[speechlesstx]

Hello wishy washy Steve:Bush had no trouble asking 4,000 Americans to shed their lives... The irony is that Rand Paul is a peacenik, and you're NOT.

Me neither... I'll bet you and I would agree on what constitutes "punishment", though.. Obama wants to "limit" punishment.. I dunno HOW you do that..

excon

LOL, I'm not being wishy-washy, just observing the role change. As Jim Treacher puts it, "It might seem confusing, but it’s very simple: Sometimes going to war is bad, and those who do it are evil. Other times, the President of the United States is a Democrat."

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My idea of punishing Assad is as how tom puts it, turning him into pink mist.

[excon]

Hello UN wishy washy Steve:

My idea of punishing Assad is as how tom puts it, turning him into pink mist.

Absolutamundo.

Excon

[talaniman]

If the treaty signed by 90 something nations banning the use of gas during conflicts, then it seems everybody would be outraged at this blatant disregard of that international standard. If you do NOTHING, then surely he will do it again. I would turn his a$$ into the governing body, which is the HAGUE, and if they did nothing, the UN did nothing, the international body did NOTHING, then we can make a decision on what WE do.

I point out that he has used gas, and everybody has done nothing already. At this point it doesn't matter who said what, why, or when, as all that matters is what we do about it. Its already a war, spread through more countries than Syria, has been for a few years now.

Blow the sucker away, and be done with it.

[smoothy]

Then what do you guys plan to do with Irans mercenaries,. the Al Queada backed rebels... or the Hezbolah terrorist backed Rebels take over... particularly when they Put Israel in their cross hairs next... now they would have a base to lauch from... and it would be one of those three groups that would fill in the vacuum left by Assad.

Assad as bad as he is... is still the lesser of the evils.

[talaniman]

They step out of line, blow those suckers away too! Why is this so complicated? I think this president has creds for eliminating the enemy. If he can find and blow a sucker away who's hiding, then for damn sure he can blow the suckers away who aren't.

[speechlesstx]

If the treaty signed by 90 something nations banning the use of gas during conflicts, then it seems everybody would be outraged at this blatant disregard of that international standard. If you do NOTHING, then surely he will do it again. I would turn his a$$ into the governing body, which is the HAGUE, and if they did nothing, the UN did nothing, the international body did NOTHING, then we can make a decision on what WE do.

I point out that he has used gas, and everybody has done nothing already.

That scenario sounds awfully familiar...

[Wondergirl]

They step out of line, blow those suckers away too! Why is this so complicated? I think this president has creds for eliminating the enemy. If he can find and blow a sucker away who's hiding, then for damn sure he can blow the suckers away who aren't.

If we eliminate all the suckers (enemies), who will take over the country? It will become our 51st state?

[speechlesstx]

What, are we the world's policeman now? Why pick one evil dictator over another evil dictator?

[smoothy]

They step out of line, blow those suckers away too! Why is this so complicated? I think this president has creds for eliminating the enemy. If he can find and blow a sucker away who's hiding, then for damn sure he can blow the suckers away who aren't.

Wasn't YOUR guys just whining about "civilian" casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan? And Pakistan?

[excon]

Hello again, Steve:

What, are we the world's policeman now?

We ARE the leader of the free world. Nobody shy's away from THAT appellation.. But, you don't become the worlds leader without dishing out some discipline.

Or, is all that crap about American Exceptionalism, CRAP??

Excon

[smoothy]

Funny how the people that were bellyaching about Iraq and Afghanistan are preaching getting involved in Syria where we have absolutely no national interests at all of any type... just because the Messiah wants to do it.

[talaniman]

Funny how the guys who went to Iraq and Afghanistan bellyache about this president bombing Syria without the boots on the ground.

[smoothy]

Funny how the guys who went to Iraq and Afghanistan bellyache about this president bombing Syria without the boots on the ground.

THere were actual national interests for going into both Afghanistand and Iraq... but you guys have repeatedly made clear you aren't capable of grasping the basic concepts...

And nobody has yet shown one good reason we should go into Syria other than the fact Obama needs to defend his manhood... and is having a tantrum that the Brits told him to stuff it. As has almost everyone else so far.


I'm guessing he's been suffering from ED and he feels a need to go out and kill some people to feel like a man again.

[tomder55]

Hello wishy washy Steve:Bush had no trouble asking 4,000 Americans to shed their lives... The irony is that Rand Paul is a peacenik, and you're NOT.

Me neither... I'll bet you and I would agree on what constitutes "punishment", though.. Obama wants to "limit" punishment.. I dunno HOW you do that..

excon

This is more like Clintoon's wag the dog in 1998... lob a few at aspirin factories and lob a few at empty AQ camps in the Afghan plains.
I stated about a decade ago that we needed to beat on Assad like a drum. Back then he was aligned with AQ and funnelling them into Iraq via the 'rat line' to wage war against the US.

I would be more comfortable now if I knew who we are aligning with in this conflict . I would be more comfortable if we were handing Syria off to a "Free Syrian Army " and not an AQ off shoot .

It reeks of hypocrisy that the Dems are suddenly concerned about Muslims using cw against their own. They were not concerned about it in the 1990s when Saddam was using them on the Kurds and Shia . There was no "moral outrage " when the Iraqis and the Iranians killed off over 1 million combatants... often using cw.

I would be more convinced if I was sure that it was Assad's thugs that did the act. As I have pointed out on this op... Twice in the recent months it was the rebels that were caught using and posssessing them.

Turkey arrests 12 in raids on 'terrorist' organization | Reuters
Iraq arrests five in 'al-Qaeda chemical weapons plot' - Telegraph

Who says the rebels used them in May ? Member of the UN independent commission of inquiry on Syria ,Carla Del Ponte, says so .
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator | Reuters

So despite JF Kerry's certainty ("We saw rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds, the white linen unstained by a single drop of blood.")... as he references a picture that was taken in Iraq a decade ago...
BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre' - Telegraph

Call me undecided.

[smoothy]

Never mind the fact the very same agencies that produced this report also produced the report that Kerry and Obama claimed was full of lies when Bush was in office... and in many cases the very same people.

[speechlesstx]

Hello again, Steve:
We ARE the leader of the free world. Nobody shy's away from THAT appellation.. But, you don't become the worlds leader without dishing out some discipline.

Or, is all that crap about American Exceptionalism, CRAP???

excon

I'm just strolling down memory lane...

[excon]

Hello again,

Well, isn't this a fine how do you do? We got two right wingers, (smoothy and tom) who want to coddle the enemy, and we got two lefty's and one righty (me, tal and Steve), who want to PUNISH this piece of sh*t.

Carol is still asking questions.

How we line up is about how the rest of the country is lining up. No?

excon

[smoothy]

MOST of the country is dead set against it too... because there is no upside... anything that happens will make things a lot worse than they are now. THere are no "better" options to fill in after Assad would be gone... only one of several Islamic knuckle dragger groups.

[excon]

Hello again, smoothy:

because there is no upside.

If you consider that doing NOTHING would embolden North Korea to attack the South, cause Iran to expand its nuclear efforts, and would encourage Putin to continue poking us in the eye, then I see PLENTY of upside to flicking this flea.

Excon

[smoothy]

Hello again, smoothy:
If you consider that doing NOTHING would embolden North Korea to attack the South, cause Iran to expand its nuclear efforts, and would encourage Putin to continue poking us in the eye, then I see PLENTY of upside to flicking this flea.

excon

Syria has nothing to do with North Korea...

Want to talk about a real Quagmire... take out Assad right now and that's what you got. All the dominant rebel groups are terrorists or friends of Iran and ALL of them want to commit Genocide against Israel... and they have all made such staements.

I would think YOU would be thinking about that... because you want to make a bad situation orders of magnitude worse.

There IS no positive outcome in Syria... just bad (now) and worse (if Assad is take out).

Didn't your party learn anything from Libya, Algeria, Egypt?