{"id":70763,"date":"2017-04-08T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70763"},"modified":"2017-04-08T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:54:00","slug":"ex-uk-ambassador-to-syria-questions-chemical-attack-it-doesnt-make-sense-assad-is-not-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70763","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UK Ambassador To Syria Questions Chemical Attack; &#8220;It Doesn&#8217;t Make Sense, Assad Is Not Mad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, has joined the chorus of folks implying that the chemical attack in Syria wreaks of a &#8216;false flag&#8217; operation.\u00a0 Speaking on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04zb6yv\">BBC Radio<\/a> earlier, Ford said there is &#8220;<strong>no proof that the cause of the explosion was what they said it was&#8221;<\/strong> and that it simply wouldn&#8217;t make sense for Assad to launch such an attack as it would be <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>totally self-defeating.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<strong>&#8220;There is no proof that the cause of the explosion was what they said it was.<\/strong>\u00a0 Remember what happened in Iraq&#8230;I&#8217;ve seen testimony alleged from witnesses who said they saw chemical bombs dropping from the air.\u00a0 Well, you can not see chemical weapons dropping from the air.\u00a0 Such testimony is worthless.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;But think about the consequences because this is not likely to be the end of it. <strong>It doesn&#8217;t make sense that Assad would do it.\u00a0 Lets not leave our brains outside the door when we examine evidence.\u00a0 It would be totally self-defeating as shown by the results&#8230;Assad is not mad.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04zb6yv\/player\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we pointed out yesterday, Ford&#8217;s comments seemingly align with the opinion of former Representative Ron Paul who argued that there was a 0% chance that Assad deliberately launched a chemical weapons attack on Syrian citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">&#8220;Who benefits?\u201d<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense for Assad under these conditions to all of a sudden use poison gases \u2013 I think there\u2019s zero chance he would have done this deliberately,\u201d<\/strong> said Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, this CNN anchor was left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2017\/04\/05\/massie-assad-would-not-gas-attack-sot.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">speechless<\/a> Wednesday during a televised interview when a congressman questioned the mainstream narrative that Bashar al-Assad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idlib-idUSKBN1760IB\" target=\"_blank\">attacked<\/a> his own people with chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<em>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to know exactly what\u2019s happening in Syria right now. <strong>I\u2019d like to know specifically how that release of chemical gas, if it did occur \u2014 and it looks like it did \u2014 how that occurred,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Representative Thomas Massie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2017\/04\/05\/massie-assad-would-not-gas-attack-sot.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> <em>CNN<\/em>\u2019s Kate Bolduan.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>Because frankly, I don\u2019t think Assad would have done that. It does not serve his interests. It would tend to draw us into that civil war even further.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI don\u2019t think it would\u2019ve served Assad\u2019s purposes to do a\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>chemical attack on his people\u2026It\u2019s hard for me to understand why he\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>would do that \u2014 if he did.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that<strong> the corporate anchor\u2019s expression snaps to attention the instant she realizes Massie is doubting the narrative<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GOP Representative stuns CNN anchor\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6SnIvQKN1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>What say you?\u00a0 Did Trump just have his &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; moment?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-04-07\/ex-uk-ambassador-syria-questions-chemical-attack-it-doesnt-make-sense-assad-not-mad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}