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Yeah. It was a fumbled mess. Um... But you did kinda have to go there with the statement (which to be honest, he should have been prepared for). There's a pretty huge distinction between using poison gas to kill people in concentration camps, and dropping bombs with chemical warheads on them when engaging in military attacks. It was clear to me that he was making the point that chemical weapons were banned after the effects of them were seen on the battlefields in WW1, and that even someone as nasty as Hitler complied with that rule of war.

The key point was that the prohibition was against using them as weapons in warfare. What he did in the concentration camps was a whole different level of evil, but (and this is a point that's difficult to make without looking like a jerk), not actually in violation of the Geneva Protocol, nor any later variations of said law. They're all specific to the use of such weapons "in warfare". Spicer's problem was assuming that everyone would get what he was talking about, and then not being prepared when many people didn't get it.

Apparently to conservatives playing golf on Memorial Day is worse than lessening the Holocaust during Passover.

It's not a zero sum game. Two things can be equally evil while still being evil for different reasons. In no way does observing that even Hitler complied with existing restrictions on the use of chemical weapons during warfare while Assad has not lessen the Holocaust. The point, in case you all missed it, was that even a guy like Hitler, who did horrible things, and actively worked to kill off an entire group of people, including rounding them up and gassing them, still refrained from using chemical weapons on the battlefield.

If that somehow offends someone, then they're trying to darn hard to be offended.

No. What's scary is that you seem to think that when information pointing toward an American breaking a law is discovered during the surveillance of a foreign national that the government can't act on it.

Edited, Apr 11th 2017 8:45pm by Bijou

...says the man who went ape irate over flag pins.

The less explody options sounds good at least. Need to up those odds somehow.

I thought it was all an emotional response to seeing hurt kids? Because that's supposed to make us feel better about the whole thing or whatever.

Looks like Assad is taking a page out of our playbook. When confronted with videos and images during an interview published Thursday by Agence France-Presse Bashar al-Assad dismissed them and said that The West, mainly the US, "fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack" and that the evidence collected was actually by Al-Queda.

Killin' people outside in is considered more humane than inside out?

Huh, they actually dropped a MOAB. I guess they really don't care about indiscriminate weapons anymore.

This was probably my favorite quote:
The idea of accurately delivering something with a 1-mile blast radius is a fairly amusing thought. Sounds like they dropped it in the mountains by the border at least, so there's less likelihood it killed lots of innocent people.

Not that you'd ever be able to tell, of course...

Little bobby went out to collect the sheep and never came back, No remains were ever found or anything, so the government says no one knows what happened to him, but there's a mile wide crater where the pasture used to be that's been officially determined to be unrelated to his disappearance..

Edited, Apr 13th 2017 12:33pm by someproteinguy

Please it's "alternative coordinates," and just because the liberal media says they're wrong doesn't mean they are.

Of course, so can Seoul.

Anyway, all the nuclear labs and bases are probably soon to be renamed "Kim Jong-Il Memorial Nuclear Facility & Orphanage".

Edited, Apr 13th 2017 5:31pm by Jophiel