The US-President’s speech Tuesday night repeated all of the lies the US has been telling about Syria to justify war — and shows that war may be delayed, but is not off the table. The biggest lie being told right now is that Assad agreed to give up his country’s chemical weapons because of the United States‘ „credible military threat.“ What has really happened is that the warmakers in the Pentagon, and their backers on Wall Street, ran into a gigantic brick wall of resistance. They were forced to back down for the time being. They wanted to go to war right now. But when Kerry said on Monday, „All Assad has to do is give up his chemical weapons,“ Syria and Russia called his bluff. … http://www.iacenter.org/

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