Do you think Assad used chemical weapons on the Syrian people?

[Anti-Neocon]

I'd like to see actual arguments for and against because I haven't really studied much about the situation. My first impression is that such an attack would be extremely irrational for Assad's side because he would provide justification for the Zionist occupied governments to join forces with a force that otherwise wouldn't be able to defeat him.

[AngryCanadian]

No The SAA forces were quite gaining ground in Damascus and elsewhere in Syria so why he would turn to the use of Chemical weapons? and look whose benefiting from this talk of an intervention.

Israel,The Saudi regime, Turkish Islamist government and an strong defender of the Muslim Brotherhood and of course the France.

[ClydeCoulter]

No The SAA forces were quite gaining ground in Damascus and elsewhere in Syria so why he would turn to the use of Chemical weapons? and look whose benefiting from this talk of an intervention.

Israel,The Saudi regime, Turkish Islamist government and an strong defender of the Muslim Brotherhood and of course the France.

^This

[libertariantexas]

Where is the "Don't know, don't care, not my problem" option?

[69360]

I've seen no evidence that convinces me which side used it. No matter which did, it is not a reason for unilateral US involvement.

[chudrockz]

Where is the "Don't know, don't care, not my problem" option?

Ah but it IS our problem because, depending on the answer, it will directly involve the U.S. government and by extension everyone here.

So no, I think it's extremely unlikely that Assad used those weapons.

[fr33]

I don't know. And after half a million dead in Iraq due to the US invading, this government has no moral high-ground to pass judgement.

[fisharmor]

Where is the "Don't know, don't care, not my problem" option?

This potential option is the only reason I opened the thread.

[JCDenton0451]

I'd like to see actual arguments for and against because I haven't really studied much about the situation. My first impression is that such an attack would be extremely irrational for Assad's side because he would provide justification for the Zionist occupied governments to join forces with a force that otherwise wouldn't be able to defeat him.

It would be irrational for Assad to give the Zionists a formal pretext to attack him, but it's possible, especially if it was one of his dumber henchmen who gave the order.

Of course this question is irrelevant. The real question is whether or not the US military should be used as a global police force for the benefit of "international community".

[Peace Piper]

It's Terror Tuesday!

How many drone strikes will the grinning Dictator Obama order today?

The President’s Kill List
May 30, 2012

What is wrong with the President sitting in a room, looking at lists and portraits of people—a Somali man, a seventeen-year-old girl, an American citizen—and deciding whom to kill? That, according to long and troubling articles in both the Times and Newsweek, is a job Barack Obama has assigned himself. His aides, notably John Brennan, his counter-terrorism adviser, portray it as a matter of taking responsibility—if we are going to assassinate someone, or call in a drone strike to take out a camp in Yemen, the President should make the call—as if our only alternative were some sort of rogue operation, with generals or C.I.A. agents shooting at will. But responsibility involves accountability, which is something, in this case, that appears to be badly lacking. Obama has not taken on a burden, but instead has given the Presidency a novel power....>>
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...kill-list.html

The idea that somehow this country can run around the world claiming anything like moral high ground after all that has happened over the last 50 years or more is absurd.

He's gonna get his war, no matter what he and his killer colleagues have to do. Just watch.

[JCDenton0451]

I'm more interested in how the Republicans are going to vote.

[V3n]

In the hot seat, your life depends on guessing correctly. Do you choose to answer yes or no?

I think "guessing" is the key. I don't think we have enough evidence to say he definitely did. I couldn't answer until I've seen more information. (and not government propaganda "information" - actual proof!)