There are so
many holes in the US pre-emptive claim of a chemical attack by Assad
in Syria, Dr. Ron Paul makes a legitimate comparison to George W
Bush's weapons of mass destruction.
In a
peculiar move, the White House announced Monday evening a chemical
weapons attack in Syria will be carried out soon by the regime of
Bashar al-Assad against civilians — the second government-launched
attack on his own people in the past few months — and that the U.S.
would pulverize Syrian forces as retribution.
If, that is,
gargantuan holes in logic suit your fancy — because nearly every
facet of the above ‘facts’ touted by the corporate press and
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer depart so far from the truth
as to be farcically unrecognizable.
[...]
Dr. Paul
summoned the specter of former President George W. Bush’s elusive
WMDs as a comparison, stating,
“Well,
you remember the story about the Weapons of Mass Destruction that
were about to ‘hit us’ back in the early part of this century,
and the reason why we had to ‘protect’ the American people. We
had to protect our freedoms and we had to protect our Constitution by
going and killing a couple hundred thousand people […]”
“This
is really strong language … But, I’ll tell you one thing: There’s
no evidence the people in Commerce or in the administration will sit
down and think about it a little bit. You know, ‘What are the
ramifications?’”
Dr. Paul
notes not even the realists have paused to consider repercussions of
pegging Assad responsible and then initiating retaliation.
In April,
the U.S. blocked independent and U.N. investigations into the
supposed chemical weapons use by Assad — a clear indicator truth
did not comprise the central motivation for the claim. To believe
that account of events, the public must compromise rationale, instead
opting to surmise Assad acted in stupidity against innocents with no
possible benefit to his regime.
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