In interview with Charlie Rose, Assad says he had nothing to do with attack (via Yahoo)

[pinto]

In interview with Charlie Rose, Assad says he had nothing to do with attack

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News 2 hours ago

In an interview with Charlie Rose in Damascus Sunday, Syrian President Bashar Assad denied he had anything to do with last month's chemical weapons attack that killed thousands of Syrians, but would not confirm or deny his regime has chemical weapons, Rose said on CBS' "Face The Nation."

The interview, Assad's first with an American television network in nearly two years, is scheduled to air on "The Charlie Rose Show" on PBS Monday — the same day President Barack Obama is scheduled to sit down with six different television networks, including PBS, to make his case to for a U.S. strike against Syria.

According to CBS News president David Rhodes, Rose interviewed Assad in Damascus and then traveled to Beirut where he spoke with CBS' Bob Schieffer by phone.

According to Rose, Assad again suggested Syrian rebels may have had something to do with the Aug. 21 attack on the Syrian people.

He denied he knew there was a chemical attack, Rose said, and added that there is not enough evidence to make a conclusion judgment.

http://news.yahoo.com/assad-says-he-had-nothing-to-do-with-attack-152856395.html

[baldguy]

1. Why is it those who believe Assad are also those who tend to believe Rand Paul?

And tend not to believe Barack Obama & John Kerry?

[leftstreet]

2. Believe Rand Paul about what?

[pinto]

3. Not a clue. I don't believe Assad, fwiw.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Why is it those who believe Obama and Kerry...

...believe nothing else from any source anywhere?

[HardTimes99]

6. Why is it that those who believe Barack Obama and John Kerry are

fans of Karl Rove and Eliott Abrams?

[VanillaRhapsody]

13. Not a fan of Karl Rove or Elliot Abrams here...

[HardTimes99]

15. I was attempting to demystify and deconstruct BaldGuy's

neo-McCarthyism (equating opponents of military intervention in Syria with Rand Paul purely through guilt by association).

That said, you still might want to look closely at this DU thread and the Weekly Standard piece linked to therein:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023543234

Makes for quite interesting reading watching all those sociopathic war criminals lining up behind the proposed attack on Syria.

[dipsydoodle]

8. Mutually exclusive issues.

.

[morningfog]

16. I don't believe Assad, Obama or Kerry on anything related to Syria.

I don't believe Paul on anything.

[NYC_SKP]

4. I'm still not convinced that what we're being told is the whole story.

And when I first read about accidental releases by the rebels themselves, I thought it to be a reasonable possibility.

I'm less and less trustful of the media and of the government.

Sad to say!

[HardTimes99]

7. As Bob Dylan once said (long before he sold out to the ad agencies),

"Don't follow leaders. Watch the parking meters."

Subterranean Homesick Blues

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Neither am I...

IF Assad is telling the truth, it would be in his best interest to tell the world that this was a rogue operation from within his government and that he has arrested those responsible and is going to punish them.

THAT would defuse the whole thing. Until he does so, I will believe he was responsible. The Buck Stops at his feet.

[pinto]

12. Agree. Some clarity in this convoluted situation would be a good thing. One way or another.

[VanillaRhapsody]

14. youreally "wanted" to believe that and not the most obvious thing that could have happened?

not a fan of Occam's Razor huh?

[arely staircase]

10. well that settles it nt

[factsarenotfair]

11. I still can't get over the fact that Rose interviewed Fred Kagan recently and treated him

like he was a credible, humane, unbiased commenter on the Middle East. Rose was practically licking his feet and swooning.