Was There Just a Major New Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria?

Didn't Saddam Hussein gas his own people?
 
Archived article dated January 29, 2013

U.S. 'planned to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad' | Mail Online

Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country.

A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme 'approved by Washington' is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons.

Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against its own people.
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According to Infowars.com, the December 25 email was sent from Britam's Business Development Director David Goulding to company founder Philip Doughty.

It reads: 'Phil... We’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.

'We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have.

'They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.

'Frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?

'Kind regards, David.'

Britam Defence had not yet returned a request for comment to MailOnline.
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more at link
 
In an exclusive interview with CNN that aired Friday, Obama said that preliminary signs indicated a "big event of grave concern."

"It is very troublesome," he said. "That starts getting to some core national interests that the United States has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region."
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Finger pointing grows over chemical weapons use in Syria - CNN.com

Oh? WMD's?

I know I've heard that somewhere before ...
 
From the link above:

Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said he is in contact with the Syrian government.
"They have reassured us that they had never used such inhumane weapons and would cooperate with the U.N. experts to visit the area hit by chemical weapons," he said in a statement posted on the ministry website.
U.N. pressure
The U.N.'s high representative for disarmament affairs Angela Kane arrived in Damascus Saturday to push the government to cooperate with the team already on the ground.
U.N. inspectors want to reach the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack quickly in order to gather evidence, while it is still fresh, but the Syrian government has refused to let them through.
They fear remnants of any chemicals used may deteriorate, if they wait too long.
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WTF?
 
Its a Civil war and needs to stay that way. The USA needs to stay the furk out of it. this is a Muslim nation that both sides would love to see the USA wiped of the map. Let the Arab world police their own... we already destabilized that area enough with invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
We have enough problems on home soil that are getting ignored so we can play world bully...
 
The way I saw it, doesn't sound like much will come out of this other than raising tensions. If proven to be caused by Syria (UN Investigators were fired upon and Russia is backing Syria's claim that revolutionaries are framing them), Russia and China will still veto any military action in the UN. Oddly enough, chemical weapons are a bit of a grey area as well in the ICC that would drag about debate.
 
things are getting hairy ...

Syria, Iran issue first explicit warning to Israel if US attacks | The Times of Israel

snip:
“We have strategic weapons and we’re capable of responding,” he said. “Normally the strategic weapons are aimed at Israel.”

Muftah concluded with a warning that “If the US or Israel make the mistake of taking advantage of the chemical issue… the region will go up in flames… that will affect security not only in the region but across the world.”

His words were echoed by Iranian officials, who on Monday shrugged off the threat of a US attack on its close ally Syria, but said that if such a strike were to take place, Israel would suffer.
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and Joe Biden

Biden: "No doubt" Assad responsible for Syria chemical weapons attack - CBS News


And what is going on in Cyprus?


Syria crisis: warplanes spotted in Cyprus as tensions rise in Damascus | World news | The Guardian


Warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain's Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime in Syria.

Two commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca on Monday told the Guardian that they had seen C-130 transport planes from their cockpit windows as well as small formations of fighter jets on their radar screens, which they believe had flown from Europe.

Residents near the British airfield, a sovereign base since 1960, also say activity there has been much higher than normal over the past 48 hours.

If an order to attack targets in Syria is given, Cyprus is likely to be a hub of the air campaign. The arrival of warplanes suggests that advanced readiness – at the very least – has been ordered by Whitehall as David Cameron, Barack Obama and European leaders step up their rhetoric against Bashar al-Assad, whose armed forces they accuse of carrying out the chemical weapons attack last Wednesday that killed many hundreds in eastern Damascus.
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Get your popcorn ready and enjoy their latest "shock and awe" campaign.
 
[Candidate Obama] responded in writing to a series of questions regarding executive power from Charlie Savage, then of The Boston Globe:

Q. In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? (Specifically, what about the strategic bombing of suspected nuclear sites — a situation that does not involve stopping an IMMINENT threat?)

OBAMA: The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.;
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Obama on presidential war-making powers - Salon.com

Biden said the same thing as well back then.

Vice President Joe Biden, who voted for the Iraq War, agreed with Obama.

“The president has no constitutional authority to take this country to war… unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof that we are about to be attacked,” Biden said in 2007.

Biden, then a Democratic senator from Delaware, suggested presidential war-making was an impeachable offense.
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Obama and his team contradict past statements on war powers | The Daily Caller

Yes, I agree. But will this soon anticipated military attack by the U.S. backed with U.S. Congressional approval as required on war powers?

One cannot talk about the inevitable war with Syria without discussing if proper authorization has been made. Doing so means one is willing to sweep it under the rug and ignore the whole thing, and that'd be an act of disingenuousness.
 
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