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In reply to the discussion: 'No different than Trump with Putin': Howard Dean says Tulsi Gabbard should resign for defending... [View all]Cha
(319,172 posts)to him Gassing his own people including children and not the first damn time.. here comes gabbard saying.. "I'm skeptical"
Yeah, you're skeptical, alright, gabbard
Assads History of Chemical Attacks, and Other Atrocities
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In six years of war, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has overseen a campaign of carnage, turning an enormous cache of deadly weapons against the very people they were presumably stockpiled to protect.
In a campaign to crush rebels and jihadists, Mr. Assad and his allies have relied on tactics that go far beyond the norms of modern warfare to kill many thousands of Syrians. Here are the ways they have done it.
The United States put the blame for the attack on the Syrian government and its patrons, Russia and Iran, and suggested that the salvo was a war crime. While the attack was among the deadliest uses of chemical weapons in Syria in years, it was far from an isolated case
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The Syrian government has summarily executed 5,000 to 13,000 people in mass hangings in just one of its many prisons since the start of the six-year-old uprising against Mr. Assad, Amnesty International said in a report in February.
MOre..
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-atrocities-civilian-deaths-gas-attack.html?_r=0
Course ron paul and Russia stick up for assad, too..
Just because gabbard is a vet is not a reason she can't be called out on her defending assad..
Always going on fakefox with greta van susteren to bash President Obama.. claiming he could "drag us into a nuclear war" blah blah blah.