Dozens Killed In Chemical Attack On Civilians In Syria

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/dozens-killed-in-apparent-chemical-weapons-attack-on-civilians-in-eastern-ghouta--rescue-workers/2018/04/08/231bba18-3ac0-11e8-af3c-2123715f78df_story.html?utm_term=.654e6cfe454b

I do not think it is a coincidence that this occured 4 days after Trump said the US is going to pull out of Syria soon.

Could be the rebels did it on themselves?

It's kinda funny though that the press only reacts to chemical attacks, as if shelling kills kids more mercifully.

Of course it was. Assad isn't that stupid.

They don't seem too bothered when Israel pour white phosphorus over schools and hospitals in Gaza.

It was cute how Trump pretended to care about this.

Even if so it still could be related to Trump's statement aka they don't want the USA to pull out.

It was cute how the US and the UK pretended to care about children.

It definitely was not carried out by Assad.

What are they even doing there in the first place? Who invited them in? Not Assad, that's for sure, so they should simply not be there to begin with!

As for the chemical attack, and I certainly will not pretend to be an expert in such matters, but film from the rescue of the victims of the attack show people handling debris without even so much as gloves on. When the poisoning of the Russian agent and his daughter in London was revealed, those who went in to examine the site where it was alleged to have happened appeared in full NBC gear, covered head to toe. Novichok would no doubt be more dangerous than simple Chlorine (which is what is supposed to have been used in this latest incident, but of course we will not know for sure until someone actually investigates it on the ground), but surely the rescuers would have taken some precautions against whatever it was that is supposed to have been used against those "women and children" (but not men?) in that Damascus suburb. Does it even make any sense for a government to use a proscribed substance against alleged civilians when that government is clearly winning, and has almost won, the war anyway via conventional means?

I'm by no means a conspiracy theorist, but this whole story appears to be yet more nonsense concocted and fed to a gullible public in order to justify "regime change" once again. I'm not buying it. We keep hearing from people like May and Macron that there is "irrefutable evidence" for the "Assad regime's criminal acts". Well, okay, can we actually see this evidence by any chance, or have you yet had insufficient time in which to fabricate it?

It's also cute how the governments of the West pretend to care about "the international, rules-based order" (as I've heard them put it). It's a case of "these rules apply to you, but not us, so ".

Don't forget drone strikes! They're apparently "okay" because it is the West once again going after "the bad guys", even though there is always a great deal of "collateral damage" involved (the psychopath's handy euphemism for murdered men, women and children).

Exactly