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Nobel Laureate president defends unprovoked war against Syria: Offers No Evidence Assad was Behind Poison Gas Attack

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If the US didn't act against Syria, the president intoned darkly, Assad might eventually feel confident enough to use poison gas against neighboring Turkey, Jordan or Israel. And "other tyrants" around the world, he went on, might decide, if the US didn't respond in Syria, to stockpile poison gas weapons that might "over time" be used against American soldiers. Even worse, he warned, Iran might decide, if the US failed to bomb Syria for its alleged gas use, that it would be safe developing those nuclear weapons that the US insists Iran wants to build.


There is, in short, no limit to the horrors that could be visited on the world if the US isn't ready to bomb the crap out of Syria, according to President Obama...


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