Here we go again, marching off to war into another Middle Eastern conflict, where we will spend billions, and kill thousands, and have nothing to show for it in the end, except more enemies.  This appears to be a bi-partisan effort in Washington between the warmongers and the ridiculously awarded, Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barrack Obama.

There has been a narrative told in the mainstream press in this country for some time, and harped on by Republican warmongering politicians like John McCain that portrays President Obama as reluctant to intervene in the Syrian civil war that has been going on for two years now, resulting in the estimated death toll of 93,000 and rising.   Republicans like John McCain, the pro-war-all-the-time senator and sore-losing presidential candidate, and the warmongering, pro-government surveillance supporter but anti-gun guy, Senator Lindsay Graham, have laid on the criticism of Obama’s lack of aggression in Syria, as they have on Obama’s un-willingness to attack Iran on Israel’s behalf in another pre-emptive war.

Now, President Obama appears to be stepping up to the plate to push the button again on another unnecessary war to topple another leader the United States doesn’t like to be replaced by presumably, some other brutal dictator who serves the U.S. and it’s western allies’ interest.  The President has now said that Assad crossed a line by using chemical weapons (yet to be proved and highly suspect as lies such as ‘weapons of mass destruction’) and that he now supports sending small arms and ammunition aid to the rebels fighting to overthrow the Assad government in Syria.  This also coincides with the European Union letting expire it’s ban on arming the rebels.   There are calls for a no-fly zone to be in place.  Russia and Iran and Hezbollah are backing Assad and Russia is supplying Syria with sophisticated anti-aircraft technology and weaponry.  Obama is so far saying no to the no-fly zone and “boots on the ground.” but this is deceiving.

It appears that we have already been involved in, and perhaps a huge instigator, and certainly a facilitator, in the civil war that has claimed the 93,000 lives in Syria already.  The United States has already given over 500 million dollars to the rebels fighting the Syrian government.  That’s a half a billion dollars to all the bean counters who favored the sequester and think we can’t afford basic government services because taxes on the rich are too high.  That’s a half a billion dollars to all the republican shit bags in the House of Representative who held up or voted against funding for the hurricane victims in New Jersey and New York this past year.  Half a billion dollars has already been given to the “rebels,” many of which are foreign fighters from Saudi Arabia and other areas outside of Syria, and many linked directly to Al-Qaeda.  Supposedly, this has been “non-lethal aid” which is of course bullshit; if you are giving money to the rebels who are waging war, it’s lethal aid.  There is an ex-CIA officer named Philip Giraldi who has written that the United States and it’s NATO allies Britain and France have been operating out of Turkey on the Syrian border for some time, helping train the rebels and provide them with communication equipment as well as weapons.  Other reports in the foreign press have stated that foreign fighter rebels were killing civilians in Syria and then photographing the carnage and feeding it to the western press, claiming it was Assad’s army that was killing it’s own citizens when in fact, it was not.  Just part of the massive propaganda campaign being waged to gin up support in this country and others to topple Assad in Syria in the name of a “humanitarian crisis.”

John McCain has even met the Syrian “opposition” groups.  Apparently, he feels quite comfortable handing over weapons to jihad-dist to overthrow the secular government in Syria.  John McCain seemingly thrives on being in the middle of endless war, he can’t seem to get enough of the endless bloodshed.   Does he think one day he’s going to wake up and say “checkmate!” and then finally retire to one of his numerous houses that he couldn’t count the exact number of when he was running for president?

Another old man who seems to miss the action of directing the bombing and killing of others (though not so much on Bin Laden as in Yugoslavia), former President Bill Clinton voiced his support of escalating our involvement in the Syria civil war.  I suppose he has to be the one in his marriage to cheer lead on this new march to war, since Hillary Clinton is currently under fire from the republicans.  No matter, war comes first, and Bubba will carry his wife’s torch on that one.  We know from our own press that as Secretary of State, Hillary Warmongering Clinton  was an early advocate of arming the rebels and pressing Obama to take a more aggressive role in overthrowing another foreign government.

So here we go, with a feigned reluctance on the Drone Ranger’s Administration and a frothing at the mouth on the usual neo-con suspects, towards another costly and immoral war, and this time without even any readily apparent economic gains such as oil being in play.

This is in spite of two very important facts:   the Syrian people support Assad staying in power by 55 percent in a poll conducted by the Quatar Foundation (considered reliable as Quatar is anti-Assad) which blows away any flimsy lies and propaganda that attempts to portray the United States and it’s allies as good Samaritans protecting the Syrians.  The second fact that should also be relevant to Washington and President Obama is that a Pew research poll shows that 70 percent of Americans are opposed to arming the rebels.

Neither fact appears to matter.  Sadly, unless we wake up quickly as a nation and recognize that another senseless war is becoming more and more likely if we do not stand up to this madness.  The weight of propaganda is heavy in the American press, unfortunately, and our politicians lie with such ease and glee.  I hope enough of us see through this bullshit and say enough if enough.