Posted on 01/21/2014 7:59:51 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
In the early hours of August 21, 2013, rebel-controlled areas of the Syrian capital Damascus were attacked with chemical weapons. Not long afterwards, videos, photos, and eyewitness accounts appeared on the Internet, and experts examining the symptoms concluded quickly that the nerve agent Sarin was used to kill and injure hundreds of people. According to the US government, 1,429 people were killed, including 426 children.
Nine days later, US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Syrian government troops of having committed a war crime. Speaking at a press conference, he presented a map of Damascus showing which areas were government-controlled, and which were controlled by rebels. He then went on to appear before a Senate hearing in Washington on September 3, and said, "We are certain that none of the opposition has the weapons or capacity to effect a strike of this scale, particularly from the heart of regime territory."
In detail, the former United Nations weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and national security expert Theodore A. Postol explained that the rockets were much too short-range to have been fired from the center of the government-controlled areas. The "heart" of Damascus, they said, is between five and ten kilometers from the scene of the strike, while the missiles in question could only have flown two kilometers.
This statement has now come under fire. In a 23-page report, two US experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) concluded that the attack could not have originated from "the heart" of the regime-controlled area.
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Global Research??? Serious? Truther site.
Thanks for warning, but the link seems straight up on this issue.
The article presents a number of similarities between Bush’s intelligence re. Iraqi WMD and Obama’s dubious casus belli
The 2 Km range of a flat-faced re-purposed GRAD able to carry Sarin is about 10 times less than the ~20 Km range of a GRAD artillery rocket.
Almost got to wonder if some genius didn’t fire it expecting to hit the center of the city (i.e. the Government controlled area) and then watch it fall short into his own neighborhood.
But the truth is more horrible. The rebels deliberately Sarin-bombed a neighborhood they controlled in an attempt to unseat Assad. And - at least after the fact - they had the support of the US State department.
And what? Truther or not, is there any manipulation with facts?
The media will not shred Obama on ANYTHING! If we ever loose freedom of the press, they can only blame themselves.
American news organizations are staffed by paid Democrat liars.
What has very nearly gone down the memory hole is the nerve-agent chemical plant they captured during the invasion of Iraq. I only know about it thanks to the “embed” reporters who were there and reported on it. The plant manager was an army general, the plant was surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers manned by soldiers, and the product was nerve agent.
Then two days later the news reported that, surprise, it wasn’t nerve agent at all, it was agricultural pesticide.
At least three more times, when they captured Iraqi army ammo dumps they found stockpiles of nerve agent (in one case the reporters got sick from exposure). And in each case, the following day, it was announced that no, it was agricultural pesticide.
I wondered then, who has that power, to make it disappear by redefining it? Because its the same thing. Dilute it and spread it on your fields, pesticide. Spread it full strength on Iranian troops, nerve agent. Which, historically, is exactly what it was used for. With Bush’s presidency hanging in the balance, who had that power to make a whole WMD plant disappear by re-labeling it?
But they did it and every year fewer people remember it.
Exactly- and MI6 probably knew better, and that’s why Cameron backed off talk of military action
Many a person has been banned from FR from posting links and such to such groups.
9-11 Truthers are the nuttiest of the nutty- no doubt there
With Trig truthers 2-3 notches worse than that, ha
I remain desirous of learning what those Russian trucks were hauling from Iraq to Syria in the waning hours of the war to overthrow the Saddam Hussein terrorocracy.
They found the WMD (weapons of mass distraction).
Between spooky rocks on mars, ghost images on Google Moon, asteroid 'duck n cover' (among much other 'much ado about nothing'), I'm surprised anyone's paying attention at all to matters of substance domestically...
I wish that were still the case. However, I STILL see postings from sites such as examinerdotcom with at least one babushka of a FReeper bragging that she posts her own blog as "news" there then starts a thread here to direct more hits to it -but all the money she makes from the clicks of course go only to charity. *snorts in disbelief*
Others there get their news from legitimate sources, write it up as if it were their own news or directly quoting the original source, then post it on FR as their news back to the examinerdotcom website while defending their right to post it as if they were reporting it. For 'bragging rights', I can only assume.
It has gotten to the point where as soon as I see one of those fake news outlets as the source I immediately disregard it. Heck, I would sooner believe a link to DU or HuffPo before I would think about clicking on a posting from such sources.
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