...week, U.S. leaders considered the prospects of a military response after saying the Syrian regime likely used chemical weapons. President Obama is facing growing pressure to arm rebels with weapons and defeat Assad."For how long are you...
...GUESS WE MISUNDERSTOOD Obama when he said that the Syrian government would face severe consequences if they used chemical weapons on its people. That "red line" has been crossed with no response. The game of parsing words has now begun so...
...president once appeared to threaten that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would be a "game changer...red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change...
...legacy strongman who has waged open war on his own people now for several years, and is said to be ready to use chemical weapons on them.Saddam Hussein, you'll recall, used sarin gas to kill 5,000 Kurds in one fell swoop ? while his emissaries...
...the North? I doubt it. PRESIDENT OBAMA said that there will be consequences if President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons on his people. I wonder what these consequences will be? Probably he will just send a letter to Assad telling him...
...those who seek tighter restrictions on guns.The Second Amendment is not absolute. Citizens are not allowed to own chemical weapons, for example, even though they fall under the extremely broad category of "arms." So our national debate is...
...World War I's mustard gas attacks still fresh, the U.S. and other governments thought it prudent to stockpile chemical weapons during World War II, though the U.S. did not use such weapons in that conflict. Souvenirs of the manufacturing...
...Beasley said South Carolina participated in a number of drills from August 2005 to August 2006, including a simulated chemical weapons attack and several discussion groups where multiple agencies forecast their responses to various scenarios. Several...
...military contracts and those that develop weapons that kill indiscriminately, such as nuclear weapons, land mines and chemical weapons. The idea is to avoid anything that can hurt noncombatants in a war, said George Rue, New Covenant's chief investment...
...Bush? No. President Bill Clinton, 1998. "We know that (Saddam) has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." President Bush? No. Vice President Al Gore, 2002. "We have known for many years that...
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