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Sweden drafts proposal to rid Syria of chemical weapons 'once and for all'
AFP (France), The Local (Sweden) ^ | 13APR18 | AFP (France), The Local (Sweden)

Posted on 04/13/2018 12:36:34 AM PDT by familyop

Under a 2013 US-Russia deal that averted US-led strikes, Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons stockpile and sign the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which bans the use of toxic gases in warfare. The United States, Britain and France accuse Syria of violating those commitments by carrying out chemical attacks and failing to fully disclose its stockpile. The Swedish-drafted text calls for the establishment of an investigative panel to identify the perpetrators of chemical weapons use in Syria after Russia this week vetoed a US proposal to set up such a mechanism.



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; northkorea; russia; syria
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1 posted on 04/13/2018 12:36:34 AM PDT by familyop
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The Eurasian Russian trolls, Iranian Arab parasts and western neo-Nazis demand proof, but Russia will fight to stop anyone from seeing evidence.


2 posted on 04/13/2018 12:38:17 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Inspections? It worked so well in Iraq.


3 posted on 04/13/2018 12:51:30 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: familyop

What team of morons wants to go to Syria during their civil war to inspect for chemical weapons?

My vote? Get out of Syria and leave it to the Syrians and the Russians. We do not have viable options that would be better than Assad, so we should stay out. Anything we do will either (1) prolong the civil war, or (2) replace Assad with someone far worse.


4 posted on 04/13/2018 12:53:33 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: familyop

Gee whiz, we thought Obama and Kerry accomplished this 5 years ago. /s


5 posted on 04/13/2018 1:56:13 AM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: familyop

Not going to rid Syria or the al-Assad of chemical weapons, period.

Al-Assad regime hands off what they do have to Russia, Russia asserts that Syria and al-Assad regime has no nukes (as does the retards who seek to verify). Once all quiets down, Russia quietly hands them back to Syria and the al-Assad regime.

/Fail


6 posted on 04/13/2018 1:57:38 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Telepathic Intruder

This last attack was with chlorine gas which is potent and lethal. The lethality of nerve agents is many times greater. Syria’s Assad has the capability to manufacture these agents. Chemically the synthesis is not that much different than making pesticides. If you can make bug killer you can make potent nerve agents.

Assad did not do this. I think Assad is an evil SOB. I do not think he did this. He with Russian help is winning. Why in the hell do something that is strategically of little importance but will result in serious hell from the USA, France, and Britain. It does not make sense.

I truly think this is a false flag operation.


7 posted on 04/13/2018 2:10:12 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: familyop
Why do none of the "bomb syria" cheerleaders pay a bit of thought to what happens after Assad?

What?

Does anyone in the West have a plan beyond "Assad must go because he's bad, so what if the rest are worse"?

8 posted on 04/13/2018 2:37:09 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: cpdiii; familyop; Telepathic Intruder; Justa; jonrick46
Assad did not do this. I think Assad is an evil SOB. I do not think he did this. He with Russian help is winning. Why in the hell do something that is strategically of little importance but will result in serious hell from the USA, France, and Britain. It does not make sense.

Exactly. He's an evil SOB, but the alternatives are worse. Bomb him and the Christians in Syria will undergo genocide -- why do all the anti-Assad cheerleaders not realize that?

9 posted on 04/13/2018 2:39:41 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: cpdiii
I truly think this is a false flag operation.

You got my vote as well. And the day after President Trump announces all military out of Syria.

10 posted on 04/13/2018 2:47:15 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: familyop

A Swedish “an investigative panel” would consist of mostly ‘Asian immigrants’ ...


11 posted on 04/13/2018 2:52:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Pollster1
"My vote? Get out of Syria and leave it to the Syrians and the Russians. We do not have viable options that would be better than Assad, so we should stay out. Anything we do will either (1) prolong the civil war, or (2) replace Assad with someone far worse."

I could argue that your vote is another vote for more permanent Russian bases in Syria and a naval buildup on the Mediterranean for Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea,... As for Assad, his domestic enemies are a mix of religious subgroups who are wanting more freedom. It's common knowledge that Islamic State has already been effectively shut down in the region. Assad's foreign enemies are and have been the U.S.A., Israel and NATO countries.

But it appears that with your perception of the situation and likely extensive enough education for background knowledge, you wouldn't change your mind.

Eventually and possibly soon, armies from the uttermost parts of the north will advance against Jerusalem, and descendants of pre-ancient Persia, Cush and Phut (from before the slow, northward migrations of sub-saharans, a time when northern Africa wasn't so dry) will follow them. Descendants of those nations and of several other pre-ancient nations will develop a similar obsession in many of today's countries.

A war in Israel will commence, culminating in the beginning of an unprecedentedly terrible plague that will spread from that area to the other countries of the world. The wealthiest investors worldwide will run out of ways to keep their money. There will be very short term but intense civil wars in many countries including this one (see the mix of ancestries here).

All because of a rebellion in several lines of descent against G-d's eternally unchanging Law and G-d's eternally unchanging decision for Israel. It's happening according to the Prophets including bizarre, widespread changes in human behavior in unison.

Everyone knows that something big and new is happening, but it seems that very few want to know what it is.


12 posted on 04/13/2018 3:03:20 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Pollster1

“We do not have viable options that would be better than Assad, so we should stay out. “

Reminds me of the Bush people bragging about having an exit strategy when the Iraq and Afghan wars got going, and especially how well it worked out when we got rid of Saddam. It turned out to be a mess all the way around where we actually destabilized the region and let Iran become more powerful when Saddam was actually keeping them at bay. Not to mention the cost of American lives and dollars spent.

We don’t have a better plan than Assad. We should just keep the hell out.

The only possible reason I’d want to get red of Assad is so I could personally take in his hot wife as a refugee.


13 posted on 04/13/2018 3:06:33 AM PDT by redfreedom
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There’s one characteristic that many conspiracy theorists have in common: an abnormal extent of narcissism.


14 posted on 04/13/2018 3:06:55 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Here’s a reiteration of the topic for this thread in regards to Russia blocking an investigation and trying to hide the evidence of the gas attack against civilians.

Russia Stood Alone. China Didn’t Help Vote Down Trump’s Syria UN Resolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3647183/posts


15 posted on 04/13/2018 3:11:30 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

“It’s common knowledge that Islamic State has already been effectively shut down in the region”

Thanks to Trump, not that he gets any credit. Did more in a year than Obama did during his entire tenure.

The situation has gotten a lot simpler. ISIS has been pushed into the desert and the occasional small town (except in southwest Syria, where Assad has been ignoring them in order to go after everyone else). Al Nusra has all been pushed to Idlib where they’re being systematically wiped out by Turkey as Turkey unifies the province under the control of their own militias and military; there’s not much of them left. They have a “join us or be wiped out” policy, so bit by bit all of the Arab opposition is ending up under their control. The Kurds are basically a protectorate of the US. And then you have Assad/Russia/Iran controlled soldiers and militias. More and more, there’s really just three parties “plus change” with actual people in Syria (plus a couple like Israel, who just occasionally comes in to bomb Iranians)


16 posted on 04/13/2018 3:36:03 AM PDT by OldGuard1
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To: Cronos
You don't trust the Masters of War? Their plan for Libya has worked so well. (sarcasm)

JMHO. Who does the destabilization help? Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Can't imagine that citizens of the countries that suffered under regime change benefit from their gaining more power.

In Europe and in Ukraine, who benefits? Germany is fighting WW3, and winning.

17 posted on 04/13/2018 3:46:38 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: familyop

The Swedes must have decided that a slow agonizing suicide makes no sense when they can grab Syria’s gas and chemicals and kill themselves quickly.


18 posted on 04/13/2018 4:14:32 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: familyop

Nice idea but doomed to fail. No one in Syria reads Swedish.


19 posted on 04/13/2018 4:37:53 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: familyop

Meanwhile, the EU is doing big biz with Iran.

Go figure.


20 posted on 04/13/2018 4:47:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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