Truth? Why does that matter?
Posted on 01/20/2013 4:31:26 PM PST by An Old Man
WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama has rebuffed reports by U.S. diplomats on the use of poison gas by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
A cable from the U.S. consulate in Turkey asserted that chemical weapons might have been used in a Syrian military attack on Homs on Dec. 23, 2012.
An investigation into claims that Bashar Assad deployed chemical agents against rebels in Homs concluded that there was a “compelling case” that some form of poison gas had been used, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.
“The reporting we have seen from media sources regarding alleged chemical weapons incidents in Syria has not been consistent with what we believe to be true about the Syrian chemical weapons program,” the White House said.
The Jan. 15 statement by the administration came in wake of the release of a State Department cable that reported a Syrian poison gas attack in Homs. The report, disclosed by the U.S. news outlet The Cable, was sent by the U.S. consulate in Istanbul and confirmed in an investigation.
“A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has learned,” The Cable said. “United States diplomats in Turkey conducted a previously undisclosed, intensive investigation into claims that Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons, and made what an Obama administration official who reviewed the cable called a ‘compelling case’ that Assad’s military forces had used a deadly form of poison gas.”
Neither the White House nor the State Department responded to the report of the U.S. consulate cable. Officials did not rule out the prospect of the firing some CW weapons.
In December, the administration said Assad was believed to have been preparing a CW attack. Obama warned that this could spark U.S. military intervention.
But weeks later the White House appeared to reverse its position as well as the assessment of the danger of a Syrian CW strike. The Pentagon determined that the United States could not prevent or respond militarily to such an attack.
“We’re not working on options that involve boots on the ground,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Jan. 10.
The administration’s reversal has angered the Syrian opposition, which includes lobbyists in Washington. They said the U.S. dismissal of its own diplomats regarding a CW attack would only encourage Assad to expand such methods.
“With this kind of response from Obama, Panetta, and [Secretary of State-designate John] Kerry, gas attacks in Syria will become routine,” Farid Ghadry, a leading Syrian lobbyist, said.
Interesting. I’d say it was a gas attack with captured Syrian chemical weapons (everybody knows that Saddam moved his WMD to Syria) but not by the Syrian government.
So Obama sure doesn’t want to call attention to the fact that it was his very own bosom buddy jihadis who captured some of the Syrian gas supplies and employed it on the disposable population of Homs, hoping to use it as a provocation.
“Syria Used Chemical Weapons In Homs, State Department Cable Suggests”
The Huffington Post | By Eline Gordts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/syria-chemical-weapons-homs_n_2482552.html
“Panetta: We’ve Lost Track of Syrian Chemical Weapons
FP”
9/28/2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2937636/posts
The sun will now rise in the west as decreed by The Boy Wonder.
Oh, you mean the ones Descending Colon Bowel was talking about, the "Bush lied people died"...Saddam Hussein stockpile, that was moved to Syria while the UN was stalling for time?
Those WEPMADs?
I'd say you're correct, a false flag attack, that is easily seen as such.
The international distrust of the western MSM is finally monkeywrenching the Muslim Resident's plans.
Haven’t heard news on the Syrian war in a long while. ‘Seems like maybe Assad is here to stay. He had some public appearances recently if memory serves. Bad luck, Muztard Brotherhood. Time to move on to Jordan. It won’t take long for Obama to denounce that government as ‘illegitimate’.
Could be. Obama has betrayed too many people too many times.
Many people say the course of history would have been changed if the British hadn’t sided with the Saudis instead of the Hashemites (Jordanian royal house). Virtually all the people in the British foreign ministry, unfortunately, were complete islamophiles, so they picked the most aggressively Islamist of the competing groups.
If they’d gone with the Hashemites, life would be very different today.
0: We will respond if the Sun rises in the East
Report: The sun rose in the East
0: We see no need to respond,
The sun will now rise in the west (as decreed by The Boy Wonder. — So let it be written, so let it be done)
All the people in the British foreign ministry, unfortunately, are STILL complete Islamophiles.
Truth? Why does that matter?
True... for a while there the hyper-ventilating media was saying that an Assad fall was imminent (I suspect Madame Hillary wanted to take credit before she stepped down) but haven’t heard anything about Assad lately.
Given that Sunni Arabs have called Israeli WP rounds and tear gas chemical attacks, I wouldn't be surprised if they were rolling out the usual bare-faced lies.
Covering for fellow muslims. Same ol’ same ol’...
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