The real question is how many children do US bombs have to kill before Assad feels sorry

Wouldn't put it past them.

If our CIA is conducting large-scale military assaults using military-grade rockets right in their capital city.

It would be pretty hard not to notice that.

If Obama claims he wants to fight 'smart' wars, not 'stupid' ones, maybe he shouldn't start talking about strikes and intervention without all the evidence

it may sound nit picky but Assad's forces may have done it without Assad knowing of it. Juan Cole thinks this is likely.

It would have been better I think if you'd made the choice between "the Assad regime" and "a rebel faction" and thrown in other.

Crumbling around him. The old story is he can run but he may not be able to hide forever. Then again if he has used chemical weapons and he could decide to stand a war criminal trial he may feel his life is over anyhow. Now Syria just a front for Russia and Iran. Like a lot of countries, there are only as stable as their leaders.

It is not a yes/no,either/or, black/white world.

It's about a proxy war

Nobody knows, I have a few potential suspects in mind but I could not tell you with certainty who did it. Neither can anyone else no matter how loudly they insist they have the answer.

Religious people and atheists alike seem to know for sure whether or not there is a God. People seem to know for sure Assad used chemical weapons and none of the rebels did all before the UN report comes out. The truth is right now no one knows. You are absolutely right. Anyone who claims to know, doesn't.

... that I have seen to point a finger at anyone.

I say this now, just as I did when the war pigs were pitching The Idiot Son's Iraq Debacle:

If you had proof, you would be showing it to every eye that would look, not telling us to "trust us."

I didn't trust "them," and I don't trust this administration. Both have lied to us, multiple times.

PROVE IT or it isn't real.

According to John Kerry:

Being trapped under rubble from a bomb blast can be every bit as sadistic as mustard gas

The choice is between an asshole president and a bunch of asshole extremist groups some with ties to terrorist groups.

Remember that we trained Bin Laden.

22. Most likely the CIA and MOSSAD.

Even "Al-Qaeda" is probably them.

I think it was Assad.

Why do you think Assad is being framed.

in real life our government wants it to be Assad very badly I guess that his employ as a torturer is over, just consider the missile strike a pink slip of sorts

I read, here at DU, that the chemical attack wasn't even carried out correctly. Apparently you're supposed to fire chemical shells closer to each other than conventional ones, so as to create a concentrated cloud of gas. But they didn't do that. That points to a rogue unit commander firing chemical rounds in desperation. That same report said that the Syrian defense minister smacked the commander down.

so saying "The rebels bombed themselves" is ingenuous.

The US has got to stay out of it.