US fight against Daesh, media campaign: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Rickard, a former American Intelligence Linguist in Orlando, to discuss the use of chemical weapons by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Iraq.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: This August when it is finished will mark one year since the US-led coalition has been bombing what they are claiming to be these positions where the ISIL or Daesh terrorists are located. When we have this kind of a report coming, why isn’t this matter taken very seriously when we know what the ISIL terrorists are capable of before a real catastrophe happens? Do you think that the fight against the ISIL is being taken seriously when it comes to the US and its coalition targeting them?
Rickard: Absolutely not. In fact I think it is more of a media campaign. We had Richard Engel from NBC News reporting on this today and talking about mustard gas and chlorine and those types of things and it is more or less a media campaign to further the continuous war and just the endless military industrial complex financial gains that are being made out of this perpetual warfare.
If you look at the types of campaigns that the Americans and their “allies” have done, were pretty much, 80 percent of the work has been done by the Americans. It is a very small amount of bombing campaigns against these ISIL called terrorist organizations when in fact they very simply could be taken out in a much shorter period of time but unfortunately if they took out these groups, these groups would obviously not be available for them to justify the giant types of funding that are available for these organizations and government contractors. They are making money hand over fist. So no, I do not think they are taking it seriously. I think this is more of a media campaign.
Whether or not these groups are using chlorine gas or some form of homemade mustard gas firing from mortars, it is very rudimentary stuff, it is obviously very easy to make and homemade. And unfortunately the US news is going back and referencing Saddam Hussein’s use of mustard gas on the Kurdish people several decades ago but unfortunately what they do not mention in the news is that the Americans were actually the ones providing the mustard gas to Saddam Hussein at that time and what is really sad is that they are spinning the story in order to create and perpetuate fear, doubt, and uncertainty about these organizations that really unfortunately are being funded and backed and very lightly attacked by the West.
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