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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary105 who wrote (136486)	8/29/2013 10:19:03 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Ground troops will certainly be needed if the Western forces are to capture the chemical weapons. I didn't say that they should be US ground troops. You say that the UN should handle the issue of chemical weapons. I ask what chemical weapons since Assad is denying he has or has used any. When we send inspectors, they are fired upon. I am sure that you are aware irrespective of whether the Western forces attack Syria or not over this chemical weapons issue, those terrorists (backed by either Syria, AQ, Russia and even China) can let loose a terrorist attack with chemical gases in our subways and population centers. Polluting the atmosphere for economic gains is bad enough. But doing so with the intent of killing everybody in its path is even worse. ================================= UK issues legal, intelligence data backing a Syria strike Reuters United Nations arms experts look at a map as they speak with an opposition fighter as they inspect the site where rockets had fallen in Damascus' eastern Ghouta suburb on August 28, 2013, during an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons strike. — Photo AFP Published 2013-08-29 17:34:08 LONDON: Britain's government on Thursday published internal legal advice it had been given which it said showed it was legally entitled to take military action against Syria even if the United Nations Security Council blocked such action. It also published intelligence material on last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria, saying there was no doubt that such an attack had taken place, that it was “highly likely” that the Syrian government had been behind it, and that there was “some” intelligence to suggest that was the case. “If action in the Security Council is blocked, the UK would still be permitted under international law to take exceptional measures in order to alleviate the scale of the overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe in Syria,” a copy of the British government's legal position read. In such circumstances, it added that “military intervention to strike specific targets with the aim of deterring and disrupting further such attacks would be necessary and proportionate and therefore legally justifiable.” A letter from the chairman of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee said there were “no plausible alternative scenarios” except that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had perpetrated the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus. “We also have a limited but growing body of intelligence which supports the judgement that the regime was responsible for the attacks and that they were conducted to help clear the Opposition from strategic parts of Damascus,” it said. dawn.com