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Via the Free Beacon, not only does chlorine have a long history as a chemical weapon, it was the very first chemical weapon used on the western front in World War I, by the Germans at Ypres. The key word here, though, is “listed.” Chlorine isn’t listed as a weapon by the OPCW for the simple reason that it’s used ubiquitously to decontaminate water. If you try to reduce access to it, you risk cholera epidemics in poorer countries. Problem is, as the Germans discovered, undiluted chlorine gas also works reasonably well as a crude WMD. It’s a weak agent compared to sarin or VX so it’s more likely to sicken the targets than to kill lots of them (although a few fatalities aren’t uncommon), but it works. Even O acknowledges here that it can be used as a weapon.

So why’d he feel obliged to footnote his answer by mentioning how it’s categorized under arms control protocols? It has to do with “red lines.” His escape hatch from the “red line” fiasco two years ago, you may remember, was to cancel a U.S. attack on Assad and make a deal with Putin to have the regime in Damascus hand over its chemical weapons. A lot of WMD was liquidated in the process; whether all of it was remains unclear. Just because Assad’s divested himself of some sarin and VX, though, doesn’t mean he’s going to respect Obama’s “red line” against gassing civilians. The solution is chlorine, a supply of which the regime maintains ostensibly for water purification but which will do in a pinch if you want to try to kill defenseless people, especially children:

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/15/obama-on-syria-red-lines-chlorin
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Maybe he is trying to support the ingestion of chlorine via the name sucralose. The FOOD and Drug Administration has approved the use of this chlorine product in FOOD.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Maybe he is trying to support the ingestion of chlorine via the name sucralose. The FOOD and Drug Administration has approved the use of this chlorine product in FOOD.

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It can be a wicked chemical, as it reacts to the water in a person's lungs, throat and mouth. Even when you're out of the cloud, if you've breathed some in, it'll still do a number on your respiratory system.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

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