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A short range chemical weapon and no one is wearing a gas mask, or protective clothing. Im not convinced.
What tacticle objective were the rebs trying to achieve by gassing civilians?
What tacticle objective were the rebs trying to achieve by gassing civilians?
Pssst: who passed the War Powers Act? Come on, you can google it.
Pssst: The War Powers Act has prevented what President from doing what military action? Come on, you can google it.
It depends on what "evidence" one is looking at!
US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey stand accused of state sponsorship of terrorism. UN failure to enforce its own resolutions will resign their legitimacy, necessitate their expedient removal and replacement with multipolar system.
The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) currently arming, funding, and commanding entire brigades of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA), is designated an Al Qaeda affiliate by the United Nations pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), in addition to being listed by both the US State Department and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) as a foreign terrorist organization and a proscribed terrorist organization respectively.
UN Designates “Free Syrian Army” Affiliates as Al Qaeda | Global Research
They were hoping for it to be blamed on Assad as the US is trying to do, knowing that if it would work, they could lay on their laurels, take a break, while the US starts blowing stuff and people up. A lot of those people will be civilians too though.What tacticle objective were the rebs trying to achieve by gassing civilians?
getting the Americans to blow The Smithereens out of their opposition like we did in Kosovo and Libya?
Yes, even Fox News (so infamous for being anti-Obama admin) is reporting the "Syrian government propaganda", and I'm not convinced that the Syrian government is behind it.
There are no "groups" in Syria that are or will be an ally or friend of the US.
NONE.
What is currently happening is the Muslim version of our Vietnam or Korean War; in that the Sunni's (Saudi Arabia and others) and Shiites (Iran, Al Qaeda and others) are fighting a proxy war with Syria the battleground.
You know what would also be a really boneheaded move? A U.S. president helping to commit a war crime to justify aiding America's enemies, when most of the country is war-weary and half of the country is looking for him to fail.I'm not saying that's what happened. But the Syrian government was winning the war and attacking only civilians only galvanized the world against them. That seems like an awfully boneheaded move. I wondered why the UN wasn't acting, it may be because this isn't as clear cut as Obama is making it out to be.
You know what would also be a really boneheaded move? A U.S. president helping to commit a war crime to justify aiding America's enemies, when most of the country is war-weary and half of the country is looking for him to fail.
I'm a little confused by why Assad would order a chemical weapons attack as well, but I have to believe that our leaders (1) are not insane, and (2) have learned enough from the Iraq debacle not to repeat the same mistakes of faulty intelligence.
I'm not saying that's what happened. But the Syrian government was winning the war and attacking only civilians only galvanized the world against them. That seems like an awfully boneheaded move. I wondered why the UN wasn't acting, it may be because this isn't as clear cut as Obama is making it out to be.
They were hoping for it to be blamed on Assad as the US is trying to do, knowing that if it would work, they could lay on their laurels, take a break, while the US starts blowing stuff and people up. A lot of those people will be civilians too though.
yeah I mean it's not like jihadists care if they die or anything. They're careful people focused on their future. I wouldn't expect them to take any risks with dangerous weapons.
Good evening, apdst. :2wave:
Perhaps they have succeeded in what they were trying to do. They are creating a problem for Assad! Are they planning a regime change, which would get rid of the current ruling faction and replace it with something else? Who knows what that might be? I cite Egypt as an example. In the meantime, the Mideast is in chaos! Who does that benefit? :thumbdown:
...Islam is going to destroy the west? oh plueaze dude seriously? I'd much rather the west would just concentrate on doing what we do best, getting richer and elevating our citizens standards of living.
The probability that even if we tried our best that we could drag these people into the 21st century is 0.000000000000000000%
Syrian Rebels Claim Saudi Prince Bandar Responsible For Chemical Weapons Attack
Oh I forget: you're using conservative logic and so you don't want to discuss relevant facts.
getting the Americans to blow The Smithereens out of their opposition like we did in Kosovo and Libya?
The civilians that didn't die would be raising holy hell by now. Turning on the rebs.
Next week they will claim it was Santa or some alien from Area 51. Obama has eyes on the ground, as well as satellites and U-2 flyover data. At some point we have to let the guy that sixty-five million voted for just do his job.
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