Videos from Syria

The graphic videos showing the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack in Syria have been released. These are the videos that senators, congressmen, and women have been shown by the White House as a part of Obama’s efforts to convince the US Congress to support action against Assad. You can view clips of them here at CNN. They really are no more disturbing than the videos I have already seen on blogs and other news sites, so I don’t understand why CNN thinks this is a big story.

I could not be more honest, these videos do not change my mind about the decision our Congress and President Obama need to make. There are images and videos of violence carried about by Syrian rebel groups against pro-Assad Syrians all over the web.

Here is a video of FSA fighters with 15 men, apparently Assad supporters. At first we see the men alive and then the same men are “mysteriously” found with gunshot wounds and throats slit. Warning, the video is graphic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKMsHdoR-eY 

There’s this 60 Minutes story, which aired in October. It shows a conservative rebel leader whose troops gun down Assad prisoners. Watch it here.

And there’s this article and photo from the cover of the New York Times yesterday.

Lastly, and perhaps the most damning or graphic, is this video, which shows FSA fighters, ones we would be helping, shoot prisoners on the ground.

There is no doubt, Assad has killed more people than the FSA and other rebel groups have killed in this war so far, but there is plenty of blood on the hands of the rebels who also have very questionable motives or “final solutions” if they are in fact victorious.