A quick side note- If the FRENCH are calling for action you know it's bad really really bad lol. Ok now my 2 cents on this. I've been watching the Syrian revolution since it kicked off w/ Assad's troops shooting an beating peaceful protesters in the street. This guy would have somebody's head cut off behind a curtain an tell you that they just stubbed their toe. Now when it comes to the use of chemical weapons, it's not the same as machine guns, artillery, etc like somebody said earlier, they say bullet has no name but gas/nerve agent's simply have "to whom it may concern" meaning everybody, I've heard even some of Assad's troops got hit w/ it when the wind shifted an brought it back on some of them. Gas/nerve agent's represent's the nastiest an ugliest side of war seeing people bent in wrong directions foaming at the mouth unable to breath will scar you deep, it did today when I saw video's of lines of dead kids not a scratch on them flat dead, I watched a little boy try to take 2 breaths before he died. That is not war it's murder an its butchery an should not be tolerated period. An what's worse is innocent women an children can't tell the difference between the regular Monday morning shelling an a Monday morning "special" shelling from good ol uncle Assad. These people do that natural thing when they hear incoming rounds or airstrikes an take cover in their basement's, an before they know it their basement is filling up w/ gas. There's of right after the shells hit an you can see the gas cloud taller than the buildings an was probably a city block or two long moving w/ the wind, it wasn't some home made recipe it was BIG. If these attacks were small in scale I'd say ok maybe it could be some hardcore rebels but seeing how big this attacked look an the casualties were 3,600 affected an 355 died from it, that came from doctors without borders. Assad's troops don't care who they kill. I watched a little documentary called the battle for Syria, w/ english subtitles and a english speaking narrator. One of the rebel leader's described the normal tactics of the SAA (Syrian Arab Army) since the rebel's have RPG's an some other anti-armor weapons the SAA started pulling their tank's way back an sending sniper's in large number's, line's of sniper's as the leader said. The snipers take out as many rebel soldiers as possible then the tanks move up an then the snipers move ahead of them again. They took the camera man to one of these area's by a park an showed pointed in the direction from where the sniper's fire from. A second later a bullet rips right over the camera mans head, the rebel's though they had cleared them all out. These snipers target every an anybody, 1 sniper killed a cleric an would shoot at anybody who tried to retrieve the body. An this rebel leader had been an officer in the SAA, an was explaining how hard it is to fight their revolution since he doesnt have soldiers, he has regular people taxi drivers plumbers, an he explained they dont listen to directions he said if they followed even 15% of what their told to do it's a success. To me it's amazing how long the rebels have been able to hold out against a professional army, not too mention the Hezbollah fighters that have been coming in from Lebanon helping Assad, Hezbollah is actually the reason the rebels have been loosing ground, but we all know that Iran has trained a majority of Hezbollah's fighters in urban warfare. You can go on youtube an find all kind's of video's of the fighting. I've heard some say or its a civil war let both sides work it out, but is it still a civil war considering that Russia is providing Assad w/ all kinds of goodies, Hezbollah is providing fighters, an Iran is providing some kind of aid as well doesn't really seem like a civil war to me. Now I'm not calling for boot's on the ground, but why can't we do what we did in Libya?? Send in jets an tomahawk missiles, take out Assad's air power, an carve out a area for a no fly zone so that innocent civilians have somewhere to go w/ out having to leave the country, as of right now there are 1.9 million refugees an 1 million children refugees, an god knows how many are dead. What worries me most is something like Al-Qaeda coming in an linking up w/ the rebels that want to turn Syria back into a more old school religious traditional country. An Al-Qaeda would have a new warm cozy home to fester an grow strong again, an their payment would be those chemical weapons an a lotta pissed off people who will end up mad that the US didn't come an help them. America is suppose to be the country that sticks up for the little guy, personally I think we've let this thing get way out of hand. It would be one thing if it was an even type match an the rebels could win it on their own, but w/ these gas attacks, an Hezbollah fighters coming in an Russia giving Assad all kinds of equipment takes it in a whole new direction. Sorry if it seemed like I rambled some but I cant stand seeing innocent people being butchered
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