By Chris Ernesto
Real Independent News & Film
August 20, 2016
Days after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, Mike Morell,
former acting director of the CIA, said the U.S. should covertly kill
Russians and Iranians in Syria, and that the U.S. should bomb Syrian
government offices, aircraft and presidential guard positions.
Here are Morell’s exact words: “I’d give (the “moderate
opposition”) the things that they need to both go after the (Syrian
President Bashar) Assad government, but also to have the Iranians
and Russians pay a little price… we need to make the Iranians pay
a price in Syria, we need to make the Russians pay a price.”
The interviewer, Charlie Rose, then asked Morell, “OK, we make
them pay a price by killing Russians, and killing Iranians?”
Morell responded, “yes, covertly. You don’t tell the world about it,
right. You don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say we did this,
right. But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.”
Morell continued, “I want to go after those things that Assad sees
as his personal power base, right, I want to scare Assad. So I want
to go after his presidential guard. I want to bomb his offices in the
middle of the night. I want to destroy his presidential aircraft on
the ground. I want to destroy his presidential helicopters. I want
to make him think we’re coming after him.”
Isn’t that terrorism?
The FBI defines terrorism as, “the unlawful use of force or violence
against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government,
the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of
political or social objectives.”
Is a person who calls for acts of terrorism, but doesn’t
personally carry out such acts, a terrorist?
A report by Human Rights Watch details dozens of cases in which
Muslim-Americans have been convicted of terrorism-related charges
without carrying out an actual act of terrorism.
The 57-year-old Morell is the person who, “coordinated the CIA
review” of Colin Powell’s infamously bogus speech to the UN in
2003 pushing for war on Iraq, according to former CIA director
George Tenet.
Morell, who resigned from his job as a national security analyst
at CBS in order to publicly support Clinton, stated that he would
be part of Clinton’s national security team.
Morell would appear to fit right in with Clinton, who, according
to former US Army Psychological Warfare Officer Scott Bennett,
is, “a psychopathic war hawk, is obsessed with war with Russia,
is obsessed with war with Iran and she is going to do everything
she can to enable it.”
Morell joins a long list of war hawks who have endorsed Clinton,
including Leon Panetta, Robert Kagan, Richard Armitage, Madeline
Albright and other neoconservative and, “liberal interventionists”.
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