Comment Re:Good gravy (Score 1) 465
Russia said they dismantled the Syrian chemical weapons program.
They did. The OPCW (the group tasked with verifying chemical weapons claims and enforcing the chemical weapons treaty) verified that Syria and Russia removed its chemical weapons.
But here we are with chemicals floating around all over the place
Be careful not to conflate the multiple US/NATO claims (Novichok nerve agent in the UK spy case).
The chemical weapon used in the claimed Douma attack was chlorine. Every country on the planet has significant quantities of chlorine. Chlorine is used in many industrial processes, in swimming pools, and in most every city and town on the planet which has a water treatment plant has enough chlorine to make a chemical weapon. And industrial chlorine is easy to "weaponize" -- and it's pretty safe to do to (as opposed to nerve agent, for example).
Also note, in 2016 Amnesty International bluntly stated, "Syria: armed opposition group committing war crimes in Aleppo - new evidence. The Aleppo Conquest armed groups may have used chemical weapons, as well as ‘hell cannon’ gas canister munitions."