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Try reading. There are reports out there by credible groups like the UN and investigators from Geneva.
I would suggest foreign news sites though as the US MSM is focused on what Kerry is saying these days.
Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad's regime: U.N. official - Washington Times
Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.
Try reading. There are reports out there by credible groups like the UN and investigators from Geneva.
I would suggest foreign news sites though as the US MSM is focused on what Kerry is saying these days.
Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad's regime: U.N. official - Washington Times
Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.
Plus they did a video of using the gas on a rabbit, then saying the same would be done to Assad and his supporters. They demonstrated it!!!!!
How can people be so stupid to deny them doing exactly what they said there were going to do?
Plus they did a video of using the gas on a rabbit, then saying the same would be done to Assad and his supporters. They demonstrated it!!!!!
How can people be so stupid to deny them doing exactly what they said there were going to do?
I'm not sure we have been able to prove exactly who made that video.
Are you missing the point?
Those chemicals were in Libya, now they are in Syria. We bombed Libya and replaced their regime. We are now supporting the same in Syria, using chemicals that were under our control. Get it?
Yes, I do. Not sure why you think I don't.
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We also took control of the Libyan bank and Gaddafi's gold, billions of dollars. Wonder what happened to all that money? Probably paying for weapons, mercenaries and jihadists to destroy Syria, while we pretend to be on the sidelines.
But... but... but... it was the YouTube video.
So says the Obama admin.
Try reading. There are reports out there by credible groups like the UN and investigators from Geneva.
I would suggest foreign news sites though as the US MSM is focused on what Kerry is saying these days.
Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad's regime: U.N. official - Washington Times
Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.
Its VERY clear the side with the highest motive is the rebels, it works against the Assad Regime using chemical weapons, the Pentagon takes us all for a bunch of idiots, it doesn't even add up.
Assad KNEW the US was waiting for a reason to strike, why on earth would he give them one. The rebels on the other hand are set to benefit.
How can other countries kick up a fuss about chemicals supposedly being used in Syria, when agent orange and other colour agents were used over Vietnam.. I just dont get it.. can someone explain to me the difference if there is one.
How can other countries kick up a fuss about chemicals supposedly being used in Syria, when agent orange and other colour agents were used over Vietnam.. I just dont get it.. can someone explain to me the difference if there is one.
There is no difference in terms of the human suffering it created. However, you answered your own question by noting the Vietnam war. The US stopped spraying Agent Orange in '71, which was 42 years ago.
The other difference is that Agent Orange was ostensibly a defoliant which, while (obviously) horrifically toxic, did not cause people who were sprayed with it to immediately drop dead, whereas the chemical attack in Syria - provided that it actually happened and this isn't another "there are WMD's everywhere!" campaign - was some sort of poison or nerve agent intended to cause rapid death. The defensive argument behind the use of Agent Orange was that they didn't know that a defoliant would have horrible side effects that would ultimately maim the people who handled it and continue cause birth defects on the areas they used it almost a half century later (I'm sure they knew full well), whereas using some sort of nerve agent - say, sarin - is specifically done for the sole purpose of killing.
Now, to be abundantly clear just in case I wasn't above, I don't trust the reports yet: the UN hasn't even finished their reports and we're already talking about going in to destroy the Assad regime. I'm utterly sick of the fact that our politicians are so trigger-happy and are just waiting to jump at the chance to go to a war that most Americans want no part of, while we're still embroiled in another unpopular war that most Americans wanted no part of.
But, this said, I don't find anything "wrong" or "hypocritical" of a nation that has a history of past transgressions stepping in and condemning it in the future: the Germans used mustard gas in WW1, do they not have a place in raising condemnation? I would just rather see the condemnation followed by prudent judgement, rather than an all-out rush to aggression.
The impact of the herbicides used back with all the coloured agents , still have imapct to this day...causing massive suffering. so does that make it better.
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Syrian chemical attacks.
