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U.S. "looking for the actual evidence" of Syria chemical attack, Mattis says
CBS News ^ | April 12, 2018 | David Martin

Posted on 04/14/2018 5:31:47 AM PDT by WisconsinRep

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To: RonnG
Chlorine gas is a poison any high-schooler can produce in his basement with a Gilbert Chemistry kit.

But, not in the quantity needed for a chemical attack. Nor the air force required to carry it out.

61 posted on 04/14/2018 7:45:28 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: mac_truck

Even if you believe that Assad was the one who gassed 70 people how many people did we kill last night in 103 missile strikes?


62 posted on 04/14/2018 7:51:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: WisconsinRep

there are US intelligence operatives operating all throughout the middle east, and MANY in Syria.

These people are trained and deployed to tell the situation room what they see, hear and think.

Our feelings, thoughts and what we think is evidence (Like Syrian government-controlled agitprop machines giving us pictures of propane tanks sitting in beds under holes in the terribly, terribly thin roof) do not come into the conversation.


63 posted on 04/14/2018 8:03:19 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: mac_truck

your meme,
your stupid meme,
I fixed your stupid meme.


64 posted on 04/14/2018 8:10:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: odawg
Now we know that we can get rid of our intelligence departments and just consult some of the posters here who can read a few articles, listen to a few loud mouths, and then through it all perceive precisely what is on Assad’s mind.

Would Alex Jones lie to them?

65 posted on 04/14/2018 8:34:30 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: WisconsinRep

The “White Helmet” videos aren’t enough proof? /s


66 posted on 04/14/2018 8:35:52 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: RonnG

But can they make sarin gas and can they make large volumes of it and can they make a delivery system?


67 posted on 04/14/2018 8:37:50 AM PDT by odawg
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To: eastexsteve

Many things are dangerous.

How is chlorine so dangerous we need to have a war?


68 posted on 04/14/2018 9:00:29 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?”


69 posted on 04/14/2018 9:01:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Even if you believe that Assad was the one who gassed 70 people how many people did we kill last night in 103 missile strikes?

Doubtful that many people were killed by these night time strikes, but even one would be too many if the Douma incident turns out to be a staged event.

I watched an interview yesterday with a medical resident who was working at the hospital in Douma the night of the alleged gas attack. He was identified after appearing in the back ground of the widely disseminated hospital video.

He tells a compelling story that the patients were being treated for smoke inhalation from a building fire when someone arrived and said the patients were victims of chemical weapons. That's when the panic started and relatives started grabbing inhalers and spraying people with water, etc.

The doctor was emphatic that the patients were NOT exhibiting signs of chemical toxins.

This type of first hand eyewitness testimony will be very hard for the West to refute, which may partly explain why the air strikes were undertaken last night before the UN investigation team arrived in Syria.

70 posted on 04/14/2018 9:06:04 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: All

Ready, fire, aim. The modern form of _warfare_.


71 posted on 04/14/2018 9:37:13 AM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: eastexsteve

Chlorine gas hugs the ground.
In WWI I believe it was the initial gas used, but it was found to not be very effective.


72 posted on 04/14/2018 10:06:54 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Travis McGee

He gave a more specific answer the next day. Been watching the news briefs today along with the UN and NATO talks and it seems pretty clear that we had good justification.


73 posted on 04/14/2018 10:18:51 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Reily
Chlorine gas hugs the ground. In WWI I believe it was the initial gas used, but it was found to not be very effective.

I thought mustard gas was the one primarily used in WWI. My grandfather was a victim of it.

74 posted on 04/14/2018 11:10:18 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

I certainly don’t know the full suite of gases the Allies & Central Powers used. Here’s a wiki link, don’t know how accurate it is. (At first glance it looks well sourced!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I#1915:_Large-scale_use_and_lethal_gases


75 posted on 04/14/2018 11:18:47 AM PDT by Reily
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To: trebb

“it seems pretty clear that we had good justification.”

After Colin Powell, as well.

Where is the evidence? Generals saying, “I’m confident” cuts no ice with me.


76 posted on 04/14/2018 1:40:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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