Syria chemicals

One of the things that last nights attack on Syria brought to everyone's attention is the large number of chemical storage sites that are scattered around the country. This goes back to the Bush 43 invasion of Iraq where the wrong question was asked. The world was asking where are the WMD when they should have been asking what happened to the WMD. It is well documented that the West gave hundreds of thousands of pound of WMD to Saddam beginning in the 80's when he was at war with Iran. When Iraq was invaded and no WMD were found many felt that they were shipped to Syria and this seems now the most likely scenario. Under Obama, Syria agreed to give up its WMD but they seemed to have kept much of their supply. In 2013 Obama sought congressional approval to go after Syria's chemical weapons but Russia intervened and promised to get rid of the weapons. John Kerry, who was U.S. secretary of state at the time, said the regime used chemical weapons “multiple” times that year. Obama then sought congressional approval for the use of limited military force in Syria. A few days later, Kerry said a military strike could be averted if Syria turned over its chemical weapons to the international community. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed such a plan almost immediately—and Syria signed onto it.