Like with the Iraqi WMD lies, Germany sticks with the truth.
14 June, 2013 -
Chemical Weapons Charge: Berlin Rules out Arms for Rebels
Steffen Seibert, spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democrats, said Germany would stick with its position of not providing weapons to a country engaged in a civil war for "legal reasons". The opposition had made the same demand. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry said it had no information of its own about the use of deadly poison gas by the regime in Damascus.
And Russia laughs at the US requirement to deceive citizens to justify what the pentagon desires. Yay democracy, Americans don't even know what their government does and why anymore, have fun judging it.
14 June, 2013 -
Data on chemical arms use by Syria’s al-Assad fabricated, Russian MP says
A senior pro-Kremlin Russian lawmaker said on Friday that information on the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces was fabricated and suggested the United States would use it to justify intervention in the conflict.
“Information about the use by Assad of chemical weapons has been fabricated in the same place as the lies about (Saddam) Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,” Alexei Pushkov, head of the foreign policy committee in the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said on Twitter. “Obama is taking the same path as George Bush.”
The US claims to have unequivocal corroborating evidence for chemical weapons use by the Syrian Army
BUT they refuse to share it with the public. So people aren't allowed to know about the extension of their surveillance state and they have to trust them on justifications for war.
What a sad excuse for a superpower they have become.
So are you saying that Syria wasn't an oppressive police state? Because pretty much every international watchdog agency would disagree.
So are you saying that Israel isn't enforcing an oppressive police state onto West bank Palestinians? Because pretty much every international watchdog agency would disagree.
Here is the difference, Secular Syria is a sovereign state, The Jewish state of Israel pretends to be while occupying the land of others.
Also I know people who actually lived in Syria until the early 1990s.
I.e. people who never experienced Syria under Bashar al-Assad.
They remember having his portrait above every blackboard in every class and on the face of every notebook.
Oh no, pictures of the president in classrooms, the horror, I can't begin to comprehend the suffering this has caused.
Israelis continue to be clueless of Arab culture.
Syria's constitution banned the Muslim Brotherhood and threatened members with death, but that didn't stop Bashar from supporting Hamas with funds, arms and training, although they are literally the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Only threatened? you understand they are theocratic fascists right, treason on Syrian territory risks the death penalty. In an interview Assad addressed this, Syria doesn't support organizations it supports causes, in this case resistance against Israel. I wouldn't personally but I have no interests of a state to secure. Hamas controls Gaza, their house, their rules.
Israel was instrumental in the creation of Hamas, not Syria,
Israel is far more important to empowering Hamas than Syria ever was, the US neocons helped too by pushing for elections which they knew would divide Palestinians. Right now any solution would involve a 3 state solution thanks to those divide and conquer geniuses.
I always opposed Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, it's unfortunate that it they had to expose their true face once again for Iran, Syria, Hezbollah to be reminded who these people are and cut all ties, but better late than never.
The Muslim Brotherhood attempted to assassinate Gamal Abdel Nasser, it blows my mind that any Arab would forgive them but ignorance is bliss and people are frequently lured away from the correct path by short term benefits. I don't expect this schism to be solved within our lifetimes, Al-Qaeda cheered for Israeli airstrikes on an Arab country, they have exposed themselves.