Time to Take Out Assad
Some people at DU might not like this, but if it is true that Syrian President Assad is considering using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels it is time for President Obama to order military special forces to at least capture Assad and remove him from power. Assad shoud not be allowed to use chemical weapons. That would be bad for both the Syrian people and President Obama. It is likely Republicans would not allow President Obama to move beyond chemical weapons being used against the Syrian people.
Yes, there would be consequences to removing Assad from power, but those most likely can be handled. The consequences of removing Assad from power would probably be less than the consequences of allowing him to use chemical weapons on his own people.
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when Bill Clinton bombed the shit out of Serbia
he began the pnac era
He halted genocide
that is what the american people were told
Genocide in Kosovo?
So, is there serious evidence of a Serbian campaign of Genocide in Kosovo?? It’s an important issue, since the NATO powers, fortified by a chorus from the liberal intelligentsia, flourished the charge of genocide as justification for bombing that destroyed much of Serbia’s economy and killed around 2,000 civilians, with elevated death levels predicted for years to come.
Whatever horrors they may have been planning, the Serbs were not engaged in genocidal activities in Kosovo before the bombing began....
http://www.counterpunch.org/1999/10/22/genocide-in-kosovo/
i heard babies were taken out of incubators once...
Nayirah stated that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die. Though reporters did not then have access to Kuwait, her testimony was regarded as credible at the time and was widely publicized. It was cited numerous times by United States senators and the president in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War.
Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International[1] and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country and found the story of stolen incubators unsubstantiated. However, they did find that a number of people, including babies, died when nurses and doctors fled the country.
In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباحand that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)
