What will the US do about Syrian Chemical weapons?

[Murhy]

What are we going to do?

 

[skye]

Emperor Obama the First, just said he is going to send some small weapons to the rebels.

He has no intention of hurting badly his Muslims brothers on the other side.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Let's just bomb them.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Hopefully nothing. The rebels we aid will have their own chemical weapons in a few years anyways and the cycle will continue.

 

[waltky]

Assad don't want the truth to come out...

U.N. presses Syria to allow gas attack inspection
22 Aug.`13 - The United Nations demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access on Thursday to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas appears to have killed hundreds just a few miles from the U.N. team's hotel.

There was no sign, however, that scientists would soon be taking samples at the scene of horrors that have drawn comparison with the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds at Halabja in 1988. The administration of President Barack Obama said it was "appalled" by the death reports. A U.S. official familiar with initial intelligence assessments said the attack appeared to be the work of the Assad government. It was "the regime acting as a regime," the official said. But the Obama administration made clear that any response would await confirmation of a chemical attack and its origin. Assad's opponents gave death tolls from 500 to well over 1,000 and said more bodies were being found in the wake of Wednesday's mysterious pre-dawn killer fumes, which the Syrian government insists were not its doing.

Images, including some by freelance photographers supplied to Reuters, showed scores of bodies laid out on floors with no visible signs of injury. Some had foam at the nose and mouth. Talk, notably from France and Britain, of a forceful foreign response remains unlikely to be translated into rapid, concerted action given division between the West and Russia at Wednesday's U.N. Security Council meeting, and caution from Washington on Thursday. Moscow has said rebels may have released gas to discredit Assad and urged him to agree to a U.N. inspection. On Wednesday, Russian objections to Western pressure on Syria saw the Security Council merely call in vague terms for "clarity" - a position increasingly frustrated Syrian rebels described as "shameful".

On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Syria must let the U.N. team already in Damascus investigate "without delay". He said he would send a top U.N. disarmament official, Angela Kane, to lobby the Syrian government in person. Ban said he expected a swift, positive answer. Obama has directed U.S. intelligence agencies to urgently help establish what caused the deaths, a State Department spokeswoman said while acknowledging it may be difficult given the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Syria. "At this time, right now, we are unable to conclusively determine CW (chemical weapons) use," the State Department's Jen Psaki told reporters. "We are doing everything possible in our power to nail down the facts," she added.

Another U.S. official said intelligence agencies were not given a deadline and would take the time needed to "reach a conclusion with confidence." Former weapons investigators say every hour matters. "The longer it takes, the easier it is for anybody who has used it to try to cover up," said Demetrius Perricos, who headed the U.N.'s team of weapons inspectors in Iraq in the 2000s. Syria is one of just a handful of countries that are not parties to the international treaty that bans chemical weapons, and Western nations believe it has caches of undeclared mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents. Syria's government, which has accused the rebels of using chemical weapons in the past, offered no public response to calls for wider U.N. access.

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Syrian official blames rebels for deadly attack
Aug 22,`13 -- Syria's deputy prime minister told The Associated Press that foreign fighters and their international backers are to blame for a purported chemical weapons attack near Damascus that the opposition says killed at least 100 people, the deadliest such attack in Syria's civil war.

Government forces, meanwhile, pummeled the targeted rebel strongholds where the alleged attack occurred with airstrikes and artillery for a second day, violence that was likely to complicate any swift investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths. Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil's comments were part of a government campaign to use the horror over the deaths to boost its narrative about the conflict - that Syria is under assault by foreign Islamic radicals. It is an argument that has powerful resonance with the Syrian public as the presence of militants fighting alongside Syria's rebels increases.

Rebels blamed the attack on the Syrian military, saying toxic chemicals were used in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday. Jamil did not directly acknowledge that toxic gas was used against the eastern suburbs but denied allegations by anti-government activists that President Bashar Assad's forces were behind the assault. The murky nature of the purported attacks, and the difficulty of gaining access to the sites amid the carnage of Syria's war and government restrictions on foreign media, has made it impossible to verify the claims.

But they have fueled calls in the West for greater action against Assad's regime as amateur videos and photos showed images of the dead, including scores of lifeless children, wrapped in white cloths and lying shoulder to shoulder, while others struggled to breathe. Many pointed to the fact that their pale skin was unmarked by any wounds as evidence that it was a chemical attack. The U.S., Britain and France along with a host of other countries demanded that a team of United Nations experts already in Syria be granted immediate access to the site. The timing of Wednesday's attack - four days after the U.N. team's arrival - has also raised questions about why the regime would use chemical agents now.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon added his voice to the calls on Thursday, urging the Syrian government to allow the U.N. team now in Damascus to swiftly investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons outside the capital. President Barack Obama has called chemical weapons a "red line" for potential military action, and in June, the U.S. said it had conclusive evidence that Assad's regime had used chemical weapons against opposition forces. But it has so far shown no inclination to intervene.

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If Assad truly believes it was the rebels, then why doesn't he want the UN inspection team to come in and says so?

 

[Gracie]

We will do nothing.

 

[S.J.]

Not a damn thing.

 

[Gracie]

We didn't do anything about Hitler while he was offing all those people....we did nothing during the carnage of Rwanda....need I go on?

Not a damn thing.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Why should we do anything?

Even if we should do something, we're arming and funding Al Qaeda, and it's already on record that our CIA has been caught operating inside Syria to plant evidence of chemical attacks, and Al Qaeda themselves have chemical weapons, and seeing that we run Al Qaeda --- openly --- we're probably the ones who staged the false flag in order to start another war.

Also, where are those WMD's in Iraq?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Assad don't want the truth to come out...

If Assad truly believes it was the rebels, then why doesn't he want the UN inspection team to come in and says so?

Assad has already caught CIA agents attempting to plant evidence of chemical warfare --- this is well documented.

And just when the UN (NWO) agents come to inspect, so very conveniently a Chemical attack happens.

Why would he want an agency that desires to declare war on him to enter his country and make judgements based on forged and falsified evidence?

Shouldn't the bigger concerning be that the Rebels are AL QAEDA and Obama and Mccain openly support, fund, armed and direct them?

 

[Gracie]

I agree. We shouldn't do a damn thing. Let them kill each other off. Time to butt out.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Let's let islam be islam. A disgusting savage like religion that needs to wipe each other out.

Pray it doesn't grow here.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

If our Government was using chemical weapons on us, would Syria come and help us?