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It's ok for Benghazi blacks to kill white Americans, but Syria (Who did nothing...) gets cruise missiles?
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Nick Lazon
Sep 8, 2013, 12:41:43 PM9/8/13
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When are you Americans going to impeach that incompetent dope in
the Whitehouse?
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - CBS News has learned that the Pentagon
is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack
on Syrian government forces. We say "initial preparations"
because such an attack won't happen until the president gives
the green light. And it was clear during an interview on CNN
Friday that he is not there yet.
"If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country, without a U.N.
mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented," the
president told CNN, "then there are questions in terms of
whether international law supports it -- 'do we have the
coalition to make it work?' Those are considerations that we
have to take into account."
The attack on the Damascus suburbs, which left hundreds dead
this week, is looking more and more like a poison gas was used.
The United States warned Syria months ago that using chemical
weapons could provoke a U.S. response.
President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, sent
out a Tweet on Friday, calling what happened "an apparent CW
(chemical weapons) attack." And the commander of U.S. forces in
the Mediterranean has ordered Navy warships to move closer to
Syria to be ready for a possible cruise missile strike.
Launching cruise missiles from the sea would not risk any
American lives. It would be a punitive strike designed not to
topple Syrian dictator Bashir Assad but to convince him he
cannot get away with using chemical weapons.
Watch a report on Syrian activists gathering evidence to prove
chemical attack:
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey is expected to present
options for a strike at a White House meeting on Saturday.
Potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to
fire chemical weapons.
However, officials stress President Obama, who until now has
steadfastly resisted calls for military intervention, has not
made a decision.
U.S. intelligence detected activity at known Syrian chemical
weapons sites in the days before the attack. At the time that
did not appear out of the ordinary. But now it is part of the
circumstantial evidence pointing toward an attack.
The clearest evidence would come from a team of U.N. experts
already in Damascus to investigate earlier, smaller scale
incidents involving suspected chemical weapons. So far they have
not been allowed into the field. But with pictures providing
graphic evidence of mass casualties, even Russia -- long one of
the Assad regime's staunchest backers -- is calling for a U.N.
investigation.
Whatever an investigation finds, the president will also have to
consider what he would do next if he ordered a strike and Syria
continued to use chemical weapons.
Meanwhile in Syria, two days after the alleged poison gas
attack, more disturbing video has emerged of the aftermath. From
it comes horrific scenes that show the dead and the dying --
many of them children.
One young boy described struggling to breathe and then losing
consciousness. When he woke up in the hospital, he said, he
could no longer see.
It's impossible to verify how many people died. But in a
crowded, makeshift morgue, so many of the bodies were
unidentified -- they were numbered.
Dr. Ghazwan Bwidany is caring for survivors of the attack at a
clinic in Damascus. On Friday, CBS News spoke with him over the
Internet. He said his mobile medical unit treated 900 people --
70 of whom died.
"When you see these children," said Bwidany, "dying in front of
our eyes, this is a very terrible feeling. I can't describe it."
Dr. Bwidany said some of the survivors have neurological
problems, such as memory loss and confusion, that he believes
could only be caused by a nerve agent.
So if this wasn't a chemical attack, what could it have been? "I
don't know anything else that could make these symptoms, with
this large number of injured," he said.
CBS News talked with a spokesman for the Syrian opposition
Friday, who said he was angry and frustrated with the
international community. He believes that if U.S. had delivered
the arms it promised the opposition two months ago, the deadly
attack may not have happened.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57599944/u.s-preps-for-
possible-cruise-missile-attack-on-syrian-govt-forces/
the Whitehouse?
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - CBS News has learned that the Pentagon
is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack
on Syrian government forces. We say "initial preparations"
because such an attack won't happen until the president gives
the green light. And it was clear during an interview on CNN
Friday that he is not there yet.
"If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country, without a U.N.
mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented," the
president told CNN, "then there are questions in terms of
whether international law supports it -- 'do we have the
coalition to make it work?' Those are considerations that we
have to take into account."
The attack on the Damascus suburbs, which left hundreds dead
this week, is looking more and more like a poison gas was used.
The United States warned Syria months ago that using chemical
weapons could provoke a U.S. response.
President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, sent
out a Tweet on Friday, calling what happened "an apparent CW
(chemical weapons) attack." And the commander of U.S. forces in
the Mediterranean has ordered Navy warships to move closer to
Syria to be ready for a possible cruise missile strike.
Launching cruise missiles from the sea would not risk any
American lives. It would be a punitive strike designed not to
topple Syrian dictator Bashir Assad but to convince him he
cannot get away with using chemical weapons.
Watch a report on Syrian activists gathering evidence to prove
chemical attack:
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey is expected to present
options for a strike at a White House meeting on Saturday.
Potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to
fire chemical weapons.
However, officials stress President Obama, who until now has
steadfastly resisted calls for military intervention, has not
made a decision.
U.S. intelligence detected activity at known Syrian chemical
weapons sites in the days before the attack. At the time that
did not appear out of the ordinary. But now it is part of the
circumstantial evidence pointing toward an attack.
The clearest evidence would come from a team of U.N. experts
already in Damascus to investigate earlier, smaller scale
incidents involving suspected chemical weapons. So far they have
not been allowed into the field. But with pictures providing
graphic evidence of mass casualties, even Russia -- long one of
the Assad regime's staunchest backers -- is calling for a U.N.
investigation.
Whatever an investigation finds, the president will also have to
consider what he would do next if he ordered a strike and Syria
continued to use chemical weapons.
Meanwhile in Syria, two days after the alleged poison gas
attack, more disturbing video has emerged of the aftermath. From
it comes horrific scenes that show the dead and the dying --
many of them children.
One young boy described struggling to breathe and then losing
consciousness. When he woke up in the hospital, he said, he
could no longer see.
It's impossible to verify how many people died. But in a
crowded, makeshift morgue, so many of the bodies were
unidentified -- they were numbered.
Dr. Ghazwan Bwidany is caring for survivors of the attack at a
clinic in Damascus. On Friday, CBS News spoke with him over the
Internet. He said his mobile medical unit treated 900 people --
70 of whom died.
"When you see these children," said Bwidany, "dying in front of
our eyes, this is a very terrible feeling. I can't describe it."
Dr. Bwidany said some of the survivors have neurological
problems, such as memory loss and confusion, that he believes
could only be caused by a nerve agent.
So if this wasn't a chemical attack, what could it have been? "I
don't know anything else that could make these symptoms, with
this large number of injured," he said.
CBS News talked with a spokesman for the Syrian opposition
Friday, who said he was angry and frustrated with the
international community. He believes that if U.S. had delivered
the arms it promised the opposition two months ago, the deadly
attack may not have happened.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57599944/u.s-preps-for-
possible-cruise-missile-attack-on-syrian-govt-forces/
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