29 Aug  AP: Syrian Intelligence Linking Assad To Chemical Attack
“No Slam Dunk”   syria inspectors  In the no s**t Sherlock
category we have this news:        …Some have even talked about
the possibility that rebels could have carried out the attack in
a callous and calculated attempt to draw the West into the war.
That suspicion was not included in the official intelligence
report  But still, even with all the uncertainty, we get the
same liberals who cried and wailed over Iraq, a country that WAS
a clear and present danger to the US, a country that was proven
to have used WMD’s against his own people, telling us “it’s all
different” now:  This time it’s different. [...]  What can
America do? It’s not unreasonable to ask whether even a well-
intentioned American effort to save Syrians might fail, or
whether such an effort might pull America into a terrible
quagmire. In the piece about Obama and Syria I wrote for the
magazine in May, I detailed just how daunting those challenges
are. But how much longer are we