Dear Mr. President. Whatever you decided to do, please do not make your action my name....

[Paper Roses]

or anyone else know. Many of my friends and I have discussed the current situation is Syria. No matter bad had things are for those poor people, It is not our job to interfere. Nobody supports it.

The last fiasco (IraQ) didn't work, this will be far worse.
Our children and theirs will be paying in lives and treasure for as long as we keep up this warmongering.

I'm an old timer, seen wars since WW11, I'm sick of it. We americans need the dollars you are wasting to be spent at home.

I will not be around long enough to see world peace but I can dream, cant I ?

NO MORE WARS!

[Mass]

1. You mean: no more wars for the US, I guess

I am so tired of people stating "no more wars" as without this strike, there would be no war.

I oppose this war. I have a very hard time figuring out what it would accomplish, so why do something, but at least, I wished people recognize there is a war in Syria at this point. There are wars in plenty of places. We dont want to be involved. I dont either. There are plenty of good reasons for that.

But please, do not say "no more wars" as if the US intervening or not would do any difference. If it did, I would support intervention.

[jessie04]

2. Well then. Do it in my name.

A few well placed patriots will save millions later .

[Bluenorthwest]

4. And what does 'a few' mean? What does 'well placed' mean?

And please specify how they are going to save millions in terms exacting enough to be appropriate to the subject matter. If you can, of course. Your expected silence will indicate you have no details but plenty of hyperbole.

[jessie04]

6. No silence.

I really trust my president.

He'll get it right.


And the real shitty thing.. I've seen more negative comments about Obama here than negative comments about Assad .

[Bluenorthwest]

7. But that is not what your post said and it is irrelvant to what you said.

What you think of others on DU and what you think you see has zip to do with your previous assertion, when challenged you just lash out. Because you can not defend nor define your own wild claims.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. On whose backs will this 'war' be funded? Which of our social safety nets will be sacrificed?

Guess that doesn't matter, well, certainly not to those who will profit from and won't share in the sacrifice, it doesn't.

[frylock]

15. i didn't vote for assad, just as i didn't vote to intervene in a civil war

[brooklynite]

16. Nobody voted for Assad...that's part of the problem.

[dogknob]

5. Thank you. Buh-bye now...

[bvar22]

11. And the Drumbeat Starts.

Notice how jessie04 tried to equate "Patriot" with being Pro-WAR.
I'm a PATRIOT.
I LOVE America.
I LOVE The Democratic Party,
......and I strongly OPPOSE US Intervention in another ME Civil War,
ESPECIALLY when we can't afford Meals-On-Wheels or Head Start.

YOU want this WAR,
then YOU Pay for It,
and YOU put YOUR body On-the-Line.


You can take your "patriot" bullshit and stick it in a dark, stinky place.
AFIC, the MOST Patriotic thing somebody could want would be for the US Military stay HOME, and the $MONEY$ used to help $AMERICANS$.
THAT is REAL "Patriotism".

[pangaia]

17. I could be wrong but.

I read 'patriots' as referring to missiles.
Either way, I still do not agree with him.

[Catherina]

3. Nor mine. n/t

[AnotherMcIntosh]

8. He doesn't always interfere when chemical weapons are used:

[iamthebandfanman]

13. pepper sprays purpose

is not to kill.


don't get me wrong, its way over used and in the instance the picture is showing it was clearly excessive force...

but don't kid yourself, they aren't the same types of chemicals.

go throw some sarin gass in your face and see how you feel afterwards... youll feel dead, cause that's what youll be.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

14. He doesn't always interfere when chemical weapons are used. n/t

[bvar22]

10. Not in MY name!

DURec!

[iamthebandfanman]

12. For him to not do it in your name

wouldn't that require you to not be saying so behind an anonymous name over the internet?

[Ocelot]

18. He'll go down in history as Dubya's equally amoral Siamese twin

And destroy the Democratic party's chances in 2014 & 2016. Any President who wants a war based on a transparently phony, concocted excuse deserves posterity's scorn.

[pacalo]

19. It won't be done with our permission, but it will most certainly be done in our name.

Most of our Washington politicians vote for whatever helps their own financial interests -- whether we approve or not. The military-corporate machine wants war & they really don't care how we feel about it.

It will be done in all our names. If our country is ever attacked out of retaliation for all the innocent lives lost or shattered by our military, they won't know or care about who did not approve of the aggression before it began.

If a leader of another sovereign country is "gassing his own people", the decision to bomb/murder more innocent people to make a point makes no sense. The better choice in removing another leader is to use a commando-type operation.