Trump vexed by Assad’s motivation for chemical weapons attack

Polutico ^ | 04/10/2017 | Michael Crowley and Josh Dawsey

[shalom aleichem]

If it doesn’t make sense, maybe he didn’t DO it...

[Paladin2]

I find no one credible about events in Syria at this point.

[Dante3]

Or maybe it wasn't Assad.

Who can forget Saddam Hussein and Bush's lies of WMD?

[Eagles6]

Thought jihadis were on run, losing everywhere. Now they’re winning?

[McGruff]

This sounds like Fake News to me.

[butlerweave]

I thought thanks to the Russians Assad was winning

[Magnum44]

No one understands why he did it. There is no doubt he did it, or that his military did.

[Magnum44]

Uh, Saddam gassed his own people. That was not fake either.

[spokeshave]

Trump peers through the fog of war and cuts the Gordian Knot.

As in all things Trump...his response is:

instantaneous....direct....devastating....and unpredictable.

Well maybe not quite so instantaneous nor devastating.....but good non the less.

A good Belgrano moment.

[wrench]

No doubt? Hardly.

More like no proof.

Why were so few killed if it was an intentional chemical weapons release.

Should have been many dozens of casualties if it were a deliberate attack. The number of causalities is consistent with an accidental release due to secondary detonation of CWs stored in the area.

[JBW1949]

U.S. officials, friends and aides, Trump and his team, Syria experts, senior administration official...

Uhhhh....Okay...

[Magnum44]

There is proof. Some of it was presented by the pentagon. Let me know when you have a clearance and I could point you to the rest. I don’t do loose lips or expose sources. You are welcome to browse some of my recent posts since last Friday for more but I’ve said all I can. If my background and reputation are not sufficient then your welcome to go figure it out on your own.

[jobim]

I find no one credible about events in Syria at this point

Amen.

Russia/Putin strictly operate under disinformation. Riyadh works with the Deep State. Tehran has everything to gain with chaos in Syria. Qatar works with the BrotherhoodISIS. Jordan's Sunni would seem to be aligned with Syria's 90% majority Sunni. Lebanon's Hezbollah, created, trained, and funded by the Soviets, would seem to join with Jordan.

Launching tomahawks into that cauldron of competing interests and all-pervasive disinformation, and attempting to decipher any of it through the lenses of our own competing interests in the CIA, DoD, NSA, Gang of 8 is truly a puzzle within a mystery surrounded by an enigma.

I pray that Trump backs away.

[McGruff]

... There is no doubt he did it,...

Yeah right.

[wrench]

Not buying it for a second. The “proof” is info filtered and contorted by 0bama’a machine.

[txhurl]

Does it really matter? the ROEs respecting Chems/Bios have been set. Get found playing with it, lose expensive infrastructure you may not be able to replace.

[Vendome]

Assad did not do this...

[VitacoreVision]

Assad had everything to lose and nothing to gain by the chemical attacks.

Something fishy is happening.
False Flag by the Syrian Rebels?

[Nextrush]

Its follow the $$$$$ at this point because the Saudi money holds the ball of wax together in the Western nations with Israel dependent on the USA financially.

The Israelis want Iran taken out which is coming after Assad goes down, but then Israel will have to give up land and kick people out of their homes for the “Palestinian state”.

The POTUS has already said Iran needs to be dealt with and endorsed the ‘two state solution’ in Israel.