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Syria Just Gassed Its Own People, Killing Dozens. Secretary Tillerson, Asked to Comment, Said Nothing.
by David Badash
April 04, 2017 2:12 PM
No Comment, No Condemnation
Overnight the Syrian government dropped chemical weapons on its own people, killing dozens, including at least ten children, according to the latest updates. As many as 100 might be dead. The New York Times calls it the "deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria."
A doctor treating the patients described what happened to CNN:
That was just the beginning.
The Washington Post describes the scene in Syria, reporting that "images from the area showed the bodies of at least a dozen men, women and children splayed across the ground between two houses. Video footage showed lifeless bodies wrapped in blankets and packed on the back of a truck. The youngest children were wearing diapers.
At a photo-op with Jordan's King Abdullah Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was asked by multiple reporters to comment of the attack by the Syrian government on its own people. He looked in the cameras, shook hands with Abdullah, smiled briefly, then walked away.
No comment, no condemnation.
The attack has been called a war crime.
The Daily Beast notes that just last week, "in Ankara, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled that the U.S. had no quarrel with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a man Tillersons predecessor compared to Adolf Hitler after he slaughtered more than 1,000 people with poison gas in 2013."
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)with no knowledge, no experience, no insight....sheesh, where do we stop?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I just want to run out into the street and scream sometimes.
malaise
(269,022 posts)said anything when US aircraft killed over 300 in Iraq two weeks ago.
They don't give a flying fuck.
Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)democrank
(11,095 posts)What kind of person could see these images and have no comment?
mcar
(42,334 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)He's been invisible and mute.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)of himself out to comment.