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2013-09-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Kerry: Samples from Syria tested positive for sarin

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Posted by Steve White 2013-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 I note that they keep dancing around the subject of "who used them?"

Posted by European Conservative 2013-09-02 00:29|| 2013-09-02 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 "positive for signatures of sarin" is not quite the same thing as "positive for sarin"....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-02 00:39|| 2013-09-02 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Since Sarin was manufactured and used by a Japanese cult would that not lead you to suspect a smaller entity than a state manufactured and used it?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-02 03:05|| 2013-09-02 03:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Champ gains cover and 'wins' whatever the congressional outcome. In addition, he gains valuable media diversion time from other ~~phony~~ crisis, as the MSM rushes to cover the debates and talking heads.

If he [Champ] cared anything about the victims and potential future victims, he be sending the rebels defensive chemical agent alarms, detection kits, atropine injectors, and other med supplies. It's quite obviously not about the children.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-02 09:26|| 2013-09-02 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 sarin decays pretty quickly once it is in atmosphere - it even decays in storage which is why the Syrians probably used a binary system in the delivery -

thus the detection of the breakdown components rather than the agent itself in the clothes of the first responders

yes of course it is possible that the rebels could manufacture sarin but would they then use it on eight separate neighborhoods that they controlled and do it essentially simultaneously and time it for when Assad's forces were shelling the same neighborhoods?

Posted by lord garth 2013-09-02 12:59|| 2013-09-02 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 It doesn't matter who done it. A tarbaby is a tarbaby. Let it the hell alone.

Posted by Shipman 2013-09-02 13:54|| 2013-09-02 13:54|| Front Page Top

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