[lbo-talk] Suspicious silence

[Dennis Redmond]

"We" means anyone with access to the internet and the willingness to use
Yandex/Google/Baidu. The intelligence reports came from the French and
German intelligence services which monitor regime transmissions, not the
CIA. (Apparently, some lower-level officers balked at firing the chemical
warheads, but were told to do so anyway.) The totality of the video and
eyewitness testimony is compelling and credible. You simply cannot invent
rooms full of dozens of asphyxiated children. Note also that the UN
investigators also found the delivery systems: professionally-produced
rockets, artillery which the insurgents do not have.

As far as the latest diplomatic developments: for all the talk of Kerry
letting the cat out of the bag, the real story is that after the Ghouta
attack, Putin went on TV and conceded that if the Assad regime really did
use chemical weapons, this would be legitimate grounds for a UN
intervention. My guess is, Russia is working feverishly behind the scenes
to get the Assad regime to disclose and give up its chemical weapons, which
would be the best-case scenario for both Syria and the entire region.

-- DRR

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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> On Sep 8, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > In re the regime's chemical attacks: this is incontrovertible. We have
> > massive medical, video, eyewitness and intelligence confirmation.
>
> Whaddya mean "we"? The CIA is now "us"?
>
> Doug
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