Posted on 04/06/2017 7:13:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Syria’s ruling Baath Party helped CREATE ISIS, then later got blowback.
Just as did Iraq’s Baath Party.
It’s no coincidence that ISIS’ leadership is populated with old Iraqi Baath Party regime officers.
So, why do you think the Syrian government had their mole Chaplain Yee, a convert, working for them at Gitmo, sending Damascus information on terrorist detainees, the US facility, and its procedures...until he got caught trying to smuggle some of his research out?
Remember, this was at a time Syria was backing the insurgency in Iraq.
So Asaad would one day give us the imprimatur to bomb the hell out him and his people?
This is the regime which is importing missies on Iranian “civilian” airliners.
A few years ago a guy named Imad Mugniyeh was killed - in Syria. After he had just met with Syrian officials.
He was the top dog of Hezbollah and the guy responsible for blowing up a bunch of US Marines...
Note that he was a very well known wanted terrorist ***meeting with Syrian officials.***
Assad’s minions, as a matter of fact.
Not long ago the Syrian regime through Hezbollah operatives assassinated Rafiq Hariri, a Lebanese leader in the opposition to Syria’s occupation of Lebanon, in a bomb blast in front of a hotel that also slew more than 20 other people.
A few years ago a guy named Imad Mugniyeh was killed - in Syria. After he had just met with Syrian officials.
He was the top dog of Hezbollah and the guy responsible for blowing up a bunch of US Marines...
Note that he was a very well known wanted terrorist ***meeting with Syrian officials.***
(Oh, you can bet Bannon, an old Navy intel guy, is very well aware of that fact.)
Another bit of trivia for you...
Escaped Austrian NAZI war criminal Alois Brunner was Adolf Eichmann’s assistant. Eichmann referred to Brunner as his “best man.” Brunner is held responsible for sending over 100,000 Jews to there deaths and was commander of the Drancey Internment Camp in France from which 24,000 people were deported.
Brunner fled West Germany in 1954, first for Egypt, then Syria, where he remained. He was harbored, paid and protected by successive regimes even though he was the object of many manhunts by Nazi hunters and had been condemned to death in absentia by France.
During his long residence in Syria, Brunner was reportedly given asylum and lived under the assumed name Dr Georg Fischer. He was given a generous salary and protection by the ruling Baath Party in exchange for advising and training the intel services of Assad’s father on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II and was last seen in 2003, though he apparently died in Syria in 2010 after outliving his usefulness to the ever more nervous government of Syria. He is buried somewhere in Damascus.
Which one of those question do you think General Mattis did not know the answer to before he made his decision?
Although no one can know what was in Mattis' head, I believe he believed Asad's jets dropped chemical weapons, based on what his staff and the CIA told him.
Me? I'm not so sure, Asad's interests are not served by crossing the WMD threshold. ISIS has been known to use WMDs, therefore I believe it is more likely an ISIS stockpile was destroyed that day, releasing chemicals that were already on the ground.
The CIA is no friend of Trump, it is entirely possible they shaded the truth in a direction to destabilize the Trump administration. The White House acted in good faith based on what they were told.
Some of the creatures in the swamp are far more dangerous than others...
Except it wasn’t. Very little damage to the base.
That may or may not be so. If it is they screwed up and Trump wins.
Xi Jingping is not a happy camper right now. Neither are the Barfatoallah’s in Iran, nor Putin in Russia.
Lots of dirty underwear this morning.
Targeting issue, IMHO.
The missiles hit the tops of VERY robust hangers, another FReeper described them as looking like WWII Nazi submarine pens.
If they had been programed to hit the much lighter hanger doors, or fly into the open doors, the damage to the aircraft and interior of the hanger from the warhead detonating in a confined space would have been significant.
I’ll explain it to you just for the heck of it. The use of chemical weapons by Assad makes zero sense. That still doesn’t mean that he didn’t do it, but as a political/military move it is both unnecessary and profoundly unwise. Add this to the fact that the Syrian government vehemently denies using them. They are claiming that rebels were stockpiling these weapons. Islamic jihadists have used chemical weapons in the past.
The leftist media is piling on about this “attack” which is making me very skeptical. To “hold Assad accountable” as you say, he indeed has to have ordered a deliberate attack. This stinks of another neo-con/globalist excuse to justify interventionism. It rests on “evidence” as flimsy as our nation-building project in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Republicans needs to jettison this image of a warmongering party because I would like to win future elections.
So, what is the point of all the intrigue you posted? That we should shell/bomb Syria when we feel like it? Maybe just colonize Syria like Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Quatar, etc? Or is you point more like reasonisfaith’s point which is it’s just a large cruise missile strike against a supposedly guilty Assad. And if he’s not guilty, meh, no one likes Assad anyway so no biggie.
From the WSJ -
Pentagon officials said that radar imagery showed Syrian bombers carrying out a strike on the village of Khan Sheikhoun in northwestern Syria, and added that the victims were killed by chemical weapons. The strike, Pentagon officials said, hit a hospital used by al Qaeda-linked militants, not a rebel chemical depot, as Russia has contended.
This makes some sense as a motive for Assad. The most sense so far. I’ll see how it holds up.
If I were an Al-Qaeda militant, I’d store chemical weapons near school, hospital, mosque, etc. Because it looks really good when “mean ol’ Assad” (or anyone else) attacks those structures.
Now, I may be wrong. I’m not claiming to have any special info, but I have read conflicting news reports on this incident. It is very strange that MSM is so quickly piling on Assad. It just doesn’t feel right.
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