Syrian officials deny use of chemical weapons

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1. "varying degrees of confidence"

Doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned and indicates US intentions not to overeact. The Syrian insistence that it has no access to chemical weapons and would not use such weapons if it had is just as acceptable to me at this point as Israel's claim that Syria has such weapons and have used them. The Israeli's are warmongering again as expected when they state that the US should get involved and their recent claims don't hold water without direct evidence. If the Republicans were in power you can bet on it that the US would be involved by now with Israel in some kind of conflict in Syria and the results of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would be totally ignored. Neocon policies would prevail. Obama seems to be doing the only sane thing and that is to go with the evidence and tread cautiously until more is revealed.