[NormsRevenge]

doing nothing would be bad for O's credibility?

what credibility>

his regime is a layered structure of deceit lies distortions and failed policies..

again, what credibility?

Benghazi is biting back and then some..

[MeganC]

So Obama wants to kill Syrians for purely symbolic reasons?

Sick.

[tumblindice]

Just another petulant Democrat president with a god-complex.
And Zero was so proud of his Nobel prize, he had it bronzed.

[Diogenesis]

Symbolic?

The ONLY symbol will be that after the BOMBING
of the Pentagon and WTC on 911,
the Pentagon will willingly SERVE al Qaeda
as its Air Force and Special Forces.

[CMB_polarization]

Symbols over substance?

[cripplecreek]

I got an email from Democrats.org this morning. Not one single mention of Obama, the democrats, Lybia, or Egypt.

Dear **********

The neocon war criminals who took the U.S. into an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq are back - and demanding a Syria War.

The Shock and Awe bombing of Baghdad in 2003 that launched the disastrous Iraq WarWe say No!

Attacking Syria won't reduce the violence - it will only escalate it with devastating consequences for Syrians and Americans, as we learned so painfully in Iraq.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq killed 100,000 to 600,000 Iraqi civilians. For Americans, the invasion killed 4,486 U.S. troops and wounded 32,223. Of the 2.3 million U.S. troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, roughly 20% suffer from PTSD or Traumatic Brain Injury, and hundreds commit suicide each year. For returning troops and their loved ones, the war is never over.

Tell Congress: No Syria War!

Economically, the U.S. absolutely cannot afford war with Syria. The Iraq War cost the U.S. economy $3 trillion and helped cause the Great Recession of 2008, which has not ended.

Since Republicans refuse to raise taxes, the inevitable costs of a Syrian War will come from food stamps, education, health care, environmental protection, and Social Security. The American people adamantly oppose cuts in these essential programs.

Tell Congress: No Syria War!

Tell your Senators and Representative to vote against a Syria War, and block any funds for any military actions that could start such a war.

Thanks for all you do!

Bob Fertik

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need to know what Valerie thinks.

Is he running again.?

[sgtyork]

Maybe we should ask them how they would like to be targeted.

[AU72]

We are going waste 500 million dollars of ordinance on a gesture.

[Little Pig]

And of course the Syrians and their allies are just going to sit there and take it; no retaliation, right?

[austinaero]

Symbolic of what? That Obama is embarrassed and his ego is bruised after being spanked in front of the whole world?

And when civilians are killed during the “punishment”????? What then brainiacs?

[airborne]

Maybe we should just deliver some high-tech weapons systems to Al-Queda and let them use them I any way they see fit.

After all, if we're going to start fighting on the same side as our enemy, let's get this suicide plan started in high gear!

[WayneS]

Any Syria strikes will be symbolic, limited: experts

...speaking of war crimes.

[Colonel_Flagg]

symbolic, limited:

Convenient. Those words also describe Obama.

[JoeFromSidney]

If you're going to send a message, use Western Union. If you're going to use weapons, treat them seriously.

We had enough of futile "sending messages" to the North Vietnamese under that idiot Robert McNamara. Let's not repeat that bit of history.

[bgill]

Symbolic means no one is harmed. If that’s the case, then what’s the point.

If he means the deaths would be symbolic, then that’s proof he’s a sick monster.

[Fiji Hill]

As Andrew Wilkow noted on his radio show yesterday, the coming war will be unique in that there is no major incident involving the US to trigger it--no Rancho de Carricitos, no Fort Sumter, no USS Maine, no Lusitania, no Zimmermann Telegram, and no Pearl Harbor. And we are not invoking anything like the Domino Theory to justify it.

[iopscusa]

Stole this terrific send off re Syria from HotAir,

Who ya’ gonna’ believe?
An Administration who lied about:
.Benghazi
.IRS
.NSA
.Fast and Furious
.Obamacare, etc

And Secretary State Kerry who lied about
.American war crimes in Vietnam
.Having been in Cambodia
.About his non-existent war wounds

Or your own common sense?

MaiDee on August 29, 2013 at 9:51 AM

[Mister Da]

Hey, what could go wrong?

Bush dropped a bunker buster bomb on a bunker full of civilians in Bagdad. Clinton bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia.

Chemical weapons are COMPLETELY incinerated when bombed, right? They never blow around in the wind, right?

No one will retaliate for a US bombing, & it will NOT escalate the war, right?

Given our Bozo-in-Chief, I am skeptical.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...symbolic? Limited? I’m concluding that as a symbol of the 0bama administration’s support for al Qaeda, the corpses will only be a little bit dead. Sure is swell to have a deep thinker in charge.

[green iguana]

Just to show he’s no patsy, OBimbo will take out two - count ‘em - TWO aspirin factories.