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Well Said, President Barack Obama! 

US President's address to US (10-Sep-2013)  

No to gas chambers! World community mustn't allow the mass killings with chemicals!

Valdimir Putin, the 70 billion dollar rogue dictator, surely, knows that Obama isn't bluffing!

Finally, after stifling the UN, in face of certain consequences, Russia is trying to save its ally - the Syrian tyrant Assad. Russia and China, has not allowed UN to intervene effectively. In the face of clear evidence, they could have built a consensus in the UN to ensure that all chemical weapons in Syria are located and destroyed. That chemical weapons have been freely used is amply demonstrated by the horrific deaths of hundreds in more than one incident. 
Russia, BTW, has the notorious distinction of using poison gas in a hostage crisis, when nearly 40-odd suspected armed Chechen rebels took 850 hostages in the Dubrovka Theater, Moscow on 23-Oct-2002. In the official use of poison gas, nearly 130 hostages and 40 terroists were killed. We shouldn't forget this tragic episode. Russians never disclosed what gas was used. And, they never clarified who was responsible for the decisions to use that lethal chemical.
I applaud Obama's firm resolve not to allow what seems a dangerous propensity to freely use chemicals in a civil war situation. International community must unite to stop the use of poison gases by state and non-state actors. They must find a way to keep such weapons out of the civil war and also eliminate every possibility of such chemicals - assembled as weapons or not - being freely available in the international grey market. It is, indeed, a frightening situation.
After it became clear that President Obama isn't bluffing, Putin blinked, and Assad followed. Syrian regime's bravado, an uncanny resemblance to that of Sadam, rests on the Russian arms and support.
Well done, President Obama!

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