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Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal
An anonymous reader writes "The joint team of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN said here that the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons programme began on Sunday." Of note, this linked article on how to destroy the chemical agents safely.
and now Assad can go back to murdering civilians using more conventional means! it's a win-win!
Sadly there will always be some doubt that there's still a hidden cache of it somewhere, just waiting for the day.
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
Stopping people make and/or deploying chemical weapons = good. Destroying chemical weapon stockpiles after a well publicised atrocity and somehow selling it as a victory = disingenuous.
...it's the only way to be sure. Actually, in this case, Soviet Russia concurs with Yelena Ripleyova, so the memes are teamed up for this!
Ezekiel 23:20
They'll be dragging him off to the Hague now, will they?
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
this is despite the many cynical posts ive seen so far excellent progress. the civil war in Syria is complex, with numerous parties standing to profit from the downfall of the government (including the United States.)
not going to war was good. Once again America had no credible, publically audited evidence to support its war. that the government used chemical weapons at all was suspicious at best, and unresearched in the UN report.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24130181
the analysis includes relevant information about rebel captured syrian weapons depots as well, which would in fact arm rebels with nerve agent.
Instead of putting the brakes on the war machine, the california senator Barbara Boxer simply insisted she'd seen the evidence and declared it very very bad. Russia presented its evidence to the UN.
but perhaps the most damning hypocrisy is that the united states routinely uses chemical weapons in its warfare. in vietnam, and both iraq wars, white phosphorous was used liberally and without regard for the Hague conventions.
Good people go to bed earlier.
It wouldn't entirely surprise me if good, old-fashioned, violence is one way of removing NIMBY elements(What do you mean 'your' back yard, citizen?) and generally smoothing over fears about the quality and completeness of destruction (the level at which something becomes useless as a chemical weapon is substantially higher than the level where I'd want it in my drinking water...)
Probably doesn't hurt that both the US and Russia have spent all those years dicking around with procedures and refinements for destroying their own chemical munitions. That makes the tech for doing so practically off-the-shelf, rather than R&D.
Almost all chemical weapons destroyed!
Silence is a state of mime.
just thought I'd like to toss that out there... those tosspots have got some 400 plus nukes at hand...
Among the causes of action against Saddam in Iraq was that he was a ruthless dictator that used chemical weapons to attack his own people.
Among the causes of action against Assad in Syria is that he is a ruthless dictator that used chemical weapons to attack his own people.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy that isn't nuking their own people.
Maybe I'll just toss this out there. If the shoe fits ...
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Without bombing and strafing and killing, something just doesn't seem right! No good can come of this.
Let's face it, europeans complain of the inhumanity but are not willing to do something about it. The bitch and moan that the US is the world police but of course are shocked that the US will not bankroll an expedition to liberate Syria.
No with a US that has bark but no bite due to the Russian/Chinese muzzle we can just nod and smile as the only solution remaining was achieved. The solution?
The line that cannot be crossed was trampled so in response we'll tell them they were naughty and take away some of their toys.
The hardline message; Just use some chemical weapons and give them up later. (Hide some for emergency use of course)
This is a rather impressive own goal for the US/UK after the hard talk proves to be hot air.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
http://gizmodo.com/5174640/israel-has-nukes-us-army-confirms
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
It's illegal to use WP as a weapon. But you can use it to make smoke and provide illumination. It looks to me like Israel used it as a weapon. They have never denied using it and they have promised to not use it again. I'd say that's a lot better than lying about it and continuing to use it.
http://soylentnews.org/~tibman
It's like Americans learned nothing, not a damned thing from the Iraq invasion. At least Bush presented actual evidence that Saddam was pursuing chemical and nuclear weapons. The evidence was made up shit, but it was presented.
Obama hasn't bothered to even go that far. He just makes assertions in a serious sounding voice and people believe him.
As opposed to trusting Israel's audio surveillance when they admitted to doctoring audio from their assault on the freedom flotilla all of three years ago? Now, you were saying something about being pathetic?
You first.
Do tell us how it's "common sense" that Assad used chemical weapons now when he is winning the war, rather than last year when foreign-armed fighters and rebels were driving back his military.
Do tell us that it would have been "common sense" for Assad to order the use of chemical weapons the day that chemical weapons inspectors arrived.
Do tell us why it would make sense to use chemical weapons in his own capital city, close by his own forces.
Do tell us why he would use chemical weapons when Obama has made it very clear for a year or so now that he would dearly love to bomb Assad, not just arm Al Qaeda rebels, and that the use of CW's would give Obama the excuse to do so.
Even Israelis admit it it's Apartheid.
Cowardly demagoguery, whether it's coming out of the mouths of Zionists crying about the anti-semetic wolf, or Rush Limbaugh.