Of Course They Did

The Senate has passed a bill authorizing President Barack Obama to begin arming "moderate" rebels in Syria as part of a plan to step up the US military campaign against Islamic State militants.

The bill, which easily passed Thursday by a vote of 78-22, is headed to Obama’s desk for his signature.

  RT

Moderate rebels. Like the ones who sold James Foley to the “not moderate” rebels.? Like the ones who signed a non-agression pact with the “not moderate” rebels?  Like the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq and Somalia and who-knows-where-else that only served to eventually provide arms to the "not moderate" rebels everywhere.

Really, when all you manufacture is armaments….

And, right on cue…

The US claims Syrian President Bashar Assad has broken the chemical weapons treaty he agreed to earlier this year, by launching chlorine gas attacks in Syrian villages.

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“We believe there is evidence of [President Bashar] Assad’s use of chlorine, which when you use it – despite it not being on the list – it is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention,” [Secretary of State John] Kerry told the US House of Representatives. “He’s in violation of the convention.”

Kerry went on to add that Washington is studying ways to hold Assad to account.

   RT

Perhaps our “moderate” armed rebels can fight both Assad’s army and the “not moderate” rebels at the same time?

International diplomats told Reuters this week that Syria had revealed a previously undeclared research and development facility and a laboratory to produce ricin.

We had to get to Syria sooner or later. It’s in the Project for a New American Century.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.