“These [chemical weapons] are weapons designed for open battlefields and those kinds of usage. And so the notion that, for instance, the Syrian government would use these kinds of weapons in Damascus or elsewhere, I think is pretty far-fetched,” Professor Lawrence Davidson of West Chester University told Press TV in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
In a new media offensive against Damascus, Washington has claimed that the Syrian government possesses and intends to use chemical weapons.
“We believe Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile remains under Syrian government control,” said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor in a press conference in Washington on July 21.
Davidson called the US approach and the allegations, it leveled against the Syrian government hypocritical, arguing that Washington assisted the former Iraqi regime to use chemical weapons against the Iranians more accurately.
“The whole thing is threaded with a lot of hypocrisy. You might remember that the United States aided the Iraqi government in its war with Iran and one of the things, they did was that they gave the Iraqis information that allowed them to use their artillery and their aircraft more accurately, to use satellite intelligence, and they passed that on to Iraqis and what did the Iraqis do? They used chemical weapons, chemical artillery shells, and other weapons against the Iranians,” he continued.
“And I do not remember the US government Defense Department crying bitter tears over this. Now, you know, when they think that the Syrians are going to do this, they point all kinds of fingers. Even though, there is no real proof that the Syrians have any intention to use these weapons,” Davidson went on to say.
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