‘Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,’ says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton
Former
CIA Director Michael Morell. © Jose Luis Magana / Reuters
RT,
9 August, 2016
Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to “pay the price.”
The
ex-CIA chief, who worked with Clinton while she was secretary of
state, told PBS host Charlie Rose that Iran and Russia should “pay
a big price” in
Syria – and by that he meant killing them.
“When
we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia
who were killing American soldiers,” Morell
said. “The
Iranians were making us pay a price.”
You see, Michael Morell is a man of virtue: he calls for death and destruction in proper politesse. Heaven forbid he crack a rude joke.
“We
need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria, we need to make the
Russians pay a price,” he
continued.
When
asked if that meant killing Russians and Iranians, Morell fully
agreed, qualifying the answer with “covertly.”
“Tell
the world about it, right?” he
went on. “You
don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this,’ but you
make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.”
Michael Morell on Charlie Rose said 'Hillary is the toughest in the room' more pro-neocon shade throwing at Obama cc @SamSacks @samknight1
Referring
to the US-backed rebels in Syria, Morell said he wanted Washington to
support them in more aggressive actions, not only against Bashar
Assad’s government, but against Iranians and Russians.
Morrell
then went on a diatribe about how the US should “scare” Assad,
including going after his national guard and“bombing
his offices in the middle of the night.”
“I’m
not advocating assassinating him, I’m advocating going after what
he thinks is his power base and what he needs to survive. I want to
put pressure on him, I want to put pressure on the Iranians, I want
to put pressure on the Russians to come to that diplomatic
settlement.”
The
former acting director of the CIA publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton
last week through an opinion piece in the New York Times, praising
her qualifications as commander-in-chief and
calling her rival Donald Trump a threat to national security.
Morell: "Just like we made the Russians pay a price in Afghanistan"
Rose: "By supporting mujahideen?"
Morell: "Yes!"
After
he retired from the CIA in August 2013, Morrell took a job at Beacon
Global Strategies, a Washington, DC consultancy founded by Clinton
aides Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro. There he worked with Leon
Panetta, another Clinton aide and his predecessor at the helm of the
CIA, who also spoke in support of Clinton at the Democratic
convention in Philadelphia last month.
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Last
year, Morrell apologized to “every
American” and
finally owned up to the “mistakes” made
by the CIA in Iraq, where over 4,000 US soldiers and at
least 250,000 Iraqi
civilians have been killed since the 2003 US invasion.
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