MSF confirms Syria 'chemical deaths'

[Arctic Dave]

5. I agree that a chemical agent of some kind was released.

Who what, where and why have yet to be determined.


I do find it very strange and more then coincidental that Obama gives a specific "line in the sand" and within a month or two that very thing happens.

I going completely theoretical here but would it be unconceivable that it was known that the rebels had seized some gas from government stockpiles before Obama made that statement (not saying that he knew about it). But it was a talking point given to him much like the famous "sixteen words"

In his January 2003 State of the Union speech, U.S. President George W. Bush said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."[2] This single sentence is now known as "the Sixteen Words."[3] The administration later conceded that evidence in support of the claim was inconclusive and stated, "These sixteen words should never have been included." The administration attributed the error to the CIA.[4] In mid-2003, the U.S. government declassified the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, which contained a dissenting opinion published by the U.S. Department of State stating that the intelligence connecting Niger to Saddam Hussein was "highly suspect," primarily because State Department's intelligence agency analysts did not believe that Niger would be likely to engage in such a transaction due to a French consortium which maintained close control over the Nigerien uranium industry.[5]