Kerry's claim of 1429 Syrian deaths is criticized

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25. There is not a single sentence in the article you link that supports a charge of Obama manufacturing

evidence.

The point of the article is that Bush's use of Curveball has left skepticism that the President has to deal with:

"One thing is indisputable," Cameron conceded. "The well of public opinion was well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode and we need to understand the public skepticism."

In fact the article goes to some length to explain that there is little similarity between the two:

Political and international security analysts concede that the conditions prompting Obama to push for punitive strikes on Assad's forces are vastly different this time. Obama, who campaigned against his predecessor's rush to wage costly, faraway wars, has made clear his reluctance to get involved in Syria's nearly 2 1/2-year-old civil conflict, which has taken more than 100,000 lives.

Nor does Obama seek to topple Assad. Though despised by Western leaders and accused of savagery and war crimes, the Syrian autocrat would leave a dangerous power vacuum if he were ousted. That probably would lead to chaotic revenge attacks on Assad's minority Alawite community, sectarian clashes between Shiites and Sunnis, and infighting among the disparate rebel groups, the stronger of which are aligned with Al Qaeda.

This time, unlike the 130,000 coalition troops Bush had massed to invade Iraq, any U.S. strike on Syria would be limited in scope and duration, Obama insisted Friday.