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Fuck Assad and fuck Russia. Assad promised to get rid of his chemical weapons and the Russians promised to ensure that happened. Well it didn't and Trump took action after Assad broke international law by gassing his own people.
The US did destroy all chemical weapons that Syria
admitted to having.
I'm just surprised that anyone believed that Syria disclosed their entire inventory, instead of just the weapons they didn't want to keep and didn't want to pay to destroy on their own.
But I'm the jaded type. I think they did disclose and destroy their entire inventory. And then Russia outfitted them with fresh, new weapons.
At market prices, of course.
If that's the case then John Kerry is full of shit.
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Western powers have condemned Syria for unleashing a chemical attack on civilians in Khan Sheikhoun, a community in a rebel-controlled zone in northwestern Syria. While the details remain in dispute, and Syria denies using chemical weapons, multiple reports from hospitals and other eyewitnesses describe an airstrike followed by victims choking to death.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 72, including many women and children. The World Health Organization said a chemical attack was likely because of the "lack of external injuries reported in cases showing a rapid onset of similar symptoms, including acute respiratory distress as the main cause of death. Some cases appear to show additional signs consistent with exposure to organophosphorus chemicals, a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents."
The outcry leads us to revisit a 2014 claim from former Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said in a television interview that in Syria, "we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out."
Syria had agreed in 2013 to an ambitious program to destroy its chemical stockpiles under international supervision, as part of a deal brokered by Russia. When Kerry spoke in July 2014, the process seemed far along. Based on reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons -- which later won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts -- we rated that claim Mostly True. There were caveats about incomplete information, but at the time, international experts said the claim largely held up.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... ical-weap/You aren't a skeptic, you're a realist because as it turns out you're hunch was right.
It's the Org for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that didn't do an effective job confirming the eradication of those weapons and given John Kerry's mouthing off about getting 100% of the chemical weapons out there's no doubt the Russians and Assad felt they could use them with impunity and then claim that it couldn't have been them because they didn't have any.
To bad they guessed wrong because, what they didn't count on was Trumps willingness to stick his size 9 boot up their asses just to make a point.
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