Chemical weapons Quote by Bashar al-Assad

“This Syrian circus/crisis we are going through is hilarious... It’s like watching some thug killing another person and asking him for his bullets but…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime…

— Noam Chomsky

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something…

— Chris Christie

Syria is a signature to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which bans the use of chemical warfare. Syria has violated that international norm. For…

— Ivo Daalder

I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing…

— Elliott Abrams

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while…

— Frankie Boyle

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

— Bashar al-Assad

“Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look…

— Bill Maher

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian…

— Vladimir Putin

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

— Ali Khamenei

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who…

— Joe Biden

A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell…

— Elliott Colla