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Remember the red line?

(Reuters) - A Damascus opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday 494 people had been killed in a gas attack and shelling by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Wednesday, citing data from medical centers in the Syrian capital.

Syria has denied reports of chemical weapons being used in Damascus.

The Damascus Media Office said in a statement 150 bodies were counted in Hammouriya, 100 in Kfar Batna, 67 in Saqba, 61 in Douma, 76 in Mouadamiya and 40 bodies were collected from Irbib.

"The attack began at around 3.00 am. Huge numbers of civilians were subjected to the gases. The numbers continued to increase rapidly as they suffocated to death, with lack of necessary medical supplies to save them," the statement said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-syria-crisis-toll-idUSBRE97K0HI20130821
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jonKranked

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$tinkle said:
do you recommend sanctions? a sharply worded letter? fake menstrual blood?
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and just so we're clear here, my comment was a general dismay at our country's persistent hard on for playing world police in spite of numerous on-going domestic issues.

nsa spying on americans? who can we bomb?
 
Pesqueeb

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Semi-related:
Newly declassified CIA documents "combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United States' knowledge of how and when Iraq" used chemical weapons against Iran in the 1980s, Foreign Policy reports.

According to the magazine:

"In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq's war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq."
For several years before that, CIA documents show, U.S. officials were aware that Iraq had been using chemical weapons in its long war against neighboring Iran and likely would again.

That's just what happened, according to Foreign Policy:

"The Iraqis used mustard gas and sarin prior to four major offensives in early 1988 that relied on U.S. satellite imagery, maps, and other intelligence. These attacks helped to tilt the war in Iraq's favor and bring Iran to the negotiating table, and they ensured that the Reagan administration's long-standing policy of securing an Iraqi victory would succeed."
The new report comes, of course, as the U.S. and other nations weigh whether to use military force to send a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad following last week's alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians near Damascus.

The Washington Post's The Switch blog writes that the Foreign Policy story shows how "satellite imagery can be used to violate human rights, or to protect them."
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JohnE

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Not worth one f@cking penny of US tax dollars or the more precious blood of our youth. So sick of hearing every day about how we need to save money and what/how/who/when the next cuts in military spending are going to be, then this sh!t pops up and its lets go fellas! And we are going to help the very same fvckers we are blowing up and who are blowing us up in A-ghan. Fvck this, let the Arab League deal with it on his own...
 
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our own for economical reasons, not much is built on domestic soil so any excuse they make they can and shall especially when becoming reason for nationalism
 
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it would blow over much faster if we could send the foreign countries a fruit basket though all our tasty fruits are not domestic originally, that is what australia has as does most country not involved
 
dan-o

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Biggest worry is the chem stockpiles ASSad has...whos hands do we NOT want them in...
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I'm starting to think that a big middle-east chemapalooza would simply things in years to come.
What Obama should do is threaten to drone any MF'er seen running around with a gun, regardless of the side they're on.
There are no 'good guys' that I can see from here in dontgiveafvckistan.
 
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dan-o said:
I'm starting to think that a big middle-east chemapalooza would simply things in years to come.
What Obama should do is threaten to drone any MF'er seen running around with a gun, regardless of the side they're on.
There are no 'good guys' that I can see from here in dontgiveafvckistan.
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i'm starting to think that if these guys are so hell bent on wiping each other off the face of the planet, let 'em have at it.
 
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