Blasts in the Night, a Smell, and a Flood of Syrian Victims (Excruciating Details of Victims)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/world/middleeast/blasts-in-the-night-a-smell-and-a-flood-of-syrian-victims.html?hp ^ | August 27, 2013 | BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER

[lbryce]

Thousands of sick and dying Syrians had flooded the hospitals in the Damascus suburbs before dawn, hours after the first rockets landed, their bodies convulsing and mouths foaming. Their vision was blurry and many could not breathe.

Overwhelmed doctors worked frantically, jabbing their patients with injections of their only antidote, atropine, hoping to beat back the assault on the nervous system waged by suspected chemical agents. In just a few hours, as the patients poured in, the atropine ran out.

To avoid contamination, medics stripped new arrivals down to their underwear and doused them with water before taking them inside.

New patients kept coming. One doctor from the town of Kafr Batna likened the scene to a horror movie, with cars bringing in entire families — fathers, mothers and children — all of them dead.

[lbryce]

Assad is soon going to find himself in an underground lair being accorded the same sort of fate suffered by his late, sorry 'Baathist Party' crony, Saddam.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yeah, and after Saddam we got Maliki. Some bargain that was.

Anybody who ends up on top of this dung heap is going to be worse than the one who is there now. Not our problem.

[agere_contra]

Maybe. But did Assad do it?

World Net Daily is reporting evidence of US Allies behind the Gas Attack

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-shows-rebels-launching-gas-attack-in-syria/

[Salvavida]

And absent from every discussion is a clearly defined military objective to justify the employment of strategic, game-changing weapons.

This one doesn't pass the smell test.

[cripplecreek]

The country is in worse financial shape than Detroit and we still can’t stop dumping money and lives into the middleastern hell hole.

[Uncle Miltie]

Horrifying as chemical weapons are, the takeover of Syria by Al Qaeda is the alternative.

There are no good choices here.

Therefore, I recommend no action.

[SpaceBar]

Agreed. Assad clearly knew and knows the grave implications of using chemical weapons and how it would bring nothing but universal condemnation and hurt his cause, thus ... he didn’t do it.

[Obadiah]

So now the NYTimes is tryingto lay down cover for Obama with gripping stories about the gas attack, huh?

Where was the NYTimes when Saddam gassed the Kurds? Oh, yeah, that was Bush.

[EternalVigilance]

Reagan always used the old aphorism: “Trust but verify.”

Well, when you’re in an environment in which there is no one who can be trusted, and no way to verify much of anything, TRUST NO ONE.

[RedMDer]

Five Days to September.

Please donate today.

[Thane_Banquo]

I’ll believe anything unless I read about it in the New York Times.

[RKBA Democrat]

Here is a link to a story filed after the sinking of the Lusitania entitled “Toll of Lusitania victims Laid to German Murder lust”:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1915-07-18/ed-1/seq-9/#words=case+Lusitania

[lbryce]

O! 'Sarcasm tag' [sarc] [/sarc] wherefore art thou?

[ZULU]

Just Islam in action.

[lbryce]

Fascinating link, source. Thank you very much for posting.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Did we do this? Why is this our fault? Why should we get into this civil war?

[katana]

It is easy to understand why the Syrian opposition would be motivated to do this and attach blame to the regime. It is equally hard to understand why Assad and his military would do it, especially in Damascus. No one would dispute that Assad and his regime are very bad and desperate people but what on earth could motivate them to do this? It would be close to a suicidal act at a time when they are in fact winning their civil war.

The Reichstag Fire scenario, very possibly with collusion by the same American players who brought you Benghazi, seems far more plausible. And every cry of outrage by Kerry and war drum cheerleaders like the NYT just reinforces that estimation.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Right, the opposite makes sense: Rebels do it from captured munitions, get the USA to help overthrow Assad and bango, they’re in!

So the only real question is - Do the rebels have the ability to deploy such weapons?

“Look at the whole board”.......

[NVDave]

OK.

And what’s our angle on this? If we were looking for a change in their government, it appears they’re about to do it without help or US military involvement.

I’m not seeing any good reason to get involved here.

[skeeter]

Assad is too stupid to remain as president if he is responsible for that chemical attack - he had NOTHING to gain and EVERYTHING to lose by using WMDs.

No motive whatsoever.

This smells like another falsified 'incident' intended to provoke the war certain leaders in the west clearly want.