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You are joking right?

Syria used sarin gas on civilians. There are few things as terrifying and atrocious as chemical weapons. It is absolute insanity to use nerve gas, never mind the other war crimes committed by the Assad regime.

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They did X horrid thing! Lets go invade Y country!. If you disagree you are a horrid person!

A extreme claim against something is not proof of the claim itself. Regardless of it happening this kind of FOR THE CHILDREN social shaming is unacceptable.

Lets not jump the gun on repeated military campaigns.

The US only intended to destroy infrastructure, and they largely succeeded. Why exactly is this act so out of proportion?

How do you know those news are true?

Also please don't down vote me because my opinion is different.

You can't just ignore the photos, videos, testimonies, articles in international media with different ideologies only to base your thesis in "It's my opinion". Well, in fact you can, but your opinion doesn't deserve to be respected.

@almave, Ron Paul explains better than me why this looks like a false flag attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULzvg1gA5U

Yes, the testimonies. Remember those Kuwaiti incubator babies?

Nobody questions the attack - the only unknown is who perpetrated it. Whoever planned it knew very well that using a chemical weapon, especially on civilians, is likely to meet a very strong reaction. We've seen it in the past. That raises questions why anyone would do it, especially Assad who is now winning the war. There are so many possibilities here. One of them is that Trump is being manipulated by the intelligence.

Well, we've seen those photos and videos before....

The BBC is reporting bombings in Aleppo hospitals every 3 months... The question is, how many hospitals are there in Aleppo? 50?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=aleppo+hospital

Yeah, because the Syrians are so mind-dead that they'd give the NATO more reasons to stomp in and destroy their nation.

Guns, burns, bombs, live burrial, drowning at sea.

Dying from gas is no more horrible than those.

I reckon it might be much more horrible than a swift gunshot to the back of the head.

For nearly a decade, Ketchum, a psychiatrist, went about his work in the belief that chemicals are more humane instruments of warfare than bullets and shrapnel—or, at least, he told himself such things. To achieve his dream, he worked tirelessly at a secluded Army research facility, testing chemical weapons on hundreds of healthy soldiers, and thinking all along that he was doing good.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delir...

Damn, that looks like a fantastic read. Thanks!

I hope you're not being serious...

Yeah, remember when Saddam microwaved all those babies?

A nerve gas attack is quite insignificant if compared to the rest of the horrors Syrians have had to suffer.

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