Iraq, Obama, Libya, Syria..I am sick at heart

[Peacetrain]

Oh Dear Lord, what do we do?..

I cannot stomach another war. It sears my very soul. When the powers that be gas their people in Syria.. what do we do?

Mass graves, children gassed in their beds.. But this is the same thing we heard with Iraq.

We all knew Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. And we knew that when the troops went in. We knew that.

I know the President took tremendous heat, when he waited to do attacks on Libya. He did not put troops in the country. The rebels took out Gaddafi. How is Libya doing now? I don't know. I have heard nothing. But thank GOD we do not have troops in Libya.

Please Mr. President. Do not put troops in Syria. Take out there military storehouses. Give them enough warning so no one has to die.

But no troops on the ground..

That is my prayer

[Harmony Blue]

1. How will the chemical weapon storage sites be secured without boots on the ground?

This is my fear.

[Peacetrain]

3. I have no idea.. I do not know

Can you blow them up? I am so scared I am sick at my stomach.

[Harmony Blue]

9. To be honest probably not even military planners are

certain of the consequences.

[Peacetrain]

11. Someone

further down the thread made a good point, that no troops would be going in in three days..I just have this Iraq image seared in my brain.

But you made a great point.. what if they do blow up the storehouses.. where does all that gas go? Is it destroyed by bombs??

It is very frightening for me..the more I read, the less I understand. If that makes any sense.

[Harmony Blue]

14. Special forces could be deployed

The U.S. has a contingency plan to deploy U.S. special forces to secure nuclear storage sites in the event Pakistan descended into anarchy for example. I suspect this may happen with Syria as well.

[Peacetrain]

18. None of it sounds good

what do you do? I know I keep repeating that.. but that is where I am.. Human beings are nuts.. we are so bent on destroying each other and our selves.. sigh..

[randome]

15. Why do you think they need to be secured?

I believe the objective is to stop Assad from using them. Take out Assad and everyone else will think twice about doing what he has done.
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[Harmony Blue]

19. If the Syrian military is incapicitated and fragemented

there is no one to guard the chemical weapon stockpiles from the competing resistance operating inside Syria.

[Amonester]

16. Who needs boots on the ground when remote-controlled DRONES

can keep the gas-chamber crazies away from their gateways?

[David__77]

2. So you are calling for war with Syria.

Storehouses? Don't be naive.

[Peacetrain]

8. Of course not.. what a stupid accusation to make

From everything I read..they are going to send in missiles this week.. My biggest fear is finding us with boots on the ground in another middle east war.

We have been at war for 10 years.. 10 years.. will it ever end.. why is it always us? if you can answer those questions .. please have at it.. I am numb.

[railsback]

4. There won't be any troops in Syria

I have no idea why so many think that would happen

Of course, this is the home of the NSA spying on every single person...

[Peacetrain]

5. I need to hear that

over and over and over.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. At this time everything I've seen says there will be an attack using cruise missiles...

In three days there is no time to put troops into Syria.

It would require from three to six months to move the troops into the region and invade. That could not happen before January. Also, the Russians might just bitch and moan about missile strikes on Syrian military equipment that the Syrians will replace by buying it form the Russians. But I don't think they would accept even the small numbers of troops involved in the Libyan conflict. Obama does not want a war with the Russians.

[Peacetrain]

7. I did not even think about that

Thank you.. I was trying to find out how Libya was doing.. that seems to be the model he (the President) is using again.. but for what ever reason, there is not a whole lot of news about Libya..

[kelliekat44]

10. How much sense does it make to blow up all the chemical weapon sites and spread the poison all

over the place?

[Peacetrain]

12. Yep.. where does it go?

I do not understand how this works at all

[warrant46]

13. Well, We can all stand back and watch the masses cheer on TV

USA USA USA

[randome]

17. Who says that's the objective? The objective is to stop Assad.

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Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[dionysus]

20. i'm not sure if an incendiary explosion would destroy the gas.. or potentially spread it.

I figure someone in the military would know.