{"id":14373,"date":"2013-09-05T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:07:03","slug":"top-10-unproven-claims-for-war-against-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/05\/top-10-unproven-claims-for-war-against-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader Supported News<\/em> had the article by Dennis Kucinich Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t want you to think I have suddenly gone soft on my problems with bombing Syria.\u00a0 You’ll have to read the article to see what Kucinich says about these claims.<\/p>\n

Claim #1. The administration claims a chemical weapon was used.<\/p>\n

Claim #2: The administration claims the opposition has not used chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

Claim #3: The administration claims chemical weapons were used because the regime’s conventional weapons were insufficient<\/p>\n

Claim #4: The administration claims to have intelligence relating to the mixing of chemical weapons by regime elements<\/p>\n

Claim #5: The administration claims intelligence that Assad’s brother ordered the attack<\/p>\n

Claim #6: The administration claims poison gas was released in a rocket attack<\/p>\n

Claim #7: The administration claims 1,429 people died in the attack<\/p>\n

Claim #8: The administration has made repeated references to videos and photos of the attack as a basis for military action against Syria<\/p>\n

Claim #9: The administration claims a key intercept proves the Assad regime’s complicity in the chemical weapons attack<\/p>\n

Claim #10: The administration claims that sustained shelling occurred after the chemical weapons attack in order to cover up the traces of the attack<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Reader Supported News had the article by Dennis Kucinich Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria.\u00a0 I don’t want you to think I have suddenly gone soft on my problems with bombing Syria.\u00a0 You’ll have to read the article to see what Kucinich says about these claims. Claim #1. The administration claims a chemical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14374,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}