Posted on 04/13/2017 8:02:33 AM PDT by ColdOne
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called claims that he used deadly sarin gas on his people a “100 percent fabrication” and insisted the US worked “hand-in-glove” with terrorists to carry out the attacks, he said in an interview published Thursday.
The Syrian strongman said he couldn’t have unleashed a poison gas strike on innocent civilians because the country has gotten rid of its chemical weapons arsenal.
“Definitely, 100 percent for us. It’s fabrication. We don’t have an arsenal. We’re not going to use it,” he told Agence France-Presse.
He said the attack was contrived by the US so it could launch an attack against Syria.
“Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack,” Assad said.
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We cannot discount the possibility that rogue CIA operatives were complicit in some way. After all, Trump had switched around from a position he had held only a few days earlier, that Assad was not the primary enemy and we should not direct our efforts against him, to suddenly he was number one, and must be removed, at the possible cost of alienating the Russians to the degree they may yet be sucked into the dispute with the US directly.
The Deep State is alive and well and in full command.
With Trump in office the Kurds are in a much more solid position. Under Obama they were always in danger of being sold out.
The Syrian “rebels” self-identify as Al Qaeda.
As for ISIS, they were backed by the Turks who funded them and provided safe rear zones for them. Obama did what he could to protect them until protecting them became impossible. Still, it was the coming of Trump that has sealed their fate. If Obama was president another dozen years, Raqqa would still be ISIS headquarters.
Obama’s policy was a tangled mess. Trump can untangle it, but only if he takes what he is told with a major grain of salt.
Yes it is in doubt, are you saying Russia has invited Al Qaeda to the peace talks? One of the opposition figures has been George Sabra, a Christian.
SDF, Syrian Democratic Forces are our guys, you are either lying or ignorant, they are mainly Kurdish.
Oh, and Daddy Assad assassinated Christian leaders in Lebanon, Syria attacked a largely Christian nation in Lebanon. Bashar buys ISIS oil, no doubt about that and allowed Jihadists to attack US and coalition forces in Iraq.
Israel has attacked Syria with bomb strikes about a dozen times in the last 24 months, I suppose you’d accuse them of acting for Al Qaeda too.
Iran funnels missiles through Syria to Hezbollah who fire them at Israel.
Another Syrian expert.
And Stalin was against Hitler.
SDF are our guys, mainly Kurds, proof you don’t know what you are talking about.
Why doubt Assad; Damascus just got a park in 2015 honoring the founder of the North Korean regime.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-north-korea-park-kim-il-sung_us_55e4821de4b0c818f6188e25
Some Syrian rebels are linked and self-identify as al Qaeda, but not the ones we support and certainly not most of them. The Kurds, for example, are despised by al Qaeda. Surely you know this.
We have bombed Al Qaeda, that happens every day and ISIS, we are probably doing a lot more than Putin and Assad; because they are worried mainly about retaining power.
Every day practically, one can find stories where we bomb Al Qaeda and ISIS, in Yemen and Afghanistan as well.
Syrian Democratic Forces Earn ‘Best Partnered Forces’ Praise from U.S. Special Ops
By Bridget Johnson April 7, 2017
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An SDF fighter fires at an ISIS position. (SDF video screenshot)
A senior advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford gave his boss a glowing a review of the discipline, training and morale of the multi-sectarian, multi-ethnic fighting coalition currently bearing down on ISIS’ capital in Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces — an anti-ISIS, anti-Qaeda, anti-Assad coalition composed of more than 50,000 fighters, female and male commanders, Arabs, Assyrian Christians, Kurds, and other minority ethnic groups — launched the Wrath of Euphrates operation at the beginning of November. Since then, the SDF has liberated more than 5,000 square miles of territory in the painstaking push to encircle and choke off Raqqa before moving in.
I didn’t know all of this. This should have been posted too; I guess some just don’t feel like beating the drum over this.
Well I think it’s mostly young white guys and you almost can’t blame them. They grew up in a USA where in most all of media and now in public school, they are taught that hetero white men are either knuckle dragging morons or the most evil creature that ever walked the face of the planet and that everything wrong with the world is THEM. So they’re options are to accept that or reject it and where is the only place in the world where hetero white men aren’t treated like this?
Russia
Christianity is treated the same and most of these kids have/had at least a few current or past Christian churchgoers in their family and guess what? Russian’s are orthodox Christians for the most part.
And the way things are going, teens and 20 somethings are going to see a day when Russia is the only predominately white country left. Sometimes it seems that the Russians are the only sane people because they’re the only ones that will protect themselves from being overrun.
Do you consider them a pure race?
We have bombed Al Qaeda
And also armed it recently in Syria.
I read yesteday that Kim and Assad spoke to each other on the phone to give congrats to each other for standing up to USA.
Couldn’t post link. It was from a SK source.
How can you not use an arsenal you do not possess ? That is the question.
How about the ones where the gas attack occurred?
The Kurds are a different story. They have always been pro-US and even pro-Israel. Their position has only improved with the departure of Obama.
I’ve seen the press reports over the years where we’ve practically begged the rebels to separate themselves from Al Qaeda and they would refuse to do it. Under Obama this wasn’t a problem. Under Trump, hopefully we can weed these guys out.
But the rebels where the gas attack took place were Al Nusra, which is to say, Al Qaeda. You’ll notice that press reports where they interview survivors take place in Turkey. No reporter can go into AQ strongholds.
This is absolutely true, and this is why Assad needs to go.
It has never been a question "if" he needed to go. The probably was the tactic taken by the Turks and Saudis, and accepted by Obama's regime, in which jihadists from around the region were recruited to do the dirty work. Obama and the Turks left us with a choice of Assad raining rockets on Israel, or Muslim Brotherhood raining rockets on Israel. Hezbollah, or Al Nusra. That's not a policy.
Hopefully with Trump in command our policy in the region will be more coherent. Under Obama it was anything but coherent.
It doesn’t matter what I think. It matters what the leftists think since they’ve taken over the media and education for the most part. There’s evil and/or stupid in every race but don’t tell some people that.
So you succeed in overthrowing Assad. Who do you put in his pace? How many years do you put soldiers in that hellhole to rebuild the nation?
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