Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release Monday, 31 August 2015

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
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Amidst explosive new revelations: Will Australia join Obama in supporting ISIS?

If Australia follows the United States into a war in Syria, as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is so very eager to do, it will be the crowning insanity of the entire ‘war on terror’—because explosive new revelations prove that the Obama administration deliberately created ISIS in the first place, as a weapon against the Assad government.

Lieutenant General (ret.) Michael T. Flynn, who as head of the Defence Intelligence Agency was America’s top military intelligence official from April 2012 to August 2014, stated this truth bluntly when he told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan, in an interview aired 31 July, that rejecting strong DIA advice to the contrary, the Obama administration made a “wilful decision” to arm and support known terrorist groups in Syria including Al-Qaeda so that they could make war against the Syrian government. Not only did Obama and the groups’ other supporters know full well that their actions would mean the declaration of an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Gen. Flynn charged, but they welcomed it.

Hasan read out an excerpt of a DIA memorandum dated August 2012 (one of several declassified this May after a freedom of information application by watchdog group Judicial Watch), which stated, “There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria … and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition [named elsewhere in the memo as ‘the West, the Gulf States and Turkey’ – ed.] want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime”. That sparked the following exchange:

Hasan: “Did you see this document in 2012? Did this come across your table?”
Flynn: “Oh yeah, I paid very close attention to all this. It sure did.”
Hasan: “So when you saw this, did you not pick up a phone and ask, ‘What on earth are we doing supporting these Syrian rebels?’ …Did you say, ‘We shouldn’t be supporting these groups’?”
Flynn: “I did. …I do believe that the intelligence was very clear…”
Hasan: “…In 2012, your agency was saying, quote, ‘the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.’”
Flynn (nodding): “Uh-huh.”
Hasan: “In 2012 the US was helping co-ordinate arms transfers to those same groups! Why did you not stop that, if you were so worried about the rise of ‘Islamic extremism’?”
Flynn: “I hate to say, it’s not my job; my job was to ensure that the accuracy of our intelligence … was as good as it could be. And I will tell you, it goes [back] before 2012… before there was a decision to pull out of Iraq in 2011, I mean it was very clear what we were going to face; very clear what we were going to face.”
Hasan: “…Before we move on, just to clarify once more: you are basically saying that even in government at the time, you knew those groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were arguing against [supporting them], but who wasn’t listening?”
Flynn: “I think the Administration.”
Hasan: “So the Administration turned a blind eye to your analysis?”
Flynn: “I don’t know if they ‘turned a blind eye’, I think it was a decision. I think it was a wilful decision.”
Hasan: “A wilful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood?”
Flynn: “A wilful decision to do what they’re doing, which you have to really—you have to really ask the President, what is it that he actually is doing, with the policy that’s in place?”

What President Obama is doing now is exactly what he set out to do: having created a tar-baby for the US, and its allies like Australia, to flail at, Obama openly seeks a direct confrontation with the Syrian army by declaring his right to launch air strikes against anyone who interferes with the American-trained and -armed ‘opposition’ group Division 30—which has just announced its alliance with the Al Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s formal affiliate in Syria. Obama’s immediate goal is to topple President Bashar al Assad and shatter Syria into a mess of warring tribes, essentially repeating the Libya operation. As the CEC first warned in a February 2012 media release, “The Assad regime is not targeted for overthrow because of ostensible ‘human rights abuses’, but because Syria is an ally of Russia (hosting Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean, for instance), and the British and their puppet Obama are driving for a thermonuclear first strike against Russia and China … the British have no intention of letting Russia, China and India emerge as the world’s dominant powers while Britain, Europe, and the United States just disintegrate in a self-inflicted financial holocaust worse than that of the 14th century ‘New Dark Age’.”

The phenomenal success of the BRICS nations in setting up their new, development-oriented alternative economic architecture, centred around the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the BRICS New Development Bank, and world-spanning ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, has only added to Obama’s desperation, as the London/Wall Street financial empire which controls him now hovers on the brink of a new, far worse GFC than that of 2008.

Under the US Constitution, the President must ask Congress’s consent before waging war, which Obama has not done. He is therefore violating the Constitution with his undeclared wars in Iraq and Syria, as numerous US Congressmen and Senators have charged. Nor has the US-led invasion of Syria been approved by the UN Security Council. The clear outcome of his illegal, undeclared war in Syria is to foster a dramatic rise in the power of ISIS. Is that what Abbott, who claims to be waging a “war against terror” in Australia, seeks as well?

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