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2017-04-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russia says Syria gas incident caused by rebels’ own chemical arsenal

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Posted by Fred 2017-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 I keep hearing CHEMICALS! CHEMICALS! CHEMICALS! on the news. Do we have any info on exactly what was used? My spider-sense is starting to tingle. And not from organo-phosphate exposure.

Posted by SteveS 2017-04-06 12:13|| 2017-04-06 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 With all of the nation-states at work in Syria, I gotta think *someone* can prove definitively whether al-Assad dropped chemical munitions or whether it was the rebels, as claimed. Frankly, both are plausible. Question for those that know: how would we/anyone go about establishing culpability beyond a shadow of doubt? Is it even possible?

Posted by Whitch Turkeyneck3879 2017-04-06 14:39|| 2017-04-06 14:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Shadow hell let's hear the reasonable doubt.

Posted by AlanC 2017-04-06 14:44|| 2017-04-06 14:44|| Front Page Top

#4 how would we/anyone go about establishing culpability beyond a shadow of doubt?

And if we did, what would happen?
Somebody would point a finger, call them a bad name and shake their heads while working up a foreign aid loan.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-06 15:19|| 2017-04-06 15:19|| Front Page Top

#5 #1 - word I read (somewhere) was Sarin

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-06 15:24|| 2017-04-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Even Russia is back peddling from their support of Assad. Nobody of any importance believes it was anything other than Syria gassing its own people.

Posted by Crusader 2017-04-06 20:03|| 2017-04-06 20:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, I hear sarin early on, but that seems to have faded away. Given how heinous the stuff is, you'd think they'd keep pounding that if there was evidence.

Scott Adams' take on the matter here. Why listen to a cartoonist? Because using what he calls a Persuasion Filter, he has been right about pretty much everything involving Trump and the media. It's been an entertaining read.

Posted by SteveS 2017-04-06 20:39|| 2017-04-06 20:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Shit just got real: I posted this as a breaking update but it's caught in the hopper/Mod version after 12AM EST

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-06 21:42|| 2017-04-06 21:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Color me surprised.

Posted by SteveS 2017-04-06 22:28|| 2017-04-06 22:28|| Front Page Top

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