Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
This is a good line for the warmongers, claiming their threats led to a “turnaround” by Russia. A bit like “Stop the War” claiming a few people milling around in a square listening to denunciations of Assad “stopped the war”.
Top French diplomat: Russian ‘turnaround’ on Syria’s chemical weapons due to Western pressure
10th September, 2013
PARIS – France’s top diplomat is trumpeting Western pressure for leading to a “turnaround” in Russia’s position about chemical weapons in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
These claims by HRW are the final, definitive proof that Assad didn’t do it!
Syrian regime behind chemical attack: Human Rights Watch
10th September, 2013
An international human rights group says evidence “strongly suggest” that Syrian government forces fired rockets with warheads containing a nerve agent into a Damascus suburb in August, killing hundreds of people there.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Fall-out from the US-Russian entente over Syria will be coming thick and fast. Firstly, of course, from that unhappy band, the Syrian “rebels” now in despair over Obama’s “useless procrastination”.
10th September, 2013
BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group denounced as a “political manoeuvre” a Russian plan to head off threatened punitive US airstrikes on Syria by destroying the regime’s chemical weapons.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Obama again puts military strike – and vote in Congress – on hold to give Russian proposal a chance
10th September, 2013
US president Barack Obama went against the words of his advisers, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice Monday, and offered in TV interviews early Tuesday, Sept. 10, to “absolutely” put on hold military action against Syria, as well as the vote in Congress, if Bashar Assad abandoned chemical weapons. He said he found some positive signs in the Russian proposal [for Assad to hand over his chemical arsenal to international control] and said he was willing to run it to ground in the next few days to see if the Syrian issue can’t be solved without the military option.
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Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2013
9th September, 2013
MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Russia urged Syria on Monday to put its chemical weapons under international control in the hope that this would avert U.S. military strikes over an alleged gas attack, and President Bashar al-Assad’s government said it welcomed the proposal.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2013
[The treacherous role of the left as anti-Assad, anti-Ghaddafi propagandists in the whole “Arab Spring”episode cannot be overstated. This is another group heading for a fall after this madness finally plays itself out.]
How “Progressives” and the American “Left” are Failing Over Syria
Shamus Cooke
3rd September, 2013
September 03, 2013 “Information Clearing House – It’s now painfully clear that Obama’s war on Syria is a replay of Bush’s march to war in Iraq, both built on lies. Zero evidence has been put forth that proves the Syrian government used chemical weapons. On the contrary, evidence has been collected that suggests the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are responsible for the attack.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2013
[Putin is on safe ground here as Kerry’s propaganda own goals become increasingly bizarrre, especially his claim that if the US don’t attack US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar will do it with their jihadi assets. This is a parody of the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War which leaves Bush now looking like the voice of reason itself.]
5th September, 2013
“This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans) and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad,” Putin said.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2013
John Kerry magically comes up with “new evidence” of chemical weapons ahead of UN Inspector’s report
2nd September, 2013
On Sunday, John Kerry, US Secretary of State announced that “new evidence” of the use of chemical weapons in Syria has been discovered”through samples that were provided to the United States and that have now been tested from first responders in East Damascus, and hair samples and blood samples have tested positive for signatures of sarin.”
It’s obviously pure unrefined bullshit.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2013
4th May, 2013
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli “false flag” operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad’s regime.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st September, 2013
The Kremlin has released the official text of President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis. What is striking is that Putin spoke far more extensively than what the media reports suggested, and, second, he spoke on virtually every aspect of the explosive situation.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
1st September, 2013
In what Syrian media accurately described as “the start of a historic retreat” Obama backed out of missile strikes against Syria referring the issue instead to congress. So rather than commit political suicide himself he has given that option to congress: it is unlikey that they take it individually or collectively given the groundswell of anti-war opinion in the US.
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