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

Merge the Syria Threads

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Goober

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It was a coup to get out from being under the thump of Egypt and the United Arab Republic. Are you saying it was as brutal a rule as the US controlled Shaw of Iran's rule?
Nope- And how brutal has the Theocratic regime that replaced him has been?
Me I am thinking of using teens to clear minefields in the Iraq-Iran War.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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It was a coup to get out from being under the thump of Egypt and the United Arab Republic. Are you saying it was as brutal a rule as the US controlled Shaw of Iran's rule?
No, Shaw's rule was wonderful! Dry, witty social commentary in brilliantly funny plays!
 

MHz

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Nope- And how brutal has the Theocratic regime that replaced him has been?
Me I am thinking of using teens to clear minefields in the Iraq-Iran War.
With more than 1 million killed because of the US using Iraq as a proxy who do you expect to see on the battlefields?
No condemnation that the US was the player pulling Iraq's strings that included using lots of chemical weapons against Iran, soldiers, women, children. The Wests game plan hasn't changed at all in 30 years, that's not really something to brag about.

No, Shaw's rule was wonderful! Dry, witty social commentary in brilliantly funny plays!
No doubt you think GITMO is a summer camp.
 

MHz

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Is that the sound of a sarin loaded aerial projectile? The last time there was an inspection it was after a refugee camp in Turkey had been shelled by mortars, turned out they were NATO munitions that had just been given to the 'foreign fighters'. Killing civilians just to make some favorable headlines in the West, you have the right to support that behavior, there is no demand that I do the same. I can live with the difference.

I just love the way the conclusions are arrived at. Good thing the ones quickest on the 'draw' aren't trying to rule the world, oh wait that is just what they are trying to do and you appear to be one of their fans. Oh joy, ...

What in the report shows where they were fired from?

Secretary General Report of CW Investigation
 

Omicron

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Russia is saying that threat-or-use of violence is not an option to get the Assads to hand over their chemical weapons.

Okay, I'm stumped. What does Moscow know it's not telling anyone... that the Assadians will trade their chemical weapons for three shiploads of colorful latex d*ldoes?
 

EagleSmack

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DU Rounds kick azz! Don't believe the hype MHz... its only harmful to tank crewmen. Too heavy.

And you KNOW the Syrians are using Russian DU rounds too. The Rebs have stolen enough tanks from them. But you're cool with that aren't you?
 

petros

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DU Rounds kick azz! Don't believe the hype MHz... its only harmful to tank crewmen. Too heavy.
U is pyrophoric. ANYBODY inhaling the vapor or exposed to the residuals is in deep sh*t. U (that sh*t is NOT depleted) loads are just a way of side stepping the illegal use of other pyrophoric materials such as white phosphorus
 

gopher

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Americans, Europeans oppose Syria intervention: poll | Reuters



Americans, Europeans oppose Syria intervention: poll



By Adrian Croft


BRUSSELS | Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:07am EDT



(Reuters) - A majority of Europeans and Americans strongly oppose their countries intervening militarily in Syria's 30-month-old civil war, according to a transatlantic poll published on Wednesday.
"Transatlantic Trends", an annual survey of public opinion in the United States and Europe, also found that China's image in both continents was deteriorating and most Europeans did not want to see Beijing take strong leadership in world affairs.
The survey, by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a U.S. think tank that promotes cooperation between North America and Europe, and the Compagnia di San Paolo, an Italy-based private foundation, measured public opinion in 11 European Union countries, Turkey and the United States.
The poll found 62 percent of Americans and 72 percent of Europeans believed their countries should avoid military intervention in Syria's civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people.
Only 30 percent of Americans and 22 percent of Europeans felt their countries should intervene in Syria.







Despite all the war hysteria - the majority still insist, JUST SAY NO.