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    Syrian Military Defector: Assad Kept 'Hundred of Tons' of Chemical Weapons

    Syrian Military Defector: Assad Kept 'Hundred of Tons' of Chemical Weapons Under Failed Obama Policy

    Like I said eventually what obama did and didnt do will come out

    By now, you know the basics: President Obama issued a 'red line' warning to the Syrian regime against the use of chemical weapons -- an admonition that was promptly, willfully and repeatedly ignored. Assad's acts of brazen and barbaric defiance resulted in...nothing from the White House, not even an "unbelievably small" military response, which Congress appeared poised to reject anyway. Obama's failed approach to the no-win Syria conflict grew worse when then-Secretary of State John Kerry gaffed his way into a fanciful new US policy under which Assad and his patrons in Moscow agreed to remove "all" of Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles in order to stave off any potential international consequences. This deal was hailed as a grand diplomatic accomplishment, but has consistently been exposed as a sham. Just this past weekend, former Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the gap between the former president's bellicose rhetoric and feckless inaction sent a "message of weakness to the world."

    Quite right. It turns out that the Butcher of Damascus -- to the shock of only the most naive, credulous, or disingenuous global actors -- is not a man of his word. Syrian forces continued to use the weapons they'd sworn they'd given up, eliciting more scolding from Washington, but not much else. Kerry all but indicted his own accidental policy a dismal flop. The latest Sarin gas attack, for which President Trump finally retaliated, once again underscored the reality that Assad had very obviously not declared or handed over his full arsenal of illegal weapons of mass destruction, earning officials from the previous administration a flurry of new 'Pinocchios' from responsible fact-checkers who don't routinely embarrass themselves. To put an even finer point on the scope of this policy crash, a former Syrian general who defected to the West tells the UK Telegraph that Assad retained "hundreds of tons" of the deadly materials he pretended to renounce and abandon in 2013:

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben...olicy-n2314095
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    And this defector provided evidence, I assume?
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    You will have to ask him, seems reasonable since he just used chemical weapons
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    Quote Originally Posted by Green Arrow View Post
    And this defector provided evidence, I assume?
    Those must've been the Iraq WMD's ...






    The questions then go on to Iraq's non-existing WMD's, while Rumsfeld tries to weasel his way out by denying having said of them "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." on March 30, 2003


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    Quote Originally Posted by exotix View Post
    Those must've been the Iraq WMD's ...



    The questions then go on to Iraq's non-existing WMD's, while Rumsfeld tries to weasel his way out by denying having said of them "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." on March 30, 2003


    Fabulous derailment attempt- fail....
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    Fabulous derailment attempt- fail....
    I wonder why Trumpf bombed an airfield with a hundred million dollars worth of U.S. Missiles while eating cake ... the entire Chemical Factory's must've been there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by exotix View Post
    I wonder why Trumpf bombed an airfield with a hundred million dollars worth of U.S. Missiles while eating cake ... the entire Chemical Factory's must've been there.
    Troll on a roll ^...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Green Arrow View Post
    And this defector provided evidence, I assume?
    I do not know if he did or not but Assad provided it a couple weeks ago. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/middle...-uk/index.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by exotix View Post
    I wonder why Trumpf bombed an airfield with a hundred million dollars worth of U.S. Missiles while eating cake ... the entire Chemical Factory's must've been there.
    He bombed an airfield with far less than 100 million dollars worth of missiles, they cost about 1 million each, I will leave the math to you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    You will have to ask him, seems reasonable since he just used chemical weapons
    The evidence presented suggests otherwise.
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