Attacks in Douma

Enki

I suspect these attacks of chemical weapons are more numerous than what is actually reported. Just this one timely fits political agendas on the domestic front for trigger twitchy Western goverenments, desperate for a distraction.

EarthRod

Yes, the clips were showing some people were trying to help - looked a bit primitive, but helping nevertheless.

What were you expecting to see? The nasty bad men releasing the gas and laughing as they did it?

So, like all media coverage of war, what you see on our media outlets are what you are allowed to see. All the nasty bits are cut out.

I was in the Lebanon briefly during the war there. The local TV coverage missed nothing out, the result of a car bomb showed the blood flowing down the drain, body parts, intestines hanging out, the screams for help etc. Nothing was cut out of the media coverage.

Is that what you want?

simonblue

I think we need more coverage from independent media,but that's almost impossible in Syria

simonblue

I think you maybe right,we do like to go to war, when things get a bit twitchy on the domestic front.

rustybin

Do we? Do we really?

This thread is exhausting the clichés already.

StanleyKubrick

One has nothing to do with the other, if it's real, it's real, if it fake, it's fake! That fake crap is fake, and serves only one purpose, to allow more unscrupulous people to gain power or money, because idiots think its real and saving babies justifies going in.
Unsubscribed from thread....

rustybin

That's one conspiracy theorist down....

tapzilla2k

It's a rebel held area with infrastructure that's been shattered. At most I'd expect to see very basic first aid given. Let alone atropine and similar agents being given to counter act nerve agents.

Hardly going to see footage of Assad laughing manically like Dr Evil as Scud missiles or fighter jets are scrambled to go on a chemical weapons bombing run.

Skull n Bones

Or it is totally fake news and and a false flag to draw the West into another unnecessary war based on lies and made up evidence. These white helmets even won an Oscar for their past productions

The Western military industrial complex needs to be in constant wars to keep their economies going, when have we never been at war ? War is big business for these people  $$  

rustybin

We're in an almost constant state of conflict / peacekeeping (!) with someone or another, regardless of our domestic politics. That was my point. To suggest we'd engineer a war because of Brexit or rising crime in London or whatever is Looneytunes.