Fox News Conspiracy Theory: 'Very High Probability' Iraq Hid WMDs in Syria & Evidence suggests chemical weapon not used in Syria: official 22&21MAR13

THIS mainstream media hysteria about the alleged use of WMD, in this case chemical weapons in Syria by assad, is just like the mainstream media hysteria about WMD in Iraq before we invaded.  Get big headlines in the big national papers, bring out the "military experts" to mouth their opinions about the threats from these weapons on mainstream news programs. Click the link  to watch this video, the general says he is "doubtful" chemical weapons were used and at the end "reporter" brian kilmeade says "the world red line is these chemical and biological weapons and somebody crossed it it seems". Is our government planning to put boots on the ground in Syria? I pray to God not. I think, with cuts to the defense budget happening due to sequestration, and more cuts being called for, the military-industrial complex, with complicity of members of the military, active and retired, are ramping up their propaganda campaign to preserve the warfare state our nation has become. See my earlier post 

The U.S. Warfare State and Evangelical Peacemaking & A Heart for Peace from SOJOURNERS FEB 2013 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-us-warfare-state-and-evangelical.html and check this out from Crooks&Liars and the Reuters article disputing chemical weapons were used......

By David

Video link http://gocl.me/Yu8UFT

A Fox News military analyst who has previously justified the U.S. invasion in Iraq by asserting that Russia conspired to hide Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now says that there is a "very high probability" that those WMDs are in Syria.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday spoke to retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney about recent rumors of a chemical attack near Aleppo, Syria.

"What are the chances of the return address on these chemicals being from Iraq?" Kilmeade wondered.

"Well, I think there is a high probability of that," McInerney declared. "That's conjecture, but we do know prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom, there was a lot of vehicles crossing the border into Syria. And there was a great deal of conjecture. A Iraqi major general swore by it. He said he delivered it."

"And so I think that it would be a very high probability if we could get into those bunkers that they would have Iraqi signatures on them."

In 2006, McInerney told Newsmax that there was "clear evidence" that Iraq had WMDs before the war and that the Bush administration "ignored Russia's involvement" in helping to hide the weapons.

"[T]he administration needed the Russians, the Chinese and the French, and was not interested in information that would make them look bad," he said.

A U.S. official on Thursday said that evidence suggested that chemical weapons (CW) had not been used in the latest attacks in Syria.

"Our growing sense is that weaponized CW was not used," the official remarked, according to Reuters.

A European security official noted that the use of weapons of mass destruction in Syria would have left a death toll much higher than 26.

(h/t: Media Matters)

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/fox-news-conspiracy-theory-very-high-probabi

Evidence suggests chemical weapon not used in Syria: official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It increasingly appears that a chemical weapon was not used in Syria this week, a U.S. official said Thursday, although officials cautioned that U.S. intelligence agencies have not yet reached a final conclusion.

"Our growing sense is that weaponized CW was not used," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Still, the official left open the possibility that information could arise that changed the analysis.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels accused each other of using chemical weapons in a rocket attack near Aleppo on Tuesday that killed 26 people.

A European security official said that if chemical weapons or other "weapons of mass destruction" had been fired off, the casualty toll would be much higher than 26.

The official said he did not believe that the evidence showed chemical weapons had been used.

After the attack on Tuesday, some of those hospitalized told a Reuters photographer they detected a strong smell of chlorine in the air and that many victims had fallen down dead after the blast.

President Barack Obama said in Israel on Wednesday that Assad would be held accountable if it were determined that chemical weapons had been used in Syria.

On Thursday a U.S. intelligence official said, "The intelligence community has not made an assessment as to whether or not chemical weapons were used or not."

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice issued a statement on Thursday welcoming the announcement of a U.N. investigation.

"As the U.N. proceeds with these efforts, we will also continue to work closely with our partners to obtain further information regarding any and all credible allegations of the potential or actual use of chemical weapons in Syria," she said.

Two senators wrote a letter to Obama saying that more must be done to stop the killing in Syria and force Assad to relinquish power.

"The potential use of chemical weapons only makes the case for greater action more compelling and urgent," said the letter from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona.

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria and Phil Stewart; Editing by Stacey Joyce and Xavier Briand)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/us-syria-crisis-chemicals-usa-idUSBRE92K0VO20130321