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John Kerry: US has proof that sarin gas used in Syria
Daily Telegraph ^ | 1 September, 2013 | Harriet Alexander, and agencies

Posted on 09/01/2013 11:02:08 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

John Kerry, the American secretary of state, has said that the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria and said "the case gets stronger by the day" for a military attack.

President Bashar al-Assad, he said, "has now joined the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein" in deploying chemical weapons against his population.

A day after President Barack Obama stepped back from his threat to launch an attack, Mr Kerry said in a series of interviews on the Sunday news shows that the administration had learnt of the sarin use within the past 24 hours through samples of hair and blood. The samples were provided to Washington by activists in Damascus, independently of the UN investigation.

Mr Kerry also said he was confident that Congress will give Mr Obama its backing for an attack against Syria, but he also said the president has authority to act on his own if Congress doesn't give its approval. While Mr Kerry stopped short of saying Mr Obama was committed to such a course even if politicians refuse to authorise force, he did tell ABC's This Week that "we are not going to lose this vote."

Congress is scheduled to return from a summer break on Sept. 9.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911truthers; chemicalwarfare; damascus; iran; israel; lebanon; maheralassad; randsconcerntrolls; russia; sarin; soskerry; syria; thebrotherdidit; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: tennmountainman

I meant was this gas military grade or home cooked.


41 posted on 09/01/2013 11:20:44 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Jim Robinson
threw his medals over the White House fence

Not exactly.

42 posted on 09/01/2013 11:23:45 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Palin was right (again)!)
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To: ScaniaBoy
The samples were provided to Washington by activists in Damascus, independently of the UN investigation.

Can we get some background on these "activists"? I'd like to know who is supporting these people and what are they "activists" for.

43 posted on 09/01/2013 11:24:31 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: ScaniaBoy

I’m sure most of us here can imagine a few other places sarin gas needs to be used . . . .


44 posted on 09/01/2013 11:24:36 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Damn good rant.


45 posted on 09/01/2013 11:25:15 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Hey Kerry! What are you doing to quell the violence in your wife’s homeland of Mozambique?


46 posted on 09/01/2013 11:26:07 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I don’t care who used it. It is a civil war with no good guys on either side that we need to stay out of.
Unless they used it on us
I
Don’t
Care!


47 posted on 09/01/2013 11:26:32 AM PDT by sheana
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To: ScaniaBoy
Believe that liar? or this one? the man has no respect for fine furniture...thinks he looks cool.
48 posted on 09/01/2013 11:26:52 AM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: ScaniaBoy

President Bashar al-Assad, he said, “has now joined the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein” in deploying chemical weapons against his population.


What! But Kerry was against the Iraq war.


49 posted on 09/01/2013 11:27:44 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: Jim Robinson
Threw someone else's medals over the fence.
50 posted on 09/01/2013 11:28:16 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Jim Robinson
"I am John Cherrie, and I am reporting for doodie"


51 posted on 09/01/2013 11:29:47 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: RginTN

Jengis John has changed.


52 posted on 09/01/2013 11:31:53 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: rdcbn

1000 dittos. Yeah sarin may have been used, but WHO used it. Wanna know and need to know that before obama makes his pathetic message move.


53 posted on 09/01/2013 11:32:52 AM PDT by Republic (Defund Ocare, Defund IRS, Defund EPA, Defund NSA, Defund it all and rebuild it right!)
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To: Menehune56; All
Yes, the probability of a false flag operation is pretty high, though every piece of information coming from Syria must be viewed very critically, also those indicating a possible terrorist work-accident, a Saudi sponsored false flag op etc.

There is another possibility, though, that I haven't seen discussed on FR (I know, I lay my self open to a good ol'flaming, but, please, just send the links if I'm wrong. :-) ) but has been discussed elsewhere on the net.

Here is one link that contains further links to other sites with similar analysis.

Evidence at least part of Aug. 21st munitions were fuel air explosives, not chemical warfare munitions

It's a long piece, especially if one wants to follow all the leads, so here is the abstracted version:

Fuel-air ammunition contains chemicals (eg ethylene oxide, propylene oxide) that if unexploded causes symptoms much like nerve gas agents. However, FA-munition or thermobaric bombs are not classified as CW-weapons and are not prohibited.

The hypocrisy would of course be astounding (but it is already), but a "dud" fuel-air bomb would not be considered a war crime. Would it be considered a "red line"?

Enquiring minds (ie no MSM-journos) like to know.

54 posted on 09/01/2013 11:34:17 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

I really don’t care either way, all I know is we do not belong there.


55 posted on 09/01/2013 11:35:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: eCSMaster

Well, maybe that part wasn’t so seared into my mind. Ok, threw someone else’s medals over the fence. Wouldn’t doubt that a bit. We are talking about John F’n Kerry, cowardly traitor.


56 posted on 09/01/2013 11:37:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: dfwgator

Agree fully.


57 posted on 09/01/2013 11:37:08 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy
Reminds me of Gunga Din ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTdGxb5NzA
58 posted on 09/01/2013 11:37:34 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ScaniaBoy
President Bashar al-Assad, he said, "has now joined the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein" in deploying chemical weapons against his population.

Where and when did Hitler bomb Germany with chemical weapons?

59 posted on 09/01/2013 11:40:19 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Am am confused, aren’t the folks in charge now the same folks that said the 155mm shells full of Sarin, that they found in Iraq weren’t really WMD because they were old?
And aren’t the the same folks that declared a pressure cooked full of class C firecracker components IS a WMD?

I need to lay down....
The world is spinning.


60 posted on 09/01/2013 11:41:19 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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