How John McCain Crippled Obama’s War on ISIS
Column: Politics
Region: Middle East
A story leaked out of
Washington credits Senator John McCain, empowered by America’s corrupt congress
to oversee Pentagon programs, with derailing the Obama administration’s
“coalition bombing campaign” in Syria and Iraq. McCain and key right wing
extremists, working in concert with Turkish, Israeli and Saudi intelligence,
have placed a “political shield” over terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria,
something that has frustrated American pilots, silenced by the threat of
imprisonment or worse.
Reports from pilots and sources up and down
the Pentagon chain of command tell an interesting story. Considering America’s
years of experience at “precision bombing” and the vast intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the world’s largest military,
America’s utter failure in curtailing ISIS and her dozens of “sister
organizations” has been inexplicable.
American pilots flying over Iraq and Syria
have quietly leaked their story for over a year now but no news agency will
carry it. They say they have flown over oil tanker convoys 4 lanes wide at
times and been told to stay silent.
They report mysterious aircraft dropping
supplies to ISIS and al Nusra, they are silenced on that as well.
The most common report, however, is massive
parking lots filled with hundreds, even thousands of Humvees, Abrams tanks,
artillery pieces, support vehicles of all kinds, all “hands off” at the orders
of the Pentagon.
In previous bombing campaigns in Iraq and
Afghanistan, American pilots and drone operators admittedly suffered
“collateral damage” at levels from 50% to almost 90% by some estimates. This
could be the reason the US has somehow ordered pilots, both “cockpit” and
“deskbound drone,” to “stand down” when they find juicy targets of opportunity.
They say it isn’t, that many of these targets
are totally in the open or “well worth the risk.” In fact some pilots are
totally dispirited from seeing the same “fat targets” over and over while they
are sent after road checkpoints or abandoned buildings.
McCain, chairman of the powerful Senator Armed
Services Committee, has strangled America’s efforts to the point where there
are no sufficient munitions available. America is flying operations over Syria
and Iraq with the aging F 16 recently upgraded for improved all weather
capability using typical payloads of World War II era iron bombs.
Note that John McCain’s personal trips to
Syria, meeting with the heads of ISIS and al Nusra, deeply parallel his earlier
actions in Vietnam when as a prisoner of war McCain trained North Vietnamese
air defense forces to shoot down American planes and made dozens of
anti-American propaganda broadcasts.
McCain was pardoned by President Nixon when
facing court martial and his records sealed and “whitewashed” by the press.
Crippled Operations
America is beholding to Turkey for the use of
an airbase for operations in Syria and Iraq, bombing runs that restrict loiter
time and can require air refueling as America’s aircraft carriers are now being
kept in port with rare forays into the Pacific or Indian Ocean, all on McCain’s
orders.
Even America’s huge airbase in Qatar, home to
the B1B and B52 fleet of heavy bombers, seen over Kobani, is now “frozen” and
“off limits” for anti-ISIS operations.
Making the Case
Taking the anonymous statements of half a
dozen pilots and extrapolating a pattern requires support, both direct and
anecdotal. Below we list some factors used:
·
Traditionally, the US
reports some collateral damage while foreign press is more forthcoming.
However, there are almost no reports of collateral damage by US planes with the
exception of assertions by Russia and Syria that coalition planes are actually
actively flying air support for ISIS and al Nusra operations, bombing power
stations and “accidentally” hitting Syrian Army units involved in critical
operations.
·
US capability,
advanced weapons and targeting capability, when combined with the available
aircraft in the US inventory at over 1000, should have made all movement and
resupply in both Iraq and Syria through use of “kill zones” and impossibility
within two weeks. A year later and ISIS heavy armour convoys are as safe on
Iraq roads as though they were snug at home in their mother’s arms.
·
Failure to bring
America’s A10 “Warthog” squadrons to Iraq, the only planes America has in its
inventory capable of obliterating oil convoys and other ISIS assets, is more
than curious, it is criminal.
·
That Russia, within
weeks, was able to destroy hundreds of “fat targets,” command centers, fuel and
ammunition depots, equipment storage facilities and training camps, most of which
had been “up and running” through the entire coalition bombing campaign but
untouched, speaks volumes as to the truth of reports by American pilots of
“hands off” orders.
·
America’s refusal to
share targeting data with Russia may well be more than simply politics. Sharing
this date would reveal patterns of deception and misdirection that would, we
believe, inexorably lead to exposure of the American led bombing program as a
sham.
The political issue that few outside
Washington can understand is how an American politician like McCain, whose
“long game” could be anything, treason, personal gain or “he knows something we
don’t,” can govern or even overrule the White House.
That answer is not simple, that American
military commanders are inherently, and we are saying a majority, deceptive,
disloyal and conspiratorial. Since Obama was elected, Washington has been
deluged with rumors of a military coup against the government. Literally
thousands of military officers have been “cashiered” for misconduct of all kinds,
sexual, gambling or incompetence, with the real underlying reason being
treason.
For decades, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby in
Washington, was believed to control congress, the press and the American
military. In recent months, however, it has become clear that AIPAC has always
acted in concert with Turkish intelligence services and the powerful Saudi
lobby.
As al Qaeda has moved from “terror group” to
“loyal American ally,” pulling a decade of conspiracy theorists into the
mainstream, the exposure of the Israeli, Turkish, Saudi alliance with the
American right and their love affair with ISIS is also coming into focus.
With that, with the right and all that cash,
all that influence and the bizarre and unfathomable Mr. McCain, more is coming
into focus as well, how America’s Air Force may actually be ISIS’ air force.
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