Who is responsible for the chemical attacks in Syria?

[Savannahmann]

18. I read the Amnesty International Report.

Allow me to quote part of what you quoted.

Amnesty International has gathered information from survivors of the chemical weapons attack believed to have taken place in the Eastern Ghouta region, east of the capital Damascus, on 21 August, as well as doctors who examined those killed and treated those affected by the contamination. We have also shared this and other information about the alleged chemical release with specialists in chemical agents. Based on this research and the analysis by specialists, Amnesty International believes that it is highly likely that chemical agents contaminated several neighbourhoods in the adjacent towns of Zamalka and Ain Tarma in Eastern Ghouta.

They have no first hand information. They are answering the questions based upon reports. Because the lack of first hand knowledge which they admit, they use words like appears, likely, probable, and other words that stop short of the definitive word fact.

Fact is an undeniable piece of evidence. Truth is the story that links those pieces of evidence. Fact, Dinosaur bones have been recovered. Therefor the truth is that dinosaurs once existed. Do you see what I mean? Now for the lunatic fringe, the Fact of Dinosaur bones being found, is coupled with the fact of dinosaurs not being in the Bible, so their truth is that the bones were planted by Satan to fool us. At least you can agree with them on the fact that the Dinosaur bones were found, even if we can't agree on the truth drawn from it.

To repeat, I am not saying that the chemical warfare attack did not happen. I am saying we don't have the facts, and you supported my contention that the report would be available in two weeks.

He was addressing reporters while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was meeting with delegates from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - to update them on the U.N. investigation in Syria. Envoys from the five countries gave no details of the meeting to reporters after it ended.

But two diplomats told Reuters that Ban informed the five delegations that analysis of the samples could take up to two weeks.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/syria-crisis-us-idINDEE97T0FI20130830

The testing and identification of the gathered samples will allow investigators to present the evidence so we can conclude what happened with far more accuracy than we think, we believe, we consider it highly likely. Before we go to war, and start dropping bombs, shouldn't we know with as much certainty as is possible?