Showing posts with label Chemical Weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chemical Weapons. Show all posts

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Nikki Haley: “If Russia had lived up to its commitment, there would be no chemical weapons in Syria, and we would not be here today.”




























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From Wikipedia: Nimrata "Nikki" Haley (née Randhawa, born January 20, 1972 is the 29th and current United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She served as the 116th governor of South Carolina and is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Haley was the first female governor of South Carolina and the second Indian-American, after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal, to serve as a governor in the United States.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney considered Haley as a potential vice presidential running mate, though Haley said that she would turn down any offer due to her position as governor. She delivered the official Republican response to President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address on January 12, 2016. On November 23, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Haley for the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, which Haley accepted. Haley was confirmed by the Senate in a 96–4 vote and was subsequently sworn in on January 25, 2017. In 2016, Haley was named among "The 100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine....
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Friday, April 13, 2018

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has "launched precision strikes" in Syria in concert with British, and French allies.



























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Monday, April 9, 2018

Look at how @AP frames Israel's strike against an Assad chemical facility: If you only saw the hed and photo, you'd think Israel had gassed the children.

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

She has yet to Tweet about the attack on Syria.



It must have seemed like a problem from hell: When Samantha Power served as Barack Obama's ambassador to the United Nations, she tirelessly highlighted the depredations of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, publicizing his various barbarities—his indiscriminate killing of civilians, his use of chemical weapons, his astonishing cruelty to children. And yet Ambassador Power served a president who steadfastly refused to do anything to counter those outrages, a president who stood idly by as the Syrian tyrant dropped chemical weapons and barrel bombs on innocent civilians. Indeed, Barack Obama would have fit quite well into A Problem From Hell, Power's terrific 2003 book, which trained a gimlet eye on America's all-too-common indifference to genocide and mass killing.

Since her retirement from government service, Power has kept up the fight, tweeting prolifically about the carnage in Syria. Indeed, on April 4, 5, and 6 she tweeted repeatedly about the Assad regime's apparent chemical assault in Idlib—the very attack that spurred Donald Trump to enforce Barack Obama's red line and hit back at the Syrian dictator with a missile attack on an air base.

And then she went strangely silent.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

President Obama’s disastrous legacy in Syria is one of the most urgent issues confronting President Trump.







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Sunday, April 9, 2017

They Lied: PolitiFact Pulls 2014 'Mostly True' Rating of John Kerry's Claim of Eliminating Syrian Chemical Weapons



In a post about the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, PolitiFact admitted, “The outcry leads us to revisit a 2014 claim from former Secretary of State John Kerry.”

“Kerry said in a television interview that in Syria, ‘we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.’ Syria had agreed in 2013 to an ambitious program to destroy its chemical stockpiles under international supervision, as part of a deal brokered by Russia,” they explained. “When Kerry spoke in July 2014, the process seemed far along. Based on reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — which later won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts — we rated that claim Mostly True. There were caveats about incomplete information, but at the time, international experts said the claim largely held up.”

“Given recent events, we have pulled that fact-check (you can read an archived version here) because we now have many unanswered questions,” the fact-checking site declared. “We don’t know key details about the reported chemical attack in Syria on April 4, 2017, but it raises two clear possibilities: Either Syria never fully complied with its 2013 promise to reveal all of its chemical weapons; or it did, but then converted otherwise non-lethal chemicals to military uses. One way or another, subsequent events have proved Kerry wrong.”

PolitiFact is often heralded as a reliable and neutral fact-checking source by the mainstream media and political establishment, despite numerous revelations over the past few years that the site is largely biased towards the left-wing.
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Susan Rice, Obama colleagues take heat for past claims on Syria chemical weapons purge





















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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Trump authorizes strikes on Syrian regime targets after use of chemical weapons.











































DOZENS OF MISSILES INTO SYRIA...
VIDEO... PHOTOS...
DEATHS REPORTED...
RAND PAUL: MUST COME TO CONGRESS FOR WAR ARROVAL...
Trump Shows He Is Willing to Act Forcefully, Quickly...
National Security Team All Agreed On Strike...
SPEED INTENDED TO MAXIMIZE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE...
'CIVILIZED NATIONS' CALLED ON TO 'END SLAUGHTER AND BLOODSHED IN SYRIA'...
'VITAL NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST' OF USA...
REX: Russia 'Complicit Or Simply Incompetent'...
MOSCOW WARNS USA...
Pentagon Confident 'No Russian Forces At Air Field'...

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Pentagon drawing up options for military response to Syria chemical attack











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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Trump's Opportunity to Right Obama's Wrongs In Syria

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The whys behind this latest Russian aggression are not complicated. In the end, it’s just another product of President Obama’s foreign-policy lethargy. As in the Baltics, Putin continues to hold the reins

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

ISIS used mustard gas again in Syria

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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Australian foreign minister says Isil is using chemical weapons



Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has warned.

In a speech to an international forum of nations that works to fight the spread of such weapons, Ms Bishop said the rise of militant groups such as Isil, also known as Daesh, posed "one of the gravest security threats we face today."
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

"U.S. Says Assad Caught With Sarin. Again."

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: ISIS is now using chemical weapons in Iraq. BBC.




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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

I THOUGHT IRAQI CHEMICAL WEAPONS WERE A BUSHITLER/CHENEY FANTASY:





◼ The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

◼ Truth finally comes out - KYLE BECKER/IJREVIEW.COM

It's Official: NY Times Just Blasted Out of Existence Biggest Myth About George W. Bush & Iraq War

This is like the holy grail of Schadenfreude...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Terrorist Fail: ISIS’ Latest Attack Just Blew Up In Their Faces And They Paid The Price

◼ At least 14 soldiers of the Islamic State were killed near Baghdad when a warhead that they had been filling with chlorine gas exploded on them. - Western Journalism

Chlorine gas has been used in Syria, but this was the first time it has been used in Iraq.

The use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime supposedly ended by agreement, but there has been continued evidence of the use of the substance in the country after the agreement.
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'

◼ Latest developments and news from the Iraq crisis, as Saudi Arabia warns that Britain and US must not meddle in Iraq - The Telegraph

Live updates
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Assad will turn over weapons once US stops arming terrorists

◼ Assad: Syria to fulfil chemical weapons initiative if U.S. ends threats - agency - Yahoo/Reuters

◼ Syrian crisis: Keeping up with key developments - CNN

...The Syrian president added that his government's signing of the international agreement is not "unilateral." It is contingent, he said, on the United States ceasing its threats of military action and the acceptance of Russia's proposal to transfer the arms to international control. "When we see that the United States really wants stability in our region, and will stop threatening and striving to attack, and will stop proving weapons to the terrorists, then we will consider that we can carry out these necessary processes to the end. And they (the processes) will put into effect by Syria," al-Assad said. "The most important role belongs to the Russian government because we do not trust the United States and have no contact. Russia is the only government that can carry this out right now."
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Russia is also now taking away Obama’s fig leaf that the threat of force is driving this phony weapons deal, by taking the threat of force entirely off the table. Obama is playing cards with Reggie Love, Putin is playing 3D chess like a boss.

◼ Russia Backing Away from Fake Syria Weapons Deal - Bryan Preston/PJMedia

Obama is being played. The Russian deal forced him to change course and re-write tonight’s speech at the last minute. Now he has to re-write it again, or pretend that the Russians didn’t just drop a flaming bag of something on the White House doorstep. It will be grimly amusing to see what Obama tells the American people about all this now. The words “fiasco” and “clusterf*ck” have been said by others today. He won’t use either word, but that doesn’t mean both don’t apply.

Harry Reid pretended that the Russia deal drove him to halt a vote on force in the Senate. The reality is that Democrat votes for force were “dropping like flies,” and the prospect of passage in the House was always grim. ◼ Obama lost the Congressional Black Caucus today. Sen. Mitch McConnell ◼ came out against bombing today, breaking with the House GOP leaders who had supported it, and probably killing off any chance that the Senate would help Obama out by at least giving him a split vote in Congress. The likelihood now is that he gets rejected by both houses with actual “No” votes or implicitly if neither brings the authorization to a vote, and then has to decide if he wants to strike Syria anyway. Does Barry feel lucky?

So Obama is being played by Putin. The question is, does he know or even care that he’s being played?

DRUDGE:
◼ SYRIA ACCEPTS RUSSIAN WEAPONS PROPOSAL - AP
◼ PUTIN: U.S. must call off strike - Russia Today
◼ Ships Assad more weapons - Times Of Israel
◼ Obama revises address to U.S. - New York Times
◼ 'Rebels' oppose proposal - Josh Rogin/Daily Beast
◼ MAG: Putin Didn't Save Obama, He Beat Him - Weekly Standard
Maybe Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin really did discuss the idea of putting Syrian chemical weapons under international control last week on the sidelines of the G20 conference. Putin sure doesn’t care that Obama’s taking credit for the proposal, or that the administration is posturing like a Mob enforcer. “The only reason why we are seeing this proposal,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney, “is because of the U.S. threat of military action.”


Right, Putin is laughing to himself. Whatever. If Obama wants to sell it like a Christmas miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue that’s fine with Putin, because Putin won.
◼ Navy Deploys 'USS Barry' Off Coast of Syria - National Review
◼ NOONAN: 'We've never had a presidential speech like this!' Wall St. Journal
◼ Russian Parliament Gloats as Putin Checkmates Obama Over Syria - Breitbart
Monday morning, Secretary of State John Kerry made what an administration official called a "major goof" with a never-going-to-happen hypothetical that suggested Syria could avoid American airstrikes by surrendering their chemical weapons. Even the State Department walked Kerry's statement back. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov immediately seized upon Kerry's flub, and now a member of the Russian parliament is gloating over Putin's checkmate of Obama.
◼ John Kerry changes story to claim credit - Buzzfeed
◼ SLAM! Obama should give Putin his Nobel Peace Prize! - FOX
◼ DEM SEN: 'We're not trusting Assad; We are trusting Russians' - Washington Free Beacon
◼ Syrian 'Rebels' Giving U.S. Targets To Defeat Regime - Sky News
◼ WH downplays ties to al Qaeda - Washington Times
◼ German paper says intercepts show Assad rejecting Sarin use - McClatchy
◼ PAPER: Intel officials warned president al Qaeda was strengthening - Washington Times
◼ Flailing Obama slumps to lowest ratings of his presidency, as US voters see him as ‘a weak and indecisive leader’' - Nile Gardiner/Telegraph
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