Petraeus calls on Congress to back White House on Syria

Politico ^ | 9/7/13 | MIKE ALLEN and JENNIFER EPSTEIN

[jimbo123]

Retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, former CIA director under President Barack Obama, called strongly Saturday for Congress to back the White House on Syria, declaring that military action against the regime is “necessary” to deter “Iran, North Korea and other would-be aggressors.”

“Failure of Congress to approve the president’s request would have serious ramifications not just in the Mideast but around the world,” Petraeus said in a four-sentence statement provided to POLITICO.

[skeeter]

Actually, I totally agree with Gen Petraeus - not supporting the President will undermine and do damage to both the President personally and to the country.

I think of Obama losing on Syria as firefighters demolishing buildings to create a fire break. Not good for the buildings knocked down but good for what remains of the city.

[KevinB]

Are we surrounded by losers rather than leaders?

That's a rhetorical question, right?

[sport]

I believe so also.

[444Flyer]

Just go away Petraeus. Obama&Co are showing you for a fool to their benefit. Have you no self respect or dignity left? Have you fallen so far as to lick the dust off the boots of these America haters?

[Diogenesis]

The General wants to ‘dick up’, again,
leave OUR TROOPS behind, again,
while he grovels and serves al Qaeda, again.

The American public is OUTRAGED.

[b4its2late]

Screw him and the horse he rode in on.

[skeeter]

Surprise. To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

[silverleaf]

oh look
the disgraced adulterer is back
now this compromised man is supposed to have some kind of credibility?

[sport]

My FRiend, On November 4 2008, the world, as I knew it, changed. Up became down, down became up, what was black became white, what was white became black, what was right became wrong, What was wrong became right, left became right, right became left, truth became lie, lie became truth. And from what I have seen, it continues, from my point of view, to get crazier.

The few that don't call me crazy, shake their head and walk away, call me a doom and gloomer when I attempt to talk to them about what is going on, agree and say,"I don't know what is going on, this is not the Country I grew up in any longer." And I can't see it changing for the better any time soon.

[Delta 21]

There is an Obammy facepalm going around that says he cant get anyone to agree on his Syria plans except the folks that attacked us on 9-11. (..thought I saved it...)

Thanks for posting.

[sport]

You do understand that there are those on this forum that worship him, don’t you?

[familyop]

"This is NUTZ! My understanding of politics is turned on its head....Why is this crap being pushed? Why have i become so antiwar unless it is brought to our shores? I feel like a hippie...dude or man...or maybe even Daddio"

It's not really about celebrities or civilian political figureheads. It's about Iran's nuclear weapons buildup with support from Syria's ports and government (and from Russia). It's not about the rebels, either. They've been chewed up pretty good and are trying to recruit teenagers.

As for the propaganda about Christians in Syria, we saw the same about Lebanon, too (see map, area demographics, etc.).

Maronites are the predominant Christian population in Lebanon.

Harb pledges to be forceful president [Maronite "ready to fight" Israel, "protect Hezbollah"]
Lebanese Lobby (Lebanon) ^ | 11SEP07 | Francis Matthew

Posted on Wed Sep 12 03:12:26 2007 by familyop

"Beirut: Boutros Harb, long-serving Maronite Lebanese Member of Parliament, is standing for president and reaching out to the Shiite Hezbollah, across the political divide in the country.

[...]

"I have proposed that the Lebanese army and government must be in control of declaring war, and that we should find a way to incorporate Hezbollah's forces into the army. But this has to be on the condition that the Lebanese government and army accept the full duty of being ready to fight and protect Hezbollah if Israel attacks," he said, adding that it was also important that Lebanon had to liberate the occupied territory of the Sheba'a Farms from Israel."


Lebanese leaders call for unity [All of them support the terrorists. ...always have.]
CNN International ^ | 20JUL06 | CNN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668991/posts

"The ship is sinking and all of us, the Lebanese, should stick together and work together to stop the Israeli aggression," Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian who served as president from 1982 to 1988, told the Arabic-language TV station Al-Jazeera . . . Michel Aoun, a one-time commander in Lebanon's 15-year civil war who now serves in parliament, said . . . "I don't think that Israel has the capability to destroy Hezbollah militarily because Hezbollah is not a group of armed men," Aoun said. "Hezbollah is a major part of the Lebanese social fabric."

Lebanon says army ready to fight [The truth about Lebanon.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670344/posts

Aoun is also a Maronite Christian.

Lebanon Turns to the Vatican to Halt Israeli Offensive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668754/posts

Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts


Ground to a Halt (Research shows: Suicide-bombers Communists, not Islamists
New York Times ^ | August 3, 2006 | ROBERT PAPE

Posted on Wed Aug 9 01:23:46 2006 by GodGunsGuts

...

In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. Of the 41, we identified the names, birth places and other personal data for 38. Shockingly, only eight were Islamic fundamentalists. Twenty-seven were from leftist political groups like the Lebanese Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Union. Three were Christians, including a female high-school teacher with a college degree. All were born in Lebanon.

...

Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is the author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”

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Iran is also communist, by the way (everything state-owned and much of it doled out to the families of clerics). I posted hundreds of articles on Iran and the need to take care of business there a long time ago, but anti-American, pecuniary, international socialist interests here threw trash in threads at nearly every article. Iran continues to build nuclear weapons.

On the Syrian-Lebanese-Iranian alliance.

Lebanon Is NOT Innocent (David Horowitz Slams The Lebanon “Innocent Bystander” Myth Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671142/posts

[hal ogen]

Yes...with a capital R.

[Cyber Liberty]

Go back to your BJs, Dave.

[FlyingEagle]

This from the bought general who has the morals of an alley cat.

[MinuteGal]

You know we're in deep trouble when two of our so-called "mighty, honorable American generals" are known as General Betrayus and General Colon Bowel.

Leni

[fella]

The NSA must have plenty of stuff on him. Perhaps our so-called conservative leaders should take a lesson from “The Duke of Wellington” who when threatened with political blackmail said “Publish and be damned”.

[dainbramaged]

Those images really nail it - thanks.

[LS]

My first thought too.