There will be blood

Brilliant analysis by Chris Floyd, including a counter to Noam Chomsky:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2346-there-will-be-blood-analogies-and-analyses-of-the-syrian-situation.html

Well worth your time, and you should read the two embedded analyses, too, especially the second one:

http://angryarab.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/chomsky-and-syrian-rebels.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/your-labor-day-syria-reader-part-2-william-polk/279255/

After reading William Polk's analysis, I'm sure you will agree that we will never know the facts behind these alleged CW attacks. Obama ad-Dajjal and Congress seem hellbent to bomb the bejesus out of Syria no matter what, and they will probably get their way very soon.

This passage from Polk's analysis is of particular importance, since he appears to say that even if Assad did use CW in this instance, it would NOT have been illegal:

Use, production and storage of such weapons was again banned in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (to which Syria it not a party). But nearly all the signatories to that convention reserved the right legally to use such weapons if the weapons had been used against them (i.e. no first strike). The Convention, unfortunately, contains no provision banning the use of weapons, as Saddam certainly did and as Assad is accused of doing, in civil war. My understanding of the current law, as set out in the 1993 Convention, is that the United States and the other NATO members are legally entitled to take military action only when we – not their citizens -- are actually threatened by overt military attack with chemical weapons.

Please also note from Polk's analysis that the US possibly could have prevented the Syrian civil war by providing food aid. But, true to form, we decided to once again use food as a weapon against the Syrian regime, almost guaranteeing the outcome.

This whole episode will be a tragedy for everyone involved. These pictures depict how Iraqis welcomed the "liberation" of their country. Syrians will soon receive the same blessings:

Is this what G-d wants? Is this something Jesus would support? I find it EXTREMELY difficult to believe that it is.