I’ll start this out relatively empty but update it quickly. Trump has approved strikes on Syria. White House briefing starts in one minute. 21:02 EST: He’s already ordered the launch. Combined operation with France and UK. Attack underway. 21:03 EST: Sounds of explosions in Damascus. Reminder: Just half an hour ago, a “senior White House…
Category: Sarin
Hitler and poison gas: Just how wrong is Spicer?
Today, Sean Spicer declared that Assad was worse than Hitler, because the latter “didn't even sink to using chemical weapons”. That’s wrong for one really big, really obvious reason: the Holocaust. But even if we give Spicer a little more benefit than he deserves, and assume that he meant only weaponized chemical agents in deployable…
