When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Russia on Tuesday of shipping attack helicopters to Syria that would \u201cescalate the conflict quite dramatically,\u201d it was the Obama administration\u2019s sharpest criticism yet of Russia\u2019s support for the Syrian government.<\/p>\n
What Mrs. Clinton did not say, however, was whether the aircraft were new shipments or, as administration officials say is more likely, helicopters that Syria had sent to Russia a few months ago for routine repairs and refurbishing, and which were now about to be returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe put a little spin on it to put the Russians in a difficult position,\u201d said one senior Defense Department official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is called lying like a rug.<\/p>\n
We are going to bomb Syria. This is exactly<\/b> the same sort of crap what we saw with build up Iraq, Libya, etc. <\/p>\n
Rinse, lather, repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It turns out that the allegation that Russians were selling attack helos to Syria made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were false. Syria has owned the copters in question for years: When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Russia on Tuesday of shipping attack helicopters to Syria that would \u201cescalate the conflict quite …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1051,986,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-hypocrisy","category-middle-east","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}