Why Is The US Fighting Assad In Syria?

Had we taken the resources wasted on the rebels and spent these very resources insuring the integrity of our own democracy, we would be much better off...

After the pulverising bombings, the brutal sieges and the barbaric chemical weapons attacks, you might think nothing could shock you now about the catastrophic conflict in Syria. You’d be wrong.

Amnesty has learned from prisoners who were detained there and released and former guards about what they describe as a calculated programme of extermination taking place in one of President Bashar al-Assad’s military prisons – Saydnaya, in Damascus. Here, they have told Amnesty, thousands of civilians considered opponents of the regime are systematically starved, deliberately dehumanised, mercilessly tortured and finally hanged in the utmost secrecy in the dead of night, 20 to 50 at a time. These witnesses have described executions and the conditions in the prison before December 2015 but they could be continuing.

It’s like something from a grindingly bleak horror film – a grotesque series of depraved acts that almost defies description. I wish it weren’t true. But I’ve sat and talked to one of the survivors of Saydnaya, and I know it’s all horribly real. Amnesty has gathered testimony from 31 former Saydnaya detainees as well as former guards, and we calculate that between 5,000 to 13,000 people have been hanged at Saydnaya since the uprising against Assad began, possibly many more.

You have everything backwards. They are not eating trash to survive because we supported the rebels. They are eating trash to survive because we didn't support the rebels.

Is this the support you are talking about?
HOW ISIS GOT WEAPONS FROM THE U.S. AND USED THEM TO TAKE IRAQ AND SYRIA
http://www.newsweek.com/how-isis-got-weapons-us-used-them-take-iraq-syria-748468

The rebels supported ISIS...

This is why I started this post in the first place because I did not trust the rebels...

Who didn't see this coming a mile away?

The rebels are moderates? Bullcrap!

Once again your strategy proves to be wrong?

Would you like to be in a tank in Syria right now and be shot with our own tank busting weapons?

The people paying our congress with bribery money don't care who they arm as long as they make money..

Just like your precious NRA... They protect gun dealers who sell guns to crazies and radicals as long as they make a buck!

This has got to STOP!

How can you be so wrong so often?

International investigators have amassed the strongest evidence “since Nuremberg” for the prosecution of Bashar al-Assad and his allies for war crimes, smuggling 600,000 pages of official documents out of Syria.

This trove - weighing several tons - includes the records of a secret committee of security chiefs placed in charge of crushing the revolt. Another 500,000 pages are still inside Syria, awaiting safe transit out of the country.

The most striking evidence concerns Assad’s response to the mass protests against his rule that swept Syria from 2011 onwards. He appointed a “Central Crisis Management Cell” and gave the security chiefs on this committee supreme responsibility for suppressing the unrest. The cell held daily meetings in Damascus, chaired by Mohammad Said Bekheitan, the second most senior member of the ruling Ba’ath party.

But the 24-year-old official who kept the committee’s records and transmitted its orders, Abdelmajid Barakat, was secretly working for the opposition. In 2013, he escaped from Syria into neighbouring Turkey, taking as many of the cell’s documents as he could carry.

The paper trail shows that Assad himself “reviewed the proposals [of the cell], signed them, and returned them for implementation,” according to the New Yorker, adding: “Sometimes he made revisions, crossing out directives and adding new ones.” Mr Barakat was “certain that no security decision, no matter how small, was made without Assad’s approval.”

During this period, thousands of Assad's opponents were killed, detained or tortured. Hospitals were transformed into torture centres, with bodies being stacked in the lavatories after the morgues overflowed.

Stephen Rapp, the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations court handling the Rwandan genocide, told the New Yorker: “When the day of justice arrives, we’ll have much better evidence than we’ve had anywhere since Nuremberg.”

Mr Rapp described the evidence gathered in Syria as “much richer than anything I’ve seen - and anything I’ve prosecuted - in this area.”

At present, however, there is no court before which Assad or his allies could stand trial. Russia vetoed an attempt in 2014 to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.

Geoffrey Robertson QC, a senior human rights lawyer, told the Telegraph that Assad was safe at least for the moment. “So long as he is protected by Russia, then the Security Council is stymied and there is no other way that the ICC can have jurisdiction to try him,” he said.

But Mr Robertson pointed out that Assad’s protection may not last forever. Charles Taylor was overthrown as president of Liberia in 2003 and given assurances of immunity when he went into exile in Nigeria. But he was handed over for trial in 2006 and later convicted by a UN court.

“International justice is in its infancy and we’ve seen it change,” said Mr Robertson. “Charles Taylor, who is now serving 50 years in a British prison, was thought to be safe when he was given refuge in Nigeria, but politics change and he was handed over. So there are plenty of precedents for people who seemed to be safe suddenly becoming inconvenient to their protectors.”

The evidence is being held in an undisclosed European city by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, an organisation of lawyers and investigators partly funded by the British Government.

Orally wrote:
Real aid would have allowed the rebels to defend themselves so that...

Comment:
... so that they could use that REAL AID to give it to ISIS

and so more of our people would die defending a useless and petty war in Syria...

We gave REAL AID to Al Qaeda once, look how that turned out.

Why are we at war with Syria? Election corruption! LOL!

Look what we have done to that country with bombs over an "alleged" corrupt election...

The war mongers sure got rich selling weapons to both sides though...

coupled with Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital shows that America is not interested in promoting democracy but supporting murderous regimes in return for cheap oil.