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3. of course, the admins objections are not just about the chemical weapon attacks

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Aug 29, 2013, 09:44 AM

Aug 2013

. . . they're really just pretext to justify a more direct military response to removing the Assad regime itself.

We saw almost zero response from the Obama administration to earlier reports which had the rebels engaging in chemical attacks.

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Blix: Even if Assad used chemical weapons, the west has no mandate to act as a global policeman [View all] muriel_volestrangler Aug 2013 OP

He has some points there treestar Aug 2013 #1

Normally we don't give a damn either. JoeyT Aug 2013 #6

I think we do treestar Aug 2013 #13

Mandate? We don't need no stinkin' mandate corkhead Aug 2013 #2

of course, the admins objections are not just about the chemical weapon attacks bigtree Aug 2013 #3

seems they waited to see who was gonna win, and jumped in on that side. KG Aug 2013 #12

We have killed as many or more innocent civilians with our Drone program. They are just Dustlawyer Aug 2013 #4

I agree with you. Tiredofthesame Aug 2013 #11

I did hijack the thread a little, ok, a lot. To me though, I see this looming war with Syria that Dustlawyer Aug 2013 #14

We tried to tell them that in the 70s but those that rule were sending the jobs all over to jwirr Aug 2013 #5

"To punish the Assad government ... would be the action of self-appointed global policemen" Coyotl Aug 2013 #7

What is he? Some kind of Yurpeen socialist? QC Aug 2013 #8

"global policeman" is the wrong term - USA/MIC are global bullies. ConcernedCanuk Aug 2013 #9

Sometimes slow & dysfunctional is better than misinformed & trigger-happy. Faryn Balyncd Aug 2013 #10