It's absurd! Just if showering victims with water would help to recover from a chem attack!

You can count on this: any government "official statement" take with a grain of salt. There is deception on both sides but using common sense goes a long way. Question everything.

There is a war of facts and fictions trying to capture support for horrible man made things ,Who is telling the truth ?? Was Prophesised that there will be a time for the big deception ,i think we are in it

Assad is not a Muslim, doesn't rule by Sharia, and has granted near-equality of rights to the Christians in Syria, almost all of whom support him. He is a scoundrel, but their position is understandable. They know that what follows him will be worse.