For Franklin:
Not that it matters, war was decided when the redline was drawn, everything since has been posturing for support. Today Turkey is moving tanks and soldiers to the Syrian border and the US State Department is evacuating the embasy in Lebanon.
Dude, I got 1.5 hours of dead time so here goes:
The questions the Obama administration needs to answer before Congress can even consider voting on Syria:
Claim #1. The administration claims a chemical weapon was used.
The UN inspectors are still completing their independent evaluation.
It takes time to run the samples. So what? Symptoms are consistent with chemical weapons attacks along with secondary effects on medical personell (meaning it wasn't random food poisoning or other biological agent) and nobody doubts that they were used, except bonehead politicians like Kucinich.
Claim #2: The administration claims the opposition has not used chemical weapons.
Which opposition?
Are you speaking of a specific group, or all groups working in Syria to overthrow President Assad and his government?
Kucinich want's the President to prove a negative? Umm, kay. Where's Kucinich's proof? The Russians you say? 1.A) **** Russia. 1.B) We looked at their junk science already, and summarily chucked it into the waste bin.
Have you investigated the rumors that the Saudis may have supplied the rebels with chemicals that could be weaponized?
You mean rumors from that Lebanese newspaper or the Iranian one? Either way, not only no, but shut the **** up Dinnis. You're embarrassing your country.
Has the administration considered the ramifications of inadvertently supporting al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels?
This has nothing to do with the chemical weapons.
Was any intelligence received in the last year by the U.S. government indicating that sarin gas was brought into Syria by rebel factions, with or without the help of a foreign government or intelligence agents?
Is this linked to that cute little story from the Russians that you fell in love with, Dinnis?
Claim #3: The administration claims chemical weapons were used because the regime’s conventional weapons were insufficient.
Who is responsible for the conjecture that the reason chemical weapons were used against the Damascus suburbs is that Assad’s conventional weapons were insufficient to secure “large portions of Damascus”?
Telephone calls between his generals, for starters. We've already covered this. Are you drunk again Dinnis?
Claim #4: The administration claims to have intelligence relating to the mixing of chemical weapons by regime elements.
Who saw the chemical weapons being mixed from August 18th on?
Was any warning afforded to the Syria opposition and if not, why not?
If, on August 21st a “regime element” was preparing for a chemical weapons attack, has an assessment been made which could definitively determine whether such preparation (using gas masks) was for purpose of defense, and not offense?
You may not be aware, Dinnis, and this doesn't suprise us, but we were not active in the situation on August 18th. Becoming active is what these proceedings are about.
Claim #5: The administration claims intelligence that Assad’s brother ordered the attack.
What is the type of and source of intelligence which alleges that Assad’s brother personally ordered the attack?
Who made the determination that Assad’s brother ordered the attack, based on which intelligence, from what source?
Some of that is classified. If you weren't so damned crazy you might have clearance, but you know, national security precludes that and all.
Claim #6: The administration claims poison gas was released in a rocket attack.
Who was tracking the rocket and the artillery attack which preceded the poison gas release?
Did these events occur simultaneously or consecutively?
Could these events, the rocket launches and the release of poison gas, have been conflated?
No. The targets and releases were coordinated. Unless you think that the rebels guessed where Assad would shell Demascus and got lucky releasing the chemical weapons on their strongholds simultaneously. That sounds kinda crazy, so we guessed you'd come to this conclusion Dinnis.
Okay okay, that was too easy. I'm not reading the rest of Dinnis' blather. His nasty lips are burned into my brain enough already.
