chemical weapons

[Danzig]

http://news.msn.com/world/west-readi...-gas-obscenity


looks like we'll be bombing syria soon.

[Danzig]

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...he_gassed_iran



The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned.


but, hey, it was iranians, so who cares?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...he_gassed_iran



The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned.


but, hey, it was iranians, so who cares?

Not us...and in the Iraq/Iran war guess who the U.S. backed and sent arms..
One guess only

and which of the two countries did we invade for no valid reason

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Not us...and in the Iraq/Iran war guess who the U.S. backed and sent arms..
:

Guess who had its leader overthrown by radical Islamists headed by the Ayatollah and had taken over the American embassy complete with taking hostages that were held under disgusting conditions and paraded for a year and a half?

You suggest we should have backed the other side?

Just think how WWII would have turned out if we had backed Japan.

[Danzig]

so jay carney says it's not regime change...but we want assad gone, we're backing the opposition (which is whom, exactly? hezbollah? muslim brotherhood?), we want the current regime punished for the chem. weapons....we want a new admin in there.
but it's not regime change.


right.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

so jay carney says it's not regime change...but we want assad gone, we're backing the opposition (which is whom, exactly? hezbollah? muslim brotherhood?), we want the current regime punished for the chem. weapons....we want a new admin in there.
but it's not regime change.


right.

they don't know whether to schitt or go blind, so close one eye and fart..Israel is passing out gas masks, and Netanyahu says they are ready for any possibility..and shows pics of their missles...we have everyone on our side except Russia and China

[Danzig]

i think we'd be better off instituting no fly zones and the like.

actually, i think we should just stay out.
who are our allies in this case? who in syria do we support? if it's another karzai, and syria another a'stan, we need to avoid this at all costs.

at any rate, let's say we bomb...to save innocents being killed? how many will we kill in doing so?

when in doubt, do nothing. why now? just because chemical weapons may have been used?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Guess who had its leader overthrown by radical Islamists headed by the Ayatollah and had taken over the American embassy complete with taking hostages that were held under disgusting conditions and paraded for a year and a half?

You suggest we should have backed the other side?

Fk no, just stay the F out!..No, we backed them and then invaded their country..and removed the buffer between them and Isreal..Iran is 80% Shiite which was Iraq's minority..
We wind up supporting Iraq's Shiites..nice work..

Just think how WWII would have turned out if we had backed Japan.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Guess who had its leader overthrown by radical Islamists headed by the Ayatollah and had taken over the American embassy complete with taking hostages that were held under disgusting conditions and paraded for a year and a half?

You suggest we should have backed the other side?

Just think how WWII would have turned out if we had backed Japan.

You mean the leader that was installed by us after we orchestrated a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected leader because we didn't like him nationalizing his own nation's oil industry (which up until then was being exploited by the Brits)? The leader we installed who ruled as a monarch for over 25 years because we were paying the bills? That leader?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

Since you advocate cutting foreign aid as a solution to the national debt, one would have thought you'd have been pleased about a foreign nation telling the USA to take its monetary aid and get stuffed.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://news.msn.com/world/west-readi...-gas-obscenity


looks like we'll be bombing syria soon.

REGIONAL CONFLICT

The Syrian conflict has split the Middle East along sectarian lines. Shiite Muslim Iran has supported Assad and his Alawite minority against mainly Sunni rebels, some of them Islamists, who have backing from Gulf Arab states

In Iraq the Sunni's were the bad guys..

Related: Syria's civil war: What you need to know

China, which has joined Moscow in vetoing measures against Assad in the UN Security Council, is also skeptical of Western readiness to use force to interfere with what it sees as the internal affairs of other countries. Beijing's official news agency ran a commentary on Tuesday recalling the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it possessed banned weapons — which were never found. and they weren't sent to Syria.

"The recent flurry of consultations between Washington and its allies indicates that they have put the arrow on the bowstring and would shoot even without a UN mandate," the Xinhua agency said. "That would be irresponsible and dangerous."

Let's be careful out there...Too many heavyweights involved in this mess..
Boots on the ground not an option..