In both cases – 2013 and 2017 – there were strong reasons to doubt Assad’s responsibility. In 2013, he had just invited United Nations inspectors into Syria to investigate cases of alleged rebel use of chemical weapons and thus it made no sense that he would launch a sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs, guaranteeing that the U.N. inspectors would be diverted to that case.

This right here is why I believe that Syria's "regime" didn't commit the gas attacks, that and the face that there were going to be Russo-American talks in Finland so that the two powers could mend their relationship. It's all way too convenient and now every war liberal, every neocon, and every other species of war hawk is ready for Syrian blood. Fan-fucking-tastic.