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Posted on 04/28/2013 12:02:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Agree. Your point is well made.
Whether the chemical weapons were made by Iraq or Syria is irrelevant.
The relevant issue is whether the Obama administration is going to back up their "red line" or not.
Personally, I hope not. We've no national interest associated with either the Assad regime or the rebels (and the Muslim Brotherhood).
But we have a President who is prone to shooting off his mouth. And whose ass can't write the check for the promise his mouth has written.
Eventually, that is going to cost us more American blood.
Syria has produced 1000 tons of sarin gas at their own facilities,it is stored at various secret locations as well as their stocks of VX and mustard gas.
I have wondered if it’s the missing WMD that we know Saddam had and moved out.
It's not like the technology is complicated, or a big secret. Let's put it this way. Chemical weapons are as easy to make as the pressure cooker bombs in Boston.
While it is true that the Russians trucked/flew/ambulanced many of the illegal WMD’s (biological/chemical/nuke) out of Iraq and to Bekka Valley, it was done to hide them and protect them from ‘official discovery’ and ‘recovery’ by Coalition Forces. These weapons didn’t add significantly to the weaponry already stored in Syria. Syria had more, and better stuff back then, and it has only gotten better since.
Most of the weaponry from Iraq was old, outdated, and most likely inoperable, if not back then, it is by now. That weaponry is hidden away safe and sound, or has been destroyed already.
The lie you are supposed to subliminally accept. The truth is he opened his big yap and went public and now can't back up his words.
When someone repeats the same word three times, it's a tell that they are lying.
Russia (for simplicity and convenience, I'll stick with the word 'russia') did transport many WMD's to Bekka Valley and some other exotic locations. They didn't want Coalition Forces to be able to prove that they (and other countries) were selling these 'illegal' weapons to Iraq. That would be bad in the World Political Arena and at the U.N. Money Pit.
Now, Russia is not the only one who makes these weapons. Some of the ones they moved were made in several of the various COALITION nations. France, for one, if you want examples.
So.... trying to 'expose' the Russians would also expose the hypocracy of some of the Coalition Nations (including the United States, btw).
Most of the weapons that went to Syria are about as likely to resurface as Saddam is to rise from his grave.
In Syria they have plenty of new weaponry and warheads, and factories that spit them out like cars on an assembly line, so why bother with fireworks that have been in the closet for TEN YEARS?
Yes. Yes. and yes.
Tho it's true Bush was between a rock and a hard place with the Dems and press already in full-throated war against him. There was NO WAY he could have gotten Congress to endorse going after Syria,....so he just buried it, crossing his fingers and hoping to get to it later....(and now, "later" has arrived).
Only in whether a 10 year old biological or chemical warhead would still be viable. Do you have any 10 year old batteries that are any good ?
Just could be Andy, just could be.
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