john kerry says assad used sarin gas on his people,john kerry joins meet the press to talk assad use of sarin on civilians,
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Kerry: Samples from Syria tested positive for sarin
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News
Secretary
of State John Kerry said Sunday that samples collected by first
responders after the reported August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria
have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin.
"In the last 24
hours, we have learned through samples that were provided to the
United
States that have now been tested from first responders in east Damascus
and hair samples and blood samples have tested positive for signatures
of sarin," Kerry said on NBC's Meet The Press. "So this case is building
and this case will build."
Sarin is a man-made chemical warfare
agent considered the most toxic and fast-acting of its kind. The
odorless, colorless nerve agent interferes with an enzyme called
acetylcholinesterase, which controls nerve signals to the muscles.
Secretary
of State John Kerry tells David Gregory on Meet the Press that all
signs suggest that Syrian leader Bashar Assad used the nerve agent in
his alleged chemical weapons attack.
Kerry said the use of
chemical weapons puts Syrian President Bashar Assad in the same category
as the world's most bloody dictators.
"Bashar Assad now joins the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein [who] have used these weapons in time of war," he said.
Kerry's
statement comes the day after President Barack Obama announced that he
will seek congressional authorization for a military strike in Syria.
The U.S. has said it has "high confidence" in intelligence assessments
that show the chemical weapons attack that killed over 1400 people -
including hundreds of children - was launched by the Syrian regime.
The
former Massachusetts senator said Sunday that he believes Congress will
pass a measure to authorize the use of force in Syria.
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Syria: why would Assad invite a Western intervention by using WMDs in a war he was winning?
Crazy, yes. Stupid, we don't know.
Woah!
Hold your horses, Barack. Before we go to war with Syria can we be
absolutely surely sure that we've got our pretext right? Only we've made
a horrible mistake about WMDs before…
The official UK/US
narrative on the conflict in Syria is this. Last year, we drew a red
line in the sand: if the regime uses chemical weapons then it makes
itself a legitimate target for military action. Last week, it apparently
did just that – murdering hundreds of people, including children, in a
suburb of Damascus.
John Kerry described this slaughter as defying "any code of morality",
and he demanded "accountability" from the Assad regime. There could, he
insisted, be no doubt that the government is culpable – and anyone
saying otherwise is a tool of cold blooded killers. Cry havoc and let
slip the dogs of war, etc, etc.
Kerry's narrative is full of
holes. First, we've yet to ascertain that chemical weapons really were
used by Assad – specifically we've not determined a) what kind of WMDs
they were or b) who actually did it. The situation is complicated by how
difficult it's proving to get to the site of the attack to carry out
tests. But this is a war zone, and forensic tests take longer and are
more complicated to execute when you're surrounded by people trying to
blow each other up. So it's going to take time.
Second, why would
the Assad regime do something so stupid? It must know that by using
chemical weapons it would isolate itself from any international support
and invite a Western military response. More importantly,
Assad was already winning the war
– so why bother to use WMDs during the last lap to victory? Indeed, the
only people who have anything to gain by Assad using chemicals are the
rebels, because that would internationalise the conflict in a way that
they have long lobbied for.
Third, why is the West obliged to act
even if Assad did use chemical weapons? We are not under any such treaty
obligations and the subject sure doesn't feature as a trigger for war
in the US constitution. The red line itself has slimmed and thickened
over time. When Obama first laid it down, it was thin to the point of
invisible, quote:
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Kerry’s case for Syria attack fictitious
US Secretary of State John Kerry
Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:11AM GMT
By Gordon Duff
In
May, this year, Turkish police arrested “Syrian rebels” caught in the
act of carrying weaponized Sarin gas to Syria. However, the source of
the Sarin was never revealed, those arrested disappeared and nothing was
mentioned again."
Today
we heard American Secretary of State John Kerry give his compelling
case for war on Syria. His story was compelling, perhaps even
theatrical. It also rang of fiction.
It was a convenient
narrative about the Assad government, which is popular among the Syrian
people, a government clearly winning against a brutal and unpopular
foreign-dominated insurgency.
Real intelligence is a mosaic, each
source graded as to historical reliability and import. When enough
pieces don’t come together or an unwanted outcome results, intelligence
“fusion centers” cut out “bad facts” and amplify or invent “good ones.”
Kerry’s
intelligence on Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons goes further,
down the slippery slope of a detailed narrative, a “cooked” story,
perfectly timed, containing the right anecdotal details, a classic
“deception and cover” tale right out of the Mossad book of deception.
I can’t imagine how Kerry could keep a straight face; perhaps it is embalmed with Botox.
Behind the story
In May, this year, Turkish police arrested “Syrian rebels” caught in the act of carrying weaponized Sarin gas to Syria.
They
were arrested as reported on all world news sources. However, the
source of the Sarin was never revealed, those arrested disappeared and
nothing was mentioned again.
However, during this time frame, UN
inspectors investigated five episodes of chemical weapon use and were
able to conclude that “rebel forces” were responsible.
Secretary Kerry has erased this event from his memory, erased it from his “mosaic.”
“If it doesn’t fit, use a bigger hammer.”
Narrative problems
In order to sound credible, Kerry quoted exact numbers of adults and
children killed. Exact numbers always sound best, or so 99.372514% of
experts I have questioned tell me.
Kerry described “textbook”
symptoms of Sarin gas exposure, but all of the photos supplied failed to
demonstrate any of the symptoms.
Sarin victims are invariably found in pools of vomit, their bladders and bowels emptied, befouling their clothing.
By
the time bodies are moved for careful photographic exploitation,
lividity sets in, leaving the skin pearly white or deeply bruised, even
blackened, on areas where blood settles.
As Kerry noted, death by
Sarin gas is a horror, but the only photos clearly reflecting “death by
Sarin” are from May 2013 and tied to Sarin gas used by rebel forces.
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Horrific: Hundreds died in the alleged chemical attacks, including many women and children
