Remember this fateful sequence of events. It began on 21 August 2013, when Bashar al-Assad gassed 1500 of his own civilians. His deadly brother Maha al-Assad, and their Alawi loyalists, had just dumped a chemical cannonade in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, full of civilians but allegedly controlled by Syrian rebels.
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Michael Danby is MP for Melbourne Ports
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