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Platapus · 08-30-13, 07:11 PM

It will be interesting seeing the US condemning Syria for using WP by claiming it is a chemical weapons, while turning a blind eye toward Israel when Israel used WP weapons in Gaza in 2008/2009

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/03/25/rain-fire

Text of the Chemical Weapons Convention can be found here. In it are all the confusing definitions

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997_04/cwctext

Syria has not signed nor ratified the CWC. Five countries total have not signed the CWC. Angola, Egypt, North Korea, South Sudan, and Syria

Israel has signed but not ratified the CWC. Only Israel and Myanmar have signed but not ratified the CWC

Kinda makes it a bit rough to hold Syria or Israel accountable to a treaty they did not sign/ratify.

08-30-13, 07:11 PM	#415
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,422 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	It will be interesting seeing the US condemning Syria for using WP by claiming it is a chemical weapons, while turning a blind eye toward Israel when Israel used WP weapons in Gaza in 2008/2009 http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/03/25/rain-fire Text of the Chemical Weapons Convention can be found here. In it are all the confusing definitions http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997_04/cwctext Syria has not signed nor ratified the CWC. Five countries total have not signed the CWC. Angola, Egypt, North Korea, South Sudan, and Syria Israel has signed but not ratified the CWC. Only Israel and Myanmar have signed but not ratified the CWC Kinda makes it a bit rough to hold Syria or Israel accountable to a treaty they did not sign/ratify. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.