BREAKING NEWS build up to WW3: US wants CHAOS in SYRIA they ALLY with al-Qaeda (TERROR) Al-Assad OUT US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said that President Assad should “get the hell out” of power. Statements such as these, however, are symptomatic of a confused and contradictory foreign policy on Syria, expert Lawrence Freeman told RT. Panetta, currently on tour of the Middle East, said in a CNN interview that the US is ramping up economic and diplomatic pressure “to have Assad step down and to transition to a democratic form of government.” At the same time, the US Defense Secretary noted that it would be “important to maintain as much military and police” as possible after Assad leaves. Lawrence Freeman, editor of Executive Intelligence Review magazine, believes Panetta’s statements