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Military strikes on Syria 'as early as Thursday,' US officials say
NBC News ^ | 8/27/13 | Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Erin McClam

Posted on 08/27/2013 4:19:22 PM PDT by jimbo123

The U.S. could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than to topple him or cripple his military, senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

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But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., an influential voice on military matters, pressed the administration to go further, calling for the U.S. and its allies to provide weapons to "the resistance on the ground."

"The important part of this whole situation is, is this just going to be just a retaliatory strike that has no lasting impact or something that changes the momentum on the ground in Syria?" McCain told reporters in Mesa, Ariz., after an event on immigration reform.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 911truthers; alqaeda; arizona; humaabedin; iran; islam; johnmccain; lebanon; muslimbrotherhood; obamabuddies; randsconcerntrolls; rinos; rop; syria; syriachemicalattack; syriachemicalweapons; turkey
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
What is it with this administration telegraphing every move they intend to make?

So the MB knows.

21 posted on 08/27/2013 4:41:24 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: jimbo123
The mainstream TV news this evening is awash with Biden, Kerry, Carney etc spewing their fiery rhetoric and obliquely calling for war. Textbook false flag op. Seems only Kucinich didn't get the memo.
22 posted on 08/27/2013 4:42:00 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: fwdude

hussein don’t need no pesky Congress or Constitution. He’s got a stack of EO forms ready to be signed.


23 posted on 08/27/2013 4:42:28 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: jimbo123

And there is not one member of Congress with a pair of balls to stand up to this bastard. He is about to get us into a war that we have zero business being in. Screw Syria and the rest of the craphole called the middle east. Let Saudi Arabia do something to help them. This is going to get ugly and out of control. And fast. God help us.


24 posted on 08/27/2013 4:43:55 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: jimbo123

So, skywriting can be used to send a message....


25 posted on 08/27/2013 4:44:55 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: jimbo123

I hope it doesn’t interfere with Commander O’Bozo’s tee time.


26 posted on 08/27/2013 4:48:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria (and Eric Holder))
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To: jimbo123

Democrats Bombing Brown People!


27 posted on 08/27/2013 4:50:06 PM PDT by DeWalt
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To: Iron Munro

Or locker room time with Reggie Love...


28 posted on 08/27/2013 4:50:48 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: faithhopecharity

“What will our objective be?”

That’s so ‘40’s!


29 posted on 08/27/2013 4:53:06 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: faithhopecharity

Your guess is as good as Hussein’s. This is truly a strike in search of a strategy, save Obama getting on TV and claiming credit for “decisive” military action. The template for this one is Clinton ‘s attack on that aspirin factory in Sudan


30 posted on 08/27/2013 4:56:07 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: jimbo123

I hope the military stands down and tells him to pound sand rather than fight for Al-Qaeda.


31 posted on 08/27/2013 5:01:53 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: gorush

From Obama’s perspective he’s saving his Sunni Muslim Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda allies.


32 posted on 08/27/2013 5:02:46 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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33 posted on 08/27/2013 5:02:47 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: gura

It appears that Obama wants to draw Israel into the civil war. That’s his goal.


34 posted on 08/27/2013 5:05:25 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: gura

I think from his perspective he is enacting “Cloward/Priven. His handlers want him to destroy capitalism. He has given us huge debt, he has decimated the military, he wants war with Syria so that Israel will be attacked by I ran and Syria, he wants Russia and China to get involved against us...all to destroy America, hopefully giving the left an opportunity to rebuild a marxist, socialist, islamic future.


35 posted on 08/27/2013 5:08:05 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

Hopefully a country with money to burn ,a military draft and lots of males 18-25 wanting to die will ‘fill the vacuum’ in Syria.


36 posted on 08/27/2013 5:09:48 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: jimbo123

Will the state of Arizona please put the nation out of its misery by recalling this idiot McCain. He is a RINO dimocrat and has absolutely no common sense left. He has to be suffering from brain cell loss because no idiot would even claim him as a member of the idiot squad.


37 posted on 08/27/2013 5:10:51 PM PDT by RetiredArmy ("As in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of Man." Come Quickly LORD Jesus!)
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To: jimbo123

Just because O wants limited strikes doesn’t mean he won’t get a war anyway. If we do strike I sure hope he has a deal with Pooty and China prior. This is just plain stupid.


38 posted on 08/27/2013 5:12:05 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: RetiredArmy
Federal officeholders -- congresscritters and senators -- cannot be recalled.

This has been litigated in federal court (Idaho, 1967) and state court (New Jersey, 2013).

39 posted on 08/27/2013 5:12:16 PM PDT by Publius (And so, night falls on civilization.)
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To: jimbo123

So where are the pictures of all the bodies from the gas attack? One would think in today’s information age, the pictures would be rabid on the internet. Somehow I have missed them. Hmmmmmm...... Could it all be just wagging the dog?


40 posted on 08/27/2013 5:13:45 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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