"Chemical weapons are unacceptable and there seems to be no doubt they were used by Russia's ally."
yeah, chemical weapons are unacceptable,.... but there's not a single evidence that they were used by the Syrian army,..... not a single evidence
even in the case there were evidences, the USA are no one to decide unilaterally to bomb another country because of it,.... the USA are by far the top producer in the world, the top seller (they sold chemical weapons to Sadam Hussein to gas the kurds, e.g.) and US governments are by very far the ones who have used them more
but there's not a single evidence pointing to its use by the Syrian government,... Theodor Postol, Professor emeritus at MIT
, a former science adviser to U.S. Navy command and missile expert, has analyzed the “evidence” the White House presented, the "intelligence report",... and as he states:
"I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that
the document does not provide any
evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that
the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan
Shaykhun"
"In fact, a main piece of evidence that is cited in the document points
to an attack that was executed by individuals on the ground, not from an
aircraft, on the morning of April 4."
"The only undisputable facts stated in the White House report is the
claim that a chemical attack using nerve agent occurred in Khan
Shaykhun, Syria on that morning. Although the White House statement
repeats this point in many places within its report,
the report contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft. In fact, the report contains absolutely no evidence that would indicate who was the perpetrator of this atrocity."
you can read the complete report from the MIT professor explaining the above sentences in:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Vs2rjE9TdwR2F3NFFVWDExMnc/viewapart from this report from an expert completely debunking the White House "intelligence report":
"The Trump White House published three and a half pages of
accusations against the governments of Syria and Russia. These are
simple white pages with no header or footer, no date, no classification
or declassification marks, no issuing agency and no signatures. It is
indiscernible who has written them.
U.S. media call this a Declassified U.S. Report on Chemical Weapons Attack. It is no such thing.
It starts with:
"The United States is confident that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapon attack, …"
The U.S. (who exactly is that?) “is confident”, it does not “know”, it does not have “proof” – it is just “confident”.
(...)
"That “intelligence community assessment” chapter title is likely
already a false claim. Even a fast tracked, preliminary National
Intelligence Assessment, for which all seventeen U.S. intelligence
agencies must be heard, takes at least two to three weeks
to create. A “long track” full assessment takes two month or more.
These are official documents issued by the Director of National
Intelligence. The summary assessment the White House releases has no
such heritage. It is likely a well massaged fast write up of some flunky
in the National Security Council. The release was backgrounded
by dubious statements of an anonymous “Senior Administration Officials”
(not by “Intelligence Officials” as has been the case on other such
issues.)
The claimed assessment starts with definitely wrong or at least very misleading point:
"We assess that Damascus launched this chemical attack in response to an opposition offensive in Hama province that threatened key infrastructure."
The Hama offensive had failed two weeks ago. Since then the Syrian
army has regained all areas the al-Qaeda “opposition” had captured
during the first few days. (Al-Qaeda in Syria renamed itself several
times and now calls itself “Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham”.) Key infrastructure
had never been seriously threatened by it. Over 2,000 al-Qaeda fighters were killed in the endeavor.
Peto Lucem, a well known and reliable media source for accurate maps of the war on Syria, posted on March 31, four days before the chemical incident:
Peto Lucem @PetoLucem
NEW MAP: “Rebel” frontline in #Hama is collapsing, #SAA reverses most
#AlQaeda gains made in first days of their failed offensive. #Syria
The attack in Hama had already failed days before the chemical
incident in Khan Shaykhun happened. Khan Shaykhun is not on the front
line. The incident and the failed al-Qaeda attack in Hama can not
possibly be related. It makes no sense at all to launch a militarily
useless incident in a place far away “in response” to a defeat of the
enemy elsewhere – this in a moment where the global political and
military situation had turned in favor of the Syrian government. (The
Defense Intelligence Agency surely never signed off on such an illogical
claim.)
The following paragraphs of the released paper reveal that the
assessment is largely based on a “significant body” of “open source
reporting” which “indicates” this or that. This means that the White
House relied on pictures and videos posted by people who are allowed to
operate freely in the al-Qaeda ruled Khan Shaykhun. (Khan Shaikhun had
been in the hands of an Islamic State associated group Liwa Al-Aqsa until mid February. The group moved out after fighting al-Qaeda and after slaughtering some 150 of its fighters. Al-Qaeda since moved in and now rules the town and surrounding areas.)
Several of the released video were introduced and commented by
Dr. Shajul Islam who has been removed from the British medical registry and had been
indicted
in the UK for his role in kidnapping “western” journalists in Syria. He
fled back to Syria. One of the journalists kidnapped with the help of
Dr. Shajul Islam, James Foley, was later murdered on camera by the
Islamic State. The videos the “doctor” distributed of “rescue” of
casualties of the chemical incidents were
not of real emergencies but staged."
(...)
source:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/white-house-intelligence-assessment-is-no-such-thing-but-shows-support-for-al-qaeda.html"Why would President Assad, supported by Russia, scoring victory after
victory against ISIS, moving closer to peace negotiations, suddenly
risk all his gains by dropping sarin gas on his own people?
In an interview with Scott Horton, ex-CIA officer Philip Giraldi states that his intelligence and military sources indicate Assad didn’t attack his own people with poison gas.
Ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern states that his military sources
report an Assad air strike did hit a chemical plant, and the fallout
killed people, but the attack was not planned for that purpose. There
was no knowledge the chemicals were lethal.
http://www.activistpost.com/2017/04/top-ten-reasons-doubt-official-story-assad-poison-gas-attack.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=c578b348f4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-c578b348f4-388138173Trvmp knew all this, refused to begin an inquiry, and comitted an act of war against a sovereign state,... in just 2 months time this clown has turn 180º the foreign policy he promised before the elections,.... he established a new record for the US administrations, in 2 months time he bombed 2 countries, Syria and Yemen, and sent the navy and threatened a third,.... this fool is very dangerous