Posted on 06/05/2013 10:29:25 AM PDT by pabianice
(CNN) -- Sarin gas has been used several times in the Syrian civil war, including at least once by the Assad regime, France's foreign minister said Tuesday, citing results from test samples in France's possession.
Laurent Fabius announced that conclusion after meeting with the head of a United Nations mission set up to establish the facts about the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
"I gave him the results of tests carried out by our lab appointed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to identify chemical warfare," Fabius said in a statement, referring to the Swedish scientist Professor Ake Sellstrom.
"These results show the presence of sarin in the samples that are in our possession," Fabius said. "In view of these elements, France now has the certainty that the sarin gas was used in Syria several times and in a localized manner."
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“...trying to set up a humpty-dumpty,
to rule Syria for them.”
So you think France and the UK are lying about chemical weapons use?
So?
I would guess since the all these “revolutions” are manufactured.
What will France Do? I support them in what ever they do—use a nuke and take out every city of note! start bombing them with conventional bombs or maybe use gas on them. My bet—no one will do anything and the deaths will keep happening.
“I would guess since the all these revolutions are manufactured.”
I don’t doubt the revolution was “manufactured”, but that doesn’t preclude chemical weapons use. Both can be true.
It’s too perfect an excuse for intervention, IMHO, to be true, i.e., it’s too convenient.
The “evidence” I heard was ridiculously flimsy, i.e., “traces” of a substance found.
All I hear out of Euro and American news sources is constant propoganda, women and children hurt, mass terror from gov’t troops, bomb hit hospital, etc. When I hear similar chants from news sources every few minutes for weeks, it tells me it’s not a real story. The sky is falling, big emergency, we need to intervene ! Pffff.
Not only in Syria, but ALL countries with these revolutions.
Fake human rights stories, chemical weapons stories - that’s what’s used to justify using US/UK/FR military to provide a key knockout punch.
IMHO, every government would put down a revolution - including the US. No one made us, the UK, France, etc., ruler over the King of Syria, where he only serves as long as we want him to serve.
The whole international “responsibility to act” idea neglects to worry about a crucial question - what if the revolution is caused by factions from outside the country in revolt ? What if it’s actually connected to the “intervening country” ? That’s basically an internationally-sanctioned, coup d’etat of external origins, or an act of war. I don’t support the US President taking it upon himself to jump into foreign wars or rebellions without a Declaration of War.
The necessity for a Declaration of War in the US is basically out the window with the rest of the Constitution.
Nothing in our Constitution says that if a foreign government uses a certain weapon in putting down a revolt that the US President is then automatically authorized to use the US military to jump into the revolution on the side of the rebels.
Just my HO...
“The evidence I heard was ridiculously flimsy, i.e., traces of a substance found.”
I don’t think any amount of “evidence” justifies intervention, even with Congressional authorization. I just think both sides are perfectly capable of gassing each other. I think back to the Iran/Iraq war.
“The necessity for a Declaration of War in the US is basically out the window with the rest of the Constitution.”
The ironic thing here is that the Congressional authorization for the “War On Terror” gives the president power to go after Al-Queda anywhere in the world. Instead, our president is traitorously supporting them in Syria.
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