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White House: 'Common-sense test' makes Assad government to blame for Syrian chemical attack
yahoo.com ^ | 9 8 2013

Posted on 09/08/2013 8:45:19 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough asserted that a "common-sense test" rather than "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" makes the Syrian government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that Obama says demands a U.S. military response.

McDonough acknowledged the risks that military action could drag the U.S. into the middle of a brutal civil war and endanger allies such as Israel with a retaliatory attack.

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They don't know who did it but want to go to war anyway...
1 posted on 09/08/2013 8:45:19 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Common sense? Not with John and Linda attached.


2 posted on 09/08/2013 8:47:18 AM PDT by Viennacon (E)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Do they mean like carrying a tire pressure gauge in our cars that will remove our dependency on foreign oil? That kind of common sense?


3 posted on 09/08/2013 8:48:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Common sense dictates that Barry is an idiot.


4 posted on 09/08/2013 8:48:24 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Oh oh. Things are messed up when they start using excuses like this. It’s the Democrats.


5 posted on 09/08/2013 8:49:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I still don’t care who did it.

As far as I can tell, Syria never signed on to the UN pact against chemical weapons and doesn’t acknowledge it so unless they’re used on a neighboring country, interfering will itself be a crime.


6 posted on 09/08/2013 8:49:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Viennacon

Even the UN doesn’t get fooled by these ‘rebels’:

UN accuses Syrian rebels of carrying out sarin gas attacks which had been blamed on Assad’s troops

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320223/UN-accuses-Syrian-rebels-carrying-sarin-gas-attacks-blamed-Assads-troops.html


7 posted on 09/08/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

“Common-sense test?” Can you imagine the howling that would have occurred if Bush used this as a justification for Iraq?


8 posted on 09/08/2013 8:52:00 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Common-sense test? Oh, like 'climate change', amnesty for illegals, gun control, Obamacare and stimulus spending?

This administration has lots of things but 'common-sense' isn't one of them.

9 posted on 09/08/2013 8:52:24 AM PDT by JPG (Obama, Juan and Linda Do Syria.)
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To: cripplecreek
interfering will itself be a crime.

Only if you define "crime" as a transgression against written law.

If you would update your thinking to the 21st century, you'll see that "crime" now means "a transgression against common sense", where "common sense" means whatever the Democrats say it means.

10 posted on 09/08/2013 8:55:15 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Was that the same test that jailed the maker of that movie trailer that was supposedly the cause of the Middle Eastern flair ups?


11 posted on 09/08/2013 8:55:36 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Common sense says that if you have a commanding lead in a football game, there’s no need to throw a hail Mary pass down field.


12 posted on 09/08/2013 8:55:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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UN accuses Syrian rebels of carrying out sarin gas attacks which had been blamed on Assad’s troops

Clarification: this article is from 2013-05-06 -- after an earlier attack.

It will be interesting to see if the chemicals used in the latest attack matches the signature of the previous one.

13 posted on 09/08/2013 8:56:21 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Syrians were just conducting abortion, what a big deal !!


14 posted on 09/08/2013 8:56:33 AM PDT by jennychase
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Common Sense also tells us that, if Assad already had the upper hand, as almost all reports indicated, why would he use chemical weapons?


15 posted on 09/08/2013 8:56:52 AM PDT by tobyhill
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How cute. A liberal talking about common sense. You know that means “even I can’t come up with anything remotely believable. “


16 posted on 09/08/2013 8:57:24 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Common sense says a white hispanic murdered Trayvon.


17 posted on 09/08/2013 8:57:53 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: tobyhill

Using the Common-Sense-Test, nobama and his minions would ALL be in prison or deported by now.


18 posted on 09/08/2013 8:58:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Common sense???? Like lets tell the world a video caused Benghazi?


19 posted on 09/08/2013 8:59:23 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Viennacon

Common sense approach only because Miss Cleo wasn’t available...


20 posted on 09/08/2013 8:59:41 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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