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Hagel says evidence chemical weapons were used in Syria
FoxNews.com ^ | 4-25-2013 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 04/25/2013 9:51:00 AM PDT by servo1969

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday the U.S. intelligence community believes the Syrian regime used the chemical weapon sarin, a revelation that immediately raised the question of whether a "red line" had been crossed in the country's civil war.

Hagel confirmed the intelligence assessment, which was detailed in a letter to select members of Congress, while speaking to reporters on a visit to Abu Dhabi. The administration swiftly released those letters, which said U.S. intelligence determined with varying degrees of confidence that "the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."

The White House stressed that this was not enough to confirm how the nerve gas was released -- though acknowledged it is "very likely" to have originated with the regime of Bashar Assad -- and pressed the United Nations for a "comprehensive" investigation. The letter from the White House director of the Office of Legislative Affairs to leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the assessment was based in part on "physiological samples."

Secretary of State John Kerry further confirmed that there were two documented instances of chemical weapons use.

The assessment is likely to prompt calls for more serious consideration of intervention. President Obama has said the use of chemical weapons would be a "game-changer" in the U.S. position on intervening in the two-year-old Syrian civil war. Obama said last August that "a red line for us" would be the movement or use of chemical weapons, adding "that would change my calculus."

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested Thursday the "red line" had been crossed. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., also said the assessment is "deeply troubling, and if correct, means, that President Obama's redline has certainly been crossed."

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1 posted on 04/25/2013 9:51:00 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

How do we know the rebels didn’t use them too?


2 posted on 04/25/2013 9:51:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Rebels likely buying the WPD with our money!! Russia has asked us to stop sending money...it just escalates things.


3 posted on 04/25/2013 9:54:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: servo1969

I really do not give a smelly Obama about anything happening in Syria.

Let’s just wait until the muzzies slime the entire region, and we’ll then have the war we all know is coming with these evil, vile, pieces of Obamastuff.


4 posted on 04/25/2013 9:54:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Sacajaweau

I know right?!


5 posted on 04/25/2013 9:55:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: servo1969

Sounds like 2002........


6 posted on 04/25/2013 9:55:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: servo1969

Wag the dog coming to district from the Benghazi to Boston failures and cover-ups.


7 posted on 04/25/2013 9:57:14 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: servo1969

Only 2 days ago Hagel told the world ,he did not think they did. The man is as useless as his predecessor.


8 posted on 04/25/2013 9:57:43 AM PDT by Christian1
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To: servo1969

So??? For real....why should we care? Those people over there hate us!!

So Obama is going to send our troops to overthrow another ME leader to install his Muslim brotherhood and Al Qaeda buddies?

Stupid McCain already talking...old war horse wants another war?? So sick of these people. Screw Syria..let them handle their own crap.


9 posted on 04/25/2013 9:58:04 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: servo1969
Obama's red line has certainly been crossed

OK, for 10 points, boys and girls, what does this mean?

( ) A... a BLUE line will be drawn at some other point.
( ) B... A GREEN line will be drawn at some other point.
( ) C... A new RED line will be drawn at some other point.
( ) D... All of the above.
( ) E... Absolutely nothing.

10 posted on 04/25/2013 9:59:29 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: servo1969
The present administration is so blinded by their own corrupted ideology they can't even find their own red line.
11 posted on 04/25/2013 9:59:35 AM PDT by WesternPacific (The herded sheep have finally arrived at the slaughter house.)
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To: servo1969

So, what the hell do you want us to do about it, Hagel? The jihadis fighting the regime are equally bad.. or worse. Stay out of it.


12 posted on 04/25/2013 9:59:44 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Hopefully, E. Unless Israel is threatened, this is NOT our fight.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 10:00:30 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: dfwgator
if you read the words in the story carefully there are no specifics ~ which probably means the rebels used gas, most likely on Christians.

Remember the Syrian line-up, which isn't obama's line-up.

You have Alawi and Christians on one side; and you have Sunni and AlQaida on the other side.

Other sorts of Shia are in the middle ~ everybody shoots at them.

Assad is Alawi!

As bad as Assad might be, he's not killing Christians, but the other guys are.

14 posted on 04/25/2013 10:00:47 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: servo1969

The only REDLINE Obama has is if the Muslim Brotherhood starts losing the fight.


15 posted on 04/25/2013 10:01:23 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: servo1969
Letter to John McCain concerning evidence of chemical weapons in Syria
16 posted on 04/25/2013 10:02:42 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: servo1969

Are these the “missing” WMD from Iraq?


17 posted on 04/25/2013 10:04:25 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: servo1969

Yeah? So?


18 posted on 04/25/2013 10:04:26 AM PDT by Blogatron (Death to islaam)
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To: servo1969

If the USA is lucky, it will be a long-drawn out civil war, it will attract all the Jihadis for a whole generation to their deaths, and both sides will lose.


19 posted on 04/25/2013 10:07:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: servo1969

Stay outta duh Islamic burning bushes....


20 posted on 04/25/2013 10:08:10 AM PDT by Paladin2
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