Speaker to Animals wrote:
No. I amsaying.. if it were sarin, the responders in that video would also be dead. It's more likey chlorine, assuming that video is credible at all.
And chlorine exposure would support the Russian claim that they hit a rebel ammunition dump containing chlorine. The rebels, after all, have been using chlorine as a chemical weapon for years now.
That's just taking the video and photos at face value. I have no idea when that footage was taken, the circumstances, or really anything about it. People are throwing some youtube videos in my face and acting surprised I don't believe the IC.
Get real.
And the responders in that photo were an NGO. They have funding for mop gear. They also have a storied history of making shit up.
You're right, then, that if it's chlorine that would lend more credibilty to the Syrian/Russian narrative. The Wikipedia link I posted earlier, mentions several cases of the Syrian Army being the
target of chlorine gas attacks. However, if Assad did not honor the handover of chemical weapons, or if he ordered the manufacture of some later on, that would not be any sort of surprise either. Punishing the civilians who support (or who he thinks supports) the rebels, would also hardly be out of character.
Yet none of the above means you, as Americans, or my country, or the "international community" needs to invade Syria and depose Assad. I do want him toppled, and I do support those Danes and Kurds who illegally choose to fight either in the Rojava commune or the FSA. But it's their fight. One they most likely will lose, given that the FSA has no important ally left and the Kurds can no longer hope for significant gains in any peace talks following the Russian-Turkish detente.
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.
Now we hit Russia's ally. Not a great move IMO. Cold War 2.0 incoming and all because of a damn pipeline that S.A. wants run through Syria but the media will never talk about that little nugget.
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