Scott Ritter: Dereliction of Duty
link:http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dereliction_of_duty_redux_20170412

“….Such an investigation will never take place, for several reasons. First, the U.S. has zero intelligence that would sustain its allegation that Syria mounted an attack on Khan Shaykhun using sarin nerve agent from the Shayrat airfield. The American Fourth Estate should be demanding that the Trump administration back up its claims with something substantive, including annotated imagery showing where in Shayrat the sarin was stored, mixed and loaded into munitions—which should be very easy to do, since these areas were specifically designated not to be targeted in the first place.

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But this is an image that does not exist, and indeed cannot exist, since the U.S. intelligence community has absolutely no information about any such activity at Shayrat. This reality not only exposes the Trump administration’s case against Syria as an absolute lie. It also exonerates Russia from the Trump administration’s charge that Moscow was complicit in the attack, given the presence of Russian personnel at Shayrat at the time….”

media coverage of Syria strike

Jeremy Scahill appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday and skewered the media’s “atrocious” coverage of the Syria missile attack. The founding editor of The Intercept called out journalist Fareed Zakaria in particular.

“You know, Fareed Zakaria—if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it,” Scahill said.

During the interview with “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, Scahill added that CNN “needs to immediately withdraw all retired generals and colonels from its airwaves” because many of them may profit “in the private sector from these wars.”

link:http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/jeremy_scahill_slams_atrocious_media_coverage_of_syria_20170410

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One man’s analysis:http://thesaker.is/a-multi-level-analysis-of-the-us-cruise-missile-attack-on-syria-and-its-consequences/

The latest US cruise missile attack on the Syrian airbase is an extremely important event in so many ways that it is important to examine it in some detail. I will try to do this today with the hope to be able to shed some light on a rather bizarre attack which will nevertheless have profound consequences. But first, let’s begin by looking at what actually happened.

The pretext:

I don’t think that anybody seriously believes that Assad or anybody else in the Syrian government really ordered a chemical weapons attack on anybody. To believe that it would require you to find the following sequence logical: first, Assad pretty much wins the war against Daesh which is in full retreat. Then, the US declares that overthrowing Assad is not a priority anymore (up to here this is all factual and true). Then, Assad decides to use weapons he does not have. He decides to bomb a location with no military value, but with lots of kids and cameras. Then, when the Russians demand a full investigation, the Americans strike as fast as they can before this idea gets any support. And now the Americans are probing a possible Russian role in this so-called attack. Frankly, if you believe any of that, you should immediately stop reading and go back to watching TV. For the rest of us, there are three options:

a classical US-executed false flag
a Syrian strike on a location which happened to be storing some kind of gas, possibly chlorine, but most definitely not sarin. This option requires you to believe in coincidences. I don’t. Unless,
the US fed bad intelligence to the Syrians and got them to bomb a location where the US knew that toxic gas was stored.

What is evident is that…see link

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine and they followed the wind and killed civilians.

There is good reason to believe that story is bs.

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It would not surprise me if it were BS. Would not surprise me if it were true.

I’m still in the info gathering stage. Or at least trying to gather info.

Whats the biggest reason to think its BS?

wv

Another ex-cia guy talks:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=YNtsQmwas5k
Its a bit ‘out there’ though. Fwiw

Trump now having trouble with his Alt-righters

link:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/07/why_the_alt_right_hates_trump_s_syria_strike.html

“…Richard Spencer, whose support for Trump has dimmed as Trump’s stances on immigration have, according to Spencer’s harsh measure, softened, issued what is perhaps his most forceful rebuke of the president so far in a video titled “The Trump Betrayal.” “I have to be brutally honest,” he said. “I am deeply disappointed in Donald Trump. I’m shocked, and I’m angry. And I am ready to condemn Donald Trump.” He was far from alone. “The #AltRight is now totally independent of Trump, and this anti-West, pro-terrorist foreign policy,” the white nationalist publication VDare tweeted. “Organize, organize, organize.” “So Trump’s first forceful action as President was supposedly to defend the same people that mow down white children with trucks,” the Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch wrote disgustedly…..”

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link:https://www.rt.com/op-edge/384123-trump-media-establishment-war/

How Trump went from zero to hero for the pro-war Establishment

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…Meanwhile, as Glenn Greenwald pointed out in his excellent Intercept column, we saw once again this week how the corporate media in The Land of The Free “instantly converts into state media” once the missiles start flying.

All the ’liberal’ outlets and media commentators in the US that had been attacking Trump 24-7, suddenly changed their tune. We now have a War President who must be supported! Anti-Trump voices must be silenced!

“People who dissent from this bombing campaign – who opposed it on the merits – were almost entirely disappeared,” notes Greenwald…
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….Even neocon Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and probably Trump’s most consistent US media critic has done an 180 degree turn- coming out to declare his support for Trump on Twitter.
And in another Tweet, Kristol was honest enough to reveal what the ultimate ‘prize’ of the US toppling Assad really is: regime change in Iran.

While Trump’s stock (like the share price of Raytheon, the manufacturer of Tomahawk missiles) has risen with the endless war lobby, that of the 44th President has fallen. Obama has been attacked for not enforcing his ‘red line’ on chemical weapons use in Syria in 2013, and for his rapprochement with Syria’s ally Iran….see link