"Do not link my phrase to this King-George poseur!"
Posted on 09/08/2013 8:45:19 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough asserted that a "common-sense test" rather than "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" makes the Syrian government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that Obama says demands a U.S. military response.
McDonough acknowledged the risks that military action could drag the U.S. into the middle of a brutal civil war and endanger allies such as Israel with a retaliatory attack.
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"Do not link my phrase to this King-George poseur!"
Lots of photos from protests in Dearborn MI. Some muslims but the crowd looks to be primarily Christian.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/08/watch_dearborn_protest_against.html
Common sense would suggest that Assad is not suicidal enough to risk the consequences of his chemical warfare attacks. However, Assad may not be entirely rational just now. We just don’t know with certainty.
My common sense says I don’t care who did it. We need to stay out of their civil war.......
Common sense test? This is beyond absurd.
Would it be common sense for Assad, who has the upper hand against the Al Queda rebels, to launch a gas attack against defenseless women & children and risk international military involvement against his regime?
Or, would it be common sense to expect a regime that has to contend with the roll out of 0-care, facing numerous scandals, and a declining economy to divert the public’s attention with a war?
There is no way I could ever trust the US regime on anything. What I think could have happened is that the US regime paid off a rogue member of Assad’s military to pull off the attack.
Sadly I think we’ve extended the Syrian civil war far beyond it’s natural life by giving one side weapons they wouldn’t have without us. (Yes I think our government is lying when they say they haven’t armed the “rebels”)
I think Assad would have put it down within a year. He would have been brutal but it would have been done and people could have gone back to living their lives.
… Wesley Clark’s new memoir suggests that another war is part of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated “regime change” by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states. Critics of the war have often voiced suspicions of such imperial schemes, but this is the first time that a high-ranking former military officer has claimed to know that such plans existed.[ 2007]
..‘Here’s the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. We’re going to take out seven countries in five years.’ And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.”
BTW, common sense tells us Assad had nothing to gain and everything to lose by attacking with gas.
Common sense also tells us the “rebel” insurgents, who were losing badly, had everything to gain by staging a false flag gas attack to force the United Stated to intervene on their behalf
Reason
therefore Obama would be guilty of these heinous war crimes and should be facing a Nurenburg style trial.
willl Obama turn himself in ? or should the FBI turn him over to the international tribunal
They know exactly who did it, THEM. This could very quickly turn around from zero’s admin wanting to blast Syria to the world community talking about blasting us for zero’s admin supporting the “rebels” (i.e., Al Qaeda) and allowing chem to be used.
. . .you forgot "racist"
With all the Black on White race crimes perpetrated by feral Black Yutes common sense tells me st. trayvon martin was the attacker.
Yes, common sense does suggest a false flag gas attack.
… Retired four-star general Wesley K. Clark spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense. His resume is impressive: West Point valedictorian; Oxford Rhodes Scholar; Vietnam War hero; NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe; winner of two Purple Hearts and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Liar in Chief, Barack Hussien Obama.
Under the Thomas Jefferson “common sense test,” the Second American Revolution would have started already.
Common sense? The kakistocrats wouldn’t know common sense if it bit them on the posterior.
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