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In reply to the discussion: For supporters of military action against Syria. [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)I do not now and never have supported military action under circumstances which have been carefully staged to support a blatant RW agenda such as PNAC's.
The US has found it convenient to play down chemical weapons attacks when it suited us. See, e.g., http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/protected-charges-chemical.html
Of course, once it didn't suit us, many of the very same persons who had protected Saddam turned against him and used the same decades-old attacks they had previously supported as one excuse among others to invade Iraq.
Seeing the same names and faces associated with the hue and cry for attacks on Syria - and wondering why either Assad or the rebels would be so criminally stupid as to do something as heinous as this that would certainly bring all hell down upon them - my own theory is that, if chemical weapons were indeed used, covert ops from agents outside Syria were very much involved.
Think about it! And remember the bloody and catastrophic precedents.