Posted on 04/13/2018 7:05:43 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., says he believes a majority of the public doubts the official U.S. government contention that Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical gas against the final rebel-held town near Damascus.
“Anybody who has tried to explain to me why Assad would do this sounds like a conspiracy theorist,” said Massie, a libertarian Republican from Kentucky. “It requires really contorted thinking to think Assad did this. You have to come up with very complicated reasons.”
“I cannot think of a reason he would,” Massie said.
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Don’t know
If you hear, let me know. I’ll do the same.
>> It’s true because our intelligence community tells us it’s true <<
Hey, Keemosabe, what’s with this “our” business?
I get the impression that your intelligence service is located in Lubyanka. But “our” service is at Langley.
You mean Assad vs the Mccain backed cannibals that we are supporting. BTW....Hilary says that bombing Assad would be the right thing to do so that should tell everyone its the wrong thing to do.
I trust Congressman Massie over the rest of the lot that have R’s next to them consistently.
He never sold his soul to the RINO leadership like 98 percent of the rest of the rank and file.
Then maybe, for the sake of your own mental health, you should not click on threads like this one!
(Or, as some sage seemingly said, "Ignorance can be bliss.")
Although their release could certainly could have been accidental, I am very doubtful that the Syrian government deliberately used them. I suspect that it was an enemy of the Syrian government trying to undermine support for Syria. Otherwise it could have been a third party who has an interest in prolonging the conflict and is willing to allow the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people to keep the area destabilized. I have no confidence in anything the CIA, State Department, UN, or the legacy media has to say about it. They have all been wrong far more than they have been right.
You can count me among them.
>> Why are there so many Assad apologists? <<
Some probably work at the KGB troll factory in St. Petersburg.
Others may be the sort of “useful idiots” that were so beloved by Lenin and Stalin.
But hey, FR is one big happy family, correct?
We should prove it’s Assad’s fault before we get mired in a conflict that has the potential to be very deadly. I think Putin is all in. I think the Iranians are biting at the bit to take Syria. Now the Turks are involved. This situation is about Middle Eastern powers wanting to ascend to Great Power status.
And the explanations given by the “false flag” crew is just as ludicrous.
Bashar Assad is a despot, who has more than sufficiently demonstrated his blood lust, and the inclination to murder his own people - just as did his father before him. Yet we have individuals, here on FR and elsewhere, who are willing to ascribe to a madman the faculty of sanity and the purist of intentions.
Many here on FR are too willing to believe that Assad is a rational creature; and then go on to claim that the ONLY possible explanation for this gas attack is a Deep State “false flag” operation. Take off the tinfoil hats, look at the past behavior of this man, and then consider Occam’s Razor.
I believe there are Russian trolls on this site attempting to guide people here towards anti-western sentiment.
DITTO!
Never-Trumper retreads - or else Russian trolls.
Seriously? (Shaking head, and doing triple face-palm)
That seems to be a popular opinion among those who signed up at about the time UK intelligence knew Hillary was going to lose.
Exactly. What is another air attack going to do?
True or not, why should the U.S. CARE? Have the U.N. have at it, for what they’re worth.
We got a much more serious problem, besides the fact that our military is still in Syria, and thus possible targets of the same chemical weapons ...
My guess is either the Russians, or more likely the Iranians - with Russian assistance - are behind this.
Either way, we are going to eventually need to deal with both. We have some foolish individuals here on FR, who seriously entertain the notion that we can be on good terms with Russia; because they also believe that Russia truly is now a “democracy” ... They also believe the Cold War actually “ended,” and all those high-level communists, who ran the Soviet Union with an iron fist (KGB Colonel Putin, for example) have seen the “error” of their ways, and miraculously left Marxism in the dust.
“In times of war, the public is not entitled to secret evidence.”
Well, since there isn’t the slightest legal justification for us to be there, I guess we are entitled. There is no Congressional authorization for force, no declaration war (like we actually live under the old constitution!) No NATO resolution (not recognized under international law anyway), and no UN authorization of force.
So in times of illegal undeclared war, yes, we are entitled. There’s even some really old theory that the government answers to the people.
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