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Aim of U.S. Attack: Restore A "Red Line" That Became Blurred
The New York Times ^ | August 30, 2013 | Michael R. Gordon

Posted on 08/30/2013 2:31:19 PM PDT by Biggirl

WASHINGTON — The goal of the cruise missile strikes the United States is planning to carry out in Syria is to restore the smudged “red line” that President Obama drew a year ago against the use of poison gas.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamasyriaattack; redline; syria; syriachemicalattack

1 posted on 08/30/2013 2:31:19 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Blah, blah, blah blah blah.


2 posted on 08/30/2013 2:36:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Biggirl
Is My Red line Blurred?


3 posted on 08/30/2013 2:37:57 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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To: Biggirl

Huh?


4 posted on 08/30/2013 2:38:26 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Biggirl

Blurred lines seem en vogue with the vapid pop crowd these days, from MTV to the State Dept to the White House.


5 posted on 08/30/2013 2:38:49 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Biggirl

They’re kinda making up the rules of engagement as they go along

It’d be real neat up have people in charge who sort of care about our country and its rules, but, hey, this is what Americans voted for, and people continue to add to the stupidity and brainwashing of America by sending their children to government schools so, what the hey?


6 posted on 08/30/2013 2:39:18 PM PDT by stanne
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7 posted on 08/30/2013 2:39:53 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Biggirl
What a mind numbing incoherent jumble.

The best I can extract from the New York Times is that we have to bomb Iraq to convince Iran that we might bomb Iran. Why don't we just bomb Iran?

That is the one place our national interest calls for actual bombing, and that is the one place that seems utterly immune to being bombed by the Obama administration.


8 posted on 08/30/2013 2:40:02 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Biggirl

Was it Zero’s redline that got blurred or that fuzzy white line his nose is familiar with?


9 posted on 08/30/2013 2:42:15 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Biggirl

Obama is an idiot, a bully, a girly man who can’t even fight his own battles. When the going gets tough, he sends in the women, like Hillary and Kerry. But what difference at this time does it make? Even if Kerry does cut off a few ears and wire up some genitals like he admitted doing a long time ago in a war far, far away. And now that he’s again engaging in manly combat, I wonder if he’s going to scamper over the White House fence and retrieve his lost medals?

Bottom line though, lots of good people are going to die for Obama’s incompetence and stupidity.


10 posted on 08/30/2013 2:42:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Biggirl
Aim of U.S. Attack: Restore A "Red Line" That Became Blurred give and aid and comfort to the Muslim Brotherhood.
11 posted on 08/30/2013 2:47:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Jim Robinson
When the going gets tough, he sends in the women, like Hillary and Kerry.

bttt!

12 posted on 08/30/2013 2:48:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Jim Robinson

You’re right, Jim and furthermore, JFtraitorKerry is more comfortable overseeing his wife’s maids polishing chandeliers than fronting for the Marxist.


13 posted on 08/30/2013 2:59:00 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Biggirl

Without troops on the ground this is just a pipe dream, the alleged commander in chief is smoking dope.


14 posted on 08/30/2013 3:00:40 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: Biggirl

I still say the ‘red line’ isn’t blurred. It is pink. Hot Pink.


15 posted on 08/30/2013 3:27:48 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Biggirl; xzins

What a lame excuse to kill people with bombs. Unless our goal is to destroy all the chemical weapons that Syria got from Sadam, then we have no business sending in missiles that will kill a lot of non combatants in collateral damage.

What are the targets of this planned “Lesson” to the Surian government? Whatever we hit, the Syrians will claim they hit hospitals and schools. And They will produce the you tube videos to prove it.

Somebody impeach this clown!!!


16 posted on 08/30/2013 3:35:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe; Biggirl
Unless our goal is to destroy all the chemical weapons that Syria got from Sadam, then we have no business sending in missiles that will kill a lot of non combatants in collateral damage.

I agree with this. If we don't know for sure who fired these chemical weapons, and we don't know what kind they were, then we sure as heck don't know where they came from.

Besides, Obama is no leader. Cameron getting gob-smacked in Parliament is proof of that.

Obama tries anything and it will be a sad reprise of Jimmy Carter's Desert One Debacle.

17 posted on 08/30/2013 6:10:30 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Biggirl
...to restore the smudged “red line” that President Obama drew a year ago against the use of poison gas.

He and the girls must have been using the line as part of a hopscotch board - either that, or it got the smudged look from using Boner's eyes to look at it.

18 posted on 08/31/2013 2:45:39 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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The douche bag and his red line...


19 posted on 08/31/2013 2:47:06 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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