Syria's Assad approves gas attack in Idlib despite warning, report says

Fox News ^ | 9/10/2018 | Edmund DeMarche

[raiderboy]

President Bashar al-Assad has approved a gas attack in the Idlib province, which is the country’s last rebel stronghold, a report on Sunday said. Reports of Assad's approval comes about a week after President Trump warned the strongman and his allies not to “recklessly attack” the province. Trump called any gas attack a potential “grave humanitarian mistake.” The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, was first to report on Assad.

[raiderboy]

In the wake of the unsourced NYT " anonymous" propaganda hit on our President, we now see a blatant unsourced and unsubstantiated propaganda piece intended to coax The U.S. into war with Syria/ Russia/ Iran. This one was predicted. What evidence is there of Assad's "order" to use Chlorine gas on the civilians of Syria? The answer is zero evidence exists particularly in light that there was NO finding that Assad EVER used Chlorine, sarin or any chemical weapons on his own people. There would be no strategic or military reason to do so. Let me tell you what is happening in Syria. Isis and Rebel forces trying to overthrow the Assad government and establish a caliphate have been driven into Idlib Province as a last stand. THEY hide among the population. THEY are responsible for any blood bath. Syria is not responsible for the bloodbath . They are going to remove the last vestige of Isis and rebels just like WE did with the Iraqis in Mosul just a few short months ago!! We killed THOUSANDS of civilians used as human shields by ISIS but there we properly blamed Isis for hiding among the people. What is the difference here? I want to address the strategy that I see which is now driven by the NEOCON faction of the republican party and why on Fox news. John Bolton, Karl Rove. Ambassador Haley and many others there are NEO CONS. They have all worked at Fox News ( except Haley) which in the main is the old GOP establishment, as we all know. They were instrumental in the Iraq debacle using the same tactics to cause our intervention in the middle east then as you see right now. FALSE PRETENSE. They are hell bent to take our lives and our trillions more dollars to accomplish their agenda in the Middle East. The President has great instincts and has thwarted them with intentional feckless military responses , bombing and empty runway and sending 107 cruise missiles to hit two old dilapidated abandoned buildings. ( killing no one). But he is being used by the NEO CONS and it is very dangerous. Trump knows we should not be in Syria with troops. It is a blatant violation of international law. He said we were getting "OUT". That apparently was a promise unkept. The key here is to carefully isolate and hold up for ridicule raw propaganda which has no evidence to support the alleged facts. Never rely on thing like appear in this propaganda piece, "a report on Sunday said." That is laughable. WHAT "REPORT" ? What is the evidence behind the "report" ? Where do we find the "report"? The "source" is "the report" ? Are you kidding us? We have no business in Syria. None.

[Paladin2]

Sounds like a MAD Magazine Spy v Spy v Spy situation wrt who’s telling the truth about chemical weapons. Again.

[oldplayer]

Assad must not know that this is bad. Assad must want to give away his military plans in the press. Assad must be crazy.

OR, this is Fake News. . . . YOU make the call!

[alloysteel]

I take Option Four, Alex.

Surely this is not Assad’s first rodeo. If there are poison gases released, it is almost certainly a “false flag” effort by the rebels in Idlib, who at this point have nothing to lose, and can still get the US mired in yer another Middle East conflict.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

This is so obviously fake, it’s incredible they think anyone with 5 functioning brain cells would believe it.

The same Deep State that is creating fake intel & stories to depose Trump is creating fake intel to get him to attack Syria on behalf of their Jihadist terrorist proxies.

Trump will probably lose if he falls for this.

[raiderboy]

Good point. He just lets faux news sit in on all military meetings. Absurd.

[Texas Fossil]

Paragraphs are your friend.

And Duplicated:

from post at 4:20AM this morning.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686332/posts

[Trumpisourlastchance]

If we attack Syria tomorrow in defense of Al Qaeda, it would be meaningful as it’s 9/11. I’m sure the NeoCons & Al Zawahiri would appreciate this.

[Metrobank]

Assad isn’t Stupid enough to do this. This will be another gas attack “attributed” to him but perpetrated by bad actors who want to draw the US into a war with Russia. Trump won’t fall for it.

[House Atreides]

Oh Crap! I though these FALSE FLAG incidents triggering mindless American interventions had died and were buried with McCain. I see the Globalists are using their media (the WSJ in this case) to do their modus operandi shaping of the propaganda battlefield. As we speak the Islamists in Idlib Province are probably concentrating some captive Kurd and Christian families to gas with chlorine.

[raiderboy]

It is unreal how ignorant the American people are about “propaganda” and it utilization. I was very fortunate to receive early training on the elements of propaganda. Then the example was Goebbels and Nazi propaganda techniques. As the years progress I became astute and the concept of evidence. Did you know that hearsay is no admitted in any court at trial. Hearsay is simply a report about what someone else says happened. In the terrible Fox News story they report the WSJ story based on “reports” . That, my friends. is triple hearsay. Totally worthless misleading propaganda. “ journalism’ today is all propaganda.

[veracious]

What a laugh. Pay no attention to the beast behind the curtain. Assad has _no_ intention of giving western nations an excuse to bomb his country. None.

Sadly, POTUS; most US citizens, not looking behind the curtain.

[Pining_4_TX]

But John “I never met a war I didn’t love” Bolton will insist the US do something. This is insane. How many useless Muslim wars do we need to participate in? Let them kill each other, and let Russia throw its resources down a rat hole.

[Rebel2016]

I don’t believe this BS.

[raiderboy]

I am amazed that this sheer propaganda passes for actual facy with no effort made to corroborate anything. We absolutely cannot trust FOX news . I trust hannity and laura and Shannon and Steve Ducey. That is about it. All need to understand that Roger Ailes was a total rino leftists , like Sanunu and Rove. These guys are not our friends . They are absolute anti Trump, Deep State , new world order proponents of the bush era. They dont give a damn about you or your best interest. It is all about multi national business.

[catnipman]

“a report on Sunday said”

i never read past statements like that nor comment further, because it’s pointless to take rumors seriously ...

[raiderboy]

So true. I am amazed at the mindless sheeple that just take that as gospel.