Rand Paul Says - Possible Alleged Syrian Gas Attack Was False Flag
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Posted April 20, 2018
WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Joining us now from
Capitol Hill is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
He's a Republican member on the Foreign
Relations Committee, also the Homeland
Security Committee.
Senator, thanks so much for joining us.
Let's get to substantive issues you're
dealing with right now. Your committee
chairman, Bob Corker, described the
walk-back by the White House as confusion.
Larry Kudlow, the president's new chief
economic adviser, says there was no
confusion. He simply says Ambassador Haley
just got ahead of herself. What was your
reaction? Did the White House undercut
Ambassador Haley?
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SEN. RAND PAUL, (R), KENTUCKY: I think
before you talk about sanctions we ought to
talk about what evidence was there that
Russia was complicit in this attack. In
fact, for that matter, I still look at the
attack and say Assad must be the dumbest
dictator on the planet or maybe he didn't do
it. I have yet to see evidence he did do it.
The agency claims they have that evidence,
but think about it, he's been winning the
war for the last couple years. The only
thing that would galvanize the war to Assad
directly is a chemical attack. It killed
relatively few people compared to what could
be killed with traditional bombs,
traditional machine guns, traditional tanks,
so you wonder what made them use chemical
weapons. So before we get to Russia, we have
to determine that Syria was implicated and
then we have to determine the connection
between Russia and Syria.
BLITZER: As you know, it's not just the
U.S., but France and the U.K. participated
in the bombing of these chemical sites in
Syria. Are you saying, Senator, the
president had bad intelligence?
PAUL: I don't know. I haven't seen the
intelligence. We have a briefing this
afternoon where I may see some of this, but
the difficulty is, these things are not a
slam-dunk. This was back in 2013 President
Obama looked at that chemical attack, and at
that point in time, his general was saying,
hey, it's not a slam-dunk, because you can
detect there were Syrian claims, you can
detect Syrians dropped bombs, but it's
sometimes hard to know if they dropped an
existing vehicle of weapons, and Syria has
been known to use chemical weapons, or if
the Syrians did it. If the Syrians did it,
it comes back to the question that Assad
must be the dumbest dictator on the planet
to use chemical weapons when he knows from
previous evidence it's the only thing that
gets the world galvanized to attack him.
BLITZER: Or he may have thought he could get away with it. Who knows?
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‘Zero real evidence’ Assad behind chemical attack – US congressman
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