Bernie Sanders Getting Foreign Policy Advice from anti-Israel Conspiracy Theorist

[ericson00]

Another monster reason not to vote for Sanders; aside from Chomsky and West, he has conspiracy theorists on his foreign policy advising:

Senator Bernie Sanders, looking to shore up his credentials on foreign policy, is seeking advice from a patchwork of experts, including Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and who has speculated that Israel might have carried out chemical attacks in Syria.

Mr. Wilkerson, a former Army colonel who has become an ardent critic of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, speculated about Israel’s possible role in a May 2013 interview with Cenk Uygur of Current TV.

“This could’ve been an Israeli false-flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria,” he added, saying that the attacks also could have been carried out by Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president. (The United States believes the Syrian government was in fact behind the chemical attacks.)

“But we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given,” he added. “And what I’m hearing from the intelligence community is that that evidence is really flaky.”

Even tho Bernie is Jewish himself, Jews know that there is (too much) dissent among Jews about Israel; and some of it delves into CT, which is in effect anti-Semitism. There's a reason Bernie is getting blown away in Florida, and Trump would make no bones of this kind of, well, STUFF. This isn't the only time Bernie would risk the Jewish vote.

[monicaangela]

1. Great choice!

Bernie is making a great choice when he decides to listen to Lawrence Wilkerson IMHO.

I would love to have this man as Secretary of Defense!

[rjsquirrel]

2. Wait what?

You're calling Wilkerson an "anti-Israel conspiracy theorist?"

I'm a likely Clinton supporter but that right there is some stone cold bullshit served straight up.

[hobbit709]

3. As opposed to someone that's buddies with that war criminal Henry Kissinger?

[nc4bo]

5. Was just going to drop that boulder here but you beat me to it!

[GreatGazoo]

4. The timeline seems clear now

The chemical weapons attack in 2013 was to be used as justification for US entry into a wider Syrian conflict. That didn't pan out so ever since then ISIS has been the alleged reason we need to go into Syria.

A series of chemical weapon attacks in March and April 2013 was investigated over the next few months by a special UN mission to Syria. A person with close knowledge of the UN’s activity in Syria told me that there was evidence linking the Syrian opposition to the first gas attack, on 19 March in Khan Al-Assal, a village near Aleppo. In its final report in December, the mission said that at least 19 civilians and one Syrian soldier were among the fatalities, along with scores of injured. It had no mandate to assign responsibility for the attack, but the person with knowledge of the UN’s activities said: ‘Investigators interviewed the people who were there, including the doctors who treated the victims. It was clear that the rebels used the gas. It did not come out in public because no one wanted to know.’

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

Gulf of Tonkin

[Ghost Dog]

6. Oh. CT!

The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

See also: http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/10/exclusive-does-israel-have-chemical-weapons-too

http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/israel/chemical/

[grossproffit]

7. Thanks for posting this.

Very disappointed.

[BernieforPres2016]

8. Hillary will stick with taking advise from war criminal Henry Kissinger

[safeinOhio]

9. If Israel would just open it's

weapons, chemical and nuclear, up to international inspectors, I just might buy your crap.

[Octafish]

10. Nice smear.

Col. Wilkerson is a very brave man. Stood up and said he suspects conspiracy in assassination of JFK.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/deutsey/22

He also wants to see Bush and Cheney prosecuted for lying America into war.

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14879

Why don't you, ericson00?

[Jefferson23]

11. Shameful and disgusting OP. Clinton camp is still worried evidently even after her big win in SC.

[Jefferson23]

12. This should have zero recommends. n/t

[Downwinder]

13. Sounds like a Conspiracy Theory.