How? They do have ground to ground rockets, yes?
Do the UN and BBC push Russian Propaganda?
The below is from the 2013 attack, but the similarities here are striking.
Emphasis Mine.We have heard the US, British and French intelligence evidence. We have seen the harrowing YouTube videos of victims on the web. This now is the first independent and authoritative confirmation that there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on 21 August.
The substance concerned was the nerve agent sarin and the delivery system was ground-to-ground rockets. Note that the UN inspectors do not anywhere in the report explicitly lay the blame for carrying out the attack at the door of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Syrian rebels have captured significant stockpiles of government weaponry throughout this conflict and as the inspectors' report notes many of the munitions and their fragments had been moved or otherwise tampered with.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24130181Here's my view of this.
Recall that is was the Syrian government who asked the UN to investigate. Recall, also, who are our allies in Syria - al Nusra. Who, over the course of several decades has demonstrated clearly an eagerness to kill innocents? Who is losing the war in Syria? Who benefits from us bombing Syrian government locations?
My point is simply that my own critical thinking leads me to conclude it is not possible to determine who was responsible for the latest chemical attack. I'm sure as hell not going to take the word of al Nusra members at face value. I'm fully aware of Assad's ability to carry out atrocities. But that's not proof. The Syrian War in one way is like any other. The first casualty is truth. We don't know who carried out this attack but if we learn anything from our history in the region, be it backing Osama in the 1980's against The Evil Empire in Afghanistan or destroying the governments of Iraq and Libya, it should be that there aren't any good guys in the region.
Moreover, Tulsi Gabbord has more standing to speak about this issue than I ever will. Here's what she's said.
It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government. This escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a possible nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
This administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning. If President Assad is indeed guilty of this horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians, I will be the first to call for his prosecution and execution by the International Criminal Court. However, because of our attack on Syria, this investigation may now not even be possible. And without such evidence, a successful prosecution will be much harder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/04/11/what-is-tulsi-gabbard-thinking-on-syria/Of course, idiots like Howard Dean, the DNC, Meghan McCain and other war mongers who never served in combat are all trashing her for it.
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It's mourning in America again.