Posted on 04/08/2017 5:02:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sean Keeley of The American Interest noticed a curious statement from National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster when he briefed reporters on the Syrian strike.
And the one thing that I will tell you though, there was an effort to minimize – to minimize risk to third-country nationals at that airport – I think you read Russians from that – but that – and we took great pains to try to avoid that. […] And then there were also measures put in place to avoid hitting what we believe is a storage of sarin gas, so that that would not be ignited and cause a hazard to civilians or anyone else.
The conclusion is obvious. If the new Trump administration knew that there were storage containers of sarin gas, it stands to reason that the Obama administration knew it as well.
But...but...but...didn't the administration brag about removing "100%" of Syria's chemical weapons?
If this strike was arranged to avoid hitting sarin storage facilities, the question arises: did the Obama Administration know that such depots still existed after its “historic” deal that supposedly removed all Syria’s chemical weapons?
The signs point to yes. In Congressional testimony last February, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged “gaps and inconsistencies in Syria’s declaration,” validating reports that Syria was still hiding banned chemicals at undisclosed locations. And on its way out the door in January of this year, the Obama Treasury quietly introduced new sanctions against Syrian officials involved in chemical warfare. Buried in the language sanctioning a particular official was a telling admission: “As of 2016, Abbas has continued operating at locations in Syria associated with chemical warfare-related missions.”
Whether or not the Obama Administration knew of this particular sarin facility, then, they clearly knew that Syrians were still clinging to their stockpiles at several locations. They knew what Adam Garfinkle has been saying all along: that Obama’s deal to remove chemical weapons was not a historic diplomatic triumph but an unenforcable sham that the Syrians and Russians never intended to comply with.
The Daily Caller has some reminders of what the Obama administration was saying about the deal that supposedly removed Syria's chemical weapons:
In the wake of the recent chemical weapons that killed innocent civilians, including women and children, observers immediately recalled former President Barack Obama’s 2013 deal, which allowed the president to back down from his red line on chemical weapons, and the administration’s comments in the aftermath.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry stated in 2014 that the Obama administration “got 100 percent of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria.” Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice commented in January that the president and his team were “able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”
At the time, fact-checking site Poltifact reported that the administration’s comments were “mostly true;” however, the site has since re-evaluated its assessment. “Either Syria never fulling [sic] complied with its 2013 promise to reveal all of its chemical weapons; or it did, but then converted otherwise non-lethal chemicals to military uses.”
“One way or another, subsequent events have proved Kerry wrong,” the site explained.
Politifact refers to "non-lethal chemicals" being "converted" to military uses. They are talking about chlorine gas which, in liquid form, has many commercial and industrial uses. However, it is easily converted into gas which, when dropped on people, can be one of the deadliest gasses on the planet.
There have been several attacks by Syria using chlorine gas since 2013 that the Obama administration dismissed because they said that chlorine was not a "banned" substance and so was not a chemical weapon.
Many soldiers from World War I would vehemently disagree. Chlorine gas was one of the most widely used weapons during that war and it killed and maimed tens of thousands.
It has now been confirmed that sarin gas -- a weapon banned under the chemical weapons treaty -- was used in the attack on civilians last week. Apparently, the Obama administration hid their failure from the American people because if Obama had acknowledged the presence of sarin gas in Assad's arsenal, he would have had to do something about it.
Parting shot: Here are Democrats celebrating Obama's great "triumph" in getting rid of Syria's chemical weapons.
Reports of Syria Removing Its Chemical Weapons Were Greatly Exaggerated | SUPERcuts! #456
Yes of course they did they shipped pallets of it to them from where they hid it from the inspectors in Iraq years ago
Sorry....Mr. Kerry has left for the island.
Obama lied. People died.
They may have known about chemical weapons, but I doubt that they cared about them. Obama wanted his successor to take care of them.
Is there a betting line in Las Vegas on this question?
those were probably the wmd that saddam snuck out of Iraq while France dicked us around in the security council.
What about the undeclared ones?
They might have suspected but didn’t care.
What did Obama know and when did he stop knowing it?
Probably want to check with Susan Rice about the chemical weapons ...
If it wasn’t on TV how would 0bama know about it?
I say we need to make Susan Rice deploy as a safety tester for possible chemical weapons residue... and she doesn’t get any safety equipment.
Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April6, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 4/6/2017, 2:28:24 PM by Kaslin
Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Apr 6, 2017
RUSH: There’s a fact-check outfit out there called PolitiFact, and it’s like all the other fact-check outfits. The Washington Post has one; the AP has one. These fact-check outfits exist only to discredit and impugn Trump. Well, the PolitiFact has had to retract a story they categorized as “mostly true” three years ago, and this story is big. Three years ago, Barack Obama and his Regime were an abject disaster. But they were claiming success after success after success, particularly in the Middle East.
One of the things that the Obama administration was celebrating was that they had completely removed chemical weapons from Syria. Obama drew that red line and the Syrians and everybody else realized the bad actor they were dealing with, and they cowered in fear, and they did remove 100% of their chemical weapons. There’s a problem now, though. Those chemical weapons were just used in an attack in Syria on Syrian citizens. So how could the Obama administration have gotten rid of all of these? The Obama… You know what the claim was? They claimed they gave all of that chemical weapons stock to the Russians.
Oh, yeah! Yeah, folks! The Obama administration — now the dire enemy of the Russians, victimized by the Russians — gave the chemical weapon stocks in Syria to the Russians.
Which means the Russians probably gave it right back to the Syrians. But the PolitiFact story retracts a 2014 article that said it was “mostly true” that the Obama administration “helped broker a deal that successfully removed 100% of chemical weapons from Syria.” So a story that was a lie backed up by PolitiFact for three years has been retracted, and the upshot is the Obama administration did not succeed in successfully removing all of Syria’s chemical weapons, as we now know because those weapons were used recently.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541780/posts
Obama/Rice lied: Innocent kids died.!
Tell us the unrefuted truth by absolute proof that Syria , in fact , HAD Chemical Weapons? We know ISIS DID. (use them everyday in Mosul) But we have nothing on Syria unless you share it with us.
On the other hand, did the Trump Administration invent the existence of Assad's sarin gas, which NSA McMaster “believes” may have been stored at the airbase Trump destroyed?
Everything we “know” about this incident was stated by or filmed by unknown sources from Syrian “monitor” groups, or by unidentified US or Israeli military sources.
We have no verification that sarin bombs exploded in that area and no verification that, if sarin was used, that it belonged to Assad and not to the Al-Qaeda group that was being attacked.
Trust, but verify.
So far, Trump's story is all trust, and no verify.
That is breaking news!!Do you have proof on that or is that what you want to believe after no wmd found ANYWHERE to justify 5000 American soldier lives— 40,000 soldiers wounded and maimed— 300,000 Iraqs dead and 2 fricken TRILLION DOLLARS completely flushed down the toilet? Hummmm? Show us the proof.
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