[Peace-discuss] Who do we BLAME? Part 40517.

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Good question.

"Only fake news sub-zoology specimens can possibly believe Damascus would profit from staging a chemical attack just a few hours after the St. Petersburg metro tragedy. The timing is NOT accidental. No wonder hysterical block to block ‘coverage' in NATO-controlled MSM - actually editorials, blaming Damascus without any investigation whatsoever." [Pepe Escobar]

"Rebel warehouse with chem weapons hit by Syrian airstrike in Idlib” <https://www.rt.com/news/383522-syria-idlib-warehouse-strike-chemical/>

Here are reports from US propaganda sources that suggest what may have happened:

"Russia blames deadly Syrian gassing on rebels' own chemical arsenal” <http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-blames-syria-gassing-leak-rebels-own-chemical-arsenal-n742791>

"Idlib Attack Aimed at Disrupting Talks, U.N. Envoy Says” <https://www.wsj.com/articles/idlib-attack-aimed-at-disrupting-talks-u-n-envoy-says-1491325155?tesla=y>

Cui bono? Whose interests are being served by disrupting the talks? The Syrian government's military predominance over the rebels (established with Russia's help) could be recognized in Geneva. The Assad government would seem to have no motive for committing a war crime, but its enemies would certainly have a motive for saying it did.

—CGE 


> On Apr 5, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Trump White House responds to Syrian gas attack by blaming the Obama administration
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> By Hunter  
> Daily Kos, Tuesday Apr 04, 2017 · 12:22 PM CDT
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> Donald Trump repeatedly claimed, during the campaign, that the various bad actors on the world stage were only daring to commit aggressions and atrocities because our current leaders were "weak." Today's chemical weapons attack by Syrian forces against Syrian civilians will be one of his team's first true foreign policy tests: they quickly proved themselves to up to the task.
> White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday that a gas attack in a rebel-controlled area of Syria was perpetrated by the forces tied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and are a "consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution." [...]
> "Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people including women and children is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world," Spicer said. "These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution."
> This may be the first official White House condemnation of the use of chemical weapons to be affixed to a direct political attack on a previous president. The move makes it appear that the White House is more concerned with dodging responsibility for responding to the Syrian attack than they are with the use of the weapons themselves.
> It is likely that the Trump team has not mapped out an American response to the attacks—especially because of the Trump campaign and transition eagerness to pursue a Russia-friendly compromise in Syria despite Russia's backing of the regime that perpetrated these attacks. Actual Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, for his part, is so far again absent from the discussion.
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