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VanillaRhapsody

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3. Or it could be that the plan all along was not to overthrow Assad...

Reply to cali (Original post)

Mon Sep 9, 2013, 11:12 AM

Sep 2013

but to push him to give international authority over his chemical weapons cache. The only way to do that would be to threaten to go to war...just to get Russia to even play ball.

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