Statement the president made yesterday on the topic of Syria.

france suspended mandatory military service in 1996. maybe the population has aged out enough at this point that they've turned into war mongers.
 
Part of what was released today from the French:

Syria has hundred of tonnes of the mustard gas in final form, tens of tonnes of VX. VX is the most toxic of chemical warfare agents. Several hundred tonnes of sarin, which constitute the bulk of the stock.

"The sarin and the VX are partly stocked in a binary form, that is to say kept in the form of two chemical products called precursors, that are mixed just before use. This technique and the associated procedures show a great knowledge of the technology of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime."

"Damascus is capable of delivering its chemical weapons with a very large range of several thousand vectors.

*Scud C missiles, whose range is 500km away. they are capable of carrying mustard gas, sarin or VX.

*Scud B missiles, carrying sarin or VX 300km.

*M600 missiles with a range of 250 to 300km. They can be carry out each of the three aforementioned toxic.

*SS21 missiles adapted to the implementation of the three toxic agents war mentioned, but a smaller range (70 km).


"The chain of command and the responsibilities"

The Syrian Centre for Scientific Research Study (CERS) is responsible for producing toxic agents for use in war, pinpointing "Branch 450" as being responsible for filling munitions with chemicals and also the security of sites where the chemical agents are stocked. This branch, it claims, is "composed only of Alawite military personnel … distinguished by a high level of loyalty to the regime".

"Bashar al-Assad and certain influential members of his clan are the only ones permitted to give the order for the use of chemical weapons. The order is then transmitted to those responsible at the competent branches of the CERS. At the same time, the army chiefs of staff receive the order and decide on targets, the weapons and the toxic agents to put in them."
 
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