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I have disdain for people like Hagel and Powell. They keep their mouth shut and tap dance, but know from experience and knowledge what horrible mistakes are being made.
It cost Powell his career. nikka doing monday morning quarterback analysis about the Gulf War :why:


He knew when he made that presentation at the UN it was a farce. He made the choice to carry it through. Too late to cry foul
 

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I have disdain for people like Hagel and Powell. They keep their mouth shut and tap dance, but know from experience and knowledge what horrible mistakes are being made.
What's your case for this being wrong aside from generally being against this sort of intervention...serious question. I need to hear the opposite case to Broke. I haven't had the time to comb through articles and all I'm getting right now is "such and such claims."
 

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What's your case for this being wrong aside from generally being against this sort of intervention...serious question. I need to hear the opposite case to Broke. I haven't had the time to comb through articles and all I'm getting right now is "such and such claims."


I am not a pacifist in any way, shape or form. I just don't feel the US needs to:

A) Once again supply and support Sunnis who will then turn around and spit on us for intervening in their affairs
B) Once again supply and support future enemies, who will be bored with this conquest and begin looking for another
C) Allow the Saudis to gain even more power and influence in the region, and get closer to having control of the oil/resources in the region
D) Give up the only true ace they have: empowered Shias to keep the Sunnis in that region in check.
E) Send troops to die for people who would spit on their graves
F) Spend more money outside of this country and once again give welfare to private contractors
E) Justify even more encroachment on the rights of our citizens

Let them handle it on their own this time. If they lose, they lose. That's the price you pay sometimes. But keep our boys here at home, and send them to die when the goal is to protect this country, not protect their future enemies and to make rich men richer.
 

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Why is all obeezys subordinates on tv hyping this up.man da fukk up obeezy
 

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What did arming the rebels accomplish. These old heads needs to step aside so that rational decisions can be made
 

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What I don't understand is the Syrian president's calculus in all of this. Granted I haven't been following this issue, but why would the regime use chemical weapons when the west already declared such actions as a red line?

The Syrian regime would have to be insane to use chemical weapons knowing the full implications of such actions.
 

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What I don't understand is the Syrian president's calculus in all of this. Granted I haven't been following this issue, but why would the regime use chemical weapons when the west already declared such actions as a red line?

The Syrian regime would have to be insane to use chemical weapons knowing the full implications of such actions.

Maybe people like you are why they think they can get away with it.
 

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What I don't understand is the Syrian president's calculus in all of this. Granted I haven't been following this issue, but why would the regime use chemical weapons when the west already declared such actions as a red line?

The Syrian regime would have to be insane to use chemical weapons knowing the full implications of such actions.

this isnt the first chemical attack

this is just first attack that the majority of the public cares about....and the care is because of the instability in egypt
 

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or maybe they didnt do it

Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people. Those conversations were overheard by U.S. intelligence services, The Cable has learned. And that is the major reason why American officials now say they're certain that the attacks were the work of the Bashar al-Assad regime -- and why the U.S. military is likely to attack that regime in a matter of days.
 

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Weapons of Mass Destruction all over again. Lets see how the US deals with a free Syria that supports fundamentalist.
 
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