US President Barack Obama last week announced “plans for $500 million to go to arming moderates in Syria,” Joe Iosbaker, a United National Antiwar Committee leader, told Press TV on Thursday. But, he said, “The use of the word moderates is for public relations here.”

“It is well-known that weapons provided to a so-called moderate today end up in the hands of the most brutal of sectarian forces tomorrow,” Iosbaker said.

By supporting the so-called moderates the US is seeking “to oust President Assad by any means,” he said.