Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack

[karynnj]

55. However if it was not clear that Assad used CW, then it is not clear he crossed the red line

- so your argument has a major hole in it. (Not to mention using CW was a red line because it was something that the US was saying should not be allowed to happen. )

It is also clear in some back scenes articles that BEFORE the August attack, but after smaller attacks, Kerry raised the idea with Lavrov of working to get CW out of the unstable country as part of Geneva 2.

The fact that Russia worked with the US to get the CW out - taking tham away from their ally - suggests that their protestations to the contrary, they knew there was a high probability that Assad used them.

As to his assertion that there is a problem with the US saying they were able to reconstruct things - suggesting that had they known, they would have stopped it ignores that looking back in hindsight after something happened, there will often be pieces that come together only after the event happened.