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This has been known for years. The timing of this is just Propaganda.
At the time of the Commons vote in 2013, Assad was accused of using chemical weapons. UN investigators conclude he was, but also that the rebels (ISIS) were also using them.
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I expect that this now being rehashed to justify the US attacking the Syrian rebels instead of supporting them.
Sobbering to think that if Obama and Cameron had had their way, we would have been fighting Assad, side by side with our partners, ISIS. Thankfully, obama and Cameron were both stopped.
At the time of the Commons vote in 2013, Assad was accused of using chemical weapons. UN investigators conclude he was, but also that the rebels (ISIS) were also using them.
http://
I expect that this now being rehashed to justify the US attacking the Syrian rebels instead of supporting them.
Sobbering to think that if Obama and Cameron had had their way, we would have been fighting Assad, side by side with our partners, ISIS. Thankfully, obama and Cameron were both stopped.
Everybody and nobody.
It is a proxy war of the Superpowers, ISIS are just bit players. Syria has long been an ally of Russia. The US, saw a chance to topple Assad in Syria using the pretext of contagion of the 'Arab Spring'. So the US began to arm Assads opponents. Russia, came to the aid of Assad, and are arming the Syrian Government side. ISIS are just opportunists hoping to profit from the ensuing civil war. It worked for them in Iraq after the US and UK destablused that country.
Add to that mele, Saudi Arabia financing IS to spread their evil Wahabbi religion, and the Turks engaging in some Kurd bashing, and we get the very complicated situation that is present day Syria.
It is a proxy war of the Superpowers, ISIS are just bit players. Syria has long been an ally of Russia. The US, saw a chance to topple Assad in Syria using the pretext of contagion of the 'Arab Spring'. So the US began to arm Assads opponents. Russia, came to the aid of Assad, and are arming the Syrian Government side. ISIS are just opportunists hoping to profit from the ensuing civil war. It worked for them in Iraq after the US and UK destablused that country.
Add to that mele, Saudi Arabia financing IS to spread their evil Wahabbi religion, and the Turks engaging in some Kurd bashing, and we get the very complicated situation that is present day Syria.
Any army will use whatever weapons are available to them.
The British and the Germans were happy to hurl chemical weapons at each other in the Great War, so there is no moral ground we can take.
Rather than condemn the rebels/ISIS for using the weapons, it would be more appropriate to condemn and expose the nations/middle men/crooks who are supplying the weapons and the money to purchase them. But maybe then we would be pointing at so called friends.
The British and the Germans were happy to hurl chemical weapons at each other in the Great War, so there is no moral ground we can take.
Rather than condemn the rebels/ISIS for using the weapons, it would be more appropriate to condemn and expose the nations/middle men/crooks who are supplying the weapons and the money to purchase them. But maybe then we would be pointing at so called friends.
Svejk
There is no wrong or right side, there is only one horse. The USA horse. Basically the PM will slavishly do whatever the Americans want him to do, as Blair and Brown did before him. The US want to topple Assad, and get the Russians out of the mediterranean. That is not going to happen, but Obama and his poodle in No.10 are too stubborn to concede that, so the Syrian people endure an unwinnable war.
There is no wrong or right side, there is only one horse. The USA horse. Basically the PM will slavishly do whatever the Americans want him to do, as Blair and Brown did before him. The US want to topple Assad, and get the Russians out of the mediterranean. That is not going to happen, but Obama and his poodle in No.10 are too stubborn to concede that, so the Syrian people endure an unwinnable war.
The Assads had ruled Syria for 40 years before the US decided to arm and finance the so called Rebels. After seeing regime change in several middle east states on the back of the Arab Spring, the US seized the opportunity to topple the Russian leaning Syrians. But after a decade embroiled in two unwinnable wars, the Americans decided to sit this one out and let the Syrians tear each other apart. Unfortunatey the idea of breezing in top reap the benefits of the chaos they have encouraged has been thwarted by the religious nutters at Islamic State, who have the same idea.
Assad's popularity rating was probably double that of Obama, when the US decided regime change was needed in Syria.
Assad's popularity rating was probably double that of Obama, when the US decided regime change was needed in Syria.
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