Posted on 12/10/2012 12:32:49 PM PST by smoothsailing
December 10, 2012
Eric Golub
LOS ANGELES, December 10, 2012 ― For every innocent Syrian killed, there is a world organization with bloodied Syrian bodies on its filthy hands.
That useless, ineffectual bastion of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism known as the United Nations has decided to stop doing nothing and start looking busy.
Recent reports say that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad is moving and preparing chemical weapons, which suggests that he is willing to kill his own people in order to maintain his weakening grip on power. This guy is as dangerous and crazy as Occupy Wall Streeters. Although he is less organized than they are, they are not threatening to murder thousands with Sarin gas.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has decided to look like they have the ability and inclination to prevent genocide anywhere.
President Obama took a brave stand by curling up in a fetal position and sticking to what he knows, which is community organizing. Mr. Obama called the situation “unacceptable.” This is code for an involuntary reflexive muscle gesture known as shoulder shrugging.
Those determined to declare Mr. Obama right about everything spouted gibberish for four years about how a tough stand by America would endanger Americans in Syria. First of all, what the heck are Americans doing in Syria? Was Cancun out of hotel rooms? The day after Benghazi, every diplomat in the Middle East should have abandoned their posts knowing they would not be protected.
Yet if Mr. Obama represents individual inertia, the U.N. is an entire club of plutocrats who long ago confined their activities to shopping in Manhattan and sexually assaulting hotel workers...
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Wonder where Syria got the chemical weapons. Just days before coalition forces liberated Iraq, a large number of truck convoys were spotted leaving Iraq for the Syrian border.
Wonder where Syria got the chemical weapons. Just days before coalition forces liberated Iraq, a large number of truck convoys were spotted leaving Iraq for the Syrian border.
Susan Rice will report it as a “flu outbreak”-via the “intelligence community”.
Brilliant headline alert!!!
So what they can’t deliver them-—Joe Biteme
Yep.
Just days before coalition forces liberated Iraq, a large number of truck convoys were spotted leaving Iraq for the Syrian border.
I know I saw that video in night vision of the convoys leaving Iraq. The communist main stream media pounced on Bush saying Iraq didn’t have WMDs and, of course, the stupid part of the country believed it. It was there all the time. Sickening.
For once I am for inaction.
In the first place we do not know who has control of chemical weapons, Assad or the Rebels.
In the second place if Assad uses these weapons he is using then against the Muslm Brotherhood. Is that bad?
Obama got the ball rolling on this mess , now it has gone past his control.Now he wants to keep his hands clean. Let the Syrians figure this out themselves.
Not that anyone is going to bother to read this, but
http://www.nti.org/media/pdfs/syria_chemical.pdf?_=1316466790
September 1989
Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iran, and Iraq are all listed as openly deploying or suspected of producing chemical weapons. —David Fairhall, “US-Soviet convention would help reverse trend to poison warfare,” The Guardian (London), 26 September 1989, web.lexis-nexis.com.
22 February 1989
In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, the US Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear-Admiral Thomas Brooks, describes Syria as a country that has obtained or is developing CW capabilities. —Admiral Thomas Brooks, prepared testimony, House Armed Services Committee, 22 February 1989, pp. 38-39.
9 February 1989
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, CIA Director William Webster states, “Syria is stockpiling a variety of chemical warfare agents for various battlefield missions [and] producing and amassing a variety of munitions that can be used as delivery systems for chemical agents...Syria has nerve agents in some weapon systems.” —William Webster, Prepared Testimony, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, 9 February 1989, p. 5.
1989
China sells Syria over 11,000 MF-11 gas masks. The exact date of the sale or the delivery remains unspecified. —ASA Newsletter, No. 2, 1990, p. 4.
December 1988
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy publishes a report stating that Syria received a small number of chemical weapons from Egypt prior to the1973 Middle East war. —W. Seth Carus, “Chemical Weapons in the Middle East,” Research Memorandum No. 9, (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy), 1988.
24 March 1988
Colonel-General Vladmir K. Pikalov, chief of the Soviet Union’s Chemical Troops, visits Syria and holds meetings with the defense minister, the commander in chief, and the deputy chief of staff of the Syrian armed forces. The purpose of the visit is reportedly to express the USSR’s displeasure over the Syrian pursuit of chemical weapons in the wake of controversy generated by the Halabja incident in Iraq. —Gordon M. Burck and Charles C. Flowerree, International Handbook on Chemical Weapons Proliferation (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. 216-217.
4 August 1987
The United States adds eight more chemicals to the list of precursors banned from export to Syria. —The Journal of Commerce, 4 August 1987, p. 6a.
2 December 1986
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin tells parliament, “we are aware that Syria is armed with chemical weapons—artillery shells, bombs, and ground-to-ground missile warheads...including nerve gas.” He also states that Syria is engaged in the production of gas carrying bombs. —Andrew Meisels, “Israel Confirms Syria has Chemical Weapons,” Washington Times, 3 December 1986, p. 1.
7 August 1986
Syria is reported to be helping the Iranian CW program, which is described as much smaller than the Syrian program. —Michael Gordon, “Talks resume to stop spread of chemical arms,” New York Times, 25 August 1986, p. A4.
7 August 1986
In a speech before Israel’s National Defense College, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announces that Syria is spending large sums to acquire surface-to-surface missiles and to develop chemical warheads. This publicly reported statement represents a change in Israeli policy, which had previously censored all mention of Syrian chemical weapons capabilities. —Reuters, “Syria plans ‘poison gas warheads’,” Daily Telegraph, 8 August 1986.
5 June 1986
The United States bans the sale of eight chemical precursors to Syria. —David B. Ottaway, “Syria included in ban of chemical arms ingredients,” Washington Post, 6 June 1986, p. A35.
Early 1986
Unidentified US officials describe Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities as including domestically produced sarin. —Aharon Levran, ed., The Middle East Military Balance 1986 (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1987), pp. 94-95.
1985
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith indicates that Syria has a production capability for nerve agents. —Tom Diaz, “Syria said to have offered chemical weapons to Iran,” Washington Times, 9 December 1985, p. 4.
15 September 1983
A U.S. Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) asserts that Syria is “a major recipient of Soviet CW assistance, [and] probably has the most advanced chemical warfare capability in the Arab world, with the possible exception of Egypt. Both Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union provided the chemical agents, delivery systems, and training that flowed to Syria. As long as this support is forthcoming, there is no need for Syria to develop an indigenous capability to produce CW agents or materiel, and none has been identified.” Note: This intelligence assessment is potentially at odds with later assessments that Syria obtained its initial CW capability through Egypt. Additionally it should be noted that there is no direct reference to the size of the Syrian CW arsenal although the clear implication is that it is not insignificant. —Implications of Soviet Use of Chemical and Toxin Weapons for US Security Interests, SNIE 11-17-83, Central Intelligence Agency, 15 September 1983, p. 11, www.foia.cia.gov; Don Oberdorfer, “Chemical arms curbs are sought,” Washington Post, 9 September, 1985, pp. A1, 6; Gordon M. Burck and Charles C. Flowerree, International Handbook on Chemical Weapons Proliferation (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), p. 209.
1983
Syria receives a shipment of corrosion-resistant glass vessels and pipes and other lab equipment apparently destined for a Damascus Research facility. The materials, imported from Germany, have the potential to be used for the production of chemical weapons agents. —John J. Fialka, “Fighting Dirty: Western Industry Sells Third World the Means To Produce Poison Gas,” Wall Street Journal, 16 September 1988, p. 1.
Late 1982
The Syrian leadership decides to build an indigenous chemical weapons capability. —M. Zuhair Diab, “Syria’s Chemical and Biological Weapons: Assessing Capabilities and Motivations,” The Nonproliferation Review 5 (Fall 1997), p. 110.
June 1982
Syria suffers a major defeat by Israeli forces in Lebanon, including the destruction of air-force and air-defense network. —Statement in U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Bobbi Fielder (California), Congressional Record, Daily Edition, 17 May 1984, p. H4088.
February 1982
There are unsubstantiated claims by Amnesty International that Syrian forces employ cyanide gas during the suppression of Moslem brotherhood in Hama. —Walter Andrews, “Assad: Terrorism’s Master of Disaster,” Washington Times, 9 December 1985, p. 4; Gordon M. Burck and Charles C. Flowerree, International Handbook on Chemical Weapons Proliferation (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), p. 209.
1979-1982
It is claimed that Scud-B missiles have been fitted with VX warheads since 1979-1982. —Paul Beaver, “Syria to Make Chemical Bomblets for Scud C’s,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, 3 September 1997, p. 3.
October 1973
Syria suffers a major defeat by Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Some reports indicate that Israeli forces capture samples of Syrian chemical weapons. —Statement in U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Bobbi Fielder (California), Congressional Record, Daily Edition, 17 May 1984, p. H4088.
Late 1972-Mid-1973
Egypt supplies Syria with weaponized CW in preparation for Yom Kippur War. The shipment is variously described as mustard and sarin or mustard only. —W. Seth Carus, “Chemical Weapons in the Middle East,” Research Memorandum No. 9, (Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy), 1988, p. 5.
Generally, any action by the US in Syria will be to support the MB. If it requires a pretext - for example, chemical weapons... then so be it. Does not really matter the details of its use, who uses it, how much it is used. The point is, that the Øregime if/when it needs the pretext, will amplify whatever whiff of a use (or even non-use) to justify it.
The REAL agenda is to whip Israel. The way politics are, even post-election, the Øregime *STILL* can only fight Israel by proxy. So, Proxy it will be...
I believe you are pretty close to having the correct analogy.
It’s funny how Bush was blamed so vociferously for making excuses to go into Iraq, but of course no outcry when Obama is getting ready to have the US fight for his Muslim Brotherhood compadre’s.
Assad has chemical weapons: Obama and the U.N. vow tough inaction
Goody. We finally found Saddams chemical weapons!!!!!
Actually another source was back in December of 2002, just before we jumped off on Iraq...
Three chemical Parcel tankers left Basra, and headed out of the gulf “hull down” (meaning loaded) with...”something”...
This was released to the media at the time, and then those ships vanished, or were not tracked, or reported on ever again...
I had a bet with my dad that these ships went directly to Syria with some pretty nasty stuff...
And now we are paying the price for the lack of action on those ships...
If anyone wants to know why I believe this to be a credible source for the Syrian regime’s “new” found capability, I offer my time I spent in the Persian Gulf observing and analysing data on shipping through that region, and that after my time in the Navy, I worked for Stolt Parcel Tankers...
I believe those ships were the perfect, and secure method of transport and transfer of chemical weapon materials...
I am not surprised that the Syrian government and Assad are rattling this sabre at this time...
Actually another source was back in December of 2002, just before we jumped off on Iraq...
Three chemical Parcel tankers left Basra, and headed out of the gulf “hull down” (meaning loaded) with...”something”...
This was released to the media at the time, and then those ships vanished, or were not tracked, or reported on ever again...
I had a bet with my dad that these ships went directly to Syria with some pretty nasty stuff...
And now we are paying the price for the lack of action on those ships...
If anyone wants to know why I believe this to be a credible source for the Syrian regime’s “new” found capability, I offer my time I spent in the Persian Gulf observing and analysing data on shipping through that region, and that after my time in the Navy (1983-2004), I worked for Stolt Parcel Tankers...
I believe those ships were the perfect, and secure method of transport and transfer of chemical weapon materials...
I am not surprised that the Syrian government and Assad are rattling this sabre at this time...
Why are conservatives fighting for another Nation building, p.c. sucidal war over there? Screw them! Who cares if Syria chems the jihadist radicals??? Chem ‘em and then we can nuke Ayssad and call it even. All the muslim jihadists dead. No need to nation build for dead people. I think the rebels and the regime have tortured and murdered all the Christians already.
LOL, yeah, that’ll work! :)
Bingo...
I had had a link to the pictures of those ships (tankers) leaving the channel off of the Fau penninsula in December 2002...But the link eventually died, and the info I had bookmarked was gone...I didn’t know how to save the data beyond the bookmarking at that time in my internet career...;-)
Why we didn’t intercept (interdict) those ships is beyond me, but hindsight is 20/20, and those who may have had better intel at the time probably thought it was better to just keep tabs on them better than turning those ships into a hazard to navigation (in some deep water of course)...
But politics probably got in the way and by the time you could have done something about it, passed without action in any shape or form...
Now we have this issue...And we have an NCA which is a proven, non-actionable, authority running the circus now...
Amazing how this countries “international” credibility has been decimated in such a short period of time...By just one person...
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