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Who are the "good" guys and the 'bad" guys in Syria? It is confusing as to whom is committing the moral obscenities...Is it the rebels and our enemy the Muslim Brotherhood or is it the Syrian government? John Kerry has accused the Assad government of "indiscriminate slaughter of civilians," and that Obama was going to hold the Syrian government responsible. As our intelligence hasn't been so hot over the past decade and this could be an a la Bush moment, we need to be sure without any doubt.
Assad has been facing an insurgency at home and has refused to step down. He believes the uprising to be an international conspiracy carried out by Islamic
extremists and fundamentalist groups such as the Syrian Muslim
Brotherhood — a branch of the Egyptian group with the same name to
which Morsi belongs.
Back in May, it was reported by the
Washington Times that,
Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International
Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong,
concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels
seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve
agent. But she said her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons, according to the BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed. {emphasis ours}
So far, reports are coming in that Assad now used chemicals killing 355 up to 1,300 of his people. No one is sure of the number but
we are sending in a team to investigate. Some have said it is the rebels. We have seen the photos on TV and they're not pretty. Assad said these reports are an "outrage against common sense." He also warned that any U.S. intervention in Syria would bring "failure just like in all the previous wars that were waged by us beginning with VietNam.
Obama knows, because our U.S. intelligence agencies have told him, that they have uncovered new evidence
that al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Benghazi are training foreign
jihadists to fight with Syria’s Islamist rebels.
The UK
Independent reports
that Obama has agreed to
launch cruise missile attacks against the Syrian government within two
weeks despite the lack of any authorization from the UN and despite the
absence of any evidence in behalf of Washington’s claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. The Congress has given no authority either but that won't stop Obama just like it didn't stop him in Libya two years ago.
So, what are we doing? Who is the enemy?
