Posted on 04/07/2017 9:47:52 PM PDT by Helicondelta
On Tuesday at least 85 civilians, including children, were killed by a gas attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. The World Health Organization says the attack likely involved banned nerve agents, with other medical experts pointing to sarin as the culprit.
Why is this an intelligence failure? Because the Obama Administration assured the world that it had forced Mr. Assad to give up all chemical weapons. In an interview with National Public Radio on January 16, Susan Rice, then the White House national security adviser, was unequivocal:
“I think the President [Obama] stated the U.S. view, which is the use of chemical weapons is not something we’re prepared to allow to persist, and we didn’t. We managed to accomplish that goal far more thoroughly than we could have by some limited strikes against chemical targets by getting the entirety of the declared stockpile removed.” The residents of Khan Sheikhoun beg to differ.
Ms. Rice’s assurances were part of the Obama Administration’s foreign-policy victory lap as it ended its time in office.
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by getting the entirety of the declared stockpile removed.
As always with these vermin you have to parse
their words...the “declared” stockpile.
Yes, of course, now all becomes clear.
No, it was arrogance!
Not an Intel failure.
They just didn’t give a damn and declared the issue gone.
At what point will the media grasp that aiding and abetting lies from government leaders as news reporting has diminished the value of their product to hearsay propaganda?
I am sure they removed everything they told us they had.
The liars always parse their words and pre-emptivly cover their asses.
Sick of it.
Susan Rica was amature hour from the second Barry promised her power and glory to lie for the greater good.
Not at all! the failure is the typical media that will not report on Saudi Arabia supplying the isil rebels with chemical weapons compounds. Then Syrian planes bombing them and setting off the reaction of the noxious chemical. When journalism dies... It has, so now every thing is 1984. There are so many holes in every part of this story! A complete joke with the most armature evidence I have ever seen. White helmets (AKA AL-Quida rescue teams. Spraying off victims with hoses and touching them skin to skin.... Right. That would go so well for the white helmets.....
No failure, just another coverup. obama and the democrats knew full well the corrupt media would cover up anything they wanted blocked.
Wikipedia: Destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons
The most toxic chemicals, including sarin precursors and sulphur mustard, were destroyed by 18 August aboard the US naval vessel MV Cape Ray. The remaining were destroyed in the US, Great Britain and Finland. On 4 January 2015, the OPCW confirmed that the destruction was completed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons
Jan 2016: OPCW: Destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons completed
Veolia, the US firm contracted by the OPCW to dispose of part of the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile, has completed disposal of 75 cylinders of hydrogen fluoride at its facility in Texas.
This completes destruction of all chemical weapons declared by the Syrian Arab Republic. The need to devise a technical solution for treating a number of cylinders in a deteriorated and hazardous condition had delayed the disposal process.
https://www.opcw.org/news/article/destruction-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-completed/
Not an intelligence failure. Obama deliberately allowed it to remain to further his muslim brotherhood/ISIS takeover agenda and lied to the American people.
Israel taking action can cause serious headaches.
Syria using Sarin gas on Israel will cause major problems in the Middle East.
Hmmm. I guess parsing your words does count after all. The quotes I saw yesterday from lyin’ susie(It was a video) and juan f’n kohn-hienz-kerry both said “DECLARED” stores of deadly gas. The “undeclared” stores? Meh!
Howsabout we just say that Syria, Russia, and our Obambi ALL LIED.
Sorry. Thought that would be stating the obvious.
Obama lied; kids died.
Try as they might the media and the Democrat party just cannot keep 0bama’s colossal failures covered up. Had he been any other person than a Black Democrat experiment he would have been exposed within the first year of his reign
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