Syria Thread

[JaiRai]

Operation Just-the-Tip: Daily Show's Jon Stewart Goes on Epic Tirade Over Obama's Syria Problem

 

 

http://www.ijreview....c-tirade-syria/

 

That was pretty darn good Flash. Nice work. Here's the vid from the link:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsVW9pjjA7g

[Flashermac]

Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack

 

 

BERLIN — Russia says a deadly March sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations.

 

A statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website late Wednesday said the report included detailed scientific analysis of samples that Russian technicians collected at the site of the alleged attack, Khan al Asal in northern Syria. The attack killed 26 people.

 

A U.N. spokesman, Farhan Haq, confirmed that Russia delivered the report in July.

 

The report itself was not released. But the statement drew a pointed comparison between what it said was the scientific detail of the report and the far shorter intelligence summaries that the United States, Britain and France have released to justify their assertion that the Syrian government launched chemical weapons against Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21. The longest of those summaries, by the French, ran nine pages. Each relies primarily on circumstantial evidence to make its case, and they disagree with one another on some details, including the number of people who died in the attack.

 

 

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/05/201268/russia-releases-100-page-report.html#.UikxzUCJpQc

 

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[baa99]

Where would the rebels get sarin AND the delivery system?

 

Shouldn't summaries be short? Isn't that why they're called summaries?

 

So if one report says 1023 died and another says 1015 died a sarin attack didn't occur?

[Flashermac]

No one is saying they didn't happen. There is a video on the Internet of an al Qaeda "warrior" claiming his people have used gas in Syria against women and children.

 

As to a sarin "delivery system", it is not that difficult:

 

http://en.wikipedia....he_Tokyo_subway

[Specialist]

There's been corroborating information surfacing recently, from other sources. Supposedly, the war gas was supplied from elsewhere in the Middle East, possibly Iran, and the Syrians were not given adequate instruction on how to handle the stuff safely.

 

Meanwhile, John Kerry is telling us that the Saudis have offered to foot the entire bill for the US taking out Assad, and that somehow makes it OK. He's all set to become the most powerful pimp in history, with the entire US Army in his stable, and the House of Saud as his number-one customer.

 

According to Wikiquote: In April, 1971, John Kerry said "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Someone should ask him if having someone other than the US footing the bill somehow makes it OK to ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake.

[Flashermac]

I have long detested John Kerry. But when I heard him saying he wanted to turn the US military in mercenaries available to the highest bidder, I was ready to call in a drone strike on him. How about instead the US pays for the war and the Saudis fight it?

[Flashermac]

President Obama could lose big on Syria in House

 

 

 

If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big.

 

That’s the private assessment of House Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides who are closely involved in the process.

 

If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big.

 

That’s the private assessment of House Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides who are closely involved in the process.

 

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/obama-syria-house-vote-96347.html

[Flashermac]

[Flashermac]

Syria Video Turns the Debate on U.S. Intervention

 

 

The raw video was so grisly, and so barbaric, that the New York Times staffers who watched and edited it for online publication were made “physically ill,†according to the newspaper’s spokeswoman

 

Shortly after the Times posted it in the wee hours Thursday morning, the video went viral, leading the influential Drudge Report, proliferating on Twitter, Tumblr, and other social-media sites, and dominating cable news and broadcast outlets. It also became a tricky problem for the Obama White House.

 

The scene of Syrian rebels standing over seven soldiers of the Syrian regular army while the rebel commander recited a bloodthirsty poem—and pointing rifles and a pistol at the heads of their prostrate, shirtless, and badly beaten prisoners—was shocking enough. Times video editors tactfully blackened the screen as the rebels—who, just like the United States government, oppose the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad—began to execute the soldiers; the only indication of the slaughter taking place was a noisy fusillade of 10 seconds in length. Then an image flashed of the broken bodies in a mass grave.

 

The top of Thursday’s Times front page carried a five-column color photo of the ghastly scene, a screen-grab from the video, alongside a lead story about the horrifying footage. And, as is frequently the case, the pictures were far more powerful than the words.

 

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http://www.thedailyb...tervention.html

[Dexi]

The Russians are the key to this.....they have seen how the US has intervened in Iraq and Afghanistan and now they risk losing their last important ally in the region if the Assad regime goes.Looks like they are digging their heels in and saying enough is enough.The Syrian conflict could be solved if the Russians could put pressure on Assad to negotiate,but this would mean the US compromising its own interests to an extent that its probably not prepared to do....