Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack

[TiberiusB]

102. Russia did turn things around

Russia did intervene and pressured Syria to dismantle their CW stocks. The Obama administration was pushing for a vote to attack when Russia got involved. Whether Russia helped the administration out of a jam or whether it stymied their plans is debatable, but the fact that it was Russia's intervention that helped push Syria to negotiate is not. That hardly makes Russia a global hero, as I am certain they benefit from avoiding a larger regional war as well.

You keep going after Hersh for supposedly not going into detail about the evidence the Administration had implicating Assad's regime in the attacks, but that isn't really the point of Hersh's article. He is contending that some evidence was being either suppressed or distorted to make the case against Assad. At no point is Hersh arguing that Assad wasn't to blame (nor is anyone in this thread, btw), simply that the Obama Administration appeared to be willing to walk the dangerous path so recently traveled by the Bush Administration by distorting evidence to open the door for military action.