just check our invoices...

Chlorine is a dual use product so it is not even a controlled substance.

that are now turning up in Iraq are U.S. designed and of European manufacture.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0

So, if the U.S. doesn't want people using chemical weapons, it should not make them, their designs, precursors or manufacturing technology available to other governments. It also probably shouldn't use them on its own people:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/tear-gas-is-a-chemical-weapon-banned-in-war-but-ferguson-police-shoot-it-at-protesters/

And the condition they are in renders them more dangerous to anyone attempting to use them than they would likely be to any intended target.

This sort of reflexive 'let's toss some mud at the U.S. when anyone else does something' is foolish and destructive. Indeed, the penchant of people on the left for indulging in it is one of the leading reasons 'why we can't have nice things' like national health care, a proper tax structure, strong unions, and a more equitable and less violent society. It allows people on the right to make a credible claim that 'the left just hates America', and so by extension tar anything the left supports or recommends or desires as 'bad for America', since people who 'hate America' would only wish for things that would do harm to the country....

when you have broken all the rules, what moral authority do you have to tell other people what is and isn't acceptable? If beheading is so horrible, why haven't we invaded Saudi Arabia. Tear gas is banned by treaty, and yet he U.S. uses it on its own people all the time. Is that legal, well yes, since we specifically made sure that police use was legalized while military use was not. Does it make a difference morally speaking? No it doesn't.

But by all means, keep making legalistic justifications for America's sins, sir!

Also, why are we the ones that have to do all the bombing when the Saudis have a perfectly good air force collecting dust on the ground? I would think that any TRUE patriot would aspire for the country to be something other than Saudi Arabia's hired goon squad.

The man in the dock does not get to complain that others have committed the same crime, and are not there with him.

None of what you say has any bearing on the question of whether the charge against the I.S.I.L. is accurate or not. On that question, I have no particular view: it may be true, it may not. It would not alter my view of the that body either way. I consider I.S.I.L. to be a body of fundamentalist ideologues in arms it is necessary to break and bring to heel. I support the use of military force to do so, and I do that knowing full well not every person killed or injured in doing so will be an adherent of that body, or even a combatant member of it.

You are perfectly willing to sacrifice other innocent people's lives for a strategy that has always failed to accomplish anything other than making matters worse. I am guessing you would feel differently if someone were using your argument to justify killing people you care about.

But, whatever helps you sleep at night.

Hillary would send in the B-52's with napalm bombs.



well, that's what I heard

how hard can U swing to the right?