No, this is a leap in logic to an objective you predetermined that happens to fit the facts as you interpret them. There's no smoking gun with Assad's fingerprints on it.
“We will bomb in a manner reminiscent of Ghengis Khan”
“This will commence, on the Presidents order, upon my arrival on Nantucket for the Labor Day weekend. There is much work to be done on my yacht”
Just because he said “facts” loudly doesn’t make them so.
Does anybody recall the clear and compelling proof of poison gas attacks by Sadam Hussein against the Kurds, and the endless outcry from the liberal democrats about Bush’s war for “no reason”? Talk about short memories....