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Does anyone Think Assad is Dumb Enough to use Chemical Weapons?

 
 
Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:28 pm
No way. there is a slight chance the some pro government militias who have gone rogue did it but almost certainly this is the work of the rebels in an effort to get the US and others actively into the civil war. Sad to say I am not confident that Obama cares what the truith is.
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:35 pm
@hawkeye10,
Yes.
gungasnake
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:42 pm
@hawkeye10,
I view this as more dog wagging. A month ago the dufe was trying to make scandals go away by fomenting an internal race war, this week it seems to be Syria.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:43 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

Yes.

you say that even after Assad for two years has played the global powers with near precision...Why?
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 01:47 pm
@gungasnake,
gungasnake wrote:

I view this as more dog wagging. A month ago the dufe was trying to make scandals go away by fomenting an internal race war, this week it seems to be Syria.

throwing missiles at Syria is going to have big costs though, the entire region is already a tinderbox and even given the recent election Iran certainly will not allow this agression to go unanswered. bye bye Kerry's pipe dream of a Palestinian Israeli solution too of course. if the Professor is playing he is doing it more incompetently than normal.

edit: lets not forget that Putin is not going to let this go unanswered either. get ready for more Snowden sourced embarrassments of the US government.
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 03:17 pm
@hawkeye10,
You can't use something you don't have. Assad has; the others don't.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 03:28 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

You can't use something you don't have. Assad has; the others don't.

with as fractured as the country is you cant expect that Assad is always able to keep every chemical weapon out of the hands of the rebels. the drone intel actually makes it more likely that it will fall to them because the expectation is that while trying to keep stocks safe from the rebels he will take them out of hiding to move them thus letting the US know where they are.
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 03:43 pm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171311#.UhvLf0Rbgjk

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As talk and rumors of an impending Western attack against Syria mount, a top Syrian official said Monday that if attacked, his country would react – against Israel.

Speaking to an Arabic-language radio station operated by the United States, Syria's Deputy Information Minister Halaf Al-Maftah said that Israel would face not only Syria in the event that the US, Britain and France attempted to unseat Bashar al-Assad. A coalition consisting of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria would respond to any attack against Assad with a response against Israel. In addition, terrorist groups in Syria and Lebanon would attack Israel with full force.

Al-Maftah added that Syria has “strategic weapons” that it would use in its attack on Israel. He did not specify what those weapons were.

“Syria is ready to deal with all scenarios,” said Al-Maftah. “We consider these declarations of a possible attack as a form of psychological warfare and pressure on Syria. We are not worried about them. We hope that those threatening us will listen closely to what we are saying. We believe that the only solution for the Syrian issue is a political one,” he added.

In recent days, the U.S. has sent warships off Syria's coast, with the assumption being that they were waiting for word from the White House to attack Syria and remove Assad from power. Over the weekend, the U.S. Navy expanded its presence in the Mediterranean Sea with a fourth cruise-missile-armed warship.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 26 Aug, 2013 05:14 pm
@gungasnake,
less than 10% of Americans support us using military aggression against Syria. The Professor might want to keep this in mind.
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