So we're launching missiles at Syria when, Thursday?

[NightWatcher]

Not to be so nonchalant but its coming and it looks like its coming in a couple days. I read that Obama wants to release the report that justifies a strike a day or so before we attack and the report could be ready Tuesday.

I don't even want to guess what it will do to the region, our relationships, and reactions around the world.

Any guesses when it happens, and what happens as a result? I'll just be over here being sick.

[bowens43]

1. This could be Obama's crowning moment, his greatest fuck up

[darkangel218]

28. lol

[KittyWampus]

30. I should search to see if you said same about Libya.

[cali]

38. bwahahaha. yeah, that great success. try hot fucking mess

you live in a fantasy world of adoration for the President and no reality gets between you and your adoration.

[KittyWampus]

42. And Kosovo. And no, I'm not the one in a fantasy world surrounded by fools who all say the same crap

I read a lot of different sources.

[cali]

43. ooh, quick run from your ignorant Libya comment, kitty

you clearly need to work on your reading comprehension if you labor under the illusion that Libya has been a success since our military intervention.

[warrant46]

41. Libya wasn't in the middle of the fight

Now we have

USA USA USA !!!

George W. Bush - 9/11 Bullhorn Speech

[Luminous Animal]

34. Obama should emulate Bush and do a night time fireworks horror show....

Ooooh! Aaaah!

[darkangel218]

37. I remember shock &awe like yesterday

Live on CNN

I couldnt stop crying.. what a fuct up memory

[Cali_Democrat]

2. No

The Obama administration has not yet made that decision. They are still in consultation with allies and chemical weapons experts.

[snappyturtle]

9. I read on Haeretz and Reuters that the Israelis are snapping up

gas masks, British military planes have arrived on Cyprus and the
Russians are verbally warning us....I think things are further along.
I also believe the UN is moot at this point. Nothing of any substance
will be passed there.

[Arctic Dave]

3. Mark it down as the day Obama went from medicre to POS.

He and bush can paint pictures together when he finally leaves the Whitehouse.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. Your hate for Obama and your complete lack of perspective

Is duly noted.

[Arctic Dave]

14. Like I give two shits what you think.

You want to be a armchair chickenhawk, have fun.

[cali]

39. your adoration and apologetics and rah rah for war are duly noted.

[fujiyama]

8. +1

This must be how Democrats felt with Johnson after the Tet Offensive - and Obama doesn't have near the domestic political accomplishments as Johnson (sorry, the mediocre stimulus and bailouts to banks don't compare to the Civil Rights Acts and the Great Society). While Obama was courageous on Gay Rights, even that came late.

But what makes Obama even more disappointing in many ways is that we had incredibly high hopes and while much inaction can be laid squarely at the feet of nasty and petulant republicans incapable of governing at any level, Obama has proven to be weak, muddling, and a political naife.

[LiberalAndProud]

46. I don't think political naife applies.

As much as I disagree with Obama on policy, whatever force motivates him, it is not political naivete.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. Obama should stand against such massive killing through chemical weapons. Force is the only option.

Do you not think there were tragic lessons learned from the world's failure to act in a timely way in Bosnia and Rwanda?

[snappyturtle]

6. And yet he supports attacking and killing innocents with drones.

See the hypocrisy?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. Does he? That is news to me.

[snappyturtle]

17. Take a gander at this:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/opinion/bergen-obama-drone


CNN) -- Covert drone strikes are one of President Obama's key national security policies. He has already authorized 283 strikes in Pakistan, six times more than the number during President George W. Bush's eight years in office.

As a result, the number of estimated deaths from the Obama administration's drone strikes is more than four times what it was during the Bush administration -- somewhere between 1,494 and 2,618.


NOTE: Article dated 2012.....but a simple Google search pulls up many

[cali]

40. only because you refuse to look at reality.

only been posted over and over again that under your adored hero President, hundreds of civilians including children and first responders have been killed by drone strikes.

[NightWatcher]

7. Why are we supposed to be the World's Policeman?

Why is it our responsibility? We are still a relatively young country yet it falls on us to solve the world's problems?

This is a region that is pretty screwed up already without anymore meddling from us.

I hope we stay out of it, but I fear the ships are on their way and the plan's already been put in place.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

11. Because we should not turn a blind eye to evil acts, and

When it is reasonably within our power to stop such evil, we should.

[Wilms]

16. Evil? You mean like the NSA spying on us?

[CAG]

20. I wouldn't imply to equate the use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians with a govt

agency spying on emails, but to each his own, I guess.

[Celefin]

48. How about withdrawing support from, say, the horrible dictatorship in kyrgyzstan?

See, that was an easy and cheap way of stopping evil.

But the military bases there are needed to project power and a corrupt dictatorship that brutally suppresses any and all dissent makes operating in secrecy so much easier. And there's no fireworks on CNN so no public support or interest.

Yes we should stop evil. But we don't and we won't when not convenient or profitable.

[snappyturtle]

13. It isn't our responsibility but we want control...or the government does.

I don't think it has much to do with humanitarian purposes
although that give us much cover. We've ignored far too
much in the past for this atrocity to be the event to set our
morals straight. This is a tinderbox and if the Israelis get
involved we will be 'at war' for a long time. imho

[rhett o rick]

45. Didnt the USofA give Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to use on his people?

Why dont we let France take the ball this time? Or Turkey?

What safety net must we sacrifice wage war in Syria? Social Security? Looks like a win-win for the neo-cons and conservatives. They get more war and an end to SS and Medicare.

[LiberalAndProud]

47. Why is the US always the strong arm arbiter?

The UK has said no thanks already. It must be comfy to live in other parts of the world where one can sit on one's hands and wait for the USA to intervene wherever it is necessary. Obama can't even point to a willing coalition for this action. It will be a unilateral operation. In Bush's hands, that was summarily evil, and we laughed when he justified himself by pointing to a willing coalition. Don't forget Poland! Now, in Obama's hands, force is the only option.

If it is true that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword, our reckoning will be grievous.

[alphafemale]

12. I seriously doubt it will be us.

but somebody is going to take action. And soon.

What sucks is there are no good sides.

But images of children strangling to death is not a thing easily tolerated.

[snappyturtle]

18. There are no good sides and I think that is precisely why we

should refrain from being militarily involved. Denouncements....yes.
Humanitarian aid....yes. But that's it.

Can you imagine if multi-nationals had invaded our civil war?

[alphafemale]

22. ummmm.

...they did.

[snappyturtle]

24. I didn't put that very well. There were individuals who fought;

lots of them if my memory of high school history recalls correctly.
I guess I look at that entirely differently the nations collaborating
to send their armies.

[alphafemale]

27. European nations were funding the efforts.

No doubt about it.

[pscot]

15. Is there a pool?

[Hekate]

19. No

[Live and Learn]

21. If you can't leave the place better off than when you went in,

you have no business being there. We haven't left a place better off in a long time and are in fact responsible for killing many civilians ourselves. First do no harm is a good motto for anything!

[Coyotl]

23. Why am I reminded of Saddam and all the falsehoods that led to conflict?

Same old keywords, I suspect: "allegedly, possibly, .....

[KittyWampus]

31. Because you aren't well informed.

[Coyotl]

33. I wasn't well-informed before, but I still knew they were lying to start the war.

So, whose lies are they this time?

[MrMickeysMom]

25. Let's all masturbate instead, okay?

Whaddya say?

Masturbate for peace...

[Cali_Democrat]

32. rofl

[Lint Head]

26. Putin will throw a hissy fit.

[alphafemale]

29. I'm pretty sure one of the other Muslim nations are going to step in.

No one else can really.

[Luminous Animal]

35. WE WILL BRING THE ASSAD REGIME TO ITS KNEES. THE PEOPLE WILL SHOWER US WITH FLOWERS

And then the new govt. will show its appreciation with oil, gas, and mineral contracts.

[johnd83]

36. Maybe we should wait until he actually does something before freaking out?

[cali]

44. you don't need to read a crystal ball: U.S. officials have said the attack will

come as early as Thursday.