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Originally Posted by Wolferz
Who's to say that they don't have the activating chemicals stored in the same stockpile? 
It's their civil war and the rest of us should keep our noses in our own bees wax. |
This is why we should just remove the chemical weapons ... hell I would rather the present administration consider a buy back program for the darn things.
Where did they get such a huge stock pile anyway? If Iraq gave away jet fighter planes to Iran before we got there what else did they give away to Syria before the US forces arrived?
As for bombing the stored weapons that is a bad idea. That would be like cherry bombing an outhouse with terrible results.
Plus whatever happened to all of those US stockpiled chemical weapons that were caught leaking in Utah and killing sheep?
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Originally Posted by Betonov
One thing will be interesting. The Russian reaction.
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This is the biggest question Obama as commander in chief has to face ...
The UN inspectors are scheduled to leave this Sunday (labor day weekend for the USA) and the Russian G20 summit meeting in Saint Petersburg is scheduled for September 5th and 6th which is just one week from this Thursday by the way.
President Obama has already cancelled a meeting with President/Premier (whatever he has elected himself to be) Putin over the Snowden NSA leaker problem.
Perhaps President Obama should reconsider his meeting with the Russian hard liner on the topic of chemical weapons use in Syria.
A little co-operation wouldn't hurt a thing ...
The USA can't go in or come out of that meeting with smoke coming out of Syria from airstrikes.
Leaves the next ten days in limbo
A car bomb the rebels get credit for is the least messy of all options
