Yesterday
RT came up with the mind-boggling story of how US VP Joe Biden
gave a speech at Harvard
in which he told the truth about US allies supplying Jihadists in
Syria. Except he forgot, at the same time to mention the US's
own role in all of this.
This
earth-shattering news did not get any coverage anywhere in major
western news outlet despite the fact that the video footage is
available and you can hear first-hand what Biden had to say.
I
said yesterday "just wait for the reaction"
And
it came with President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan making this statement:
"If
Biden told these words, then he will be history to me. I never
uttered such remarks, he
should apologize. I'm saying this clearly. And we won't accept
slender, indirect explanations.”
God
knows what was happening yesterday behind closed doors but the
reports are that Biden has had to apologise to Erdogan.
Here
is how the Guardian reported this:
In
Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded and received an
apology from the US vice-president, Joe Biden, over commentsin which
Biden said the Turkish leader had admitted Turkey had made mistakes
by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.
Erdogan
denied ever saying that and told reporters in Istanbul that Biden
“will be history for me if he has indeed used such expressions”.
The
White House said Biden spoke to Erdogan on Saturday “to clarify
comments”, and said Biden apologised “for any implication” that
Turkey or other allies had intentionally supplied or helped in the
growth of the Isis group or other extremists in Syria.
Responding
to questions following his speech at the Harvard Kennedy School on
Thursday, Biden described Erdogan as “an old friend” and added:
“He [Erdogan] said: ‘You were right. We let too many people
through.’ Now they’re trying to seal their border.”
Erdogan
said: “I have never said to him that we had made a mistake, never.
If he did say this at Harvard then he has to apologise to us. Foreign
fighters have never entered Syria from our country. They may come to
our country as tourists and cross into Syria, but no one can say that
they cross in with their arms.”
Nowhere in the report is it acknowleged what Biden ACTUALLY said: "So, determined to take down Assad they poured in hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons to anyone who would fight Assad; except the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra, al-Qaeda and extremist elements of Juhadis coming from other parts of the world" (my transcript of Biden's speech)
You
can hear for yourself what was actually said.
So
the part of the media that is covering this AT ALL is lying by
omitting to quote what was actually said.
It seems, also, if you look at the quote that Erdogan is not acknowledging the truth of what was actually revealed
I
am actually surprised that no one is jumping up and down about this -
yet another indication of how far we have slipped when it comes to
reporting an vestige of the truth.
If
you really want to hear for yourself, listen to this more objective
report from RT
Here is RT's article from today:
Biden apologizes to Turkish president for ISIS remarks
US
Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan after alleging that the leader allowed foreign
fighters allied with the Islamic State to cross into Syria. Erdogan
was outraged over the remark.
Biden
presented his apology in a phone call to Erdogan on Saturday, the
White House said.
Speaking at Harvard University on
Thursday, Biden claimed that "President
Erdogan told me, he is an old friend, said you were right, we let too
many people through, now we are trying to seal the
border.”
Responding
to the remark, Erdogan said he “never
admitted any mistakes.” "If
Biden told these words, then he will be history to me. I never
uttered such remarks," the
Turkish leader said. “He
should apologize. I'm saying this clearly. And we won't accept
slender, indirect explanations.”
During
the phone call with Erdogan, Biden “apologized
for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the
region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL
(IS, ISIS) or other violent extremists in Syria," the
White House said.
On Thursday, Biden blamed America’s
allies in the region – Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab
Emirates – for allowing the rise of the Islamic State, saying they
supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to
oust the Assad regime in Syria.
“Our
allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he
said. He went on to explain that such allies were “so
determined to take down Assad,” that
in a sense they started a “proxy
Sunni-Shia war” by
pouring “hundreds
of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of
weapons” towards
anyone who would fight against the Syrian leader.
So we do not lose touch with what Biden said in the recent past, see this
US
VP Biden: We Couldn't
Convince Our Mideast Allies
to Stop Supporting
Extremists
in Syria
US
Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the
Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS aka ISIL or
ISIS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in
their eagerness to topple Assad in Syria.
America’s
“biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told
students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of
Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.
“Our
allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said,
explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so
determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a
“proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of
dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone
who would fight against Assad.
“And
we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” said
Biden, thus dissociating the US from unleashing the civil war in
Syria.
“The
outcome of such a policy now is more visible,” he said, as it
turned out they supplied extremists from Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda.
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