Posting this here too!
I am posting this here to refresh everyone’s memory. It needs wider circulation.
Carney said today in WH presser that they basically knew that Syrian regime was responsible for WMD attack because they had maintained control of WMD stocks at all times...yet.....after Benghazi..out of the blue..Panetta said this:
“Today, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the US no longer had knowledge of the whereabouts of some Syrian chemical weapons, and admitted that those weapons may have been funneled to rebels or Iranian proxies. “There has been intelligence that there have been some moves that have taken place,” said Panetta. “Where exactly that’s taken place, we don’t know.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/28/Panetta-lost-track-Syrian-WMDs
http://e-ring.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/28/panetta_we_ve_lost_track_of_syrian_chemical_weapons
Now they want everyone to forget they said this after Benghazi...but DON’T!!
It is an important piece to puzzle.
bttt
Anyone watching Brett Baier? long piece on Syria, especially about all the various rebel groups, their names, what positions they hold, what positions Assad holds (....with maps & graphs-—country map splits Syria nearly in half.
Then to the round table. Not a ripple in anyone’s glass-pond mind that the Obama adm said that they have definitive proof that Assad was responsible for the chem attack-—not in the body of Baier’s prog and not in the round-table discussion.
[IF the adm said “definitive proof,” they said it in an announcement AFTER the Kerry and Carney pressers.]
In fact, Krauthammer had only this to say in the roundtable:
Two choices: “He [Obama] can do a demonstration of conscience or he can do a strategic maneuver. It is not about him; it is not about his conscience, his manhood. It’s not about showing the world that he is strong. This is about whether the US is going to try to alter the course of the war. If it’s not, then he should not do anything....”
Krauthammer then cited and agreed with Gen Keane from earlier in the show-—destroy all the airfields, destroy Assad’s air power, change the balance of power. We can do all that without putting any soldiers on the ground.
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No mention of removing chem weapons!!!
So.... I guess the dream and hope is that the rebels will be so grateful and unified that Assad’s air superiority has been destroyed that they will voluntarily hand over all the chem weapons. Well...”hand over” would require boots on the ground to receive them. We will give them an address and they can ship them to us.