Possible Compromise Bill on Syria Intervention Emerges in Senate

The Nation ^ | 9-6-2013

[ClaytonP]

But Friday, Senators Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp floated one possible alternative: a bill that would demand that Bashar al-Assad sign Syria to the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and take “concrete steps” to comply. If he failed to do so within forty-five days, the United States would launch a military attack.

This is the key line. This will give Congress members plausible deniability that they weren't initiating another war.

Assad won't sign the treay, he will thumb his nose and then Obama will be able to attack without consulting Congress again.

[Rocky]

They were for the bombing before they were against it?

[ogen hal]

Smarmy, slimy eels squirming under the spotlight... Repugnant, repulsive retrobates...

[2ndDivisionVet]

[tennmountainman]

Get real. Obama is not going to bomb Syria, with or without a vote on anything. If you have not figured it out yet, this debacle is no longer about
punishing Assad. It is now only about political gain, as evidenced by this
article.

[Marcella]

And, if Assad doesn’t sign in 45 days, we will be really, really, mad - and we mean it this time! /s

[babygene]

I have a comprise for them... Impeach Obama, and indite him for treason.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Manchi, “JOKE”!!! They, the Obamabots low life are desparate!!! Trash can material!!! Congress Critters....vote “NO” and deny Obama approval to attack Syria. Send him and his Obamabot cohorts to Syria to do in Assad and company!!! Do not send one USA military person, woman or man to be put in harm’s way to cover Obama’s failed and uselss butt!! In fact: Impeach Obama!!!!

[ClaytonP]

And, if Assad doesn’t sign in 45 days, we will be really, really, mad - and we mean it this time! /s

It won't be a letter, it will be WWIII and the squishes in the House and Senate will get to say they didn't really want another war.

[Smokin' Joe]

But Friday, Senators Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp floated one possible alternative: a bill that would demand that Bashar al-Assad sign Syria to the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and take “concrete steps” to comply.

Really, Heidi, of what value is an agreement signed under duress?

All you are doing is setting Assad up to be punked by the AlQaida elements there who only have to stage another 'attack' to get free air cover.

Simultaneously, you doom a few hundred average slobs (or maybe just Christians) there to be the subjects thereof. A few head wraps later, and some time with a video camera, and AQ and the MB have air support.

These people are terrorists, and a few innocents (or a few hundred) mean nothing to them if that is all it takes to achieve their goals.

[goodwithagun]

But if the House does stop this, even if obama didn’t want to bomb in the first place, be ready for the mother of all temper tantrums from him. It will be bad, and obama knows how to serve up paybacks.

[fortheDeclaration]

And how does this nonsense change anything?

Syria still isn't anything to do with U.S. interests.

These idiots go from bad to worse.

[fortheDeclaration]

and If the Government of Syria does not sign the Convention within 45 after the date of the enactment of this resolution, all elements of national power will be considered by the United States government.

Which means what-total war?

[tennmountainman]

I would rather have a temper tantrum, than risk one American’s life, or spend one American dollar starting WW3.

[FreeperCell]

Absolutely, All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

[Hoodat]

Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this resolution, the President shall submit to Congress a long term strategy for Syria

That simply isn't going to happen. If Obama can't be bothered to submit a simple resolution on Syria, relying instead on Senate Democrats to write one for him, then how can anyone expect him to come up with a long-term strategy?

[Hoodat]

But Friday, Senators Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp floated one possible alternative: a bill that would demand that Bashar al-Assad sign Syria to the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and take “concrete steps” to comply.

Gee, such a decisive statement. And in all of this, no one in the Obama Administration has gone on the record to state unequivocally that the Syrian government was responsible for the gas attack. So let's say Assad signs the treaty and takes concrete steps to comply, yet the gas attacks continue? Then what? Or better yet, what if Obama fails to submit his long term policy on Syria just as he has failed to do on every other long-term commitment he had?

[American Constitutionalist]

All we are saying, is give UN sanctions and Peace a chance.


To the the tune of Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon

Reworded of course


Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout Bashar, al-Assad, Shiiteism, Fagism, Madcowism, Raceism, Taxism,
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism

All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance
All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance

(C'mon)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout

Putinsters, Sinisters, Tomahawk whamsters and Chemical badsters ,
Syria, weary of, weary of, weary of leftist war thugs, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes

All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance
All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance

(Let me tell you now)

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout

Revolution, Evolution, Regime Change a lution, Flagellation, Regulation, NSA Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations

All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance
All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout

John and Yoko were pinkos, Timmy Leary was a stinko, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan , Tommy Cooper, Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hairy Hairy Pinkos, hair hair pinkos, pinkos, Hairy Hairy Pinkos.

All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance
All we are saying is give UN Sanctions and peace a chance
(Repeat 'til the tape runs out)

[Milton Miteybad]

Statement of Policy. It is the policy of the United States that-

The Government of Syria must become a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention and take concrete steps to comply with the terms and conditions of the Convention...

Funny thing about this wording...I don't see any similar obligation being imposed on the al Qaeda-backed rebels in Syria. Considering that Barry the Boob and Kerry the Lesser have failed to prove conclusively that the chemical weapons attack were the handiwork of the Assad regime, it seems quite the oversight on the part of the authors.