Posted on 09/04/2013 5:01:29 PM PDT by Nachum
Regardless of what Barack Obama is saying he, and not the world or humanity, drew a red line in the sand regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Now that either the Syrian government, or the al-Qaeda rebels we are about to support, used chemical weapons Barack Obama is seeking authorization from the Congress to conduct military operations in the war-torn country.
The president is assuring the Congress, and the American people, that this will be a limited strike and will include no boots on the ground in Syria, however when John Kerry was pressed on this he hedged his bets:
It would be preferable not to, not because there is any intention or any plan or any desire whatsoever to have boots on the ground,” Kerry said.
“But, in the event that Syria imploded, or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of” someone who should not have chemical weapons, “then clearly in the interest of our allies … to prevent those weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of the worst elements,” Kerry said later. “I don’t want to take that off the table an option that might or might not be available to the president of the United States
When pressed even further John Kerry stated that “there will not be American boots on the ground with respect to the civil war.” That statement does leave the issue open-ended, doesn’t it? While the United States will not put boots on the ground to interfere with the Syrian civil war it leaves the possibility open that we would actually put boots on the ground for some other issue related to Syria, but for what purpose would that be?
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Not if you follow Lt. Ripley’s advice.
(the bullshit faucet ALWAYS leaks sooner/later)
Send the Dictator and his Regime and RATs and RINOs in Congress to Syria. Let them put their actions into play. Let the spineless, gutless political wonders in DC face Al Qaeda.
QUAGMIRE!
But it’s not like we’re going to war or anything. John F****in’ Kerry said so.
I’ll take the one on the top left.
Bump
I'm guessing 37,500 corpse men.
This is NOT what any of the boot occupants signed up for
They each take an oath and repeat it when they re up, to protect and defend the Constitution, and that’s not the one these guys are making up as they go along
The Vatican Williston likely declare this war as an act of aggression
That alone has implications.
I don’t think there is any effective disposal method short of incineration, such as we did at the Umatilla Arms Depot, when you’re dealing with a mixed lot of chemical warfare agents.
“Is that 75,000 troops or 37,500, at 2 boots per man?”
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I’m sure they meant 75,000 troops, dividing by two is too mathematically demanding for this bunch.
...in other words, a few Special Forces teams and a couple of Army Rangers.
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This time... instead of hippies, weathermen and students for a democratic society... instead of abbie hoffman and bill ayers... it will be tens of millions of American mothers and fathers along with patriots of every stripe. This government will collapse if the will of 90% of America is violated in an unwanted and illegal war. How do I know it is 90%? cbs, la slimes and Drudge had polls up... and around 90% disapproval was what the results turned out to be.
Even the media is reporting a resolution voted out of the foreign relations committee as if it had passed the full Senate vote and was on its way to the House. mcmaniac's amendments approving boots on the ground and a "shift in momentum" as goals... may shift many left wing dims to vote no. There is no guarantee it will pass either chamber. The more people educate themselves on what is really going on... the less they want America to be involved.
LLS
Puh-leaz.
The plan is for the US military to take out the Syrian air force, the first order of business always.
The US->Saudi+Qatar+Turkey->Rebels can’t do that.
Then, just to make sure the central banking and government are replaced, the US military would continue on and finish off taking out the whole Syrian government.
Then the path would be cleared to install the same type of people we see in Libya and Egypt, terror/MB front men for new world order, to run the “new government”.
The US military will confiscate all the Syrian gold, probably bring it to the NY Fed.
Syria will then get a new central bank and become part of Western central banking.
Egypt barfed out Morsi, that was funny.
New world order don’t know what to do there. The Egyptian army is buddy buddy with the West, but they have this “heart” for not seeing the pre-selected (new world order) CIA-backed terrorist regime trash their Egyptian citizens.
New world order having hard time strangling these countries. These countries are getting sick of nwo, which, unfortunately, they see as the US government, since nwo hijacked it over a century ago.
They have to get through the Russian naval blockade.
Maybe the laughingstock Nobel panel should hand another one of their silly trophies over to Ubama.
Too bad Juan McCain and Linseed Graham and John F’n Kerry can’t be the first to go fight.
This will be the chance for all those militant military womyn and homosexuals to show their burning desire for combat.
Bottom line: Any action that significantly impacts Assad will make it more difficult for his military to maintain control of chemical waepons. Obie’s choice is to do something that has no significant impact, or do something that enables AQ to gain chemical weapons. He’s realized there’s no good military outcome available, so he’s now trying to lay off responsibility for the decision on everyone else he can think of. Look for him to realize he’s forgotten to blame the Boy Scouts and address that within 24 hours or so.
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