[lbryce]

Syria has amassed the world's greatest stockpile of biological, chemical weapons, known as the poor man's atom bomb. It is no wonder that as result of poison gas being used in WWI did the Geneva Conference outlaw the use of gas in warfare. It could also be said that Hitler never used gas in WW2 due to he himself being a victim of poison gas and found it too abhorrent (except for Jews, other undesirables.)

[jmacusa]

The outlawing of gas as a weapon had little to do with humanitarian concerns and more to do with it being largely impractical a weapon. Poison gas as it was used in the First World War depended entirely on climatic conditions and once it was released was subject to whatever way the wind took it. Used in a mass concentration under favorable conditions it could be somewhat effective however many was the time the stuff ended up causing problems for those using it. Today's never gas agents are much more lethal that their fore runners.

[tips up]

All the WMDs not found in Iraq?

[RetiredArmy]

And some of them probably came from Saddam’s stuff that he shipped over before he got hung.

[LibWhacker]

If Assad is fool enough to use that crap against Israel, Israel would be justified in going full nuclear on the bastards and erasing every city, town and village in that sh!t hole. Sick of dumb inbred a-rabs. Almost as sick of them as I am of dumb demoncraps.

[Mike Darancette]

Syria has amassed the world's greatest stockpile of biological, chemical weapons..

So how did Syria build this massive stockpile without the world knowing?

[cookcounty]

Step One: Hamas engages Israel, partially depletes IRONDOME defenses.

Step Two: Hezbollah in Lebanon, with 15X the number of Al-Fajers, depletes Irondome completely.

Srep 3: Syria launches gas weapons.

...and then....

[Cyber Liberty]

Don’t kid yourself, if Hitler had figured out a way to use gas without getting payback in kind, he’d have used it. He didn’t find anything “abhorrent” unless it was his neck on the line. IOW, a typical sociopath coward.

[higgmeister]

So, you're saying that Assad has all of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction that were hauled away in the months leading up to the invasion? Tell us all something we didn't already know.

[Southack]

Italy used mustard gas against Ethiopia at the start of WW2. Those stores of mustard gas were mined when Rommel pulled out of Africa after the second battle of el Alamein.

After WW2, the Germans were brought back to the Qattara Depression to fence it off. Today, armed U.S. drones still monitor 24/7 those stockpiles near Benghazi.

It is quite likely that Ambassador Stevens was attempting to give that Libyan mustard gas to the Syrian rebels so that Assad would instead get blamed for using it inside Syria.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Well, we know this report is just a lie.

The liberals told us, repeatedly, and often violently, that there are no WMDs in that area, that W concocted the scheme just to invade a swell country so that he could get lots of oil for his oil buddies.

[Cronos]

hundreds of tons of mustard gas, a blister agent, and large stockpiles of sarin and possibly VX,

If Assad has this, it's better to keep him in power for him to use against the jihadis fighting him

if he loses, these weapons will be used against Israel

[Cronos]

It could also be said that Hitler never used gas in WW2 due to he himself being a victim of poison gas and found it too abhorrent

Actually, he had more pragmatic reasons for not using this --
1.he suspected the Soviets and Americans and Brits of having chemical weapons as well and if he started, then they would use it as well and no one had effective ways of stopping them
2. WWII was a lot more mobile than the trench warfare of WWI -- you drop gas on the enemy and you don't know if in 10 minutes your own troops will be over there, choking.