[LachlanMinnesota]

My understanding from press reports was that the rebels were losing ground recently (maybe from having their supply lines dry up from Benghazi blowback). So why, at a time when Assad had the upper hand, would he resort to a weapon that was (a) not necessary, and (b) designed to gather the opprobrium of the world and marshall additional forces against him?

A trained dentist knows better.

[peeps36]

The little trip by Mccain and Pansy Graham seems suspicious to me. Wasn't the last chemical attack in Syria a false flag operation carried out by the terrorist? I think it's necessary for us to question the motives of this regime after Benghazi, Egypt, fast and furious and other lies and misdeeds. They proved they can't be trusted to tell the truth about anything.

[batterycommander]

Assad is an ophthalmologist, not a dentist.