Obama on Syria red line: weaponized chlorine isn’t ‘historically’ considered a chemical weapon.
Obama went to a fancy college and everything. Surely he knows the answers to both questions.
His remark is somewhat like saying, right after we bombed Hiroshima, that “nuclear bombs are not ‘historically’ considered a weapon.
technically, chlorine is an element
Chlorine gas was the ORIGINAL chemical warfare weapon, and the first of the poison gases deployed in the First World War.
Particularly effective in trench warfare. Plus, it’s much cheaper to produce than most other chemical warfare agents.