Reports of chlorine attacks are pretty common in Syria, though half of the time it’s unclear if they amounted to anything other than an accidental release related to hitting an industrial building with some old chemical tanks inside.
Lithuanian officials are reporting that as usual, the latest round has the US looking to blame the Assad government, and that they are trying to “create a way to attribute blame” to the Syrian military for the attacks.
Previous UN Security Council resolutions had threatened “action” if chemical attacks were proven to have taken place, but they did not mandate any specific group that gets to decide who is to blame.
In the past, it hasn’t much mattered to the US, because blaming Assad was more a PR move. Now, they seem to be hoping to use the blame to invoke some new “actions” against the Syrian government.
Russia, however, is almost certain to veto such efforts, with Ambassador Churkin saying he hasn’t gotten specific instructions from Moscow, but that what he sees so far is just “a propaganda campaign” without any real effort to build evidence on what happened or who is responsible.
The US doesn't need no stinking evidence!!! If the US says Assad did it, then of course Assad did it…just ask Power…or Faux News…cause everyone knows they never lie.
"Lithuanian officials are reporting "
Whaaaaat?
The MSM is so full of lies and propagnada to push our troops into WW3! The last time Obama made the claim that Assad launched a chemical weapons attack, on the same day the UN inspectors came in, was proven to be a total fabrication that appeared to have US setup written all over it. The UN finally determined that Obama's militant terrorists, which the CIA trained on "proper use of Chemical Weapons" was the culprits, and nobody died because the MSM pulled up old footage and re-dubbed audio to make it appear the footage was the victims from the chemical weapons attack. MIT engineers later proved that the Terrorists were the only one's that could have possibly pulled off the event, where nobody died.