Posted on 08/31/2013 8:19:58 AM PDT by sockmonkey
U.N. experts investigating a poison gas attack in Syria left the country on Saturday, paving the way for the United States to lead military strikes to punish President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States, which has five cruise-missile equipped destroyers in the region, was planning "limited, narrow" military action to punish Assad for an attack that Washington said killed 1,429 people.
"We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale," Obama said on Friday after Washington unveiled an intelligence assessment concluding Assad's forces were to blame for the attack.
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Qassim Saadeddine, a former Syrian army colonel and spokesman for the rebels' Supreme Military Council, said rebel groups had been sent a military plan of action.
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Some of the most successful rebel groups are fiercely anti-Western Sunni Islamists allied to al Qaeda, and the West is wary of arming the opposition for fear of weapons reaching them.
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Some of the most successful rebel groups are fiercely anti-Western Sunni Islamists allied to al Qaeda, and the West is wary of arming the opposition for fear of weapons reaching them.
Say what? We've been arming them, AFAIK.
story come out this morning that the ‘attack’ was really the rebels mishandling the weapon
i guess 0bama needs to push the time table before that story gets traction
We don’t know if this gas was military grade or home cooked.
We don’t know how it was delivered.
Stop the insanity!
If this happens lets see if congress has the guts to pursue impeachment, there is much more than this to pile on.
What do you think...
Yes they will...
No they won’t...
“Obama’s bruised ego”
And that’s what this is all about.
Following the news reports, Obama was very clearly leaning against the war.
But when the Russians compared him with a monkey playing with a grenade everything changed.
I have no doubt in my mind that he’ll attack Syria. That’s what any narcissist would do.
our government is twisted and wrong in this. Assad did not do it, the al queeerda did
muslims killing muslims. Leave them alone.
Haven’t heard Hillary’s position yet. Very important to get her on the record before the attack.
Beyond disappointed in the House and the House leadership. Whether they support a strike or not, they should be screaming from the rooftops about Obama’s refusal to seek Congress’ permission first. There is no excuse.
The consortium of international bankers that run the Western Allies wants it DAMN GOLD back, and nothing will stop them.
They went after Ghadaffi with cruise missiles because their GOLD (the real stuff, not the tungsten filled crap that has been spread around the world by countries like China) was in the Libyan National Bank, safe from prying eyes and robbery.
However, after they decided to bomb the heck out of Ghadaffi’s convoys, he moved the gold to a safer location. Somewhere that the US Military could not enter. Somewhere where it was protected by a large military.
In payment for Ghadaffi rehiding the GOLD, they shoved him out in the street to be butt-raped and killed. This is a fact.
Well.... guess where that GOLD is ?
Yes, it’s in Syria, and the FED RES will waste as mamy Cruise Missiles, kill as many innocent Syrians, and sacrifice as many US soldiers as it takes to get the GOLD BACK.
Once one understands that this is all about THE MONEY, then one will understand why Obama is ignoring other allies (who have backed out due to it becoming too obvious) and threats from Iran, Iraq, Russia, etc.
Obama has been given his orders and he will lead the charge or he will end up like Breitbart, Hastings, Wheeler, etc.
“We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale,” . . .
So, we’ll send in missiles at random and blow up women, children and innocent civilians on a terrible scale, in “retaliation.” Never mind that the rebels almost certainly did it.
That’s the only logical response, especially since Obama and his pals supplied the poison gas to the rebels in the first place.
Kind of like Clinton bombing the TV station in Belgrade, because they were broadcasting uncomfortable truths about what he was doing to civilians there.
“Obama’s bruised ego”
And that’s what this is all about.
Following the news reports, Obama was very clearly leaning against the war.
But when the Russians compared him with a monkey playing with a grenade everything changed.
Some on the right have their hands dirty too. They (chickenhawk Hannity, for one) kept on and kept on mocking him for being a wuss for drawing a line in the sand and then not doing anything when it was crossed. So now bammy is going to go all macho to prove how tough he is, and the result is going to be a disaster.
“lets see if congress has the guts to pursue impeachment”
I’ll save you the suspense.
There will be no talk of impeachment as long as Boehner is there. He will bend over and appropriate all the funding that Obama needs to pursue this war. He’s a spineless coward who’s been in hiding for weeks so he doesn’t have to take a position on this war.
No it's not. It's about the PURE GOLD BARS that the consortium of International Bankers (the FEDRES) who loan money to the US, England, France, etc. had hidden in Libyan in the Libyan National Bank, and which Ghadaffi had removed and hidded in Syria.
Once you understand that this is the motive, Obama's actions all make sense.
Impeachment ?
The are too coward to even vote on Syria, much less impeachment.
BTW, what is preventing Waldo Boehner from conducting a press conference to ask to slow things down? Nothing.
Where in the world is Waldo Boehner?
Well, I guess we know now where Iraq’s WMD’s were transported to. Hmmm. Think the left and the media might want to explore this further. Hardly.
Has anyone started a thread on when he attacks.
I will go with 8:17 PM EST. tonight.
Is that Valerie Jarrett?
Is she supposed to be black? The lips make me think it’s Mick Jagger, but he’s a lot older. If she is an African-American, then I’m surprised because she’s several shades whiter than me!
Maybe I should put myself down as African-American. Then when I vote, the democrats would only get to 96.9999% of the black vote!
“Washington says it need not wait for the inspectors to report, since it is already certain poison gas was used and convinced Assad’s forces were behind it. The inspectors mandate is to determine if chemicals were used, not who used them.”
In other words, they do NOT know who did it.
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