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Syria: Hundreds Killed In Chemical Attack
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So many children, all of them wearing pajamas, attacked during their sleep
The world are playing double standards with Egypt and Syria, in Egypt their warning to pull support away from the Egyptian army although they haven't used brute force as AL Assad did, while in Syria it's just harmless condemnation.
1000 dead in Egypt in a week's span isn't brute force?
It may not be killing children with nerve gas while they sleep, but what the Egyptian army is doing certainly can't be classified as acceptable.
The US long ago used up most of its ability to financially reprimand Syria after a slew of sanctions and other measures.
Zod the Bear
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This needs to be stopped. It's horrifying.
Ignore Russia. They're supporting human rights abuse in their own country and abroad.
BlazingDarkness
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That third video 
DXB-KNIGHT
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To "cut of the head" maybe?
Intel indicates that Rebel leader XY has set up his HQ in a certain district, troops cannot enter for obvious reasons, artillery strikes are too ineffective/the infrastructure is too valuable...
just a possibility I could think of. your "renegade general" is a valid option too, imho and - not making friends here, i know - the fact that pictures like these presumably help the rebels' cause more than Assad's military campaign must not be overlooked.
MisterFalcon
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Maybe Egypt and Turkey can do something with their ridiculously huge armies that each has more tanks and jet fighters then France and the UK combined. Something other then shooting their own citizens.
The US will keep the status quo, the only thing that will happen is words of condemnation.
dripdripsplash
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Hmm yeah that could be possible also.
Egypt wouldn't. They are a lost cause. I hope Erdogan does something.
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Why on earth would you invent such a thing?
Sadistic.
Sadistic.
If it can be proven that Assad's forces did it. Things are so chaotic over there I don't know if they can prove it.
JaseMath
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Sky News is reporting a death toll of over 1,300. This is terrible.
General Choomin
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Why would assad use chemical weapons when he had just invited UN chemical weapon experts to Syria? And they are there? To investigate allegations that he used chemical weapons?
Well to be honest, it may not have been Assad himself that ordered it. Doesn't mean his forces aren't responsible. Of course, it doesn't mean they are either.
dripdripsplash
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That's seriously also what I'm thinking. Rogue General maybe ?
onadesertedisland
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So Syria does something that we accused Iraq of doing which led to the invasion, and we do what? Oh, yeah...
dapperbandit
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Jesus those videos
childplease
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iamaustrian
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You forgot that Iraq was clearly supporting Terrorism and Al Queda while Assad isn't.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Sure they did.
yea, exactly what the US needs, more war.
helloresolven
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It is almost like we have different administrations in office...
I read that as well.
And really, it doesn't make sense to me. Don't know what to believe.
The Living Tribunal
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I shouldn't have watched the third video.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Typhoon_Ex
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The truth is quite obvious, people are just too brain washed to accept it.
archnemesis
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Please share your insights with the rest of the thread. People can't guess your thoughts.
Could you possibly be more vague? What, pray tell, is this truth?
Where has that number come from?
It's reverse vampires, isn't it?
Why to get rid of them of course! By the time the UN experts come in, he will have used them all up and then he can truthfully say that he no longer has any chemical weapons in his country.
And yeah, I'm not watching those videos. Terrible, just terrible what's happening.
Meus Renaissance
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Thread title is extremely misleading. Both the rebels and government have been accusing each other of using chemicals. Last I read, the UN found evidence to support the latter
Is this number (or even the lower number of 200+ dead) confirmed by any independent organisation?
L0st Id3ntity
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What did you find confusing in it? It's a simple statement of fact. No where in the title does it bear responsibly on a party.
Nevertheless, I find it somehow unlikely that in damascus suburbs, the rebels who somehow got their hands on highly classified syrian military equipment, would choose to fire it on themselves rather than the capital headquarters a few miles away.
Because that worked so well LOL
PhoenixDark
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Hopefully not. We have no business intervening. Neither side deserves to "win."
Who is "we"? Go complain to Putin and the Russians.
I say this in every Syria thread, but the reason neither side deserves to 'win' is because we sat around on our hands while the opposition was taken over by militant terrorists. There was a time when this was an actual civil war and not a new front for terrorist organizations.
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