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Obama: Chlorine Gas Not 'Historically' a Chemical Weapon
ARUTZ SHEVA ^ | 5/15/2015 | Tova Dvorin

Posted on 05/15/2015 7:02:59 AM PDT by McGruff

Widespread reports of chlorine gas attacks in Syria have not been prevented - or acted upon - because chlorine is not "historically" considered a chemical weapon, US President Barack Obama stated Thursday.

Obama was forced to answer the chlorine question during a press conference from a summit at Camp David with leaders of the Gulf states. Syria and Iran were key issues at the conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalwarfare; chemicalweapons; chlorinegas; dhimmitude; gulfstatessummit; obama; obamasyria; redlines; rop; syria; wmd; worldwar3
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To: McGruff
I Quadruple-Dog Dare Ya!


41 posted on 05/15/2015 7:27:34 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: McGruff

Especially if you just ignore WWI.


42 posted on 05/15/2015 7:27:41 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: McGruff

uhhhh.....he has an Ivy League education and knows NOTHING of the history of WW I?

The use of chlorine in that war first put the issue of chemical weapons on the table.


43 posted on 05/15/2015 7:27:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: McGruff

At least, Bashir did not use CO2, then, there would be hell to pay.


44 posted on 05/15/2015 7:28:18 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: McGruff

45 posted on 05/15/2015 7:32:00 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: All

I hate to say this because it is always said but ...

If George W. Bush or Sarah Palin had said something like this, the LSM would be printing the history and shouting from the rooftops about how stupid they are.

I’m no history buff but even I’ve heard about Chlorine gas. It’s one of the Cs in NBC weapons (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical).


46 posted on 05/15/2015 7:32:39 AM PDT by Sister_T (So, ACA is the law of the land? Remember: DADT and DOMA were the laws of the land! Repeal ACA!)
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To: McGruff

Every time obama exhales a deadly chemical gas is dispersed on the American people he is the chemical weapon of mass destruction deployed by the islamic communists.


47 posted on 05/15/2015 7:34:48 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Milton Miteybad; circlecity

We have to excuse Obama’s lack of knowledge about World War I as I’m sure his boyhood mentors only spoke about the glorious Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, and the rise of Communism during that time in history.


48 posted on 05/15/2015 7:35:07 AM PDT by Unmarked Package (Cruz to Victory 2016)
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To: albie

No, it’s just used to sanitize swimming pools and stuff...


49 posted on 05/15/2015 7:35:37 AM PDT by refermech
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To: McGruff
Yes. Of course.
Iran firing on a Marshall Islands flagged vessel and hijacking it is not a provocation.
If Iran captures a US Nuclear Aircraft Carrier group, he would bow to their mullahs and beg forgiveness.

He is a disgrace to the office.

Putin vs Obama

50 posted on 05/15/2015 7:36:01 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Carl Vehse

“Chlorine was the historical chemical weapon used in WWI.”

Yes. But that was soooo long ago and used by dead white guys. In Obamaland, after a century or so, labels like “weapon” age out, if convenient.


51 posted on 05/15/2015 7:36:58 AM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: McGruff

Typical soetoro lie. Chlorine gas was certainly viewed as a chemical weapon when I took CBR training in Army basic, 1967.


52 posted on 05/15/2015 7:37:27 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: NorthMountain

I do believe that is called a “feedbag”.


53 posted on 05/15/2015 7:41:11 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: McGruff

I’ve noticed that Obama has entered a realm where he will say anything, no matter how outrageous, just to fill up space. He knows that no one will hold him accountable, not the press, not the Republicans, and what he says is supposed to be credible merely because he is president, and most Americans can not believe that a president will look them in the eye and lie, or hate America.


54 posted on 05/15/2015 7:42:52 AM PDT by odawg
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To: NorthMountain

Actually, looking again, it’s not a feedbag, because it doesn’t even go over their lower jaw. So it must be some time of protective gear.


55 posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: McGruff

Chlorine was the first chemical weapon used in WW-I.


56 posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:56 AM PDT by The Great RJ (Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what t)
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To: McGruff

Chlorine is “a weapon of mass destruction” according to the UN. and is banned from production and use by various treaties. Our POTUS is an idiot and refuses to take responsibility for anything he says. He is worthless as a leader and has lost the respect for the US that most of the world had prior to him gaining office.


57 posted on 05/15/2015 7:44:38 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Sister_T

Chlorine gas has so many manufacturing and other legitimate uses that it is not considered a weapon in various NBC weapons treaties. That will be the Obama spin.


58 posted on 05/15/2015 7:44:48 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Milton Miteybad

Don’t think, to this day, they know what chlorine gas is in Kenya.....


59 posted on 05/15/2015 7:44:55 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Get the USA out of the UN then get the UN out of the USA; send bamaboy back to Kenya ASAP!!!!)
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To: Boogieman

If you’re trying to protect the horse from chlorine or even phosgene, dunking that bag in water would have some utility.

The whole thing comes across as faintly ridiculous, though.


60 posted on 05/15/2015 7:45:08 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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