From Iraq to Syria....?

In 2006, former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada published Saddam’s Secrets. Sada claimed that Saddam had ordered moved much of his WMD material to Syria under the cover of relief flights prior to the 2003 invasion. This is a plausible claim because both Iraq and Syria were Baathist regimes at the time. The Duelfer Report could not corroborate Sada’s claim, but neither could it disprove it. It is known that the two countries engaged in legal and illegal trade during the years leading up to the war.

BladeRunner wrote:http://www.examiner.com/article/whatever-happened-to-saddam-s-wmd

In 2006, former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada published Saddam’s Secrets. Sada claimed that Saddam had ordered moved much of his WMD material to Syria under the cover of relief flights prior to the 2003 invasion. This is a plausible claim because both Iraq and Syria were Baathist regimes at the time. The Duelfer Report could not corroborate Sada’s claim, but neither could it disprove it. It is known that the two countries engaged in legal and illegal trade during the years leading up to the war.

Darth Cheney wrote:

BladeRunner wrote:http://www.examiner.com/article/whatever-happened-to-saddam-s-wmd

In 2006, former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada published Saddam’s Secrets. Sada claimed that Saddam had ordered moved much of his WMD material to Syria under the cover of relief flights prior to the 2003 invasion. This is a plausible claim because both Iraq and Syria were Baathist regimes at the time. The Duelfer Report could not corroborate Sada’s claim, but neither could it disprove it. It is known that the two countries engaged in legal and illegal trade during the years leading up to the war.

Bush made it all up and Cheney's hurricane machine almost destroyed New Orleans.  Get your facts straight!

Darth Cheney wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/08/obama-promises-syria-strike-will-have-no-objective.html

Freedom Forever wrote:

Darth Cheney wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/08/obama-promises-syria-strike-will-have-no-objective.html

WHAT?

His foreign policy makes no sense at all! Why not just stay out of it and quite sending arms to radicals. How's that for a foreign policy?

GOOD GRIEF!

But others question why the United States is compelled to respond to one type of killing when it took no military action to prevent the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Syrians by more conventional but often brutal methods.

After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world’s nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons.

Barely 1 percent of the war’s battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that killed millions more.

Skeptical wrote:
WTF with Boehner lining up with that MT suit HMWAIC?

There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters — which makes a very strong case, based on solid circumstantial evidence, that the August 21, 2013, chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a pre-meditated provocation by the Syrian opposition

My friends, do you remember when the Syrian rebels overran and controlled a government base that had chemical weapons last summer?  Even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into their hands.  This was last summer.  I doubt that you remembered this.  I doubt that anybody remembers it. Even people who keep up with the news every day, I doubt that anybody remembers that, so I want to remind you.

Syrian rebels -- the same rebels that we're talking about today -- overran and controlled a government base, a Bashar Assad base, admittedly, that had chemical weapons last summer. And even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into the hands of the opposition last summer.  Now meanwhile, John Kerry and the regime and the media have used as their main argument the rebels have never had access to these chemical weapons.

The idea that Bashar didn't do this...

And even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into the hands of the opposition last summer.

Skeptical wrote:Any death of a civilian at the hands of that person's own government is an obscenity.

How come after close to 100,000 have been killed in the last two years of Assad trying to stay in power is it now action worthy due chemical (gas) being used to kill?

this was also said this very well by Joby Warrick;

But others question why the United States is compelled to respond to one type of killing when it took no military action to prevent the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Syrians by more conventional but often brutal methods.

Is it viewed as so terribly horrible because

After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world’s nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons.

yet;

Barely 1 percent of the war’s battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that killed millions more.

or was because of the nearly 1,500 victims 400 were children? I can't be because of this, Obama hates children. Her wants women to be able to kill them even after they are viable outside the womb. Him and his new libtard buddy, pro-abortion Barbie, in Texas.

With all due respect, there have been many hundreds of thousands of kids killed over the intervening years since WW1 and I doubt if any would be classified as not horrible.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/even-after-100000-deaths-in-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-evoked-visceral-response/2013/08/31/de6c2b3e-1277-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html

There is no oath of loyalty or even obedience to the president. I say that for a general officer, from the chairman of the joint chief of staff on down, to commit acts of war against another country that have been actually forbidden by Congress would be one of the grossest violations of Constitutional military duty that can be imagined. That's the second prong of a potential Constitutional crisis.

Because if Obama ignores a Congressional vote against the war and sends in the missiles with the military obeying, then we will have entered the darkest place in our history indeed: a president with literally monarchical power to use the military as he wishes and a military leadership that agrees.

Darth Cheney wrote:Liar, liar, Obama's Mom Jeans on Fire:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/04/201163/obama-i-didnt-draw-the-red-line.html#.UidWij__S0c

Twinkies wrote:I figured you Repubs would be happy about another war.

BladeRunner wrote:

Twinkies wrote:I figured you Repubs would be happy about another war.

Where do you stand on the issue?

Support Obama ?

Twinkies wrote But I dont support the Syria Government just killing its own people like they are doing either.  But its not our problem.  

(CNN) -- British military scientists found traces of sarin gas in clothing and soil samples taken from a patient treated for apparent chemical weapons exposure last month near Damascus, Syria, the British prime minister's office said Thursday.

Scientists at the Porton Down military laboratory concluded the samples were unlikely to have been faked, and the country is sharing its findings with the United Nations, the prime minister's office said.

The revelation is the most specific statement by British officials regarding the chemical behind the August 21 attack on a rebel stronghold near Damascus. U.S. officials say more than 1,400 people died, many of them children.

And even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into the hands of the opposition last summer.

Skeptical wrote:

Twinkies wrote But I dont support the Syria Government just killing its own people like they are doing either.  But its not our problem.  

How does the evidence indicated from CNN, below, prove beyond a reasonable doubt the Assad regime is responsible for the use of the Sarin?

From CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

(CNN) -- British military scientists found traces of sarin gas in clothing and soil samples taken from a patient treated for apparent chemical weapons exposure last month near Damascus, Syria, the British prime minister's office said Thursday.

Scientists at the Porton Down military laboratory concluded the samples were unlikely to have been faked, and the country is sharing its findings with the United Nations, the prime minister's office said.

The revelation is the most specific statement by British officials regarding the chemical behind the August 21 attack on a rebel stronghold near Damascus. U.S. officials say more than 1,400 people died, many of them children.

Keep in mind this from 2012 and Leon Panetta.

And even Leon Panetta admitted that chemical weapons may have fallen into the hands of the opposition last summer.

http://newsmilitary.com/pages/7251952-panetta-weve-lost-track-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-.

Twinkies wrote:

BladeRunner wrote:

Twinkies wrote:I figured you Repubs would be happy about another war.

Where do you stand on the issue?

Support Obama ?

Nope. I say let them kill each other.

But I dont support the Syria Government just killing its own people like they are doing either.  But its not our problem.