcast on Guns and Butter,
in February 2016, with Dr. Michael Hudson,
President of the Institute for the Study of
Long-Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street
financial analyst, and Distinguished
Research Professor of Economics at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Dr.
Hudson said the Obama Administration not
only helped finance ISIS, it also supplied
ISIS with weapons.
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“ISIS
and Al Nusra are acting as America’s Foreign
Legion. When Hillary Clinton overthrew the
Libyan government, the arms and military
stockpiles were turned over to ISIS. Libya’s
central bank resources were robbed and also
turned over to ISIS. When America marched
into Iraq, it turned the Sunni army and all
those billions of dollars of shrink-wrapped
hundred-dollar bills over ultimately to
ISIS. So although America opposes ISIS when
they kill Americans, ISIS is basically
America’s way of breaking up countries that
may threaten not to be part of the global
dollar standard.”
It
is difficult to get an accurate estimate for
the cost of the war, in no small part
because there are so many costs: people
killed and injured, cost of caring for
refugees, destruction of infrastructure and
the environment and lost growth
opportunities.
In
September of 2016, The Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights reported that the death
toll from Syria's then five-year civil war
had past 300,000 victims – with 86,000
civilians among the 301,781 reported killed.
Moreover, destruction of Syrian villages and
cities fuelled a refugee crisis that has
confounded political leaders in Europe and
the Middle East.
Subsequently, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights estimated that between March
15, 2011 and March 12, 2017, between 312,358
and 451,358 people had been killed.
There is no accurate estimate for the
economic cost of the ongoing war.
A
recent report by the charity group World
Vision and the consultant group Frontier
Economics estimated that the conflict has so
far cost Syria $275 billion in lost growth
opportunities.
If
the conflict ends in 2020, the cost of the
conflict will grow to $1.3 trillion, it
estimated. A World Bank report estimates the
damage to the capital stock in Syria as of
mid-2014 to be $70-80 billion.
According to a U.N. Report in March 2017,
about 11 million Syrians have been displaced
from their homes.
This includes about 4.8 million refugees who
have been forced to seek safety in
neighbouring countries.
Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq have borne
the brunt of the economic impact of the war.
Already in fragile situations, many of them
are facing tremendous budgetary pressure.
The
World Bank estimates, for instance, that the
influx of more than 630,000 Syrian refugees
has cost Jordan over $2.5 billion a year.
Cash-strapped Lebanon is also stretched to a
breaking point and Turkey needs continuous
financial assistance from EU countries, as
it can no longer afford to take in refugees.
In response to
this carnage, aided and abetted by the U.S.
Government, at taxpayers' expense, Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Stop Arming Terrorists Act
has been introduced in the U.S. Senate by
Senator Rand Paul. The bipartisan
legislation (H.R.608
and
S.532)
would prohibit any Federal agency from using
taxpayer dollars to provide weapons, cash,
intelligence, or any support to al-Qaeda,
ISIS and other terrorist groups; and it will
prohibit the government from funnelling
money and weapons through other countries
who are directly or indirectly supporting
terrorists.
The
legislation is currently cosponsored by
Reps. John Conyers (D-MI), Scott Perry
(R-PA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Tom Garrett
(R-VA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Barbara Lee
(D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Ted Yoho
(R-FL), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and endorsed
by Progressive Democrats of America
(PDA), Veterans for Peace, and the
U.S. Peace Council.
While this is a significant show of
bipartisan support, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is
calling for the support of all Americans,
including every member of Congress.
“The fact that American
taxpayer dollars are being used to
strengthen the very terrorist groups we
should be focused on defeating should alarm
every Member of Congress and every American.
We call on our colleagues and the
Administration to join us in passing this
legislation,”
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said.
Can
American liberals sue their government for
its share of responsibility for the Syrians
and Iraqis killed, refugees, and the future
they lost for generations?
Can
the American courts give fair compensation
to the families of victims of ISIS who were
killed by ISIS's American arms?
Can
American lawmakers investigate how Obama
ordered hundreds of drones that killed and
mutilated humans just like themselves?
