Posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws
Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him.
It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a âred lineâ by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway, and Hagel had spent the day approving final plans for a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Damascus. U.S. naval destroyers were in the Mediterranean, awaiting orders to fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Assad did it anyway —— no evidence it happened or if it did happen it was Assad that ordered it.
I agree on the chemical weapons charge. If Hagel was gung ho for this based on that he is either a fool or worse.
Yep, fleas all over that WH.
I don’t think handing SYRIA over to ISIS was the intention but power sharing among radical Sunnis and a sharia state was considered by the obama team to be acceptable
ISIS will turn out to have been a grand miscalculation on many levels
Lay down with dogs you get fleas
The UN was actually constrained in its investigation of this CW attack or incident
They were only “ authorized” to investigate if it happened, but not who did it
If TPTB were so dang sure it was Assad why would they limit the UN investigation? A UN report finding Assad at fault for that CW incident would legitimize western military action against the Syrian regime. Which the UN has never authorized.
The Russians did their own investigation and reported that the chemical composition ( fingerprint) of the agent used did not come from Syrian military stocks. But they did not say which lab the weapons could be traced to... And which to which country such weapons had been supplied. Iraq, Libya, UKraine, or ...
Regardless by taking control of the CW held by the Syrian regime the Russians thwarted another future false flag and stymied obama... Who remains an unreliable fool in the eyes of our allies because of his do- called red line and hus failure.
If I find the link to the UN investigation I will post it.
I do remember a Syrian nun who was interviewed talking about knowing the neighborhood and the people who lived there who were supposedly attacked ... And not knowing who were these gassed bodies displayed to the world. She said, Who were the children who died? Where were their parents? If truth is ever revealed it could be a terrible story especially if US agencies had a role
The reports that the CW came through Turkey are coming from Turkey. Erdogan has jailed journalists and is threatening to jail a Turkish political opponent who is making claims ISIS has been given more sarin
His dad for sure. But this guy. Nah. It was some islamic group or another.
All water under the bridge soon. Looks like things are moving quickly in the direction of Russian control over the entire region.
Strong horse theory comes into play.
“...BACKSTORY Recall couple weeks ago, the smirking Valerie Jarrett,
Obama by her side, telling Americans “big things are coming.”
Then San Bernardino happened. ...”
Liz, do you have a link to valjar’s statement?
Why doesn’t Obama just drop the pretense and appoint Valerie “Born in Tehran” Jarrett to SecDef? She seems to be running the show anyway when it comes to subverting American foreign policy interests.
Table’s full of C- students.
Anyone have a clean "in" to the article (which I REALLY wanted to read!!!!)
Leni
Why would the USA have wanted to go to war against Assad, against Syria?
Hagel *wanted* the war?!
Idiocy.
It used to be there to keep the courts and media out of military business.
"I also made the point that the U.S. should be giving more non-lethal equipment to the Ukrainians than we were, at a much faster pace, Hagel said."
Trump will get the data, intel, backgrounds, files, memos, financials and investigations involving these sellouts and traitors who intentionally put America into decline. You can imagine when Trump is sworn in how some of these people in D.C. will start singing while others run for the tall grass.
Anyone else notice an amazing personification of the “White House” lately?
The White House did this, the White House did that, the White House called, the White House disagreed.....
Perhaps the Fraud’s “fundamental transformation” of the “White House” isn’t complete... or perhaps it is... Remember all the construction underneath that was recently completed?
Perhaps a more permanent paint job coming up instead of just “spontaneously” rainbowing it minutes after the Fraud had his lifestyle “legally” vindicated?
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