Bashir al-Assad claims that gas attack was "100 percent fabrication."

I'm sorry, what gas attack?

Courtesy of The Independent:  

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held village last week that killed more than 80 people. 

Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned civilians were ''100 per cent fabrication'', the president said on Thursday, adding that the Syrian government gave up its chemical weapons stocks as part of a 2013 agreement. 

 "Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack," he said.

So essentially Assad is taking a page out of the Donald Trump playbook and calling news that he does not like "fake news."

The problem for his of course is that this man's babies were clearly dead, and there is video showing him placing their bodies into a mass grave.

That is not something a father would do simply to frame the Syrian President.

There were of course many other pictures and video, not to mention first hand accounts by doctors, soldiers, and officials.

And now we are learning that the US intercepted communications from the Syrian government planning the actual attack on that rebel held village.

Assad is a liar who murders his own people. And yet he still has the support of the man who helped to put Donald Trump into the White House.

Go figure.

So did Russia know about the chemical attack in Syria ahead of time? Yeah, maybe.

Courtesy of the AP:

The United States has made a preliminary conclusion that Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, but has no proof of Moscow's involvement, a senior U.S. official said Monday. 

The official said that a drone operated by Russians was flying over a hospital as victims of the attack were rushing to get treatment. Hours after the drone left, a Russian-made fighter jet bombed the hospital in what American officials believe was an attempt to cover up the usage of chemical weapons. 

The U.S. official said the presence of the surveillance drone over the hospital couldn't have been a coincidence, and that Russia must have known the chemical weapons attack was coming and that victims were seeking treatment. 

The official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on intelligence matters and demanded anonymity, didn't give precise timing for when the drone was in the area, where more than 80 people were killed. The official also didn't provide details for the military and intelligence information that form the basis of what the Pentagon now believes.

As you have probably already predicted the Pentagon refutes this accusation:

A Department of Defense spokesman discounted an Associated Press report that claimed Russia knew in advance about the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week that left more than 80 people dead. 

“I’ve seen nothing that corroborates this definitive statement,” Major Jamie Davis told the Daily Caller in a statement Monday. “We continue to review the available intelligence surrounding this incident.” 

Boy who to believe on this one.

A report from the highly respected Associate Press news agency, or a statement from Donald Trump's Pentagon reported on the Daily Caller and Info Wars?

Boy that is a conundrum alright.

In response to chemical weapons attack Trump orders missile strike against Syrian airbase. Update!

Courtesy of ABC News:  

Responding to a Syrian chemical weapons attack on Tuesday that left scores dead, the United States initiated a military strike Thursday on an airbase in Syria, multiple U.S. officials have confirmed, launching 59 missiles at an air base in the country. 

The Pentagon said that the airstrike, which targeted Shayrat Air Base in Homs Province -- where the chemical attack was initiated earlier in the week -- struck multiple targets with tomahawk missiles launched between 8:40 and 8:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, from destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Mediterranean Sea. 

President Donald Trump said the strike was in the "vital national security interest" of the U.S. 

In a statement to Syrian state TV, the Syrian army said the attack had left six people dead and several injured, in addition to "big material losses."

A couple of things to keep in mind here.

First Russia was warned about the airstrike before it occurred.

However Trump did NOT warn Congress.

Despite the warning Russia is pissed off: 

Russia has reacted angrily after the US launched a missile strike on a Syrian government air base. 

US officials said the base had been used to launch a chemical weapons attack in north-western Syria that left dozens of civilians dead on Tuesday. 

But Russia, which backs President Bashar al-Assad, condemned the US strike and suspended a deal designed to avoid mid-air collisions over Syria.

Hillary Clinton also stated publicly that she would have attacked the Syrian airbase. (However I think we all know that she would have sought approval from Congress first. After all this IS Hillary Clinton we are talking about.)

Another thing to note is that Trump was completely against this same response back in 2013, after a chemical weapons attack left 1,400 dead.

So I guess 80 dead on his watch justifies a military response by not over a thousand dead during the Obama Administration?

And finally a certain MOH recipient is right on board with this decision.

Good on @realDonaldTrump for showing the world that America will no longer stand by and watch this barbaric behavior on innocent people.

— Dakota Meyer (@Dakota_Meyer) April 7, 2017

(I think we already know what the mother-in-law thinks about her boyfriend's response)

One final thing to note is that President Obama was quite ready to take decisive action against Assad back in 2013, but he was blocked from doing so by a majority Republican Congress.

Funny how times cahnge, don't you think?

Update: Ah so it appears that the Syrians also knew an airstrike was coming. 

Gee it appears that only the Americans were kept in the dark.