Late last night the White House issued a warning accusing Syria of preparing to gas its people. US defense officials have no idea why.

Statements from @PressSec on #syria pic.twitter.com/gEqPAf6WBk

— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) June 27, 2017

Okay so this was broadcast on cable news last night. (I personally saw it toward the end of the Rachel Maddow Show.)

And on the face of it this seems like kind of a crazy way to announce that the president of Syria is about to murder his own people again. Typically this would be addressed through diplomatic channels and the public would only become aware if there were an imminent military response planned by the United States. (And seriously what does "pay a heavy price" even mean?)

But then it gets even weirder.

Courtesy of The Independent: 

The White House has said it believes the Syrian government is planning a chemical weapons attack and warned Bashar al-Assad that his regime will “pay a heavy price” it it does so. However, several US defence officials have said they are not familiar with the intelligence that informed the statement.

White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on Monday night on the allegations or what form US retaliation would take. 

Several sources across the US State Department, Pentagon and Central Command, which oversees the country’s military operations in Syria and Iraq – said that they did not know what had prompted the unprecedented threat to the Assad regime. 

Okay, okay, let's back the fuck up here.

Are we to believe that the White House received intelligence that the Pentagon did not receive which justified a threat like this?

I call bullshit.

I am beginning to think that Donald Trump is becoming so desperate over those Russia investigations that he is literally considering plunging this country into a war simply to distract the public.

Pentagon awards President Obama the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Sarah Palin stomps her bony feet in protest.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

President Obama on Wednesday received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service from Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, prompting a backlash from critics that include former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R). But the award is more common than they apparently know, as numerous senior officials have received it, including the last two presidents. 

The award was adopted in 1947 and recognizes “exceptionally distinguished service of significance to the Department of Defense as a whole or distinguished service of such exceptional significance” to a part of the Defense Department for their awards to be considered insufficient, according to a Pentagon fact sheet on the award. 

“The service or assistance may have been rendered at considerable personal sacrifice and inconvenience that was motivated by patriotism, good citizenship, and a sense of public responsibility,” the fact sheet said. 

Palin criticized the decision Wednesday night, saying “this is what happens when you grow up thinking every kid gets a trophy.” She shared a Breitbart News Network story with the sarcastic, if incorrect, headline: “President Obama awards himself Distinguished Public Service Medal.”

Ummm, really? This is what happens when you grow up thinking every kid gets a trophy.... https://t.co/x4KVfarWpU

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) January 5, 2017

No, he did not "award himself" a medal. He fucking earned it by being one of the greatest presidents in our lifetime.

You know I saw part of the speech that the President made at this event and it was extremely emotional for both he and members of the audience.

The President demonstrated great respect for those involved the defense department, and expressed his gratitude to them for the hard work they have done on behalf of the American people.

In contrast Sarah Palin demonstrates her pettiness and lack of respect by mischaracterizing this award ceremony and farewell speech in the way that she has in that tweet.

But then what more could we expect from the meanest of the mean girls.

Perhaps she should go back to giving Julian Assange a reach around, and blowing kisses at Vladimir Putin.  

She has chosen her side, and it is clearly not the side for America.

The defense industry is overwhelmingly supporting Hillary. George Bush gave them two wars to support their industry, what has Hillary promised them?

Mrs Clinton’s wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts.

Employees of the top five US arms manufacturers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon - gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to the Republicans. “The contributions clearly suggest the arms industry has reached the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed,” said Thomas Edsall, an academic at Columbia University in New York.

Republican administrations are by tradition much stronger supporters of US armaments programmes and Pentagon spending plans than Democratic governments. Relations between the arms industry and Bill Clinton soured when he slimmed down the military after the end of the Cold War. His wife, however, has been careful not to make the same mistake.

After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates - Democrat or Republican.

These guys get rich, when people get dead.

So how has Hillary convinced them to support her campaign? And does her vote to support calling Iran’s 125,000-member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization have anything to do with it? Is she somehow signaling them her desire to continue the insane Bush Middle east policies?

These are question that we must have clarified before ANYBODY throws their support to Hillary Clinton.

I just don't believe that Democrats understand what getting Hillary in the White House will mean to this country. Don't allow yourself to be seduced by the charms of Bill Clinton, he is not the one running.