U.S.-NATO Missiles/Bombs on Syria within 15 to 25 days . . .

[star seed 7]

It's almost like they knew chemical weapons would force is to play our hand.

Uh, obviously you don't know about the bilderbergs.

[p1k3]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Sure hope Obama doesn't "take his eye off the ball in Afghanistan" by engaging Syria.

[bubbles4ksu]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

We seem to have forgotten about the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq. 

[bubbles4ksu]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

We seem to have forgotten about the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq.

i'm not sure how that's relevant to the invasion of iraq.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

We seem to have forgotten about the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq.

i'm not sure how that's relevant to the invasion of iraq.

I think Iraq is in our near Iraq.

[Emo EMAW]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

We seem to have forgotten about the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq.

i'm not sure how that's relevant to the invasion of iraq.

Then you're a dumbass.

[bubbles4ksu]

depending on who you ask, you can get many different answers explaining why the u.s. invaded iraq in 2003. none of them will be "because saddam gassed the kurds in 1988" or "saddam is going to gas his own people"

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

GWB went into Iraq because his daddy told him he needed to

[Emo EMAW]

Okay strawman. 

[michigancat]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/syria_intervention_cost_military_strikes_are_a_highly_cost_ineffective_way.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/military_interventions_increase_civilian_deaths.html

[bubbles4ksu]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/syria_intervention_cost_military_strikes_are_a_highly_cost_ineffective_way.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/military_interventions_increase_civilian_deaths.html

i would like to at least make a huge ass attempt to feed every hungry person in that country and give them some medical care. after that we could sit them down at the table jimmy carter style and see what happens. why would they not agree to meeting? we will kill the government if they don't and the rebels are getting gassed. if, after that, we have to bomb them, oh well at least we tried something new.

[michigancat]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successf,33642/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:1:Default

[idontevenlift]

It's almost like they knew chemical weapons would force is to play our hand.

Its not like we announced that months ago anyway.

[Saulbadguy]

Never really understood why we draw the line at chemical weapons. Like yeah, go ahead and shoot some in the head, but don't even consider mustard gas... Wut?

indiscriminate and invisible kinda violates the rules of war. no one would tolerate a country killing it's civilians from the air either.

hitler and churchill both suffered gas attacks during WWI and hated the stuff. if hitler won't use it in conventional war, there is something different about it.

Fear of retaliation, nothing else. Hitler had no issues gassing millions of Jews.

[HeinBallz]

Removing Assad at this point would leave either an opening for a permanent residency by the US or an open door for the Al Nusra Front to take over.  Al Nusra, the Syrian branch of al queda was actually caught with sarin gas and appeared to be planning an attack with it.  So I'm not even convinced it was Assad who did this. 

It's really too late at this point as we've been funding the SFA for so long, much of those resources defected to Al Nusra with their "beheading of anyone against them" policy. So they've grown massive enough, they could likely take over even without our help.  We already have a crap load of blood on our hands, so what's one more bankrupting permanent occupation to help support the military industrial complex, right?

[HeinBallz]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

I think the point should be made that Syria is home to Christians, Muslims, Shiites, and many others.  They all pretty much got along under their dictator too until Muslim brotherhood and other extremist starting receiving funding from the US/china/Russia/UN etc.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Will there be massive anti war protests for Barry's War?

no. there are substantial differences between the current situation and the invasion of iraq. also, liberals won't call obama on his crap and conservatives aren't about to shed tears over more dead muslims.

I think the point should be made that Syria is home to Christians, Muslims, Shiites, and many others.  They all pretty much got along under their dictator too until Muslim brotherhood and other extremist starting receiving funding from the US/china/Russia/UN etc.

It's "mooslims".

[michigancat]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/syria_intervention_cost_military_strikes_are_a_highly_cost_ineffective_way.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/27/military_interventions_increase_civilian_deaths.html

i would like to at least make a huge ass attempt to feed every hungry person in that country and give them some medical care. after that we could sit them down at the table jimmy carter style and see what happens. why would they not agree to meeting? we will kill the government if they don't and the rebels are getting gassed. if, after that, we have to bomb them, oh well at least we tried something new.

I'd be down for that. It's definitely perferable to bombing the crap out of the place.

[bubbles4ksu]

Never really understood why we draw the line at chemical weapons. Like yeah, go ahead and shoot some in the head, but don't even consider mustard gas... Wut?

indiscriminate and invisible kinda violates the rules of war. no one would tolerate a country killing it's civilians from the air either.

hitler and churchill both suffered gas attacks during WWI and hated the stuff. if hitler won't use it in conventional war, there is something different about it.

Fear of retaliation, nothing else. Hitler had no issues gassing millions of Jews.

mostly fear of retaliation, but i also think people are more likely to use unconventional weapons against people they don't consider equals. some people wonder if we would have used atomic weapons against the nazis on account of their whiteness.

[sys]

Just killing people with bullets, drones, etc. actually helps Mother Earth by depopulation. Duh.

Won't argue with that part.

killing males has almost no impact on population growth, unfortunately.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Contrary to the above, its clear that ethnic cleansing is the only way to resolve this pickle in Syria.

[bubbles4ksu]

Contrary to the above, its clear that ethnic cleansing is the only way to resolve this pickle in Syria.

like i was saying, put turkey in charge of this mess.

[HeinBallz]

Contrary to the above, its clear that ethnic cleansing is the only way to resolve this pickle in Syria.

some of them are hot tho