{"id":303404,"date":"2017-04-12T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assad-not-mad-enough-to-carry-out-chemical-attack-george-galloway\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T17:12:25","slug":"assad-not-mad-enough-to-carry-out-chemical-attack-george-galloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assad-not-mad-enough-to-carry-out-chemical-attack-george-galloway\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad not \u2018mad enough\u2019 to carry out chemical attack \u2013 George Galloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Syrian President Bashar Assad is simply not mad enough to have carried out the recent chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria, according to outspoken former MP George Galloway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Writing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westmonster.com\/galloway-assad-not-mad-enough-to-launch-chemical-weapons-attacks-on-beaten-enemy\/\">\u2018<em>Westmonster<\/em>\u2019<\/a> website, the former Labour and Respect MP said the idea that Assad was behind the recent suspected chemical attack at Sheikoun Khan was off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Major Western powers laid the attack at Assad\u2019s door and leading figures have said Russia is tacitly responsible as well.<\/p>\n<p>Syria maintains that the gas incident occurred after a conventional bomb hit a rebel chemical weapons depot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Syrian President Assad is no doubt bad enough to do anything at all to save his regime including the use of any and all weapons,<\/em>\u201d Galloway writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>But he\u2019s not mad enough to launch militarily insignificant chemical weapons attacks on an already beaten enemy and, hey presto, bring America directly into the war against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Anyone who says otherwise is either a fool or is trying to fool you,<\/em>\u201d Galloway warned.<\/p>\n<p>Galloway urged readers to ask who would gain from such an attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>One only has to ask two questions. Why? And who benefits? That there is no conceivable advantage to the Syrian regime is obvious. That there is every conceivable advantage for the ISIS\/Al-Qaeda-led rebels is equally obvious,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>A war which was all but won is now in question again. If the Saudi-inspired fanatics didn\u2019t so disapprove of dancing well, they\u2019d be dancing Gay Gordons and Strathspeys Reels [Scottish dances] in the roads of Raqqa.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Galloway also warned that the press had not played an even hand in their coverage of the incident, relying on dubious \u201cunofficial sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to US President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that images of suffering children had inspired his U-turn from opposing war in Syria to bombing a regime airbase, Galloway said, \u201c<em>I too have \u2018beautiful babies\u2019 Mr. Trump, four of them under 10. I will not see them go quietly into your goodnight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Rather I will rage against the dying of the light. And ask as many to rage with me as I can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>And now, my double-decker campaign bus has arrived and my microphone awaits,<\/em>\u201d Galloway added with a characteristic flourish.<\/p>\n<p>Galloway, who hosts RT\u2019s Sputnik program, is campaigning for the parliamentary seat of Manchester Gorton in an upcoming by-election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/384487-galloway-assad-chemical-syria\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian President Bashar Assad is simply not mad enough to have carried out the recent chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria, according to outspoken former MP George Galloway. Writing for the \u2018Westmonster\u2019 website, the former Labour and Respect MP said the idea that Assad was behind the recent suspected chemical attack at Sheikoun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}