YES! And he must be punished for the atrocious act.
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NO! There was no benefit for him to use chemical weapons.
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It's far more likely that the progressives' deeply depraved Obama Reich is...
2013 Canadian support for waging war on Syria:
a show of appreciation for Obama's support of piping tar sands oil, from north to south, to Texas ports for export
2013 military reluctance to wage war on Syria:
a pork fattened military that for two generations casually used high-tech weaponry to easily asymmetrically mass murder defenseless peasants — just for practice — while losing all its wars against poorly equipped rag-tag people's militias over the past half-century, would naturally be quite reluctant to risk any possibility of a hostile confrontation with a near peer power... the Russian military
generals remembering the meaning of MAD
2013 public opposition to bombing Syria:
Americans angry because the Yes We Can MoveOn Democrats failed to trickle the global market-state's 21st Century resource war profits down to the Middle, like the real Democrats so reliably did back in the old New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society glory days of the progressive's American Century... way back then when their empire was rising, not falling
mostly people not happy with having no profits in their pockets from rockets spent on protecting the margins of global corporate energy markets
people pissed about the decline in the percentage of their share of the aging American Empire's pillage
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Well, I can tell you one thing for certain. Assuming that there even was nerve agent used against civilians in Syria, it was ordered by Assad, by his military, by the Israelis (who have long fomented trouble in every country around them, while blaming other people for the trouble), by the American Military, the American CIA (which has always engaged in illegal activities), the FBI (which now illegally operates outside of American borders), Obama himself, someone else in the White House, the leaders of the republican party and/or the leaders of the democrat party, a "rogue" element in the republican and/or democrat parties, or by any one or more of a number of other people or militaries or agencies in any one of a number of other countries.
And as far as where the nerve gas came from, well, it probably came from America- we have a very long and honored tradition of supplying dictators with nerve gas and all sorts of other weapons to use against their own people. But it could just as easily have come from Israel, Russia, or China, all of whom behave as monstrous perversions of humanity on a regular basis.
But golly-dang-it, we HAVE to bomb someone about this nerve gas situation, and there is only one way we can make sure that we bomb the proper culprits: we must bomb everyone! Including ourselves! Sure, there will be collateral damage, but who cares, as long as we also bomb the guilty parties?
And for proper measure, we better bomb the moon again, because I don't think I'm talking out of school when I say that I do not think the moon learned its lesson, the last time we bombed it. And while we're at it, don't you think we should bomb all of the other planets in out solar system? I mean, I'm pretty sure that Mercury and possible Jupiter were responsible for the nerve gas being used in Syria, and obviously all of the other planets fully cooperated and are therefore just as responsible as if they had done it themelves.
Then, having taken care of all of the above guilty parties, we must bomb the rest of the known universe just on the off chance that some other galaxy shared responsibility with our solar system.
And we must bomb all dark matter- who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of dark matter? Obama knows!!!!
And as usual, not knowing when to leave bad enough alone, don't you think we should bomb God? I mean, I seem to remember with varying degrees of certainty that the director of the CIA told us that with varying degrees of certainty, God was directly or indirectly responsible or possibly not responsible for the nerve gassing of those Syrians. So bomb Him!
And in conclusion, my friends, please join me and John McCain in that time-honored patriotic chant that is beloved of all patriotic Americans and that strikes fear into all creation: "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-whatever! Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-whatever!"
There seems to be far more evidence that the rebels were responsible for the gassing. They are the ones with the motive (along with Israel and the US empire believers). And, contrary to what Kerry and Obama say they certainly had the ability. Remember last May when the UN human rights commission Under Carla del Ponte concluded that the evidence of chemical weapons attack to that point pointed to the rebels, not tho the Syrian Government. Also in May the Turkish government reported arresting 12 members of the Al Nusra front (Al Qaeda linked rebel group) on the Syrian border with 2 kilos of sarin. Who can believe that Assad would invite (or allow) UN inspectors to come to Damascus and then launch a huge chemical attack within 10 miles of their hotel. He may be a "brutal dictator", but he is not an idiot. This is what makes "common sense" to me. What would be his morive when he is actually winning the war now.
If Assad falls who will take over? The most powerful rebel groups are radical muslims who have been imposing Sharia law and burning Christian churches. Do we want to see the end of the very last secular state in the Middle East?
We (the controlling faction of our government) have helped with sarin attacks before, like when we helped Sadam gas Iranians with our satellite intel. I believe this suposed moral outrage is a cover for an attack on Syria. We should be asking the question of who wants it and why.
I also believe that we, through the UN should bring ALL affected parties to the table to work out a peaceful conclusion to the hostilities. Syria is a country of 20 some million people. At least 100,000 are dead. 2 million are refugees who fled with nothing to neighboring countries. 5 million are displaced within the country. If the same were to happen here in proportion, we would have almost 100 million people homeless. Can you imagine?