Posted on 04/08/2017 12:16:30 PM PDT by ckinv368
Did you see this?
Is it supposed to sound worse if he gasses his “own people”? His “own people” he’s accused of gassing are ISIS pretending to be freedom fighting rebels. Remember the ones McCain loves to pose with?
No UN resolutions.
No “Coalition of the Whatever”.
No red-lines.
No endless debate in the media.
No talking.
Just action, swift, measured, and proportional.
Perfect execution by a brand-new team.
Strength!
Trump!
Another author who gets it exactly right.
I sincerely hope so, but time will tell.
What if that is the case. Makes more sense than gassing a bunch of civilians.
Who used gas in the two previous attacks in March and August of 2013? Assad denied those too. It has been reported that the gas used in those two attacks had the same hallmarks, and likely came from stockpiles of the Syrian military. Obama and Rice claimed that all gas was removed from Syria, but we can take what they say with a grain of salt. Since Obama and Rice are liars, why isn’t Assad a liar too? If Assad was responsible for those two other attacks, he didn’t face any consequences, so why wouldn’t he take the chance to use it again? I’m giving the President, and the intelligence claims that they tracked the plane that dropped it, the benefit of the doubt...not some muzzie tyrant.
Experts on chemical weapons believe that the nerve agents used in both the 2013 attack and the attack this past week were “binary” in nature. That means that the chemical precursors were mixed shortly before detonation in precise quantities. This is often done by a two-chamber shell or bomb, and is used to prolong shelf life (Sarin otherwise only has a shelf life of 5 years). It’s a very sophisticated effort to make a binary agent, and is likely not one that the Syrian rebels could pull off. The Japanese terrorists that made Sarin in the mid-1990s spent millions of dollars, and had a 3 story chemistry lab staffed with dozens of people and an enormous amount of sophisticated equipment, and they still only managed to make a couple gallons of the stuff. The Syrian rebels simply don’t have the sophistication to make that happen.
Women, children and babies are “freedom fighting rebels”?
I guess it’s ok then.
I am not impressed. If President Trump really wants to demonstrate his strength and humanity, he'll put a stop to Saudi atrocities against civilians in Yemen. After all, they have beautiful babies in Yemen too.
I agree, the Saudis are really evil bastards.
Sherlock Holmes would have asked, “Who benefits?”
Assad had every reason not to do this.
The rebels had every reason to falsely pin it on Assad...
The only thing that matters are US interests.
Then Assad is short a runway.
If he did it was in the ether, zotted.
I read the post to JimRob that got him blasted, but didn’t know until today he was goneskiis. thanks.
Atrocity propaganda or lies have been at the forefront of almost every war in the 20th century. Belgian babies bayoneted or hands cut off. The USS Maine sinking blamed on the Spanish. The Germans claimed the Poles attacked a radio station in Germany, provoking their invasion. Gulf of Tonkin. The CIA painted US planes in Cuban AF colors for Bay of Pigs to make it look like this was a Cuban internal revolt. The Kuwaiti babies thrown from incubators.
Its more BS to morally justify a war they planned for other reasons. It makes the war they want magically transform into a moral crusade. We arent fighting for a neocon revision of the middle east to make the Saudis and Gulf States happy. No, we are fighting for poor little gassed children.
They always say truth is the first casualty....
I agree, the Saudis are really evil bastards.
Good points...
Seems that it is OK what Saudis do because they are our ally.
Not OK what Assad does because he is Russia’s ally and Russia and Assad are more evil that Saudis (even tho they dkilled 3,000 and injured 6,000 on 9/11).
We don’t hear much about the Saudi Yemen atrocities...
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/human-rights-watch-report-identifies-saudi-atrocities-in-yemen/
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the Saudi regime for the thousands of innocent deaths its coalition air force has perpetrated against the Yemenis, as well as significant infrastructure destruction it has engaged in.
The annual report found that at least 4,125 civilians were killed and a further 7,207 injured between March 26, 2015 when the Saudi campaign began, and October 10, 2016.
HRW identified six types of air-dropped and ground-launched cluster munitions in multiple locations in Yemen, including those produced in the US and Brazil. Amnesty International has further documented the use of UK-made cluster munitions.
The report identified that the Saudi-led aggression has been supported by the United States and the United Kingdom.
The gas attack killed 70. The war killed half a million. If we are going to get worked up about the one, you'd think we'd get a little worked up about the other.
The war was launched by the Turks, Saudis, Qataris, and Obama's State Department. It has killed half a million people. Its purpose was to bring down Assad. To do that, they recruited jihadis from around the middle east and from muslim populations in the west. The result is that, aside from destroying Syria, they have committed genocide against non-muslim populations that have been there for 2 thousand years.
The rebels are Al Qaeda and ISIS.
There are probably good reasons to bring down Assad, but not when your replacement is Al Qaeda, ISIS, or Muslim Brotherhood. So, in other words, we have killed half a million people and had we won we'd have only made things worse. Is it better to have Assad pointing missiles at Israel, or Al Qaeda pointing missiles at Israel? Is the difference worth 500,000 Syrian lives and 3 million refugees unleashed on Europe?
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