There was no investigation, just the assumption that only a state actor can make and posses Sarin. Ignored are various unconfirmed reports that moving Sarin from Libya was part of Benghazi.
Dennis Kucinich also claims that he believed Assad’s wanting to get rid of the gas when he questioned him as part of an interview.
Assad as other have pointed out had no real motive for using gas, and it was very limited strike which make no sense militarily.
ISIS on the other hand has motive to use and likely expertise to make Sarin, but that possibility is totally ignored by supposedly smart people in DJT’s government.
I don’t think ISIS has the capability to produce sarin. It isn’t like making high explosives. It’s much more complex.
Nearly $59,000,000 in Tomahawk missiles!
But think of it as an insurance policy payment against Nork, ISIS, and Russian aggressions.
I don't believe any Sarin was used. But if it were, the more important question would be "where did it come from?".
Because Sarin has a shelf life of five years max under ideal storage conditions, Sarin would have had to have been manufactured since 2012. If so, where, and by whom?
My belief is that there was no chemical bombing, and that if gas were created, it was homemade cleaning chemical chlorine gas, delivered by mixing it in a open barrel for the wind to disperse.
In the western world, any community swimming pool has more than enough chemical potential stored to kill 1000 people. Even Goober and Gomer could make it work.
If we set aside the type of toxic material used in the bombing, another question appears. Does ISIS have planes and pilots able to drop chemical bombs?
Home made sarin was used.
“ISIS on the other hand has motive to use and likely expertise to make Sarin, but that possibility is totally ignored by supposedly smart people in DJT’s government.”
How do you personally know what General Mattis knows or doesn’t know?
Absolute nonsense.
Evidence was gathered and presented to the President, his Cabinet (including Defense Secretary Mattis), and his advisors. An unclassified summary of that evidence was also presented to the public, replete with aerial photos and flight path information.
And let's not forget, President Trump has compelling reasons to be skeptical of his own intelligence apparatus. So to somehow think that the President would have taken this action in the absence of convincing evidence is just ridiculous on its face.
On the contrary, I'm quite certain that the evidence shown to the President was so overwhelming that it erased any doubts he might have had.
Ignored are various unconfirmed reports that moving Sarin from Libya was part of Benghazi.
What makes you say such reports were ignored? I'm sure they were given all due consideration. You're just making another baseless presumption in an attempt to support what is obviously hysterical opposition to the President's limited military action.
Dennis Kucinich also claims that he believed Assad’s wanting to get rid of the gas when he questioned him as part of an interview.
Well it looks like Assad found a creative way to do that.
Assad as other have pointed out had no real motive for using gas, and it was very limited strike which make no sense militarily.
Ruthless dictators are sometimes less than predictable in their motives, and sometimes behave less than intelligently or logically.
But if you want to speculate about motives, maybe Assad's motive was to challenge a President who he thought was weak, like the feckless Obama administration had been. Maybe Assad's intent was to make America appear timid or indecisive on the world stage.
If so, the tactic backfired.
In any event, nobody can expect a dictator like Assad to behave according to civilized norms. After all, this wasn't the first time Assad used chemical agents in an attack, was it?
ISIS on the other hand has motive to use and likely expertise to make Sarin, but that possibility is totally ignored by supposedly smart people in DJT’s government.
Another presumption that's absurd. Are you honestly trying to claim that the possibility of ISIS using Sarin was "totally ignored"? It was doubtless given all due consideration.
The armchair generals sure are quick to play the second-guessing game...