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Russia Is Sending Attack Helicopters to Syria, U.S. Says
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 06/12/12 | Unattributed

Posted on 06/12/2012 12:00:49 PM PDT by TonyInOhio

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country's 15-month conflict.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was "concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria." She said the shipment "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barackkardashian; germany; israel; russia; syria; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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Time for us to raise our Concern Level from Concerned to Very Concerned. Also, Barack Kardashian needs to go to another dozen fundraisers.
1 posted on 06/12/2012 12:00:54 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
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To: TonyInOhio
Actually, launching a wag-the-dog war against Syria is exactly what I would expect this administration to do.

At the very least, the idiot neocon McCain wing of the GOP will fall right in line to support them.

2 posted on 06/12/2012 12:05:44 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: TonyInOhio

Not good, not good at all.

This is a provocative act by the Russians. They are testing and the test has no winners.


3 posted on 06/12/2012 12:07:30 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (You've been screwed by your government.)
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To: TonyInOhio

And what will the US do? Nothing. Nothing at all. Wait, we mine whine to the UN.


4 posted on 06/12/2012 12:13:05 PM PDT by sigzero
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To: TonyInOhio
She said the shipment "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."

typical good cop bad cop crap; right on schedule and according to their plan.

5 posted on 06/12/2012 12:13:53 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: TonyInOhio

Well at least the Russkies aren’t buying into Bain Capital.


6 posted on 06/12/2012 12:17:20 PM PDT by OwenKellogg
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To: sigzero
And what will the US do? Nothing. Nothing at all. Wait, we mine whine to the UN.

With Obama and his administration running things, I DON'T WANT them to do anything.
7 posted on 06/12/2012 12:18:11 PM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: TonyInOhio

Sounds like they aren’t going to hold their breath waiting for all those post-reelection goodies they’ve been promised.


8 posted on 06/12/2012 12:20:17 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Sequoyah101
Actually the Russians are (most likely incidentally) protecting Christian rights in Syria.

Obama wants to protect foreign Islamic access to Syria.

McCain is actually on the wrong side.

9 posted on 06/12/2012 12:20:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TonyInOhio

Syria already has 36 Mi-24 Hind gunships. I guess the Russians are selling more.


10 posted on 06/12/2012 12:21:54 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: TonyInOhio
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday demanded an immediate end to the "dangerous intensification" of violence across Syria and called on all countries with influence to urge the parties "to pull back from the brink."

I am reminded of King Canute going down to the seashore to demand that the waves stop coming in. This episode is often misinterpreted -- Canute did not have delusions of grandeur: he was demonstrating to toadies that he was not all-powerful and he knew it.

If the UN wants to demonstrate just how utterly ineffective they are, then I think they are handling the situation in Syria quite perfectly.

11 posted on 06/12/2012 12:28:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Obama needs more time. After all -- Rome wasn't burned in a day.)
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And Syria has an approx. equal number of Gazelles (French). Many Fulcrums as well. The brothers Assad have not used their aerial assets against the opposition as Qaddafi tried. Perhaps many dead-lined due to poor maintenance. Or due to Syria's incredibly shrinking military...

Just wonder if Russian pilots may be "substituted?"

12 posted on 06/12/2012 12:28:34 PM PDT by donozark (The 7th Wisconsin had more men killed in battle than any other Union Regiment.)
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To: moonshot925
Syria already has 36 Mi-24 Hind gunships. I guess the Russians are selling more.

The Syrians haven't made payments in years. This is a lot more like the Lend Lease program than anything else. I expect the loans for Russian weapons will eventually be forgiven in exchange for basing rights or some equally worthless trifle. This is Russia administering a beat-down to the Sunni Arabs who have been financing the jihad in the Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, et al), along with the associated terrorist attacks on Russian hospitals, schools and so on. Best of all, Sunni Arabs are getting stomped without a single Russian finger on the trigger, or the associated Russian personnel losses.

13 posted on 06/12/2012 12:30:09 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: TonyInOhio

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” Luke 21:28


14 posted on 06/12/2012 12:33:06 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: TonyInOhio

As bad as the current Syrian government is, this bunch of “Arab Spring” monsters are far worse.


15 posted on 06/12/2012 12:34:31 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: donozark
And Syria has an approx. equal number of Gazelles (French). Many Fulcrums as well. The brothers Assad have not used their aerial assets against the opposition as Qaddafi tried. Perhaps many dead-lined due to poor maintenance. Or due to Syria's incredibly shrinking military...

Aviation fuel is expensive. Syria is a poor country.

16 posted on 06/12/2012 12:36:51 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

You have to love it when the Russians kick the Arab’s asses. As long as our boy wonder imposter-in-chief doesn’t want to join in, we can set back and scoff at the media’s attempt to pluck our heart strings. It might be a good time to sell T shirts with the saying. Screw Saudi Arabia, Support Christians by Supporting Assad!


17 posted on 06/12/2012 12:36:51 PM PDT by meatloaf (Support Senate S 1863 & House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
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To: moonshot925

Nothin’ a few Stingers can’t bring down......


18 posted on 06/12/2012 12:37:21 PM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: Sequoyah101

In their internal news they are saying it is to help protect Christian minorities. Seems the rebels like to kill the local Christian population.

Honestly, I don’t want the US involved in anyway. Russia has bases in Syria that are under increasing pressure from both sides. It is in their sphere of influence, let them have some fun nation building.


19 posted on 06/12/2012 12:38:14 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Quix

Uh-oh. More stars aligning for the Ezekiel 38 war?


20 posted on 06/12/2012 12:38:59 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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