For those of you who have been waiting for me to blame George Bush for the problems in Syria, The New York Times has taken care of that for me with the article The Bush Burden.

He’s there in every corner of Congress where a microphone fronts a politician, there in Russia and the British Parliament and the Vatican. You may think George W. Bush is at home in his bathtub, painting pictures of his toenails, but in fact he’s the biggest presence in the debate over what to do in Syria.

His legacy is paralysis, hypocrisy and uncertainty practiced in varying degrees by those who want to learn from history and those who deny it. Let’s grant some validity to the waffling, though none of it is coming from the architects of the worst global fiasco in a generation.

For those of you who think of this as the Bush legacy, what is your rejoinder?

McClatchy news has the story Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack.

 BERLIN — Russia says a deadly March sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations.

A statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website late Wednesday said the report included detailed scientific analysis of samples that Russian technicians collected at the site of the alleged attack, Khan al Asal in northern Syria. The attack killed 26 people.

A U.N. spokesman, Farhan Haq, confirmed that Russia delivered the report in July.

What are we to make of this?  Do we need the Russians to teach us how to do a forensic analysis of a crime scene that can be trusted by neutral observers because it follows international protocols for such an investigation?