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In reply to the discussion: Watchdog Agency Concludes Chlorine Used as Weapon in Syria [View all]karynnj
(60,860 posts)30. I don't think so
I think the water problem was that the industrial process that cleaned all the water and distributed it needed parts that the US would not allow importing.
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I have it on good authority that this is just neo-con propaganda spouted by the MSM...
brooklynite
Sep 2014
#1
It is as much ignoring proof to say that chemical weapons were NOT used in Syria as to argue
karynnj
Sep 2014
#10
Likely, we will continue to hear anti-Assad propaganda until we are at war with Syria.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#3
I don't consider the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to be a propaganda source.
pampango
Sep 2014
#6
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is not out to 'get' Assad.
pampango
Sep 2014
#11
I agree. But let us remember that the neocon plan is to take out Assad, and the
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#13
I appreciate you accepting the OCPC's motives. I doubt that many liberals support Assad either
pampango
Sep 2014
#16
How convienient, the timing on this 'report', indeed. Paging Judith Miller, paging Judith Miller.
Purveyor
Sep 2014
#5
Would some delay in its release resulted in better timing? When would have been a
pampango
Sep 2014
#12
I believe the yellowcake was a Bush/Cheney invention never verified by any independent authority
pampango
Sep 2014
#8
"...its full report is understood to leave little doubt that the Syrian government was responsible."
pampango
Sep 2014
#20
Luhan says his agency verified and confirmed it but now implies Assad used chlorine
KurtNYC
Sep 2014
#28
Chlorine as a Warfare GAS???? Who went to a Swimming pool and tried to steal the cylinders?
happyslug
Sep 2014
#29
"Thus I can NOT see Syria using Chlorine Gas." Believe what you will. The OCPC disagrees with you.
pampango
Sep 2014
#32
It comes down to this, then. Who would you see replacing Assad...who was just re-elected?
KoKo
Sep 2014
#39
It's a horrible death. A tanker spilled in my hometown on the freeway. The survivors ended living
freshwest
Sep 2014
#41