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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
THEY ARE BANNED WEAPONS. PERIOD. What the...?!
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Tom, I'd just like to point out the hypocrisy of the U.S. on this matter.
You are saying "banned weapons". Banned by whom?
The Geneva Weapons Convention happened in 1925. It was passed in 1928.
But the United States did NOT ratify it or abide by it until 1974!!!!
Yep, all the other civilized nations of the world did...but us.
We have the worlds largest stockpile of chemical weapons.
We are the biggest supplier of them.
We have USED them in many forms. (bacteriological, chemical, etc.)
I pointed out stuff like Agent Orange which we sprayed by the ton everyday over southeast Asia for a decade.
Our President's going all the way back to Roosevelt have made our country the only civilized Western power that reserves the right to use chemical weapons in a "first strike".
But forget all of that for a second...
Ask yourself: "What will be the results of us bombing Syria"?
How many civilians will WE kill? What will this do to our deteriorating relationship with Russia?
What does it mean for the U.S. to once again commit a war crime (attacking another sovereign nation without provocation...just like Iraq)?
And does killing MORE Syrians with our bombs really "deter" or "punish" the Syrian govt.? And will they now decide "I guess we better never do that again"?
Or is this just the media and our own govt. leading us like sheep into yet another killing field in an Arab country?