White House: 'Common-sense test' makes Assad government to blame for Syrian chemical attack

yahoo.com ^ | 9 8 2013

[BarnacleCenturion]

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough asserted that a "common-sense test" rather than "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" makes the Syrian government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that Obama says demands a U.S. military response.

McDonough acknowledged the risks that military action could drag the U.S. into the middle of a brutal civil war and endanger allies such as Israel with a retaliatory attack.

[NormsRevenge]

If the nation was run by amateurs,, how long would it last?

we may find out a lot sooner than anyone would care to..

[opentalk]

Interesting they replaced Hillary just before this....no one would listen to -what difference does it make -out advocating siding with rebels to stop chemicals..although Kerry has his own credibility issues

[Carry_Okie]

They don't know who did it but want to go to war anyway...

Considering how few are buying this line of BS, it isn't exactly "common."

[5th MEB]

Common sense? Since when has common sense been associated with the Obunghole administration? Were supposed to go to war because Obunghole shot his mouth off a year ago about red lines in Middle Eastern sand?
I don’t think so!
I want evidence; do we have concrete intel on who did this, and why? Terrorists killing terrorists, why should I care how they chose to off each other? I want to know how this affects the United States. Are we worried that some third world shit-hole country of barbarians will use these weapons against American troops; if they did they would be shown the great white light pretty damn quick according to standing US policy for the last 50 years. Of course under the Obastard administration we would probably be asked to just suck it up until the Holder Department of Injustice finished it’s 500 year investigation, then it’s civil prosecution in Damascus, Syria.

[Col Frank Slade]

Global test thrown out for common sense test.

What a dangerous joke these people are.

[expat2]

Common sense argues cui bono? - who gains? The only ones to gain are the rebels, who get to gain the USAF as the A-Qeda air force.

[Truth29]

If we are going to use a “Common Sense” test, that test favors Assad not Obama. Why would Assad use WMDs when he is winning and he knows that Obama, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are just itching for an excuse to intervene? More likely, Obama and his Islamist allies are trying to frame Assad and to set up for the attack. Much like Clinton made lurid claims of Serbian war crimes in Kosovo with many mass graves and tens of thousands of dead. The truth trickled out years later that the graves and casualties were far far less. (However, the Clinton sinknator is still beloved by too many today, so the technique can work).

[PghBaldy]

Common sense tells us that Prez Barry got his job because he is black, can sometimes read a teleprompter and had a leftist ghostwriter for his memoirs.

[Yaelle]

Just reading the comments on this thread, you’d get a better leader of the free world and a whole lot more common sense by just closing your eyes and picking any freeper.

How did a country with all these sensible. Smart people in it get controlled by evil dufusses?

[VerySadAmerican]

Well, the first Bush went to war in Panama “just cause”.

If there was any common sense in this country there wouldn’t be a democrat party.

Bill Clinton goes into an office with Monica Lewinski. She comes out with “.....” on her dress. Common sense tells you?

[firebrand]

I have to hand it to them as propagansits for evil. They take every legitimate phrase that can be used against them and, with their bully pulpit, turn it around against the people.

[dfwgator]

How did a country with all these sensible. Smart people in it get controlled by evil dufusses?

This became a very stupid country when the hippies started taking over our culture.

[Jeff Head]

What unmitigated Bravo Sierra!

You mean like the common sense that would call for Assad openly and blatantly using chemical weapons against his own people, in his own capitol when a UN chemical weapons inspection team was I the capitol just a few miles away?

Or the common sense that Assad would use the chemical weapons at a time when he was getting the upper hand over the rebels and risk doing the very thing he knew would push the US to attacking him when he was winning?

Or the kind of common sense that would have him play directly into the hands of the Islamic rebels whom he was beating when they themselves have made videos of their own use of the same weapons?

Are all of those kinds of common sense what you're talking about?

No, any sane, rational person, looking at this with the least degree of objectivity will use their own "common sense" to tell them that the Obama administration, just like they were with the Benghazi travesty, are abject, pathological liars.

Again, and again, and again, and again.

Representative Brown had it right.

Representative Joe Wilson had it right from the start

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"Like common sense, man. Yeah."

[tcrlaf]

Both CNN and MSNBC are going all out to say that Obama doesn’t need congress approval to hit Syria, and encouraging him to do it.

The Propaganda is full-on, but I don’t think it is working.

[Yaelle]

Global test thrown out for common sense test.

What a dangerous joke these people are.

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I had forgotten about the Haughty Kerry’s global test. What next, the It’s Only Fair test?

[Yaelle]

I have to hand it to them as propagandists for evil. They take every legitimate phrase that can be used against them and, with their bully pulpit, turn it around against the people.

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Goebbels is green with envy at the audacity.

[thoughtomator 2.0]

Common sense says what happens in a rat-hole desert on the other side of the planet is none of our business, and definitely not among the duties of the feral government.

[Thunder90]

[firebrand]

And all of it backed up with lies. Goebbels indeed.