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'France will strike' if proven chemical bombs used in Syria: Macron
Reuters ^ | February 13, 2018 | Marine Pennetier, Michel Rose

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 Syria’s humanitarian crisis. Russia, Assad’s most powerful ally, said last week a ceasefire was not realistic.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapon; chemicalweapons; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; germany; iran; israel; jerusalem; kurdistan; letshavejerusalem; macron; nato; russia; syria; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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Reporting by Marine Pennetier and Michel Rose; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Peter Graff

1 posted on 02/13/2018 8:59:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

he’d better ask mommy If she will let him borrow the army that weekend.


2 posted on 02/13/2018 9:02:55 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: SunkenCiv

Macron isn’t stupid, he’s just a stoopid dupe


3 posted on 02/13/2018 9:04:46 PM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

No messing with other people’s coups before taking care of your own coup.

steer clear, this is stupid.


4 posted on 02/13/2018 9:04:51 PM PST by gaijin
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To: SunkenCiv

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?


5 posted on 02/13/2018 9:06:58 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SunkenCiv

This guy is an idiot.


6 posted on 02/13/2018 9:11:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: SunkenCiv
Boom boom 💥 💥! Syria - soon to be a brand new Walmart parking lot.
7 posted on 02/13/2018 9:11:23 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: SunkenCiv

France will strike.

Giggle.

Ok...do it...lemme watch.


8 posted on 02/13/2018 9:15:28 PM PST by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: SunkenCiv
How much chlorine gas can be stored inside a conventional bomb?

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!

9 posted on 02/13/2018 9:16:05 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: SunkenCiv

It probably isn’t that the Syrian chemical weapons are all marked with:

imported from Iraq with ingredients produced in France

Freegards


10 posted on 02/13/2018 9:17:52 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: SunkenCiv

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


11 posted on 02/13/2018 9:19:08 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


12 posted on 02/13/2018 9:22:19 PM PST by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: PGR88

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.


13 posted on 02/13/2018 9:24:57 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


14 posted on 02/13/2018 9:26:14 PM PST by NappyOne
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To: PGR88
> Its a free-for-all! Now even France is dropping bombs in Syria. That’s when you know you’ve reached peak absurdity. <

Look. All France - or anyone else - has to do is look at the simple chart below. Then just bomb the bad guys. Comprenez vous?


15 posted on 02/13/2018 9:31:20 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


16 posted on 02/13/2018 9:34:21 PM PST by User901
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To: SunkenCiv

...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.


17 posted on 02/13/2018 9:45:59 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

18 posted on 02/13/2018 9:59:44 PM PST by TigersEye (Where is the Trump/Russia collusion memo? ... Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?)
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To: User901

The first one was bad, the second was sickening. Indeed, it is a Great Swamp.


19 posted on 02/13/2018 10:03:43 PM PST by kallisti (soon enough the time will tell about the circus in the wishing well)
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To: SunkenCiv
Good, let the francos do something for themselves.

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.

20 posted on 02/13/2018 10:09:24 PM PST by demsux (The "Mockingbirds" have come home to roost.)
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