History Repeats: Citing phantom WMDs, Barack Obama threatens full-scale US military engagement in Syria

US President George Bu... er, Barack Obama, wants to invade Syria 

to protect the world from Assad's WMDs.

US president Barack Obama bluntly warned Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Monday not to cross a "red line" by using chemical or biological weapons in his country's bloody conflict and suggested that such action would prompt the United States to consider a military response.

Pointing out that he had refrained "at this point" from ordering US military engagement in Syria, Obama said that there would be "enormous consequences" if Assad failed to safeguard his weapons of mass destruction.

It was Obama's strongest language to date on the issue, and he warned Syria not only against using its unconventional weapons, but against moving them in a threatening fashion .... http://www.sott.net