I like Rand, but this is why he flounders as a presidential candidate. Did he ask himself why Syria didn’t allow others into the area if it was a false flag? Syria is at civil war for a reason afterall, and its not because Assad is some boy scout
Good point and I agree
Rand Paul is correct. Both the Independent and OAN have reporters on scene being told by doctors and locals no gas attack occurred. Trump got played. That is likely why he was tweeting on Sunday about getting congressional permission to go into Syria. He’s wising up.
I don’t always agree with Senator Paul, but he has a good point about whether Assad launched the Chemical attack. I agree with him that we need to see the evidence. Until then. I will be very skeptical that Syria was responsible for this. My feeling is that the whole thing was staged by his opposition.
What are you talking about, there have been journalists in Douma for a couple of days poking around and interviewing witnesses.
Smart move too, as it preempts the likes of Boris Johnson and Nikki Haley from lying their butts off about the situation.
The Russian's didn't turn on their S-400 system as to not give us an intel treasure trove, and rumors are Assad and the Ruskies cleaned up ( terrorist ) after our attack. So did they know and look the other way and was Assad in on it given there are what 8 different factions of bad guys? What if these bad actors we so bad even Assad didn't want them. And then Israel went in and bitch-slapped the Iranians their after us. Sounds like a lot of clean up to me. This looks real coordinated. Does Assad get that he might be better off without Israel 365/24/7 in a war footing pointing towards him, if he gets the bad actors out and maybe piece together his country.
You think the creeps Assad are fighting are good little kids?
Both sides stink. But I’d rather live under Assad than under “rebels.”
+1
Who the hell cares what they do to each other? It's not our fight. The fewer saracens we have to worry about the better.
Syria is in civil war because the Obama White House created and supported fanatic insurgents throughout the country.
Did he ask himself why Syria didn’t allow others into the area if it was a false flag?
It makes sense for Assad to deny the perpetrators of the Ghouta and Khan Sheikoun false-flags any chance of piggybacking the OPCW and contaminating the crime scene.
After all - if forensic evidence were actually important to these people, then they would have waited for that evidence before launching 105 missiles at a sovereign nation.
Good for Rand Paul.
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Exactly- Syria should have welcomed investigators IF they were innocent in order to clear their name- Yet they barred them-
Huh, it's actually more flagrant than I expected. Assad invited OPCW in, and the OPCW arrived in Damascus on April 14th.
The 105 missile strike took place the previous evening. The people who ordered the missile strikes were not interested in the results of the OPCW investigation
Proofs: OPCW website
Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly.
And from the OPCW twitter feed, announcing their arrival in Damascus.
Assad invited the OPCW in, and the West struck before the OPCW could investigate.
Ok FReepers, which side looks guilty?
Yep - and The fact that there are still such weapons in Syria makes Russia complicit......
Assad may not be a boy scout but the people that want to overthrow him are radical islamists. They lost their abiltity to set up shop in Egypt. Libya is a bloody mess with factions killing each other. Why is everyone so quick to believe that Assad is the most evil guy on the planet and the “freedom fighters” are, Eagle Scouts. If McCain is with them, then there’s something not right.
Tulsi Gabbard goes there, on her own, and gets a completely different story than the one we’re being fed and then she is cast out, in the same way that Paul is. Why can’t they be right?
More and more is coming out that the whole thing was staged and BS. Who is to be believed?
Obama got us in that mess, knowing that someone else would have to clean it up. They all thought it was going to be her. Now it’s President Trump. We don’t need to be wasting anything, Tomahawks or troops, on Assad’s revolution.
Yes.... there were recorded eye witnesses to the govt helicopters dropping the barrels (barrels!!) of chlorine gas— not sarin which would have “markers” but primitive chlorine gas (binary agent) which dates from WWI in technology.
This attack was on Alawites and.... Christians. Assad has enemies in his own religion group— the Alawites. And Alawite Christian allies against Assad. Entirely possible.
The russians making the most of the propaganda opportunity to support their client Assad.
One other potential— the “moderate” rebels (or some of them) turned to aid Assad... and work as doubles to keep the “action” going for US handlers to justify US continued presence and expense of the 105 cruise missiles (price tag, for replacing this stock?). And the added benefit of draining the landmark money just approved to re-build our Navy, submarines and F-35 and F-18 fleets and spare parts to keep them flying— that is... this hinders this effort, and thus empowers the “obamaumao” de-stabilizers and still pay Lockheed. One other line of thought.
It is a false flag.
The others were likely looking to plant evidence.
Rand would be a great, great president—but I doubt he could be elected.