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How the West could smash Assad's arsenal: UK and US military chiefs drawing up a list of targets...
Daily Mail Online ^ | 25 August, 2013 | Ian Drury

Posted on 08/25/2013 8:43:46 PM PDT by Errant

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To: I cannot think of a name; cherry

GWB’s major error was made on Sept 20, 2001 when he stated before congress and the world “..this is not a war against islam”. What he should have stated was “...this doesn’t have to be a war againt islam, that is for islam to decide...”, as it seems, they’ll clearly made their decison.


41 posted on 08/26/2013 1:40:28 AM PDT by jimjohn
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To: DariusBane

You need to THINK and Remember HISTORY

In the first GULF WAR IRAQ had relied upon SOVIET Russian Defense electronics which were OUTFOXED by stealth aircraft and Comman and Control Centers in bagdad were destroyed in “shock and awe”

What did Russia do in reponse ?

It withdrew, declared peace with the american led west and rebuilt its military offensively and defensively to be competitive in a stealth world...

American Arms became the best purchase by governments all over the world...

Russia needs to test its new technology and SYRIA is a good place to do so...

If russia wants to balance off the USA militarily, this is an opportunity with ROOKIE OBAMA as the Commander in Chief and as always obama is arrogant about demanding obedience from a smaller country...in world war two the russians allowed the NAZI to drive all the way to stalingrad and trapped them...

the russians have a historical inferiority complex because their monarchs were looked down upon by the rest of europe ...Obama has made clear he is coming, and he will put american technology on the battlefield...


42 posted on 08/26/2013 1:45:53 AM PDT by Understand the stimulus
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To: varmintman

The Dog will wag on or about Sept 6....


43 posted on 08/26/2013 2:44:58 AM PDT by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
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To: Understand the stimulus

ALLOWED the Germans to drive to Stalingrad? What alternate universe did you grow up in?


44 posted on 08/26/2013 2:49:21 AM PDT by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
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To: Vince Ferrer

The article didn’t mention France or any other ally? Will it just be USA-UK or is there more? If Russia strikes back it will not be overt—a rocket from Syria or an “accident” at sea. Interesting—we shall know soon—I believe.


45 posted on 08/26/2013 2:57:44 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Kozak

I CAN see that you havent a clue what stalin’s strategy was ....its ok private have value


46 posted on 08/26/2013 3:21:32 AM PDT by Understand the stimulus
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To: Understand the stimulus

Stalin was about as brilliant at strategy as Hitler was.


47 posted on 08/26/2013 3:30:57 AM PDT by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
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To: realcleanguy

You left out DC, the first and foremost.


48 posted on 08/26/2013 3:46:27 AM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: Errant

Great,help the Muslim brotherhood create the Caliphate,courtesy of the United States Military and American taxpayer.
Of course this supposes the Russians and Iranians just standby and watch,a sure possibility


49 posted on 08/26/2013 3:53:02 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Errant

Its comforting to realize that Field Marshall Soetoro and Generals Jarrett, Rice, and Powers are in charge, ready to go toe-to-toe with the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians.


50 posted on 08/26/2013 3:55:07 AM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: jimjohn

9-12 should have been empty the arsenal day on every third world dictator and despot country.


51 posted on 08/26/2013 4:16:02 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Errant

He has more flexibility with Russia now that the election is over.


52 posted on 08/26/2013 4:16:54 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Who am I to judge homosexuals? That's what the Tony Awards are for.)
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To: JSteff
Our citizens are the best in the world

Some of them are, some of them are not. Our government, however, is rotten to the core, and it views those outstanding citizens as the enemy. It's not "our" government anymore.

53 posted on 08/26/2013 4:43:59 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: I cannot think of a name

Uhhh, we won the Iraq war; Saddam is dead, the Ba’athists are out of power, Iraq is a democratic republic, the Iraqis defend their country and fight Islamic insurgents without using anymore of our “blood and treasure”.

Your comment is a disservice to our accomplishments and slanderous to those who served!


54 posted on 08/26/2013 4:48:11 AM PDT by Justa
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To: 5th MEB

Sell weapons to the losing side. When they get the upper hand, sell weapons to the other side. Repeat until there is no one left to hold a weapon.


55 posted on 08/26/2013 5:11:08 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (The IRS--a softer Gestapo)
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To: Errant

Since when is Syria in out national interest? Even if it was it has nothing to do with us so why meddle?


56 posted on 08/26/2013 5:11:56 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Kozak
Last month the dufe (Obunga) was trying to make scandals go away by fomenting a race war, now it seems to be Syria...

Americans assume that since we ourselves would not be capable of gassing 3000 of our own people to achieve some military or political end, that the "muslim brotherhood" would not be capable of that. That, to me, is looking at something the wrong way.

http://tinyurl.com/m6daaya

57 posted on 08/26/2013 6:29:50 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: Understand the stimulus

Not sure what I am to think about.

I am advocating we don’t get directly involved. So are you I think.


58 posted on 08/26/2013 7:32:51 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
Since when is Syria in out national interest?

It isn't in our interest, it's in the interest of Hussein's puppet masters and TPTB.

59 posted on 08/26/2013 6:13:30 PM PDT by Errant
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To: null and void
klaatu Barada nikto

Good catch. Many names used in Sci-Fi stories originated in antiquity.

I wanted to recommend a documentary to you call "The Daniel Project". It's available on Netflix - not sure if it's on Amazon Prime as well.

Did you finish the book?

60 posted on 08/26/2013 6:19:36 PM PDT by Errant
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