"How the Terrorists Got Rich," In Iraq and Syria, ISIS Militants Are Flush With Funds," 6/28/14, NY Times, "On June 10, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, moved on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city....ISIS operatives reportedly stole up to $400 million in cash." ISIS has the resources to establish itself as "the hub of a global terrorist movement in the heart of the Middle East." Everyone agrees the "caliphate in Syria and Iraq have upended the region." "“Arming or not arming, lethal or nonlethal— it all depends on what America says,”" CIA Director David Petraeus was key in setting up weapons supply chains for Syrian "rebels"...which ramped up after Obama's 2012 re-election.
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7/29/14, "Christians flee Mosul amid threats to convert or die," USA Today, Sophie Cousins, Iraq
"A little more than a decade ago, Mosul was home to 60,000 Christians who practiced their religion in the midst of their Muslim neighbors in Iraq's second-largest city.
No more. Earlier this month, Muslim extremists who had captured the city ordered all Christians to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face execution. They later revoked the tax as an option.
The result has been a mass exodus of Christians to the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and laments that only Muslims are tolerated in the city today.
"It is no longer possible for Christians to live in Iraq," said the wife of Raad Ghanem, one of 250 Christians who fled to the picturesque Mar Mattai Monastery atop this mountain, 12 miles from Mosul.
Ghanem's wife, who did not want her name used because she worries about her safety, said that when she showed up one day at the hospital where she had worked for 30 years, she was told she wasn't welcome anymore. "They told me I couldn't work there because I am Christian," she said. "I told them that I am from Mosul, that this is my home."
To underscore that she and other Christians should not return, fighters from the al-Qaeda splinter group now known as the Islamic State, last week blew up a tomb believed to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Jonah, who survived in a whale's belly.
On Monday, France's interior and foreign ministers offered asylum to the fleeing Christians, who still have hope of remaining in their homeland.
Sipping tea at the monastery here, they recounted their frightening ordeal the night they were forced to flee. "The houses of Christians were specially marked with the Arabic letter "N,"
meaning Christian," said Nadia Nafik Ishaq, a woman with a broken leg.
"It was written that they were the property of the Islamic State.
After that, all the properties were robbed. All our things were taken. What is the solution? How long will we have to be here?" Ishaq said.
"When we left in the middle of the night, we were stripped of everything. Money, wallets, jewelry, ID, passports, watches, everything," Raad Ghanem said. "At the Daesh checkpoint on the way out of the city, my wife was even stripped of her earrings.
They took everything of value we had."
"They changed our church into a mosque, ruined historic museums and destroyed a monastery and manuscripts that were 1,000 years old. Iraq is gone. Iraq is finished. We're finished. It's impossible for us to go back," he said.
In a small bedroom on the second level of the monastery, a disabled woman was stretched out uncomfortably with her wheelchair beside her as her sister described how they were among the last Christian families to flee the city.
"It was illegal for us to leave the house, so we knew it wasn't going to end well," Ikram Hama said. "Luckily a Christian soldier helped us, and we escaped late at night with just the clothes on our back."
"Sick people, disabled people, poor people were all forced to leave.
They killed my cousin after they looked at his ID," she continued.
"We have no money and my sister has a disability. There is no doctor here and no hospitals close by. We are in a bad situation. For us, Iraq is over."
Twenty miles southeast of Mosul, the city of Qaraqosh has become a hub for Christians who fled the Islamic State fighters. But even it is unsafe. Although it is protected by Kurdish fighters, Islamist militants clashed with soldiers there in June, forcing thousands of Christians to flee to safer ground.
In an unfurnished townhouse still under construction on the outskirts of Qaraqosh, two families sat on the floor as they discussed the future of Iraq.
"I want to be a Christian but IS (Islamic State) took us to the mosque and tried to convert us to Islam," said Flora Adwa, a mother of three.
She said the owner of the townhouse had allowed the two families to temporarily stay at the home.
"We gave them all our money, but then they took our car and our house," she explained. "They told us that with the money we gave them we could go anywhere but Mosul. We cannot return. We are finished. What is our future?""
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US taxpayers enabled ISIS by aiding Muslim killers in Syria. The NY Times calls them "rebels." The Times says the CIA aided "Syria rebels" which suggests the CIA is an autonomous country somewhere:
3/24/2013, "Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.," NY Times, CJ Chivers and Eric Schmitt
"With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.
The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued
intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much
heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include
more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari
military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara,
and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.
As it evolved, the airlift correlated with shifts in the war within
Syria, as rebels drove Syria’s army from territory by the middle of last
year. And even as the Obama administration has publicly refused to give
more than “nonlethal” aid to the rebels, the involvement of the C.I.A.
in the arms shipments — albeit mostly in a consultative role, American
officials say — has shown that the United States is more willing to help
its Arab allies support the lethal side of the civil war.
From offices at secret locations, American intelligence officers have
helped the Arab governments shop for weapons, including a large
procurement from Croatia, and have vetted rebel commanders and groups to
determine who should receive the weapons as they arrive, according to
American officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. The C.I.A.
declined to comment on the shipments or its role in them.
The shipments also highlight the competition for Syria’s future between
Sunni Muslim states and Iran, the Shiite theocracy that remains Mr.
Assad’s main ally. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq on Sunday
to do more to halt Iranian arms shipments through its airspace; he did
so even as the most recent military cargo flight from Qatar for the
rebels landed at Esenboga early Sunday night.
Syrian opposition figures and some American lawmakers and officials have
argued that Russian and Iranian arms shipments to support Mr. Assad’s
government have made arming the rebels more necessary.
Most of the cargo flights have occurred since November, after the
presidential election in the United States and as the Turkish and Arab
governments grew more frustrated by the rebels’ slow progress against
Mr. Assad’s well-equipped military. The flights also became more
frequent as the humanitarian crisis inside Syria deepened in the winter
and cascades of refugees crossed into neighboring countries.
The Turkish government has had oversight over much of the program, down
to affixing transponders to trucks ferrying the military goods through
Turkey so it might monitor shipments as they move by land into Syria,
officials said. The scale of shipments was very large, according to
officials familiar with the pipeline and to an arms-trafficking
investigator who assembled data on the cargo planes involved.
“A conservative estimate of the payload of these flights would be 3,500
tons of military equipment,” said Hugh Griffiths, of the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, who monitors illicit arms
transfers.
“The intensity and frequency of these flights,” he added, are
“suggestive of a well-planned and coordinated clandestine military
logistics operation.”
Although rebel commanders and the data indicate that Qatar and Saudi
Arabia had been shipping military materials via Turkey to the opposition
since early and late 2012, respectively, a major hurdle was removed
late last fall after the Turkish government agreed to allow the pace of
air shipments to accelerate, officials said.
Simultaneously, arms and equipment were being purchased by Saudi Arabia in Croatia
and flown to Jordan on Jordanian cargo planes for rebels working in
southern Syria and for retransfer to Turkey for rebels groups operating
from there, several officials said.
These multiple logistics streams throughout the winter formed what one
former American official who was briefed on the program called “a
cataract of weaponry.”
American officials, rebel commanders and a Turkish opposition politician
have described the Arab roles as an open secret, but have also said the
program is freighted with risk, including the possibility of drawing
Turkey or Jordan actively into the war and of provoking military action
by Iran.
Still, rebel commanders have criticized the shipments as insufficient,
saying the quantities of weapons they receive are too small and the
types too light to fight Mr. Assad’s military effectively.
They also
accused those distributing the weapons of being parsimonious or corrupt.
“The outside countries give us weapons and bullets little by little,”
said Abdel Rahman Ayachi, a commander in Soquor al-Sham, an Islamist
fighting group in northern Syria.
He made a gesture as if switching on and off a tap. “They open and they
close the way to the bullets like water,” he said.
Two other commanders, Hassan Aboud of Soquor al-Sham and Abu Ayman of
Ahrar al-Sham, another Islamist group, said that whoever was vetting
which groups receive the weapons was doing an inadequate job.
“There are fake Free Syrian Army brigades claiming to be
revolutionaries, and when they get the weapons they sell them in trade,”
Mr. Aboud said.
The former American official noted that the size of the shipments and the degree of distributions are voluminous.
“People hear the amounts flowing in, and it is huge,” he said. “But they
burn through a million rounds of ammo in two weeks.”
A Tentative Start
The airlift to Syrian rebels began slowly. On Jan. 3, 2012, months after
the crackdown by the Alawite-led government against antigovernment
demonstrators had morphed into a military campaign, a pair of Qatar
Emiri Air Force C-130 transport aircraft touched down in Istanbul,
according to air traffic data.
They were a vanguard.
Weeks later, the Syrian Army besieged Homs, Syria’s third largest city.
Artillery and tanks pounded neighborhoods. Ground forces moved in.
Across the country, the army and loyalist militias were trying to stamp
out the rebellion with force — further infuriating Syria’s Sunni Arab
majority, which was severely outgunned. The rebels called for
international help, and more weapons.
By late midspring the first stream of cargo flights from an Arab state
began, according to air traffic data and information from plane
spotters.
On a string of nights from April 26 through May 4, a Qatari Air Force
C-17 — a huge American-made cargo plane — made six landings in Turkey,
at Esenboga Airport. By Aug. 8 the Qataris had made 14 more cargo
flights. All came from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a hub for American
military logistics in the Middle East.
Qatar has denied providing any arms to the rebels. A Qatari official,
who requested anonymity, said Qatar has shipped in only what he called
nonlethal aid. He declined to answer further questions. It is not clear
whether Qatar has purchased and supplied the arms alone or is also
providing air transportation service for other donors. But American and
other Western officials, and rebel commanders, have said Qatar has been
an active arms supplier — so much so that the United States became
concerned about some of the Islamist groups that Qatar has armed.
The Qatari flights aligned with the tide-turning military campaign by
rebel forces in the northern province of Idlib, as their campaign of
ambushes, roadside bombs and attacks on isolated outposts began driving
Mr. Assad’s military and supporting militias from parts of the
countryside.
As flights continued into the summer, the rebels also opened an offensive in that city — a battle that soon bogged down.
The former American official said David H. Petraeus, the C.I.A. director
until November, had been instrumental in helping to get this aviation
network moving and had prodded various countries to work together on it.
Mr. Petraeus did not return multiple e-mails asking for comment.
The American government became involved, the former American official
said, in part because there was a sense that other states would arm the
rebels anyhow. The C.I.A. role in facilitating the shipments, he said,
gave the United States a degree of influence over the process, including
trying to steer weapons away from Islamist groups and persuading donors
to withhold portable antiaircraft missiles that might be used in future
terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft.
American officials have confirmed that senior White House officials were
regularly briefed on the shipments. “These countries were going to do
it one way or another,” the former official said. “They weren’t asking
for a ‘Mother, may I?’ from us. But if we could help them in certain
ways, they’d appreciate that.”
Through the fall, the Qatari Air Force cargo fleet became even more
busy, running flights almost every other day in October. But the rebels
were clamoring for even more weapons, continuing to assert that they
lacked the firepower to fight a military armed with tanks, artillery,
multiple rocket launchers and aircraft.
Many were also complaining, saying they were hearing from arms donors
that the Obama administration was limiting their supplies and blocking
the distribution of the antiaircraft and anti-armor weapons they most
sought. These complaints continue.
“Arming or not arming, lethal or nonlethal— it all depends on what
America says,” said Mohammed Abu Ahmed, who leads a band of anti-Assad
fighters in Idlib Province.
The Breakout
Soon, other players joined the airlift: In November, three Royal
Jordanian Air Force C-130s landed in Esenboga, in a hint at what would
become a stepped-up Jordanian and Saudi role.
Within three weeks, two other Jordanian cargo planes began making a
round-trip run between Amman, the capital of Jordan, and Zagreb, the
capital of Croatia, where, officials from several countries said, the
aircraft were picking up a large Saudi purchase of infantry arms from a
Croatian-controlled stockpile.
The first flight returned to Amman on Dec. 15, according to intercepts
of a transponder from one of the aircraft recorded by a plane spotter in
Cyprus and air traffic control data from an aviation official in the
region.
In all, records show that two Jordanian Ilyushins bearing the logo of
the Jordanian International Air Cargo firm but flying under Jordanian
military call signs made a combined 36 round-trip flights between Amman
and Croatia from December through February. The same two planes made
five flights between Amman and Turkey this January.
As the Jordanian flights were under way, the Qatari flights continued
and the Royal Saudi Air Force began a busy schedule, too — making at
least 30 C-130 flights into Esenboga from mid-February to early March
this year, according to flight data provided by a regional air traffic
control official.
Several of the Saudi flights were spotted coming and going at Ankara by
civilians, who alerted opposition politicians in Turkey.
“The use of Turkish airspace at such a critical time, with the conflict
in Syria across our borders, and by foreign planes from countries that
are known to be central to the conflict, defines Turkey as a party in
the conflict,” said Attilla Kart, a member of the Turkish Parliament
from the C.H.P. opposition party, who confirmed details about several
Saudi shipments. “The government has the responsibility to respond to
these claims.”
Turkish and Saudi Arabian officials declined to discuss the flights or
any arms transfers. The Turkish government has not officially approved
military aid to Syrian rebels.
Croatia and Jordan both denied any role in moving arms to the Syrian
rebels. Jordanian aviation officials went so far as to insist that no
cargo flights occurred.
The director of cargo for Jordanian International Air Cargo, Muhammad
Jubour, insisted on March 7 that his firm had no knowledge of any
flights to or from Croatia.
“This is all lies,” he said. “We never did any such thing.”
A regional air traffic official who has been researching the flights
confirmed the flight data, and offered an explanation. “Jordanian
International Air Cargo,” the official said, “is a front company for
Jordan’s air force.”
After being informed of the air-traffic control and transponder data
that showed the plane’s routes, Mr. Jubour, from the cargo company,
claimed that his firm did not own any Ilyushin cargo planes.
Asked why his employer’s Web site still displayed images of two
Ilyushin-76MFs and text claiming they were part of the company fleet,
Mr. Jubour had no immediate reply. That night the company’s Web site was
taken down."
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Jan. 2014, Time: US taxpayer dollars have supported Muslim terrorist fighters who kill Christians in Syria. “Most Americans do not realize that Christians across the Middle East are in grave danger." Priest who sought US help in 2012 is feared killed. US support for Christians in Syria would be seen as support for Assad.
"The stories told by five top Syrian Christian leaders about the horrors their churches are experiencing at the hands of Islamist extremists are biblical in their brutality....
But they are emerging as part of a concerted push by Syrian Christians to get the US to stop its support for rebel groups fighting Syrian president Bashar al Assad. “The US must change its politics and must choose the way of diplomacy and dialogue, not supporting rebels and calling them freedom fighters,” says Nalbandian.
The group is the first delegation of its kind to visit Washington since the crisis began three years ago, and its five members represent key different Christian communities in the country....
The religious leaders’ mission is a long shot. The bishops are asking the United States to exert pressure on countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey to stop supporting and sending terrorist fighters to Syria. “The real problem is that the strong military opposition on the ground is a foreign opposition,” Awad explains, arguing that US support of opposition groups means support for foreign terrorist fighters. “They are the ones killing and attacking churches and clergy and nuns and burning houses and eating human livers and hearts and cutting heads,” Awad says.
The Syrian Christian churches are not publicly calling for outright support of the Assad regime. Doing so would further endanger their followers and hurt the moral component of their case, given the regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians. Instead, they’re meeting privately with law makers, diplomats and think tanks....
It’s been a difficult issue to gain traction on, if for no other reasons than that support for Christians and endangered minorities can appear as support for Assad and that an entire country is being destroyed by war, not just Christian communities....
“Most Americans do not realize that Christians across the Middle East are in grave danger and have often been forced to leave their home countries due to persecution and threats from radicalized Muslims,” he (Rep. Aderholt) says....
Jesuit priest Paolo Dall’Oglio, whom TIME wrote about in 2012 when he visited the United States on a similar lobbying trip, has been missing and feared dead since July."
Image: Iraq and Syria map
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Article below from Global Research comments on a recent Daily Beast article attempting to blame ISIS on "elite donors" of supposed US allies in the Middle East the US was unable to stop. Ample reporting refutes this including the Time and NY Times articles above and two articles linked in the Global Research article. US administrations haven't had the slightest interest in "stability" or "moderation" in the region. You don't seek to install the Muslim Brotherhood if you favor "moderation" unless you're mentally ill. US has enabled genocide of Christians and Christianity across the Middle East for a number of years (two articles above) without blinking. US armed and overthrew the Libyan government to disaster. US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to kill and impoverish Americans and enrich weapons makers and organized crime. The US government today openly supports International terrorist group Hamas over the tiny democratic country of Israel. So, no, the US and its taxpayers aren't bystanders:
6/18/14, "ISIS “Made in USA”. Iraq “Geopolitical Arsonists” Seek to Burn Region," Tony Cartalucci, GlobalResearch.ca
"The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a creation of the United States and its Persian Gulf allies, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and recently added to the list, Kuwait. The Daily Beast in an article titled, “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS,” states:
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.Despite the candor of the opening sentence, the article would unravel into a myriad of lies laid to obfuscate America’s role in the creation of ISIS. The article would claim:
The extremist group that is threatening the existence of the Iraqi state was built and grown for years with the help of elite donors from American supposed allies in the Persian Gulf region. There, the threat of Iran, Assad, and the Sunni-Shiite sectarian war trumps the U.S. goal of stability and moderation in the region.However, the US goal in the region was never “stability” and surely not “moderation.” As early as 2007, sources within the Pentagon and across the US intelligence community revealed a conspiracy to drown the Middle East in sectarian war, and to do so by arming and funding extremist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda itself. Published in 2007 – a full 4 years before the 2011 “Arab Spring” would begin – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article titled, “”The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” stated specifically (emphasis added):
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al QaedaThe 9 page, extensive report has since been vindicated many times over with revelations of US, NATO, and Persian Gulf complicity in raising armies of extremists within Libya and along Syria’s borders. ISIS itself, which is claimed to occupy a region stretching from northeastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq, has operated all along Turkey’s border with Syria, “coincidentally” where the US CIA has conducted years of “monitoring” and arming of “moderate” groups.
In fact, the US admits it has armed, funded, and equipped “moderates” to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. In a March 2013 Telegraph article titled, “US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb’,” it was reported that a single program included 3,000 tons of weapons sent in 75 planeloads paid for by Saudi Arabia at the bidding of the United States. The New York Times in its article, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid,” admits that the CIA assisted Arab governments and Turkey with military aid to terrorists fighting in Syria constituting hundreds of airlifts landing in both Jordan and Turkey.
The vast scale of US, NATO, and Arab aid to terrorists fighting in Syria leaves no doubt that the conspiracy described by Hersh in 2007 was carried out in earnest, and that the reason Al Qaeda groups such as Al Nusra and ISIS displaced so-called “moderates,” was because such “moderates” never existed in any significant manner to begin with. While articles like the Daily Beast’s “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS” now try to portray a divide between US and Persian Gulf foreign policy, from Hersh’s 2007 article and all throughout the past 3 years in Libya and Syria, the goal of raising an army in the name of Al Qaeda has been clearly shared and demonstrably pursued by both the US and its regional partners.
The plan, from the beginning, was to raise an extremist expeditionary force to trigger a regional sectarian bloodbath – a bloodbath now raging across multiple borders and set to expand further if decisive action is not taken.
Iran Must Avoid America’s “Touch of Death” and Sectarian War at All Costs
Despite an open conspiracy to drown the region in sectarian strife, the US now poses as a stakeholder in Iraq’s stability. Having armed, funded, and assisted ISIS into existence and into northern Iraq itself, the idea of America “intervening” to stop ISIS is comparable to an arsonist extinguishing his fire with more gasoline. Reviled across the region, any government – be it in Baghdad, Tehran, or Damascus – that allies itself with the US will be immediately tainted in the minds of forces forming along both sides of this artificially created but growing sectarian divide. Iran’s mere consideration of joint-operations with the US can strategically hobble any meaningful attempts on the ground to stop ISIS from establishing itself in Iraq and using Iraqi territory to launch attacks against both Tehran and Damascus.
Any Iranian assistance to Iraq should be given only under the condition that the US not intervene in any manner. Iran’s main concern should be portraying the true foreign-funded nature of ISIS, while uniting genuine Sunni and Shia’a groups together to purge what is a foreign invasion of Iraqi territory. Iran must also begin allaying fears among Iraq’s Sunni population that Tehran may try to use the current crisis to gain further influence over Baghdad.
While the US downplays the sectarian aspects of ISIS’ invasion of Iraq before global audiences, its propaganda machine across the Middle East, assisted by Doha and Riyadh, is stoking sectarian tensions. The ISIS has committed itself to a campaign of over-the-top sectarian vitriol and atrocities solely designed to trigger a wider Sunni-Shia’a conflict. That the US created ISIS and it is now in Iraq attempting to stoke a greater bloodbath with its already abhorrent invasion, is precisely why Tehran and Baghdad should take a cue from Damascus, and disassociate itself from the West, dealing with ISIS themselves."
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”."
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Comment: The 2007 Hersh article referenced was published during the Bush administration. I'm very glad it was. However I'd bet Mr. Hersh wouldn't have written the 2007 article on that topic and it wouldn't have been so well received had it not been aimed at the Bush administration. I happen to think Bush and one or two of his family members should be in jail for the rest of their lives. My point is about media orientation. The media might admit a liberal democrat screwed up, they might even admit Mr. Obama screwed up, but it won't be more than conversation.
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What to call the merger of Iraq and Syria?--NY Times
6/28/14, "What to Call Iraq Fighters? Experts Vary on S’s and L’s," NY Times, Lyons and El-Naggar. "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant?"
"Everyone
seems to agree that the Sunni extremists who are striving to carve out a caliphate in Syria and Iraq have upended the region, but there is no
consensus on what to call the militant group, in English at least.
Many
news outlets, including The New York Times, have been translating the
group’s name as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS for short.
But the United States government and several news agencies call it the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or I.S.I.L. (The BBC, curiously, uses the ISIS acronym, but “Levant” when spelling the name out.)"...
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Comment: The bloodbath grew under Obama but was in full swing with Bush. Bush wanted carnage in the region as much as Obama does. A Republican Senate (we're told would be "better") destroyed the world the same as a Democrat Senate is doing now. In fact, the reason we have a Democrat Senate is because the GOP E was a disaster. In any case the GOP no longer really exists. They've made clear over many years they have the same intentions as democrats, that it's the way to "get things done," and if we don't agree we're hicks and rubes. The GOP E makes $1 billion every 4 years running fake elections. That's the only reason for the GOP to exist today.
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P.S. CIA facilitated climate crime commandeering the steady stream of CO2 belching air cargo planes flying heavy combat equipment to blood-thirsty Syrian "rebels." Since the CIA has no money of its own, its climate reparations must be that it closes down entirely for a few years.
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