Act Now to Prevent a Trump Attack on Syria!

US PEACE COUNCIL Member of the World Peace Council P. O. Box 3105, New Haven, Connecticut 06515 Telephone: 203-387-0370; Fax: 203-397-2539; Email: amistadmarder@gmail.com April 6, 2017  EMERGENCY! Act Now to Prevent a Trump Attack on Syria! Phone the White House and Congress Now! Yesterday President Trump — who during the campaign expressed a desire for a new, more restrained approach to the war in Syria — publicly accepted the claim that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against its own people, including children. He declared: “Lines have been crossed.” He threatened to take some sort of action. The photos are horrific. The media has for several days gone into full hysteria mode, repeating unproven allegations, attributing blame, and relying on biased sources. Is this another Gulf of Tonkin? This is more than a dangerous moment. It is a full-blown war crisis. It is no secret that President Trump is an impulsive and often ill-informed individual. His Administration in its first months has been buffeted by missteps, defeats, and embarrassments. He may think he “needs a win.” We must make sure his Administration does not think an attack on Syria would be "a win." We have hours, at most a few days to do so. We have been down this road before. Sophisticated observers have already noted this alleged attack has all the earmarks of a false flag operation. The Syrian government has absolutely no motive for mounting such an attack. (see: Gerry Condon; Patrick Henningsen; and Phyllis Bennis) As a leader of Veterans for Peace, Gerry Condon, has wisely observed, the sources for the gas attack reports are the rebel forces themselves, their own media, and the "White Helmets" and other Western-funded NGOs who are notorious for creating "regime change" propaganda against the Assad government. Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has documented that the last large Sarin attack blamed on the Syrian government was carried out by terrorist groups with the support of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Hersh also documented that chemical weapons were transported from Libya to U.S.-backed rebel groups in Syria by the CIA and Hillary Clinton's State Department. Yet the mainstream media do not mention any of this. They ask no tough questions. They entertain no doubts. They repeat previous lies that have already been debunked. They unashamedly interview sources which have long been cheerleaders for military intervention in Syria. We can stop an attack. In 2013, an immense surge of phone calls to the White House and Congress stayed the hand of President Obama under similar pressure to “do something.” We successfully prevented Obama from attacking Syria in 2013. We can do it again. Pick up that phone!  Call the White House at 202-456-1414; Call your Congress members House and Senate at 202- 224-3121 Yours in peace, Alfred L. Marder, President U.S. Peace Council