Posted on 12/18/2013 9:23:22 AM PST by Abiotic
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.
In his nationally televised speech about Syria on 10 September, Obama laid the blame for the nerve gas attack on the rebel-held suburb of Eastern Ghouta firmly on Assad’s government, and made it clear he was prepared to back up his earlier public warnings that any use of chemical weapons would cross a ‘red line’: ‘Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people,’ he said. ‘We know the Assad regime was responsible … And that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike.’ Obama was going to war to back up a public threat....
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You don’t get it. litvenenko killed himself. No one ‘assassinated him.
There is evidence that he was assassinated. Please educate yourself. But I don’t think you’ll learn anything by watching Russia Today.
“So, when do we crank up the impeachment apparatus?”
Is this a joke thread? obama should have been impeached before he ever took office. His outward and blatant criminality was right out there for the whole world to see and they overlooked it because...being half black overode being all criminal.
No, there is not.
Now you’re insulting the Four Horsemen: At best those two clowns, the Kenyan and Jarret, are riding in a one-wheeled wagon behind, trying to not get his by flying horse biscuits. Maybe one of the graphics guys can embellish on that vision.?
This is why Saudi is going nuclear. Their mercs (the US military) did not take on Syria.
So is the US a tyranny? We send drones to kill enemies of the state in neutral countries.
Maybe we can impeach his white half ... :^)
That’s entirely different. We send drones to kill people who are waging war against us. We don’t send drones over London to kill people accused of crimes.
It’s like Shakespeare’s pound of flesh. How you gonna collect?
Point taken. May the kenyan zer0 and valerie jarrett sink their mouths into all the flying horse biscuits. Point taken. You 1, Me no score.
Are we at war with Yemen?
What evidence? Are you a juror or a judge or at least a detective in this case?
Litvinenko was either bad and insignificant man. An idea of his assassination by Russian government is about as real as any other conspiracy theory.
Hazmat smuggling gone wrong or a suicide are much more plausible versions.
How’s the weather in St. Petersburg today cunning fish?
We are not at at war with Yemen. We are at war with al Qaeda. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed.
I’ve no idea. Check at Weather.com
Yet sent drones into Yemen. To kill our enemies.
Perhaps you haven’t noticed.
So every now and then a terrorist gets a Hellfire missile shot up his pootie-toot. I don’t have a problem with that.
Then why are you upset that Russia did the same thing, with less risk of collateral damage?
Because Alexander Litvinenko was not a terrorist. At most, he was a common criminal, but perhaps not even that. What every he did, he did not deserve to be assassinated.
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