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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho was responsible for the chemical attack?
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Bashar al-Assad and his agents | |
4 (57%) |
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The rebels attacked themselves to draw the United States into the conflict | |
1 (14%) |
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Rogue elements within the Assad regime | |
0 (0%) |
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Other/Please specify | |
2 (29%) |
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liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)The real question is how many children do US bombs have to kill before Assad feels sorry
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Wouldn't put it past them.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)If our CIA is conducting large-scale military assaults using military-grade rockets right in their capital city.
It would be pretty hard not to notice that.
yourout
(7,521 posts)leftstreet
(36,081 posts)If Obama claims he wants to fight 'smart' wars, not 'stupid' ones, maybe he shouldn't start talking about strikes and intervention without all the evidence
cali
(114,904 posts)it may sound nit picky but Assad's forces may have done it without Assad knowing of it. Juan Cole thinks this is likely.
It would have been better I think if you'd made the choice between "the Assad regime" and "a rebel faction" and thrown in other.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Crumbling around him. The old story is he can run but he may not be able to hide forever. Then again if he has used chemical weapons and he could decide to stand a war criminal trial he may feel his life is over anyhow. Now Syria just a front for Russia and Iran. Like a lot of countries, there are only as stable as their leaders.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It is not a yes/no,either/or, black/white world.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It's about a proxy war
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Nobody knows, I have a few potential suspects in mind but I could not tell you with certainty who did it. Neither can anyone else no matter how loudly they insist they have the answer.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Religious people and atheists alike seem to know for sure whether or not there is a God. People seem to know for sure Assad used chemical weapons and none of the rebels did all before the UN report comes out. The truth is right now no one knows. You are absolutely right. Anyone who claims to know, doesn't.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... that I have seen to point a finger at anyone.
I say this now, just as I did when the war pigs were pitching The Idiot Son's Iraq Debacle:
If you had proof, you would be showing it to every eye that would look, not telling us to "trust us."
I didn't trust "them," and I don't trust this administration. Both have lied to us, multiple times.
PROVE IT or it isn't real.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)According to John Kerry:
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Being trapped under rubble from a bomb blast can be every bit as sadistic as mustard gas
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Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)The choice is between an asshole president and a bunch of asshole extremist groups some with ties to terrorist groups.
Remember that we trained Bin Laden.
cherokeeprogressive
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hrmjustin
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)22. Most likely the CIA and MOSSAD.
Even "Al-Qaeda" is probably them.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I think it was Assad.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Why do you think Assad is being framed.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)in real life our government wants it to be Assad very badly I guess that his employ as a torturer is over, just consider the missile strike a pink slip of sorts
RetroLounge
(37,250 posts)RL
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I read, here at DU, that the chemical attack wasn't even carried out correctly. Apparently you're supposed to fire chemical shells closer to each other than conventional ones, so as to create a concentrated cloud of gas. But they didn't do that. That points to a rogue unit commander firing chemical rounds in desperation. That same report said that the Syrian defense minister smacked the commander down.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)so saying "The rebels bombed themselves" is ingenuous.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)David__77
(23,220 posts)The US has got to stay out of it.