Friday, September 6, 2013

Too Many Holes in USG case / McClatchy

From McClatchy, a discussion of discrepancies in what the USG has asserted.  Read it all.  Here is just the beginning:
The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad’s regime. 
The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid out last Friday contained claims that were disputed by the United Nations, inconsistent in some details with British and French intelligence reports or lacking sufficient transparency for international chemical weapons experts to accept at face value...

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