[Skybird]

Until this very day it is a highly plausible possibility that it were the rebels. So far everything coming from Western government has been unverified claims which they claim cannot be verified due to "secrecy concerns". - A certainty it is not, however. All we have, is claims, and our ideas about motives.

If you take the 55 minutes speech in sailor_X' link (since I occaisonally switch into that channel I already had it yesterday), you may foind it most revealing in what way Us poltiicans have already benefitted from being in favour of this strike. In Kerry'scase the donations by defence companies have gone up a claimed 85% since the became the big crusader.

Also very enlightening and an argument often made is economi arguments made in the last third of the program. That the US economically is pretty much a dead body floating in economic waters without the financial stimuli by the overblown defence industry, is a writing on the wall, and with a debt burden like these it sits so deep in the sh!t that it will never get out of it again. The US cannot have any interest in a world at peace, since then it cannot justify its enormous spending on weapons and military arms anymore.