I'm glad they were idiots during the second world war. You'll be lucky if, in your life time, you will not need them to be idiots again in the same way.
Syria have agreed to surrender all chemical weapons, I hope the US back off, Obama has little support for a strike.
I agree. This is an opportunity that should not be discarded.
I heard Obama on the radio this morning. This is how I remember what was said.
Obama: We have overwhelming proof that chemical weapons were used.
Reporter: Used by the Assad regime?
Obama: Used full stop.
That answer doesn't sound convincing to me that it was Assad's side that used them.
+1. Even in the face of Russia's suggestion he was trying to suggest they didn't really mean it, that it was just a throw-away comment. He and Obama seem intent on rushing to bombing which hardly seems an answer and is almost certain to spark wider conflict. It's so like a re-run of the Iraq con.Every time Kerry opens his pie hole i trust him less and less.
+1. Even in the face of Russia's suggestion he was trying to suggest they didn't really mean it, that it was just a throw-away comment. He and Obama seem intent on rushing to bombing which hardly seems an answer and is almost certain to spark wider conflict. It's so like a re-run of the Iraq con.
Hi,
Change your view of the situation.
USA : men in suits sitting behind closed doors, we really need a fight somewhere in the world, we just need to have a somewhat valid reason.
Syria situation fires up VIA some nasty chemical weapons
USA : finally a situation that allows us to get into a fight, load the guns and get ready.
The real question is :-
Why would America desire a military strike on Syria? What have they to gain? Ultimately it is financial driven as they don't have the finances to look after the massive underclass that exists
We need to ask ourselves this, as they are hardly a country that is prospering right now.
PS I don't have the answers.
Nit picking again.They didn't do it for us mate. It was Pearl Harbour that forced them to get involved and we were just lucky that they did. So it was self interest for them and luck for us. Who in the Middle East is is threatening American Borders? And who will get lucky if they attack Syria? Us again?
Did we step in when the US used chemical weapons in Fallujah or when the Israelis used white phosphorus in Gaza.
Of course not!It did not suit our politics.If you control the media, one can by propaganda-emphasis and repetition- sway the way that most people think.Goebells got this down to an art form.
This time it is not working.
Look up which countries will not get rid of their chemical weapons.
As I said, I'm not sure what the USA's motives are in this case or who used the chemical weapons or and since you are not a target you don't care if they leave him alone.
We don't step in when someone does the wrong thing because we are directly threatened by that incident, we do so because it keeps everyone safer. If chemical weapons are used with no response, others will do the same. If there is a murder and no one bothers to do anything, there will be more murders. If any crime goes without response, that crime will become more common.
Domenico Quirico, an Italian journalist, and Pierre Piccinin, a Belgian teacher, disclosed a grim account of their captivity in Syria as well as potentially new information about the chemical weapon attacks, upon their return to Rome Sunday.
As a seasoned war correspondent, Quirico traveled to Syria by means of Lebanon on April 6 to cover the revolution. Three days later, Quirico and Piccinin were kidnapped as they traveled to the Syrian city of Homs together.
Held hostage for six months, Quirico and Piccinin claim to have overheard their captors through closed doors, discussing the chemical weapon attacks near Damascus. Piccinin reports that the rebels said that Assad was not responsible for the attacks.
"It wasn't the government of Bashar al-Assad that used sarin gas or any other gas in Ghouta," Piccinin revealed on Belgian RTL radio.
"We are sure about this because we overheard a conversation between rebels. It pains me to say it because I've been a fierce supporter of the Free Syrian Army in its rightful fight for democracy since 2012," Piccinin said.
But Quirico said the information cannot be officially verified and thus can only be regarded as conjecture.
Quirico told La Stampa, the Italian newspaper for which he reports, "We heard some people we didn't know talking through a half-closed door. It's impossible to know whether what was said was based on real fact or just hearsay."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24039309"Our captors were from a group that professed itself to be Islamist but that in reality is made up of mixed-up young men who have joined the revolution because the revolution now belongs to these groups that are midway between banditry and fanaticism," he said.
"They follow whoever promises them a future, gives them weapons, gives them money to buy cell phones, computers, clothes."
Such groups, he said, were trusted by the West but were in truth profiting from the revolution to "take over territory, hold the population to ransom, kidnap people and fill their pockets".
"Even children and old people tried to hurt us. Maybe I am putting this in overly ethical terms but in Syria I really found a country of evil," he said.
“During our kidnapping, we were kept completely in the dark about what was going on in Syria, including the gas attacks in Damascus”, Quirico said. “But one day, we heard a Skype conversation in English between three people whose names I do not know. We heard the conversation from the room in which we were being held captive, through a half-closed door. One of them had previously presented himself to us as a general of the Syrian Liberation Army. The other two we had never seen and knew nothing about”.
“During the Skype conversation, they said that the gas attack on the two neighbourhoods in Damascus had been carried out by rebels as a provocation, to push the West towards a military intervention. They also said they believed the death toll had been exaggerated,” Quirico said in his statement.
“I don’t know if any of this is true and I cannot say for sure that it is true because I have no means of confirming the truth of what was said. I don’t know how reliable this information is and cannot confirm the identity of these people. I am in no position to say for sure whether this conversation is based on real fact or just hearsay and I don’t usually call conversations I have heard through a door, true,” Quirico said.
Probably won't get much airtime and as he admits no where near solid proof, but the amount of propaganda the press is pushing for war I'm glad some doubt is out there.
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There's no doubt he did it, who else would have done it ?
There will be no military retaliation if he gets rid of his chemical weapons.
http://news.yahoo.com/leaked-iranian-letter-warned-us-syrian-rebels-chemical-184400423.htmlLeaked Iranian letter warned US that Syrian rebels have chemical weapons
According to leaked diplomatic correspondence, Iran has been warning Washington since July 2012 that Sunni rebel fighters have acquired chemical weapons, and called on the US to send “an immediate and serious warning” to rebel groups not to use them.
Human Shields-Campaign to protect Syria against a baseless war of aggression.
Many people around the world are asking themselves what they could do to stop the madness of a war of aggression against Syria.
I receive continuously emails with this question, too. Activists have now found an answer, namely to go to Syria as human shields and to stand there as potential targets of American bombs and missiles. Thus, they hope to prevent the attack.
The “Human Shield Movement” initially received the worldwide attention in 2003 when several hundred Western activists consisting of all ages, professions and nationalities went to Iraq in order to try to prevent the bombardment and the invasion by U.S. forces and to stand in their way.
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