Posted on 04/11/2017 11:15:44 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
No, that's not true. Everything was stated as verifying and removing all the weapons in areas under government control at the time.
1) The government has retaken a lot of territory.
2) Either an idiot Syrian Army officer could have found and used weapons or
3) (most likely) the rebels are looking at a use em or lose em situation and literally have nothing to lose except the chemicals and/or chemical weapons themselves.
They haven't been attacked with 59 Tomahawks or even hit hard by the US and NATO the other fifty plus times they've used them and if they were lucky, the US would do just what we've done.
By the time the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria (hereinafter “the Joint Mission”) completed its operations on 30 September 2014, the OPCW had been able to verify the destruction of 98% of chemical weapons declared by the Syrian Arab Republic, including all Category 1 chemicals.
https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/EC/79/en/c20crp01_ec7905_e_.pdf#page=5
To some extent that does reassure me on one of the questions I had. The administration seems to have confirmation, outside of the media, that children were victims of the attack. The numbers seem to still be speculated in the media.
Indeed, there was what, only 24 hours separating the attack from the response? When did Russia even have time to engage in a cover up?
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