America's two-day war

[Winston001]

“It is entirely implausible that the Syrian regime chose the moment of the arrival of a UN chemical weapons inspection team to launch a chemical attack on an insurgency already suffering reverse after reverse on the battlefield and steadily losing international support with each new video showing them eating the hearts of slain soldiery and sawing off the heads of Christian priests with bread knives.”

..........not to say rogue elements of Assad's army didn't use gas, but the "rebels" have used it in the past and Al Quaida supporters have been caught with Sarin at least twice this year........

I don't think they'll use manned strikes - probably Tomahawk cruise missiles and Drones......the Syrian's have the latest Russian AAM defense systems.....and the US would like the least exposure to losing more men....

Agreed. It is possible the gas (assuming it wasn't just dirty smoke) was released by insurgents or, as you say, a Syrian army unit acting on its own initiative. We just don't know yet.

I too doubt the US will risk any lives especially when remote control works reasonably well. If I was the US I'd be telling the French/British/Germans etc to do the job instead. Syria is in a French sphere of influence.

[awa355]

With any war in the middle east ( or anywhere ) there is no such thing as the 'Good Guys' on one side and the ' Baddies' on the other. Either side will lie through their back teeth to score brownie points.

In this case, there are enough fanatics on both sides to use whatever they can get their hands on. If the USA does fire up, it will quickly escalate.

[scissorhands]

Indeed. Rules are rules. Wankers are wankers.

just PM me or delete it next time
I do dumb things.... eat me
dont need to resort to name calling
knob gobblers will be knob gobblers

[Road kill]

just PM me or delete it next time
I do dumb things.... eat me
dont need to resort to name calling
knob gobblers will be knob gobblers

Hopefully he was refering to the wankers that kept on quoting it.

As for me,I've been looking for that list for some time,so thanks.

[mashman]

If as Gareth Porter asserts, the US wanted the inspection team canceled because I assume, it didn’t want to have to bomb them as well as the unfortunate Syrians, then it follows that regardless of the evidence, the Empire had planned to rain death and destruction from afar on Syria, and had planned to do so since last year. And then it was presented with the perfect opportunity until those damn UN inspectors got in the way!

Great way to do business.

[Berries]

Hopefully he was refering to the wankers that kept on quoting it.

Well I laughed.