Wednesday 28 August 2013

Never Mind the Evidence, Obama Wants War with Syria at any Cost.

It seems that the White House is determined to believe that the Assad regime used chemical weapons upon civilians in Damascus, despite the fact that there is no evidence of this atrocity having been committed by forces loyal to Assad. Despite the fact that there would be little need for the regime to utilise such weapons as its forces have the upper hand against the rebels, a motley & fractious shower of savages, in its most charitable description.

It would be nonsensical for the regime to commit such an act when they already know that the Western nations are so biased towards the Muslim Brotherhood & al-Qaeda backed rebellion. It would be folly to do this when they know what happened to Saddam Hussein's sordid little fiefdom, partly due to his historic use of chemical weapons at Halabja, & they know that Obama is looking for an excuse to send in airstrikes to support his Muslim Brotherhood friends.

Syria's Foreign Minister said as much to the international press, in this report from the BBC yesterday (hat-tip to Queen Lareefer كافر @QueenLareefer1):

Syria crisis: Foreign minister denies chemical attacks

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said he rejects "utterly and completely" that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons.

He was speaking in Damascus after the US said there was "undeniable" proof of a chemical attack.

He said UN weapons inspectors had been unable to go to a second site because rebels could not ensure their safety.

The US and its allies are considering launching strikes on Syria in response to deadly attacks last week.

The UN has confirmed its inspection team has delayed its second trip to the Damascus suburbs by one day for safety reasons.

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the British Parliament would be recalled early to discuss the country's response to last week's suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria. British MPs will meet on Thursday.

The UK is making contingency plans for military action in Syria, with UK PM David Cameron cutting short his holiday and returning to London to deal with the Syrian crisis.

In Damascus, Mr Muallem told a news conference that if a military act was carried out against Syria, the pretext of chemical weapons would be false, baseless and groundless.

"They said the Syrian forces were the ones who carried out this attack. I deny this utterly and completely to [US Secretary of State John] Kerry," he said.

"There is no country in the world that uses a weapon of ultimate destruction against its own people."

The Syrian foreign minister also insisted the government was honouring all the pledges it made to the UN over access and protection for the inspectors.

On Monday, the UN inspectors said they had come under sniper fire as they tried to visit an area west of the city.

Meanwhile, Russia and China have stepped up their warnings against military intervention in Syria, with Moscow saying any such action would have "catastrophic consequences" for the region.

Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has called on the international community to show "prudence" over the crisis and observe international law.

Late on Monday, the US said it was postponing a meeting on Syria with Russian diplomats, citing "ongoing consultations" about alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Hours later, Russia expressed regret about the decision. The two sides had been due to meet in The Hague on Wednesday to discuss setting up an international conference on finding a political solution to the crisis.

The Russian deputy defence minister, Gennady Gatilov said working out the political parameters for a resolution on Syria would be especially useful, with the threat of force hanging over the country.

On Monday, Mr Cameron spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin who said there was no evidence yet that Syria had used chemical weapons against rebels, Mr Cameron's office said.

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The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, said Western powers were rushing to conclusions about who may have used chemical weapons in Syria before UN inspectors had completed their investigation.

Both the Syrian government and rebels have blamed each other for last Wednesday's attacks.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said three hospitals it supported in the Damascus area had treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms", of whom 355 had died.

US officials said there was "little doubt" that President Bashar al-Assad's government was to blame.

The UN Security Council is divided, with Russia and China opposing military intervention and the UK and France warning that the UN could be bypassed if there was "great humanitarian need".

The UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad began more than two years ago. The conflict has produced more than 1.7 million registered refugees.

The Russians are absolutely right. Considering that a major faction of the rebel forces is Jabhat al-Nusra, a publically acknowledged offshoot of al-Qaeda, the consequences of ill-considered interference could, indeed, be catastrophic. Imagine a country taken over by al-Qaeda.

It is mind-boggling to contemplate the hypocrisy of Barack Obama & his spineless lap-dogs, yes, Dave, that's you, in their turning a blind eye to the rebels' use of Sarin a few months ago & then leaping to condemn the Assad regime for the same thing when there is no definite evidence of this, the regime has no history of this, the regime has no motive to do this & their opponents have been proven to have done this themselves &, what is more, have displayed wonton savagery & ruthlessness in the past.

In the video embedded to the right, (hat-tip to Bare Naked Islam), jihadists in the process of bombarding an enemy position can clearly be heard saying 'Allahu Akbar!', discussing targeting of ordnance & then talking about using Sarin. Yet, there was no talk of Red Lines & no contemplation of the possibility that the Assad regime might be the lesser of two evils.

Few people in the West are under the impression that the Russia Today channel is anything but a creature of the Kremlin, but it comes to something when this organ now serves Westerners as the only source of accurate & honest information about a prospective war waged to diminish a regime that may have used neurotoxins in favour of a terrorist outfit that definitely has.

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