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Title: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: cheese007 on March 19, 2013, 09:23:47 pm: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Yeah...
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 19, 2013, 09:37:59 pm: I saw a video on Reddit a few weeks back that looks remarkably similar to the bits of video CNN has been showing this evening. A friend who speaks Arabic translated some of the video and the youtube comments about it and they were saying it was white phosphorus, not chemicals. So, while it may turn out that chemicals were in fact used- it might also be true that CNN is jumping the gun.
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on March 19, 2013, 09:48:28 pm: Quote from: DiscoBerry on March 19, 2013, 09:37:59 pm
I saw a video on Reddit a few weeks back that looks remarkably similar to the bits of video CNN has been showing this evening. A friend who speaks Arabic translated some of the video and the youtube comments about it and they were saying it was white phosphorus, not chemicals. So, while it may turn out that chemicals were in fact used- it might also be true that CNN is jumping the gun.

They're a respectable news organization, man! They would NEVER do that. /sarcasm.
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: Saturn500 on March 19, 2013, 09:56:19 pm: We're talking about CNN here. Don't you remember yesterday?
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: Sylvana on March 20, 2013, 02:14:46 am: Quote from: B-Man on March 19, 2013, 09:48:28 pm
Quote from: DiscoBerry on March 19, 2013, 09:37:59 pm
I saw a video on Reddit a few weeks back that looks remarkably similar to the bits of video CNN has been showing this evening. A friend who speaks Arabic translated some of the video and the youtube comments about it and they were saying it was white phosphorus, not chemicals. So, while it may turn out that chemicals were in fact used- it might also be true that CNN is jumping the gun.

They're a respectable news organization, man! They would NEVER do that. /sarcasm.

Completely off topic, but my favorite CNN moment was during the Iraq war where CNN was reporting that American forces had captured the Baghdad airport, after which I changed channel to a live broadcast where the guy was reporting from Baghdad airport saying that there is no one here. Unsurprisingly our broadcasters stopped airing CNN after about a month in favour of BBC. CNN is a pathetic American propaganda machine.
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 20, 2013, 03:12:03 am: I consider CNN to be the deceptive cousin of Fox News.

Fox News is crazy, so CNN seems sane in comparison, but it's really pretty much just as bad as Fox News.

I'm not fond of MSNBC either.
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 20, 2013, 10:39:02 pm: Here is a pro-Asad video saying the FSA used chemical weapons on Gov't controlled Aleppo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nac9zdGTOOo
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 20, 2013, 10:42:13 pm: Quote from: Magus Silveresti on March 20, 2013, 03:12:03 am
I consider CNN to be the deceptive cousin of Fox News.

Fox News is crazy, so CNN seems sane in comparison, but it's really pretty much just as bad as Fox News.

I'm not fond of MSNBC either.

Honestly I get most of my news from Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, and Wikinews.
Title: Re: "High Probability" Syria used chemical weapons
Post by: mellenORL on March 20, 2013, 11:17:11 pm: BTW, white phosphorous is some nasty, cruel, vicious shit to use on people. It's not chemical weapon the way Napalm is not a chemical weapon.