The Syria Thread: Everything you wanted to know or say about it

Merge the Syria Threads

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petros

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Why does America keep backing them? Are they into backing Anti-Semitism for gits and shiggles? Are Christians getting f*cked over too?
 

B00Mer

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That is what this could turn into unless they send in Riddic kulous.... fvcking censor.

Hey look at the upside, war machine will be creating jobs, enact the draft and they could send off 2 million to their death, unemployment rates will start to look good and the US economy will get better..

Sen. John McCain: U.K. is 'no longer a world power' - Washington Times

Hey FYI McCain, neither is the USA when you have to borrow from China to fight a war with.. Iran, Russia and oh wait!? China. LOL

 

petros

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The Saudis aren't doing so good ether. Good thing this sick joke on Americans raised the price of oil $15 a barrel. Now it'll be ever harder for the economy to recover.
 

Locutus

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The New Yorker's George Packer has an interesting and contentious conversation with himself about Syria.


So it looks like we’re going to bomb Assad.

Good.

Really? Why good?

Did you see the videos of those kids? I heard that ten thousand people were gassed. Hundreds of them died. This time, we have to do something.

Yes, I saw the videos.


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The Debate Over Intervention in Syria : The New Yorker




Oh, and while we're at it, there's this piece:

Syria's 'chemical weapons' turn out to be sodium fluoride used in the U.S. water supply and sold at Wal-Mart



Natural News can now reveal that the Syria chemical weapons narrative being pushed by the White House is an outlandish hoax.

To understand why, you have to start with the story published in The Independent entitled Revealed: Government let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria.

Sounds scary, right? As The Independent reports:

The Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls last night after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago.

What, exactly, are those two dangerous chemicals that need to be controlled via "arms control" regulations? You won't believe me when I tell you. They are:

sodium fluoride
potassium fluoride



If these chemical names sound familiar, that's because sodium fluoride is the same toxic chemical that's routinely dumped into municipal water supplies all across the USA under the guise of "water fluoridation."

In fact, the forced feeding of sodium fluoride to the U.S. population is called a "public health" victory by the CDC, FDA and dentists everywhere. Yet this same chemical, when sold to Syria, is openly and repeatedly referred to as a "chemical weapon." This is true across the BBC, the Guardian, Daily Record and Sunday Mail, France24.com and literally thousands of other news websites.

According to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, any government "regime" that uses chemical weapons against its own people should be bombed / invaded / overthrown by a coalition of other United Nations members. By his own definition, then, the United States of America should now be invaded by the UN because the government uses a deadly chemical weapon -- sodium fluoride -- on its own people.

By implication, then, John Kerry is now calling for the UN to bomb the USA. As the international media now confirms, sodium fluoride is a chemical weapon, and this chemical weapon is used against the American people every single day in the water supply, a favorite attack vector for terrorists.

"Evidence" of chemical weapons nothing more than hair samples of people who drank sodium fluoride

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Bombshell: Syria's 'chemical weapons' turn out to be sodium fluoride used in the U.S. water supply and sold at Wal-Mart
 
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JLM

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The Saudis aren't doing so good ether. Good thing this sick joke on Americans raised the price of oil $15 a barrel. Now it'll be ever harder for the economy to recover.

Someone is definitely asleep at the switch, gas prices haven't budged here in over a week!
 

EagleSmack

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Not quite, and I quoth the T-Bone:

T-Bone was saying what I'm saying. The President can order a military attack without the authorization or vote from congress.
 

Kreskin

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

T-Bone was saying what I'm saying. The President can order a military attack without the authorization or vote from congress.
But that is a no-win situation. Even if the strikes were hugely successful the world is full of bloggers and politicians that will paint a different picture. That is not in the interest of any American.
 

EagleSmack

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Eagle is right he does not need Congress to strike. He give the appearance of showing
them respect. In fact its put up or shut up time and he has outplayed the crazies both
in the Republican Party and the Democrats. If they vote No its their fault if the outcome
is bad. If they vote Yes and it goes bad they can't blame him because they voted for it.
For once he has trapped the radical Republican element with their own words.
For some time a bunch of Republicans were chiming he had to go through them which
he doesn't..

Keep spinning DG. Obama wanted to strike Syria and caved in and was pressured to go to congress. If they vote no the President has been defeated and Al Queda doesn't get US Navy air and cruise missile support. Obama trapped himself.
 

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

T-Bone was saying what I'm saying. The President can order a military attack without the authorization or vote from congress.


You didn't read what he wrote. Or, More likely, you did but couldn't comprehend it..:smile:
Or....
 

EagleSmack

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

But that is a no-win situation. Even if the strikes were hugely successful the world is full of bloggers and politicians that will paint a different picture. That is not in the interest of any American.

I agree. That is why I believe congress will go against the strike on Syria.

You didn't read what he wrote. Or, More likely, you did but couldn't comprehend it..:smile:
Or....

The President does not need Congressional approval from Congress to order military action. BOOM
 

Locutus

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Someone is definitely asleep at the switch, gas prices haven't budged here in over a week!

Yeah well...anyway...it's all about oil or something. That's what they say. *cough*
 

Kreskin

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Keep spinning DG. Obama wanted to strike Syria and caved in and was pressured to go to congress. If they vote no the President has been defeated and Al Queda doesn't get US Navy air and cruise missile support. Obama trapped himself.
If they vote no that will create an even more interesting political situation. And I don't think BO will look all that bad in the end. When all the bluster starts in the 2016 Pres race there will be lots to feed on. Can't say the no-vote will look like a future Commander-In-Chief.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

T-Bone was saying what I'm saying. The President can order a military attack without the authorization or vote from congress.
Correct! The Supreme Court may someday hold that the President may not take non-emergency military action without Congressional consent, but that day has not arrived (and is not likely to, given the Supremes' avoidance of the issue in the past).
 

EagleSmack

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Correct! The Supreme Court may someday hold that the President may not take non-emergency military action without Congressional consent, but that day has not arrived (and is not likely to, given the Supremes' avoidance of the issue in the past).

Thank you!

You didn't read what he wrote. Or, More likely, you did but couldn't comprehend it..:smile:
Or....

Are we clear now Hunboldt? Are we clear!



If they vote no that will create an even more interesting political situation. And I don't think BO will look all that bad in the end. When all the bluster starts in the 2016 Pres race there will be lots to feed on. Can't say the no-vote will look like a future Commander-In-Chief.

To his base Obama will never look bad. But he will have lost. The Administration has stated they want to punish Syria with some sort of strike and Congress will most likely vote against it. Obama either bows to Congressional will or does it anyways.
 

JLM

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Thank you!



Are we clear now Hunboldt? Are we clear!





To his base Obama will never look bad. But he will have lost. The Administration has stated they want to punish Syria with some sort of strike and Congress will most likely vote against it. Obama either bows to Congressional will or does it anyways.

Yeah, and I think he has a fairly large base, much to the baggers' chagrin!
 

EagleSmack

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Re: Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitate

Yeah, and I think he has a fairly large base, much to the baggers chagrin!

Well when you are dependent on the government... you get a sheep like base.