Posted on 02/13/2018 8:59:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In recent weeks, rescue workers, aid groups and the United States have accused Syria of repeatedly using chlorine gas, which it possesses legally for uses such as water purification, as a chemical weapon against civilians in Ghouta and Idlib.
France, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has struggled to wield influence on Syria. Critics who accuse Macron of inaction say he has not given a clear definition of whether use of chlorine would for him constitute a chemical attack.
On Tuesday, the vice-president of the Syria Civil Defence, or White Helmets, volunteer force said France should stop talking and take real action.
France and the United Nations have repeatedly called in past months for a ceasefire and the opening of aid corridors to alleviate Syrias humanitarian crisis. Russia, Assads most powerful ally, said last week a ceasefire was not realistic.
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Reporting by Marine Pennetier and Michel Rose; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Peter Graff
he’d better ask mommy If she will let him borrow the army that weekend.
Macron isn’t stupid, he’s just a stoopid dupe
No messing with other people’s coups before taking care of your own coup.
steer clear, this is stupid.
Its a free-for-all! Now even France is dropping bombs in Syria. That’s when you know you’ve reached peak absurdity.
So how many different countries and groups are in the fight now? i count 12. How they hell does anyone even know who they are bombing?
This guy is an idiot.
France will strike.
Giggle.
Ok...do it...lemme watch.
I probably inhaled more chlorine fumes than that when I used to clean the pool filters twice a week at my Father's hotel in the 1950s and 60s!
It probably isn’t that the Syrian chemical weapons are all marked with:
imported from Iraq with ingredients produced in France
Freegards
Funny how every time a western politician needs it, Assad provides a “gas attack” usually with sarin or chlorine. Always one or two “gas” shells, and the bad guys defeat the deady gas with a handkerchief and a bottle of water! The white helmets document everything carefully with video.
The whole NATO world threatens and is itching to attack if you use gas. So you use one or two rounds, into a random neighborhood.
Yeahhhh sure... I believe this. /s
Come on America.
Bomb a bit more.
Trump and Macron.
Bomb, bomb, bomb....
Afganistan though is now alone as long as the time BETWEEN the world wars.
Syria alone is longer than world war 2.
People want this to continue.
That is all you need to know.
And, you cannot change it.
The biggest trick lady liberty did, was to make you believe she actually existed.
They don’t, and they also have no idea who, if anyone, is using chemical weapons. I wonder if the parents of a dead kid are more upset if the child was gassed rather than bombed? It’s a poser.
Chlorine gas was first used in Flanders in 1914 against French and British troops. The eye witness accounts of the Brits on the deadly effects chlorine had on victims are horrifying. Before gas masks could be distributed to the front, Canadian troops came up with tying a bandana soaked in urine over the mouth and nose as a somewhat effective counter for chlorine only.
100 years later, France still has lingering problems in the areas where chemical weapons soaked the environment. Poison gas was used in almost every barrage sequence of both sides.
Further entanglement of France with Syria saw a 1918 League of Nations mandate assigning France “trustee” for The Lebanon and Syria.
The NappyOne
Look. All France - or anyone else - has to do is look at the simple chart below. Then just bomb the bad guys. Comprenez vous?
The “White Helmets” organization in Syria that is begging Macron for military strikes has been exposed as a propaganda front group working alongside Al Nusra. One of their so called “field hospitals” was video taped showing an Al-Qaeda flag hanging inside. Claims of chemical weapons being used may be totaly staged to beguile western governments into intervening on their behalf.
Watch the YouTube video. It’s sickening. The American Gov. has given these people millions of dollars.
One America News:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9W_7XnjRUPg
...kind of like Obama’s red lines.
It has been proven hundreds of times that the Syrian regime not only butchered (and is till butchering with the aid of Russia, Iran and Hizbollah) it citizens but used Chemical bombs repeatedly. So, now, the weak French, much like the weak Obama make threats? What a joke, a sad joke.
The first one was bad, the second was sickening. Indeed, it is a Great Swamp.
Though I am a bit anti-French at the moment. Just spent 3 hours on a plane, next to a french husband/wife, and they they were just a plain pain in the ass. Up to get something from the upper bin, both go to the head, had to strike up bs conversation with steward (which slowed down my drinks arrival).
Just prissy, entitled little gnomes. Though I did enjoy watching Sean win the Gold on my Surface Pro (on free tv via Southwest Airlines) in their faces.
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