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Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
10. One correction for the Congressman
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 03:55 PM
Sep 2013

Van Hollen said that Putin "helped deliver exactly what the United States wanted, which is to put an end to Assad’s weapons of mass destruction."

Making the most optimistic assumptions, he helped put an end to Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons. If that happens, it will be an achievement, but you can't take "weapons of mass destruction" to refer only to chemical weapons while ignoring other weapons that can kill comparable numbers of people.

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