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Mr. Charles Glass, you write on Glenn Greenwald's Intercept website today:
"The question since March 2011, when the first protests began in Syria,
is what to do with President Bashar al-Assad. The reason the West, Saudi
Arabia, and Israel wanted to dispose of him had nothing to do with
dictatorship or repression. Nearly all Arab governments are repressive
dictatorships, but only Syria was not a U.S. satellite. Only Syria had a
strategic alliance with Iran, dating to Hafez al-Assad’s decision to
support Iran against Saddam Hussein in 1980, long before the West
declared him a pariah."
This is a crock of shit, Mr. Glass, and you probably know it.
The USA invaded Iraq in 2003, didn't it? Remember Ahmad Chalabi? He died
a few days ago. In 2004 there were CIA agents who had suspicions that he
was an Iranian spy since American intelligence reports kept ending up in
Tehran.
Then there is Muqtada al-Sadr. The Washington Institute, a neocon
outfit, views him as an out and out proxy of Iran.
I can go at great length but why bother? None of this would make a
difference to someone like you who has been stumping for Assad for four
years now.
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