(Chemical weapons) "Could be directed at us". Really?

[IDemo]

Is there any serious evidence that Syria has any more capacity to deliver a chemical attack on Hoboken than North Korea has to drop a nuke on Fresno?

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Who said that? n/t

[IDemo]

3. Obama

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10272874/Barack-Obama-warns-of-Syria-chemical-weapons-threat-to-US.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Thanks....

[KittyWampus]

2. Sounds like a good question for the press to badger the Administration with. Don't you think?

[IDemo]

5. Badger?

As in - pester the administration with a request to offer pesky details to back up a pretty bold claim?

[KittyWampus]

10. Yes, exactly.

[cali]

7. How dare the press ask questions of the President. the nerve of those peons

yes, that is how you come off, kitty.

[KittyWampus]

9. that is the presses function, isn't it?

[jsr]

6. Well, I ain't gonna take any chances

[KittyWampus]

15. This is what you comparing an empty vial to:

And NO I DO NOT WANT WAR WITH SYRIA. You don't think the slaughter is worth getting involved fine but don't compare it to an empty vial.

[geek tragedy]

8. Well, if the rule becomes that it's okay to use chemical weapons in armed conflict

then yes US soldiers will be facing chemical weapons.

Lots of people at DU think that chemical weapons are no worse than regular munitions.

[sufrommich]

13. Saddam Hussien let that genie out of the bottle. The whole

world knew it and did nothing.

[IDemo]

14. But he makes it abundantly clear in the above link

that "us" means terrorist attacks within the US, not on the battlefield.

[Andy823]

18. What he didn't say

Was that they could be sent over on some missile. Do you think that if terrorists got hold of chemical weapons they would never think of using them here if the could smuggle them into the country? Also if our troops were in any country do you think that if there was a conflict that there could not be chemical weapons used on our troops?

Chemical weapons could be used in all kinds of ways, not just on some missile.

[Andy823]

16. Exactly!

And I am sure that is what the president was implying, not that they would be sent over on some missile to the U.S.!

No matter what the president says or does, there will be the same old crowd of anti Obama posters here who will take the opposite view, or side of things. He just can't win.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Well yellow cake, tubes and mushroom clouds are surely

next.

Same play book... exact same playbook.

[KittyWampus]

12. A thousand dead civilians is not yellow cake, tubes and mushroom clouds. Disgusting analogy.

[NightWatcher]

17. Don't you remember that threat from Iraq war buildup?

The Peace Purists wanted evidence of Iraq's WMD's and we were told the smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud in one of our cities.

This appears to be another threat along the same lines. Threatening us here so that they can start a war over there, that's disgusting.