Well... Syrian WMD have finally taken the focus off of Spy On Everyone

[MannyGoldstein]

Hopefully we don't totally forget about it.

[dkf]

1. And refocused us on suspect reasons for war and how truthful Presidents are....

[Arctic Dave]

2. I don't want to say it was Wag the Dog.

BUT!

It is Wag the Dog.





I need to find the picture of that guy and redo it.

[sabrina 1]

5. I do! No point in beating about the 'bush' for ten more years.

I wasted so much time doing that regarding the Iraq War and the Afghanistan war.

Not wasting time anymore. It IS Wag the Dog until there is proof to the contrary.

Last time the burden of proof was placed on us.

This time I am placing it on THEM.

[leftstreet]

3. Obama lied about spying. Will he be honest about Syria?

Obama To Leno: 'There Is No Spying On Americans'

by Greg Henderson
August 07, 201312:44 AM


President Obama defended the US government's surveillance program, telling NBC's Jay Leno on Tuesday that: "There is no spying on Americans."

"We don't have a domestic spying program," Obama said on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "What we do have is some mechanisms that can track a phone number or an email address that is connected to a terrorist attack. ... That information is useful."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/06/209692380/obama-to-leno-there-is-no-spying-on-americans

[KittyWampus]

4. Ah, so we have some playing the PNAC gambit but you opt for the "Wag The Dog" scenario!

[sabrina 1]

6. Why not both? We KNOW Syria was on the list for the past 16 years,

It was going to happen sooner or later.

What better time to speed things up than when they are in some serious troble?

Call it 'killing two birds with one stone'.

[Wilms]

7. It's a reasonable question to ask.

And it's better to ask the question than blindly support activity taken or uncovered during a given, preferred, administration.

[HardTimes99]

8. +Infinity! - nt

[mwrguy]

9. Impending missile attacks

always knock everything else out of the headlines.

[snooper2]

10. no

it was the gun threads

Is anyone paying attention?

[Lonr]

11. Not for me it hasn't

and it won't! I will not stop until the domestic spying machine is dismantled.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. BTW: What ever happened to the gun debate?

[liberal_at_heart]

14. It's like when Congress refuses to pass legislation on something, they expect us to forget about it.

Many of us have a very, very, very, long laundry list with this Congress. There is a lot I won't forget.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. What's sad is when they make like they already did that and "Didn't you know that?"

[Th1onein]

13. Thanks for bringing this up, Manny.

I think these war drums are beating to drown out the sound of the protests against the spying.