White House knew three days before about chemical attack

So looking at the Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013 from the White House in regards to the chemical attack in Syria, you’ll come across this paragraph under the heading “Preparation”;

We have intelligence that leads us to assess that Syrian chemical weapons personnel – including personnel assessed to be associated with the SSRC – were preparing chemical munitions prior to the attack. In the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human, signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack.

Syrian chemical weapons personnel were operating in the Damascus suburb of ‘Adra from Sunday, August 18 until early in the morning on Wednesday, August 21 near an area that the regime uses to mix chemical weapons, including sarin. On August 21, a Syrian regime element prepared for a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus area, including through the utilization of gas masks. Our intelligence sources in the Damascus area did not detect any indications in the days prior to the attack that opposition affiliates were planning to use chemical weapons.

So, I wonder who they told, if they warned through their “sources” any rebels or civilians?

Further;

We assess with high confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year, including in the Damascus suburbs.

So why is this the first time we’re hearing about this? Apparently, according to the White House the Assad regime has been dancing on the “red line” since the President drew the damn thing. But now suddenly, with the failures of every policy that this administration has advanced in the headlines, all of a sudden we a distraction with a shiny object like a limited military strike halfway around the world.

In related news, the same woman who spent two years trying to defund our troops who were engaged with al Qaeda in Iraq as the Speaker of the House, suddenly sees a “national security” interest in a limited and narrow strike against Syria, according to the Washington Post;

I guess they figure that a couple of videos of some ‘splodies on televion will make us forget that healthcare costs are rocketing into the stratosphere and we still don’t have any jobs. Time for the troops to yank the President’s fat from the fire once again.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks, Terror War