***ping***
The 2 Km range of a flat-faced re-purposed GRAD able to carry Sarin is about 10 times less than the ~20 Km range of a GRAD artillery rocket.
Almost got to wonder if some genius didn’t fire it expecting to hit the center of the city (i.e. the Government controlled area) and then watch it fall short into his own neighborhood.
But the truth is more horrible. The rebels deliberately Sarin-bombed a neighborhood they controlled in an attempt to unseat Assad. And - at least after the fact - they had the support of the US State department.
The media will not shred Obama on ANYTHING! If we ever loose freedom of the press, they can only blame themselves.
American news organizations are staffed by paid Democrat liars.
What has very nearly gone down the memory hole is the nerve-agent chemical plant they captured during the invasion of Iraq. I only know about it thanks to the “embed” reporters who were there and reported on it. The plant manager was an army general, the plant was surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers manned by soldiers, and the product was nerve agent.
Then two days later the news reported that, surprise, it wasn’t nerve agent at all, it was agricultural pesticide.
At least three more times, when they captured Iraqi army ammo dumps they found stockpiles of nerve agent (in one case the reporters got sick from exposure). And in each case, the following day, it was announced that no, it was agricultural pesticide.
I wondered then, who has that power, to make it disappear by redefining it? Because its the same thing. Dilute it and spread it on your fields, pesticide. Spread it full strength on Iranian troops, nerve agent. Which, historically, is exactly what it was used for. With Bush’s presidency hanging in the balance, who had that power to make a whole WMD plant disappear by re-labeling it?
But they did it and every year fewer people remember it.
I remain desirous of learning what those Russian trucks were hauling from Iraq to Syria in the waning hours of the war to overthrow the Saddam Hussein terrorocracy.
They found the WMD (weapons of mass distraction).
Between spooky rocks on mars, ghost images on Google Moon, asteroid 'duck n cover' (among much other 'much ado about nothing'), I'm surprised anyone's paying attention at all to matters of substance domestically...