WMD's In Syria?

United States military assets are moving to Cyprus as I write this.  President Obama seems determined to strike.  Apparently there is no reasonable doubt in his mind that chemical weapons have been used by the Syrian government in its fight against rebels there.

So for me the question is "WMD's" you say?  That's what those chemical weapons are, WMD's.  So how did they get there?

Well thanks to the UN's griping about the United States failing to keep Saddam Hussein's WMD's from leaving Iraq, we all know where they came from.  Even some of the stuff in the Wikileaks dump revealed information suggesting the WMD's left Iraq and were moved to Syria before the coalition forces could secure them.  So we pretty much know where the WMD's came from and how they got to Syria.  It just wasn't anything the current elites in the media and academia wanted to talk about because they insisted that the idea of WMD's being in Iraq was a big lie. 

I think George Bush and Tony Blair are due a really big apology.  Ah but that's been over-due since around 2007.

But what's that the current elites in power want us to be thinking?  Assad's a monster and needs dealt with harshly?  We shouldn't allow the petty squabbles over facts from the past distract us from this very important objective?  You know, bringing Assad to justice?

The current political elites came to power supporting the notion that their predecessors lied about WMD's being in Iraq.  If so many of the current political elites were so wrong about Iraq that the same WMD's they claimed didn't exist are now the justification for their proposed and likely military strike, why are we allowing them to lead us into such drastic actions?  At the very moment that their twisted web of lies is revealed to us through their own admission are we supposed to trust them?

One point that they made about Iraq that I agree with is that WMD's are a distraction from much sounder reasons for foreign military interventions, but unfortunately for them in the case of Syria none of those sounder reasons are currently present.  Unlike Hussein's Iraq the government of Syria is not oppressing people based on religion or ethnicity.  As a matter of fact dominant elements of the rebels are the ones practicing such oppression and persecution.  Oh sure, Assad's a ruthless dictator but he's not anti-Christian.  Many of the rebels are.

There isn't a right side in Syria and we don't belong there.  Our current leaders should do two things about Syria, apologize to Bush and Blair, and then just let things work themselves out.  Whoever wins, wins.  As for Obama's "red line"?  Like the claim that Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq, the rest of Obama's word has been exposed.  What point is there in trying to make it mean something now?  Especially if it will take military actions to do it.

I dread these next few days.  I'm not sure which I dread more.  The unwise use of military force or the unbearable distortions of the truth that the elites in media and academia are going to expose us to in their attempts to convince us that current political elites that they like are something more than grossly incompetent.

One kind thing I can say about their favored pols.  Gross incompetence, even when it costs people their lives, isn't treason.  At least they have that.