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Dempsey says US considering use of force in Syria
AP, via Stars & Stripes ^ | July 18, 2013 | RICHARD LARDNER

Posted on 07/18/2013 8:22:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The nation's top military officer tells a Senate committee the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost 93,000 people.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey says during congressional testimony Thursday that he has provided President Barack Obama with options for the use of force in Syria.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; christiangenocide; iran; israel; military; navyseals; obamaspeople; rebels; russia; syria; terrorism; threatmatrix; war; waronterror
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Woohoo! Another war!!!
1 posted on 07/18/2013 8:22:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Which side?


2 posted on 07/18/2013 8:22:57 AM PDT by edcoil (Something wonderful is going to happen today!)
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To: edcoil

Damn good question. Probably the wrong one.


3 posted on 07/18/2013 8:23:59 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

Wars and rumor of wars


4 posted on 07/18/2013 8:25:31 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Damn good question. Probably the wrong one.

We'll get the wrong side no matter which one we pick.

Traditional Arab thugocracy vs. Islamist theocratic thugocracy.

5 posted on 07/18/2013 8:27:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: edcoil

Which side?

Terrorists side of course ,Obama is still trying to get his name off the hit list for killing OBL


6 posted on 07/18/2013 8:28:43 AM PDT by molson209
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To: Timber Rattler

OSAMA OBAMA'S CHOOSING THE GREATER OF TWO EVILS...AGAIN

I think I'm beginning to detect a pattern here

7 posted on 07/18/2013 8:29:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Regardless of his action, non-disclosure forms will need to signed by all parties to the conflict in an Obama action. That way nobody can inform anyone of what’s going on, who’s doing what to who, and who is falsifying, lying, and committing crimes.


8 posted on 07/18/2013 8:29:24 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Timber Rattler

“This message came to me concerning Damascus: ‘Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins...”

— Isaiah 17:1


9 posted on 07/18/2013 8:30:02 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Si vis pacem, para bellum.')
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To: Timber Rattler

Wrong side, for sure. And the antiwar presstitutes will cheer their heads off.

McCain and Gramnesty are just itching for it, too.


10 posted on 07/18/2013 8:32:36 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Timber Rattler

Why would we go there? If it requires intervention let the other countries in the U.N. sacrifice their young men. Bush bad, Obama good, what a bunch of Bolshevik!


11 posted on 07/18/2013 8:33:02 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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“Woohoo! Another war!!!”

This will be odumbo’s Kosovo — Just like when the rapist and chief slick willy got caught didling the intern and he sent America’s sons and daughters off to fight in kosovo....All hat, no cattle but something shiny for the news to follow while all of odumbo’s scandals simma down in the lead up to the 2014 primary’s and general elections and the right takes back the senate and retains the house.


12 posted on 07/18/2013 8:34:59 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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....cause only the ones started by somebody named Bush are bad...


13 posted on 07/18/2013 8:37:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Timber Rattler

Well, if they would use force by nuking the country from one end to the other, killing off both sides, that would be acceptable.


14 posted on 07/18/2013 8:37:33 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Timber Rattler; annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; ...
dempsey needs fitted for a strait jacket.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

15 posted on 07/18/2013 8:39:10 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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Of course it will be the wrong one because there is no right one.


16 posted on 07/18/2013 8:39:41 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Probably the wrong one.”

I have not been keeping up with this “conflict.” However, what I have read would indicate that there is NO good side to go with.

I would only be for use of the U.S. military IF the goal was to see the establishment of a non-Islamic state. I am strongly against helping another Islamic state to be established using American blood and money.


17 posted on 07/18/2013 8:41:48 AM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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And do we know exactly who the targets are?

When will we know when the war is won? How many of their refugees from this Islamic land will we need to admit into the USA? Once we have blown sh** up, how much will US Taxpayers have to pay contractors and corrupt local officials to rebuild the country? Because its Obama’s war, it will be a “good” war, yes?


18 posted on 07/18/2013 8:42:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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Option #1) Acquire some Syrian residential and warehouse facilities. Establish some CIA community organizers to stock, sell, and distribute weapons to terrorist organizations loyal to the side listed on the point of sale forms, including a non disclosure agreement of said weapons purchase.

Option #2) Find a guy who's making a video for You-Tube.

19 posted on 07/18/2013 8:42:39 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: blackdog

The oath you swear trumps any form you sign. Period.


20 posted on 07/18/2013 8:43:16 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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