Posted on 08/25/2016 5:31:27 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Last Sunday marked the three-year anniversary of the most egregious use of weapons of mass destruction in the 21st century: the sarin gas massacre in Ghouta, Syria, where President Bashar Assad caused the death by asphyxiation of 1,300 men, women and children. No particular fuss was made over the milestone, and it’s not hard to understand why.
Syrians are now being burned to death by napalm. A primitive version of the Vietnam-era incendiary jelly is routinely packed into the crude barrel bombs Assad’s forces have been dropping on civilian neighbourhoods at a rate of about 220 a week since October, when his friends in the Kremlin assured the world that the Syrian regime had stopped using barrel bombs altogether.
It has been almost three years since U.S. President Barack Obama walked back from his chemical-weapons “red line” in Syria and joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in the pantomime that resulted in the Sept. 27, 2013, UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2118, which called on Assad to surrender his chemical weapons stockpile. Ghouta has been unavoidably mentioned in recent days only in passing, following the disclosure by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that its investigators had detected the precursors of nerve agents at facilities Assad had failed to declare under UNSCR 2118. It seems the Syrian president has been lying all along about getting out of the murder-by-sarin business.
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Even the UN found evidence the sarin gas attack was a false flag operation mounted by us backed rebels to force the U.S. into attacking assad after obama’s “ red line” threat ( which turned out to be empty)
Don’t necessarily believe Assad was responsible for the Sarin, but if he was, good for him.
I hope Assad kills ALL of the Rebels, down to the last man, woman, and child, whether they are ‘moderate,’ or ISIS
They started this stupid civil war, and deserve the consequences.
Boo-frickin-hoo.
A pro-Iran, secular Assad regime which includes the various Syrian minorities is a trillion times preferable to the only alternative: pro-Saudi, radical Sunni-Islamist rule.
I don’t give a hoot whether Assad is using though methods to keep the Sunni-Islamist ghouls at bay. Actually... the harder the better.
No friend, baraq Obama, Hillary Clinton and whatever globalists prop them up ( Saudi Arabia, Soros et al) started the Syrian War and tore that country apart
and it is continuing
A pro-Iran, secular Assad regime which includes the various Syrian minorities is a trillion times preferable to the only alternative: pro-Saudi, radical Sunni-Islamist rule.
Nonsense. Death to America Iran as the dominate regional power in the Middle East is a disaster for us. A war waiting to happen. A big one.
There is more to this that meets the eye. I believe Syria is dead, they just don’t know it yet. My take on all of this is Iran’s “Caliphate.” They need Syria and to get Syria not only do they have to wipe out the Christians, they have to wipe out the Kurds. This is happening in the guise of destroying ISIS.
This is also why Obama didn’t get arms to the Kurds despite their pleading. The 1.3 Billion will wind up in the Assad bank account as a going away present.
They couldn’t have started it without the Syrians, themselves.
The “rebels” were the ones who used the chemical weapons.
The same “rebels” that Rubio, Graham and McCain helped Obama, Hillary and Kerry arm.
Well they couldn’t start it with the Egyptians whose strong military rose up and stabilized things but Libya and Ukraine not so lucky, counted the death tolls?
They are bringing civil war here to Europe and America now so I guess by your reasoning you can see if europe and America deserve to destroy themselves by instigated infighting
Or: How Barack Obama sold out U.S. energy producers to boost Iran’s oil sales in his nuclear sell-out deal.
He made money for the Iranian Sunnis (his father’s religion) and crushed the Texas oil market, so it was a win/win for him.
Remember that it was a sunni regional power Saudi arabia that brought us 911, not Iran
and now, the Syrian “ civil” war also brought by Saudi Arabia with US as its hired mercenary military
Saudi Arabia vs Iran
Neither major islamic sect will bring peace and prosperity to the region or the world - neither can be allowed to win without great bloodshed and world war
despite Syria’s longstanding tie with Iran Assad is one last bulwark of secularism - there is simply no rational alternative at this time
the U.S. policy of destroying nations and expecting the rebuild to be an improvement has failed repeatedly
It is Saudi Arabia and it’s Sunni-Islamist minions in the region that are hellbent on eradicating Christians and other ethnic/religious minorities to create a Caliphate (an inherently Sunni institution that is anathema to Shia Iran).
That so many think Iran is the real problem, and not our Sunni Arab/Turkish supposed “allies” (haha) prove only their utter susceptibility to propaganda.
Team Assad for the win.
Iran is Shia... not Sunni.
Team Assad for the win.
Well, the two biggest supporters of Death to America Iran, the kenyan and KGB Vlad, agree with you. You keep good company, FRiend.
We know what we get with the Saudis. They are dirt bags no doubt.
A nuclear armed Death to America Iran backed by mass murdering one party state fascist Russia is capable of is far greater threat than Saudi. It’s not even close.
It was started over the entire ME, the “Arab Spring.”
Dunno what the Arabs were thinking.
We deserve destruction if we can’t reverse the course set with the election of Obama.
Likewise, Europe deserves what it gets if it doesn’t destroy the EU and topple the leaders acting against their interests. This BS of leaders worrying about invading barbarians over the interests of their citizens needs to end - violently.
Thanks.
Well Trump agrees with me that Team Putin/Assad aren’t that bad.
You have the company of Saudis, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Salafist slimes, John McCain and an assortment of Neocon shysters.
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