Ex-CIA
Director Who Endorsed Clinton Calls for Killing Iranians and Russians
in Syria!
Former
acting CIA Director Michael Morell said in an interview Monday that
U.S. policy in Syria should be to make Iran and Russia “pay a
price” by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian
and Russian personnel in the country.
Morell was
appearing on the Charlie Rose show on PBS in the wake of his publicly
endorsing Hillary Clinton on the New York Times opinion pages.
Clinton has
expressed support for increased military intervention in Syria
against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government. Iran and Russia are
backing Assad.
“What
they need is to have the Russians and Iranians pay a little price,”
Morell said. “When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving
weapons to the Shia militia, who were killing American soldiers,
right? The Iranians were making us pay a price. We need to make the
Iranians pay a price in Syria. We need to make the Russians pay a
price.”
Morell said
the killing of Russians and Iranians should be undertaken “covertly,
so you don’t tell the world about it, you don’t stand up at the
Pentagon and say ‘we did this.’ But you make sure they know it in
Moscow and Tehran.”
Morell also
proposed that U.S. forces begin bombing Syrian government
installations, including government offices, aircraft and
presidential guard positions. The former acting CIA director said
that he wanted to “scare Assad.” Morell clarified that he wasn’t
actually calling for Assad’s assassination.
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