lifegoesonbrah
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Didn't we try that a few times? If I recall correctly it didn't go to well for the childrens.
Should we bomb Syria to save the Syrian children?
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Didn't we try that a few times? If I recall correctly it didn't go to well for the childrens.
Dr Kynes
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better still: wash our hands of the whole region, let them destroy what little civilization they have left, and just ensure that they dont export their madness to the rest of the world.
Lurkdewitt
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Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq to name a couple.
echelon1k1
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LOL... Why give them the weapons in the first place? Seems a little short sighted...
Harrekin
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Seems strange that the US maintains chemical and biological stockpiles if its so unacceptable to use in the first place...
lifegoesonbrah
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The chemical weapons shown on the TV looked homemade, but who know whether the Assad regime tried to frame the rebels. How could we ever really know who was responsible?
ChesusRice
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We have been burning the chemical shit for years.
We hold on to the Biological stuff at Ft. Detrick
abandonconflict
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Brilliant!
Assad tried to frame the rebels to make it look like they were framing him. Take that and die, logic! Al Qaeda is our buddies now.
midnitetoak
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I agree that doing nothing allows Assad to basically do whatever he wants but just as firing off a few cruise missiles might make us feel good about doing something; that doesn't mean we will stop him. If we really wanted to punish Assad for using saran gas we would send a seal team in & take him out. That won't happen because Obama is asking for a limited attack that will accomplish little. This will only provoke Iran, N. Korea, & Hezzbollah to retaliate against our allies or the US. This will be done on a small scale (think 9-11) by a small group of extremists but could start a larger conflict..ya think Russia & China will just sit back & do nothing? Every world war started with global economic downturns followed by political turmoil followed by the rise of ruthless dictators vying to consolidate power.
Harrekin
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This whole thing has to do with enabling Israel to have the capability to launch a unilateral strike on Iran.
You guys kill Irans allies on behalf of Israel, then they take out Iran and you guys can say "wasn't me".
silasraven
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so lets bomb this school and hospital. its going to change the government and the way people live in their communities. reason number f finger why i love america.
echelon1k1
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Israel has already bombed Syria 3 times so far, the last sortie was in the last fortnight...
Harrekin
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Oh I'm well aware of that, but they havnt the capability to take out Iran alone so they get the US to be their "bitch-boys" to destroy Syria and then they'll attack Iran when the Persians have no support.
Betcha Syria gets a central bank within 4 weeks of Assads fall...
Dr Kynes
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yes, we got big ass chemical stockpiles, but the US can be trusted not to use them
britain also has chemical stockpiles
so does russia
so does china
so does france
and yet no CIVILIZED nation has used them since the treaty was signed.
some of the chems are retained for research into treatments, because eventually a madman will get his hands on some.
most of the US's chems are a holdover from the cold war, when both sides were shouting "Come At Me Bro!!"
gradually they are being disposed of, which is an expensive and laborious process, which happens to be the reason we KNOW saddam still had his stockpile, and why some has in fact turned up (check your wikileaks) while the rest was most likely shuffled off to other nations or is still buried in the desert.
Bio Weapons are stored for research into treatments too, under the watchful (but slightly myopic) gaze of the World Health Organization and the CDC.
only a real dumbass would use bioweapons, which is why their presence in sandland is so troubling.
should a fruitcake ever get the Means and Opportunity to release bioweapons you can be pretty sure that any asshole crazy enough to use them will be a moslem.
hell even the australians arent nutty enough to release bioweapons, but theres no shortage of that kind of crazy in sandland.
ChesusRice
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Doer
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Do you stay at a fort? I have never understood fortnight. But, the way you are using it here, I'm thinking a rustic stay, drinking sortie? Getting bombed?
Doer
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"We are all war weary, but..." President Barrack Hussein Obama
stoned cockatoo
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probably not usually but it seems the most military have moved to civilian populated areas, smart move.. unless you are dealing with an enemy who doesn't care for child casualties
Doer
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So, after 10,000 years we just call it quits, huh... done, over? Say, I suddenly sound like John Lithgow.
echelon1k1
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fourteen nights...
Any play on words was intentional...