Syria Chemical Weapons Claims Prompt Easy Talk Of Hard War

An unsubstantiated charge by a Syrian government-controlled media outlet that rebels deployed chemical weapons in their battle against the government of President Bashar Assad prompted American lawmakers on Tuesday to sound the alarm about weapons of mass destruction and urgently call for a U.S. military response. The latest chemical weapons claim emerged Tuesday on a Syrian state-run news channel which broadcast video of people it claimed had been victims of a rebel attack in the contested city of Aleppo.