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Blasts in the Night, a Smell, and a Flood of Syrian Victims (Excruciating Details of Victims)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/world/middleeast/blasts-in-the-night-a-smell-and-a-flood-of-syrian-victims.html?hp ^
| August 27, 2013
| BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER
Posted on 08/27/2013 12:23:45 PM PDT by lbryce
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Assad is soon going to find himself in an underground lair being accorded the same sort of fate suffered by his late, sorry 'Baathist Party' crony, Saddam.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:23:45 PM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
Yeah, and after Saddam we got Maliki. Some bargain that was.
Anybody who ends up on top of this dung heap is going to be worse than the one who is there now. Not our problem.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:27:34 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: lbryce
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:29:19 PM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: lbryce
And absent from every discussion is a clearly defined military objective to justify the employment of strategic, game-changing weapons.
This one doesn't pass the smell test.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:31:30 PM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: Pining_4_TX
The country is in worse financial shape than Detroit and we still can’t stop dumping money and lives into the middleastern hell hole.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:32:20 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: lbryce
Horrifying as chemical weapons are, the takeover of Syria by Al Qaeda is the alternative.
There are no good choices here.
Therefore, I recommend no action.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:36:01 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(No bombs for Al Qaeda in Syria!)
To: Salvavida
Agreed. Assad clearly knew and knows the grave implications of using chemical weapons and how it would bring nothing but universal condemnation and hurt his cause, thus ... he didn’t do it.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:37:24 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: lbryce
So now the NYTimes is tryingto lay down cover for Obama with gripping stories about the gas attack, huh?
Where was the NYTimes when Saddam gassed the Kurds? Oh, yeah, that was Bush.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:40:22 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
To: lbryce
Reagan always used the old aphorism: “Trust but verify.”
Well, when you’re in an environment in which there is no one who can be trusted, and no way to verify much of anything, TRUST NO ONE.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:41:10 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
('Endowed by their Creator,' not by men.)
Five Days to September.
Please donate today.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:42:40 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
To: lbryce
I’ll believe anything unless I read about it in the New York Times.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:43:53 PM PDT
by
Thane_Banquo
( Walker 2016)
To: lbryce
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:51:00 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
To: Thane_Banquo
O! 'Sarcasm tag' [sarc] [/sarc] wherefore art thou?
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:51:27 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(The 22nd Amendment Lives:1142 Days Until America's Greatest Nemesis Gets the Heave "Ho")
To: lbryce
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:53:50 PM PDT
by
ZULU
((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
To: RKBA Democrat
Fascinating link, source. Thank you very much for posting.
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:54:27 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(The 22nd Amendment Lives:1142 Days Until America's Greatest Nemesis Gets the Heave "Ho")
To: Pining_4_TX
Did we do this? Why is this our fault? Why should we get into this civil war?
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posted on
08/27/2013 12:56:19 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: agere_contra
It is easy to understand why the Syrian opposition would be motivated to do this and attach blame to the regime. It is equally hard to understand why Assad and his military would do it, especially in Damascus. No one would dispute that Assad and his regime are very bad and desperate people but what on earth could motivate them to do this? It would be close to a suicidal act at a time when they are in fact winning their civil war.
The Reichstag Fire scenario, very possibly with collusion by the same American players who brought you Benghazi, seems far more plausible. And every cry of outrage by Kerry and war drum cheerleaders like the NYT just reinforces that estimation.
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posted on
08/27/2013 1:00:59 PM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: lbryce
Right, the opposite makes sense: Rebels do it from captured munitions, get the USA to help overthrow Assad and bango, they’re in!
So the only real question is - Do the rebels have the ability to deploy such weapons?
“Look at the whole board”.......
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posted on
08/27/2013 1:01:43 PM PDT
by
TangledUpInBlue
(I have no home. I'm the wind.)
To: lbryce
OK.
And what’s our angle on this? If we were looking for a change in their government, it appears they’re about to do it without help or US military involvement.
I’m not seeing any good reason to get involved here.
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posted on
08/27/2013 1:06:03 PM PDT
by
NVDave
To: lbryce
Assad is too stupid to remain as president if he is responsible for that chemical attack - he had NOTHING to gain and EVERYTHING to lose by using WMDs.
No motive whatsoever.
This smells like another falsified 'incident' intended to provoke the war certain leaders in the west clearly want.
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posted on
08/27/2013 1:07:12 PM PDT
by
skeeter
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