Originally posted by taurran
So you have qualified direct sources that disprove what's on the site? How are you to know that the mainstream media is absolutely correct and accurate?
#1) It is known that Assad has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons. Not suspected, it's known. Even Assad doesn't deny this.
#2) Because I'm not an uninformed sheep who is unaware of events until it is posted on a favorite website, I knew that there were at least two confirmed incidents of chemical weapons use in the Syrian conflict
prior to the August 21st attack that finally got a lot of media attention. Here's one from May that came from embedded French reporters:
http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/27/chemical-war-in-syria_3417708_3218.html#3) In both the August 21st attack and at least one of the previous attacks, intact shell delivery was documented at the scene. Even though nothing but rumors even suggests that the Syrian rebels have access to sarin, they have absolutely no ability to carry out a sophisticated rocket-delivery of sarin. Assad does.
#4) In the 48 hours following the August 21st attack, Syrian forces blasted the ever-loving shit out of Ghouta. There is no military explanation for such massive use of force aside from wanting to destroy evidence.