Poll: Syrian Chemical Weapon Attack

[Craig1981]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23777201

Pretty shocking stuff on the news right now. Apparantly Syria has used chemical weapons to attack Damascus. Reports are that over 650 people have been killed.

How can the other nations of the world just stand back and let this kinda thing go on? No government has the right to massacre its own people.

 

[Craig1981]

If I were trying to topple the syrian goverment and I was a crazy power mad wanna be dictator then

1. I would launch a gas attack on my own rebels and blame it on the goverment.
   
2. get nato and everyone to help put me in power
   
3. profit

Hmmm. That reminds of the last Hunger Games book. Very possibly what did happen

 

[Craig1981]

Question, does Syria have oil?

Wow. I just did a google serch to find that out. I got as far as "Does S" and it autofilled out to "Does Syria have oil" as the top result.

Anyway apparantly yes they do. According to Wikipedia:

Syria is the only significant crude oil producing country in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Syria had 2,500,000,000 barrels (400,000,000 m3) of petroleum reserves as of 1 January 2010.[32] Syria's known oil reserves are mainly in the eastern part of the country in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate near its border with Iraq and along the Euphrates River; a number of smaller fields are located in the center of the country.[33] In 2010, Syria produced around 385,000 barrels (61,200 m3) per day of crude oil.[30][31] Oil production has stabilized after falling for a number of years, and is poised to turn around as new fields come on line. In 2008, Syria produced 187 billion cubic feet (5.3×109 m3) of natural gas, and two years later in 2010, it increased production to 275×10^9 cu ft (7.8×109 m3).