Posted on 12/09/2012 3:07:21 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Fears of the worst possible scenario in Syria have been confirmed in a video released by rebels that shows victims of chemical warfare.
WARNING: The video should not be shown to children without parental agreement.
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An almost sure sign that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has unleashed his chemical weapons for use against rebels is his regime’s claim on Saturday that rebels are preparing to use chemicals in their uprising. Assad systematically has accused opposition forces, which he labels as “foreign terrorists,” of carrying out attacks and murders for which his own loyalists are responsible.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Saturday there was evidence the Damascus government could actually employ chemical weapons stocks in the conflict which a rights group says has killed at least 42,000 people in nearly 21 months.
The Obama administration is bound to be tested this week on its treat to intervene militarily if signs continue to show that chemical weapons are already being used in Syria.
If President Barack Obama thought that his warning would be enough to stop Assad, he apparently is mistaken. Assad knows that if he does not defeat the opposition, his fate is death, and probably in a way no more humane than his brutal suppression of the uprising if not in a way similar to that of his old friend, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
Military intervention would have far-reaching repercussions especially, in Iran, a last holdout in Assad’s collapsing support.
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I don’t trust “rebel” films. They are trying to draw us into the sink hole that is Syria and they are nothing but liars. No more US involvement in funding and empowering the Muslim Brotherhood (nation building) surrounding Israel.
We are going to have to go in and fight against them all when they join forces against Israel and US. Don’t make them stronger. If anything, do bomb runs on chem weapon operations and that is all. Nuke the place.
Damn chilling thought really! Can’t believe this is what our country has been reduced to.
Totally agree. Bombs away. Except, they don’t exist. It’s all bullshit about sarin gas and WMD. The only thing that is true is that Obama is arming Jihadi Islamists from Al Queda to try to take Asshat out in Syria and install Islamist rule like in Egypt. Libya etc.
This puts Baraq between Iraq and a hard place.
And that somehow makes it OK?
An almost sure sign that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has unleashed his chemical weapons for use against rebels is his regime's claim on Saturday that rebels are preparing to use chemicals in their uprising. Assad systematically has accused opposition forces, which he labels as "foreign terrorists," of carrying out attacks and murders for which his own loyalists are responsible.
>> Mix amonia and chlorine bleach together and — voila!
And of course, no one should do that. Very, very dangerous vapor.
Will this be the war to end all wars? Has the Crown Prince of Austria been shot by a Serb?
Innocent Arab people? Are those the ones who threw huge rocks through the Palmers’ windshield on Highway 60 and killed a two-year-old Zionist occupier and his equally nefarious Zionist father?
So, in answer to your questions, all has been answered.
Agreed possible chemical burns from the peeling of the skin . possible exposure to corrosive industrial chemicals but also Mustard or Phosgene Oxime . Odd how you don’t hear/see any coughing/wheezing for breath in the video.
“And that somehow makes it OK?”
Uh, no. The question at issue was what kind of chemical agent was involved. Some of the cheaper ones contain blistering agents, and thus may be more readily employed. A more toxic — and more difficult — weapon to manufacture and control would be a non-burn producing chemical such as VX (at least, it would not produce burns that were similar to the ones shown in the photos). VX and sarin have a far greater capacity to inflict fatalities than, say, mustard gas.
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