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Anti-war Democrats speak up on Syria
politico.com ^ | August 28, 2013 | REID J. EPSTEIN and SEUNG MIN KIM

Posted on 08/28/2013 2:20:58 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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1 posted on 08/28/2013 2:20:58 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Obama jumps at the shot of dubious propaganda from Syria and the machinations of Prince Bandar. It will take a good spanking from Democrats to reign him in. More power to them, they are Americans also.


2 posted on 08/28/2013 2:23:34 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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The anti-war Democrats are just organizing and starting to gain steam. Many of them admitted they’re likely to gather more force after a potential attack occurs instead of before it.

Didn't stop them from their Million Moron Marches when it was EEVIL BOOOSH!

3 posted on 08/28/2013 2:28:36 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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There is no anti-war movement.

There was only an anti-republican movement.

Who many DC anti-war protests did we have from 2008 - 2012???????

Pathetic.


4 posted on 08/28/2013 2:29:06 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: CMB_polarization
Don't be fooled, this is for show to their leftwing base.

Everyone of them will back Obama when push comes to shove.

So, their voting records prove they aren't 'Americans also', they are traitors.

5 posted on 08/28/2013 2:29:24 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Why Liberals Kill”
President Obama to exit Afghanistan. But their heroes—from FDR to JFK—promoted U.S. involvement in more wars than all modern GOP presidents combined.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/10/17/why-liberals-kill.html

Welcome to the party,Dems.Bring McCain and Graham with you.


6 posted on 08/28/2013 2:29:53 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Noamie

“Anti-War” - Believing that your country is fighting for the wrong side.


7 posted on 08/28/2013 2:30:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). “We have to stop putting party above country here and it’s obvious that partisan concerns are trumping the national interest.”

Kucinich as citizen far trumps the hack politician he once was previously.

8 posted on 08/28/2013 2:30:55 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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The storm will follow if [Obama] goes without having the backing of the Congress.”

Oh, like it was when there was, oh say, LIBYA!?

9 posted on 08/28/2013 2:32:19 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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Well done, Kucinich, an honest liberal.


10 posted on 08/28/2013 2:32:43 PM PDT by Romulus
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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said he hasn’t consulted with colleagues about how best to oppose attacks in Syria.

I want to do just the opposite of anything this flaming moron wants to do.

11 posted on 08/28/2013 2:34:28 PM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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Did I just read this right? They'll object to deciding to bomb Syria without debate in congress after the bombing occurs?

The dems are as pathetic as the 'pubs. Maybe Kucinich can embarrass them into manning up.

12 posted on 08/28/2013 2:36:49 PM PDT by grania
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What I don’t get in reading history is Pol Pot was murdering millions of citizens of Cambodia while Jimmy Carter was president. Why didn’t Carter say or do something through the UN or whatever? Now Obama wants to unilaterally go into Syria with a few bombs? To accomplish what exactly? To knock out some powdered milk plants??


13 posted on 08/28/2013 2:37:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A white woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: CMB_polarization
You are wearing your finest tuxedo and walking to a friend's wedding. On the way, you see a rabid pit bull and a mangy wolf begin to fight.

Do you jump in to help, and which wretched beast do you help?
When you are done, the victor will eat your children.

Idiots are in charge.

Obama intervenes in Syria

14 posted on 08/28/2013 2:44:55 PM PDT by Bon mots
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“Members of Congress typically don’t take the time to examine the evidence independently,” Grayson said. “It’s probably asking a little bit too much to ask every member of Congress to examine all of the information.”

Is it really too much senator? Really?
When the lives of Americans are at stake I don’t
think it’s too much to ask at all.

I wonder if he’d think it was too much, if in the event
of failure and WAR, the senate and congress were arrested
and put on trial for neglect of duty.


15 posted on 08/28/2013 2:45:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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That bunch of slithering snakes that are generically designated as “liberal Democrats” still do not have the moral fortitude to stand up RIGHT NOW and denounce, in no uncertain terms, the fallacy of entering a fight on somebody else’s real estate,

The US has NO compelling national interest here. In fact, to go sticking our oar in here is to gravely endanger a long-time and steadfast ally, Israel, though that may be part of the subtext of the agenda that the Current Occupant of the White Hut is trying to push through.

When Saddam Hussein was limiting his warfare (poison gas and all) to border conflicts with the Iranian Islamic Republic, and to their clandestine supporters within Iraq, it was not the province of the US interests to stop that fight, not that we could have been in the least effective.

Likewise, when Islamic jihadists are shooting up other Islamic jihadists, our interest ought be limited only to containing any collateral damage OUTSIDE the combat zone.

Like in Kosovo and Serbia, had the US not intervened, the Balkan states and the European states most directly affected would have sorted the dispute themselves, and not had the US to blame for the greater grief that was visited upon them by strikes from a distance upon their real estate. A bombing run at 30,000 feet cannot distinguish between friendlies (if there ever were any in that region) and the despised foes, who, as it turned out, were pretty largely the Islamic partisans.

Likewise, strafing a war zone with missiles fired from offshore out in the Mediterranean is as likely to cause approximately equal damage to all parties on the ground, combatants and non-combatants alike, with no discernible benefit other than to break things and kill people.

Stand down, hands off, concentrate on keeping commerce flowing through the Suez Canal and into surrounding ports.

But of course, the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut is not well served by such a program. They have a bunch of phony scandals that have to be covered up, and the fog of war is an excellent camouflage.


16 posted on 08/28/2013 2:46:26 PM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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To accomplish what exactly?

To save face. Obama said he wants the bombing of Syria to be “just muscular enough not to get mocked”.

It's ALL political to him. He's not doing this because he cares about the children who died by the chemical attack.

17 posted on 08/28/2013 2:47:04 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: grania

Yes..you read it right! They are a bunch of lazy cowards. They don’t want to take a vote until after the bombing starts because they believe it will give them political cover.

Loved this bit:

“Grayson, who said responding to Syrian atrocities is not in the U.S. national interest, said it’s likely that congressional Democrats will become more vocal about the Syria attacks after they take place. Having a strong opinion about it now, he said, would require more research than most of his colleagues are able to do over the August recess.

“Members of Congress typically don’t take the time to examine the evidence independently,” Grayson said. “It’s probably asking a little bit too much to ask every member of Congress to examine all of the information.”

Just too much to ask that they do their dang jobs!! Priceless quote there.
Pathetic more like it. Heck..I am just a citizen and have been spending night and day studying this situation...and don’t even get paid! LOL!!


18 posted on 08/28/2013 2:50:30 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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Where have all the usual suspects from the entertainment industry been while the BOzo Admin has been orchestrating the overthrow of gov’ts and giving aid/support to yahoos committing all sorts of atrocities? What a bunch of frauds.


19 posted on 08/28/2013 2:54:24 PM PDT by Hayride
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What a bunch of mealy mouthed, equivocating cowards.


20 posted on 08/28/2013 2:59:34 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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