Susan Rice and other former Obama administration officials are taking heat for past claims that their 2013 Syria agreement successfully led to the Assad regime purging its entire chemical weapons stockpile -- in the wake of this week's alleged sarin gas attack.
On Thursday, President Trump launched a targeted strike at a Syrian airfield in response to what he called a barbaric chemical attack on innocent civilians at the hand of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council,” Trump said.
Video footage from the chemical attack scene immediately raised credibility problems for claims made by members of the Obama administration that the prior agreement had rid the war-torn country of chemical agents.
Susan Rice, Obama colleagues take heat for past claims on Syria chemical weapons purge
I think right now, there is a lot of doubt that Assad did this.
First of all, they claimed this was Serin gas. You'll note that they were not using gloves when handling the people who had been exposed. Serin gas requires full body suits--as it absorbs through the skin.
Assad was on the verge of a peace agreement. Why would he order this now. For the last 4 years he has been bombing the crap out of the area. Why would he switch course and bring world wide negative serious attention onto himself at this point in time, when he could have used bombs?
Could it have been Turkey or the rebels that did this?
The rebels to delay any peace talks, or Turkey who can't stand the rebels?
Ron Paul and several others have brought this up.
It seems like it was quite a knee jerk reaction--without any proof that Assad actually did this. There are clearly others that had motive to do this, but it wasn't Assad. If it was Assad then he is insane and needs to be taken out.
