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Claim #2: The administration claims the opposition has not used chemical weapons.
Which opposition?
Are you speaking of a specific group, or all groups working in Syria to overthrow President Assad and his government?
Has your administration independently and categorically dismissed the reports of rebel use of chemical weapons which have come from such disparate sources as Russia, the United Nations, and the Turkish state newspaper?
Have you investigated the rumors that the Saudis may have supplied the rebels with chemicals that could be weaponized?
Has the administration considered the ramifications of inadvertently supporting al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels?
Was any intelligence received in the last year by the U.S. government indicating that sarin gas was brought into Syria by rebel factions, with or without the help of a foreign government or intelligence agents?
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jsr
(7,712 posts)Intercourse is not sex.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)The administration "claims"....
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Unlike the other candidates, I am not funded by those corporate interests. I owe them no loyalty, and they have no influence over me or my policies.
---Dennis Kucinich
eridani
(51,907 posts)Claim #10: The administration claims that sustained shelling occurred after the chemical weapons attack in order to cover up the traces of the attack
Please release all intelligence and military assessments as to the reason for the sustained shelling, which is reported to have occurred after the chemical weapons attack.
Who made the determination that was this intended to cover up a chemical weapon attack? Or was it to counterattack those who released chemicals?
How does shelling make the residue of sarin gas disappear?
The American people have a right to a full release and vetting of all facts before their elected representatives are asked to make a decision of great consequence for America, Syria and the world. Congress must be provided answers prior to the vote, in open hearings, not in closed sessions where information can be manipulated in the service of war. We've been there before. It's called Iraq.
Celefin
(532 posts)After that, you are supposed to have the overpowering urge to do something. Immediately.
That this something might advance a totally different agenda than the one stated or what you might have in mind is purely coincidental and no reason to worry.
Release. The. Conclusive. Evidence.
If you do, go ahead - you'll be able to secure UN and NATO support.
If you can't, shut up and back off.