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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

keep cutting and pasting all the official government lines

Quoted from Box A Rox

"No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was
used not by the Syrian Army, "
We now know that this isn't true... The UN verifies that the Syrian Army has used 'poison gas' at
least 8 times.

Quoted from BuckStrider

I see Boxy the wannabe MS/NBC reporter is stating 'facts' again.
The UN mission in Syria DID NOT verify that the Syrian military used 'poison gas' nor did they say in any report that gas was used 'at least 8 times'.
The UN mission was there to verify IF chemical weapons were used, not investigate WHO used them. So again, your either outright lying or ignorant and making 'facts' up.
Keep it up and you'll be writing the news for MSNBC in no time!

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UN weapons inspectors will put Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in the frame for the gas
attack that killed 1,400 civilians, but will only be able to provide circumstantial evidence,
insiders have said.

A senior Western official said the team had collected a 'wealth' of evidence that nerve agents
had been used last month's atrocity in Damascus.
A highly anticipated report on the findings, expected to be presented to UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-Moon on Monday, will not directly accuse Assad, according to three U.N.-based diplomats
familiar with the investigation.
But it will present a strong circumstantial case that the regime was responsible based on analysis
of rocket shells, ammunition and tests on soil, blood and urine from the al Ghouta suburb of the
capital.

Quoted from Box A Rox

MSNBC?  They are often as biased as FoxSnooze!  Do you really watch them Bucky???

From the Daily Mail:




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....chemical-attack.html

Quoted from 55tbird

The UN verified poison gas was used, they DID NOT verify Assad's gov't used it.

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"I almost wanted to vomit. I worry when someone who came up through
the KGB tells us what is in our national interests, and what is not. It really raises
the question of how serious the Russian proposal is."

Quoted from Box A Rox

-- Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Quoted from 55tbird

Like any country, Russia is looking out for its self interests... Syria is an ally, and a major buyer of weapons. Russia would love to see this civil war go on another five years..

And Putin likes to take jabs at the US whenever possible... Obama put the ball on the tee with the American Exceptionalisim comment, and Putin swung at it.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Russia has a real fear of what might happen down the road to these Chemical Weapons if the Assad govt
fails to suppress the opposition.
Russians would rather the WMD'S were destroyed now than in the near future fall into the hands of
the opposition who has ties to groups friendly to Chechen rebels.