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US moves forces toward Syria
AP ^ | 8-24-13 | Bradley Klapper

Posted on 08/24/2013 7:04:53 PM PDT by Deathtomarxists

the Obama administration prepared for a possible military response by moving naval forces closer to Syria.

Obama discussed the situation in Syria by telephone with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the White House said. It was Obama's first known conversation with a foreign leader about Syria since the reports this week that hundreds of Syrians had been killed by the alleged chemical attack in a suburb of Damascus, the capital.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; forces; hizbollah; iran; iraq; israel; lebanon; moves; naval; navy; obama; operationdesertclown; randsconcerntrolls; russia; syria; syriachemicalweapons; waronterror
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To: Deathtomarxists
We're going in regardless of the truth. This war was preplanned 12 years ago. Next stop Iran . . .

Yes we are. Samantha Power is a neocon in disguise, and Senators McCain and Lindsay Gayham were laying the groundwork. It's pretty clear now that what's going on. Liberals in both parties want to remake the Middle East.
61 posted on 08/24/2013 10:25:15 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: BenLurkin; spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Please post a source for this important information.

I'm not speaking for anybody else, but I've got a gut feeling that a lot of this stuff was being planned by neocons over a decade ago, and it's being carried out now.

Hell, in 2002, John Bolton labeled Libya and Syria, along with Cuba, as a part of the "Axis of Evil" after Jorge Bush started off with Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

We went to war with two out of the six that Bush and Bolton labeled as evil, we are prepping for war with a third, and at times we tried to goad NK and Iran into action.

It was clear to those paying attention in 2002 that we were going to war with Iraq, and that the administration and its backers in Congress were just trying to figure out how to frame it and sell it. The same thing is happening with Syria - Obama and his Republican and Democrat buddies have been laying the groundwork to go to war with Syria for over a year now.

The only one left out is Cuba, and it does not rise to the level of "evil" that the others do, which makes you wonder if it was just tossed in as a red herring.
62 posted on 08/24/2013 10:34:19 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: BenLurkin
The quality of the men and women in American service is likely to decline.

The quantity damn sure will, we are burning out some of our best and brightest on long multiple tours. We start losing our experienced service members, the quality will definitely go down.

My guess is that Obama is going to pull a Bush and think he can shock and awe this thing and get it over with quickly. And maybe he can get away with just providing air and naval power, and leave the groundfighting to the Al Qaeda allied rebels, but I have a really bad feeling that we will have boots on the ground.
63 posted on 08/24/2013 10:36:42 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: who knows what evil?

China loves us bogged down in the Middle East. The Pacific Rim is watching.


64 posted on 08/24/2013 10:44:29 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: Deathtomarxists

Freepers did just fine organizing their own gatherings after the 2000 election.


65 posted on 08/24/2013 10:50:32 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: Deathtomarxists

...so we’re going to aid al Queda?

Sounds like a plan. :)


66 posted on 08/24/2013 11:00:23 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: af_vet_rr

Please excuse me for posting a video of a Democrat, but in this video from 2007, Wesley Clark claims to have been told before the Iraq War of invasion plans for several middle eastern countries including Syria.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARihMrxdjU


67 posted on 08/24/2013 11:34:11 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: mylife

He can’t attack, it’s not in his DNA! How an a terminal, effeminate pansy lash out?

Russia said “hands off” so you think Obambi can go against his “reset” Putin? Can’t happen...could it?


68 posted on 08/25/2013 12:04:31 AM PDT by Netz
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To: sunrise_sunset

Watching? Hell! They are moving.


69 posted on 08/25/2013 12:09:04 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Deathtomarxists

“For the first time in my life my heart desires to participate in an anti-war rally. But where are all the peaceniks that usually organize these things? Obama must have rounded them all up and shipped them off to colorado to get high for the duration of that US-Syrian war.”

It’s really simple. Democrats are only anti-war when a Republican is in charge and when a Democrat thinks of going to war, all the Republicans are suddenly hippie peaceniks.

I look to what Israel does for the truth. If they think Syria is a true threat, then it is a true threat.


70 posted on 08/25/2013 12:25:27 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: Deathtomarxists

Rut Ro Shaggy.


71 posted on 08/25/2013 3:41:39 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Deathtomarxists

AstroTurfs Smurfs got the pink slips.


72 posted on 08/25/2013 3:42:34 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: elpadre
" No Congress, no UN, just the WH - what possibly could go wrong??? "

China and Russia nukes a few US ships in the sea next to Syria ?
The fragile US economy slips even farther into the abyss ?
Gasoline marks a new milestone going over $ 5 $ 6 $ 7 a gallon ?
As a consistence of this action China and Russia puts on the fast track to replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency ?
As a result of this war the US dollar finally gives up the ghost ?
The world markets namely the US stock market crashes of the likes that has never been seen since 1929 ?
73 posted on 08/25/2013 3:48:58 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: lurk

Pizza Hut in Syria for the $ 5.99 medium peperoni special is closer by doing that ?


74 posted on 08/25/2013 3:51:52 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Drango

$ 4 T is that in Trillions ? yup, that’s about right after all this is said and done and all of the destruction that is going to happen.


75 posted on 08/25/2013 3:53:21 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Bobalu
" Some US ships will be lost to the supersonic anti-ship missiles that Syria has "

A interesting thought isn't it ?
Think about it ?
For someone who hate's America and it's military there is no better way to destroy America's Navy then to put it in harms ways to bring it down below a 3rd rate power.
Most of Japan's Navy was destroyed in the battle of Leyte Gulf.
The Japanese lost 26 front-line warships during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
76 posted on 08/25/2013 3:57:19 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Publius

I believe Obama is or wants to intentionally have America’s Navy at harms way to destroy our Navy’s survival and power force.


77 posted on 08/25/2013 3:59:55 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Deathtomarxists

Russia is just going to stand idly by as we fire missiles into Syria to cause a situation, that is truly none of our business, to worsen. After that sophomoric exercise by Generalissimo Barry Obama all hell will break loose as Russia, and possibly China retaliate.

Barry has been advised by his brain trust that we may lose a city or two and that Russia will, in a demonstration of mercy, only nuke Detroit.

Macho Barry has visions of being in command of a great army making a valiant stand against a powerful enemy made more powerful by his inane non-existent foreign policy. He has been watching too many movies ground out by Hollywood that indicate a strong American president is victorious.

Well, Barry, we’ve got news for you. You are no Georgia Patton and you’re sure as hell no Ronald Reagan, in fact you’re light years away from these two.

America has never had any business embroiled in foreign wars. Our sphere of concern is this hemisphere.

How can America bloviate, saber-rattle and enter into a catastrophic war which will involve Russia to a great extent as Putin hates Barry anyway when we put up with a Castro 90 miles away and leave our southern border open for transient business?

Will the morons who voted for this menace feel comfortable now that the lunatic is moving us toward nuclear war with an enemy who has built up his military while we, like little schoolboys, have emasculated ours?

Is it going to take this disastrous excursion on the part of a psychopathic Marxist to demonstrate his unfitness to manage anything but a pet store?

After our demise, who will defend Israel and Taiwan? More importantly, who will step in, make the arrest, and defend what’s left of America?

Remember, Progressive nit-wits, you asked for change which you’ll get, but best forget about the hope.


78 posted on 08/25/2013 4:01:21 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

he can’t fully install his plan for an absolute dictitorial socialist government until the nation is in the bottom of the pit.


79 posted on 08/25/2013 4:03:17 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: greene66

And loses God’s approval and protection.


80 posted on 08/25/2013 4:11:08 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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