I have heard it all before.

[chieftain]

I heard Kerry talking about the consequences to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and others if the Assad regime wasn't stopped.
I heard that if the American people had access to the intelligence the President has, we would support the bombing.
I heard that we have to do this to convince Iran that we mean business.
I heard that we have to bomb Syria or we will lose our "credibility".
I heard all these things in similar form in 1968 when State Department Officials were trying to defuse the effects of the Teach-Ins which definitively exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the rationales for the Vietnam War.
It was not persuasive then, it is not persuasive now.

[gopiscrap]

1. yup sounds like the same bullshit that they

pushed on us about Iraq....I thinks it's so that we make sure we don't cut the military budget

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. At least we didn't hear this...

We simply cannot afford to stop in the midst of a shooting war and take time out to debate whether we've been wise or unwise or whether our past actions were sound or unsound. At this critical time we need unity and a sense of national purpose, not disunity and defensiveness.

Senator John C. Stennis (Dixiecrat Mississippi) on 05/03/1967

Oh wait,...we have.

[KG]

3. same shit, different assholes.

[jsr]

8. Yep. "Honey, I've changed!"

[polichick]

4. Guess we're going to be treated to it again on Tuesday.

[avaistheone1]

5. Same propaganda, same scare tactics, same secret ginned up intel, different players

[tecelote]

6. Unfortunately, it's worked every time.

[chieftain]

9. I am hopeful that it won't work this time. eom

[tecelote]

10. Me too.

It would completely renew my faith in our system.

Lately, I don't believe that the people in America have a voice in how the country is run.

Washington is all about Washington. The rest of the country is a second thought.

That's why bombing Syrians is more important than jobs in America.

[woo me with science]

7. K&R

[Kablooie]

11. You forgot that - Assad is amassing troops for another chemical attack right now.

That's the new word from the NY times.

I'm waiting for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that will signal the start of a new 10 year war.