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Killing people to not look bad! What a guy! Cannoli Send a noteboard - 29/08/2013 05:44:59 PM

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What do you think ?
not sure I get the rationale. Obama has maneuvered himself into a bad position. Most of the public opposed a strike, but if he were to sit this one out, it would also reflect bad on him. So he is pretty much in a lose lose situation.


It's bullshit, and he ought to be dragged out and strung up from the nearest tree to the White House. This lacks even Bush's flimsy 9-11 related justifications. A dictator is gassing terrorists. That basically calls for popcorn, not cruise missiles. Or maybe THIS time the Middle East uprising is going to bring Jeffersonian democracy. I mean, it didn't in Iran thirty plus years ago, it didn't in Egypt or Libya in the Arab spring, but yeah. This time, the rebels are gonna do it right.

And Obama is going LOOK BAD, so he's just going to chuck some missiles at a country that is no threat to the US? Even if you subscribe to his "transformative" agenda and the need to empower him to save the world, he is never going to face another election, so why does he need to preserve his image? If you can get a Nobel Peace Prize for not doing anything, shouldn't you at least be liable to censure for attacking two countries and ramping up a war already in progress when you took office?

Cannoli
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So... a limited strike on Syria ? - 29/08/2013 04:31:07 PM 1303 Views
I would have supported action over a year ago, but not now. - 29/08/2013 05:29:52 PM 791 Views
Rand Paul is a Leftist now? - 30/08/2013 01:13:17 AM 936 Views
Killing people to not look bad! What a guy! - 29/08/2013 05:44:59 PM 864 Views
Re: So... a limited strike on Syria ? - 29/08/2013 10:43:15 PM 860 Views
I think you're wrong. - 30/08/2013 04:44:53 AM 838 Views
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Looks like the buck inexplicably stops at Congress - 31/08/2013 11:23:20 PM 761 Views
Nice theory, to bad it is crap - 01/09/2013 06:23:31 PM 789 Views
Again, Rand Paul is loony left now? - 01/09/2013 10:15:17 PM 978 Views
Again you seem to have read most the words but completely missed the point - 02/09/2013 06:48:26 PM 904 Views
Fox and Joe Lieberman=/=MSNBC either. - 02/09/2013 10:21:16 PM 919 Views
Yeah, I don't like any of it. - 01/09/2013 12:40:35 AM 765 Views
Glad to hear you think he should more like Bush and asked congrees first - 01/09/2013 06:27:03 PM 734 Views
How about no strike per the American people? Period. Fucking idiots in Washington. - 01/09/2013 05:01:13 AM 817 Views
To be fair, that was what the American people said in 1940 - 02/09/2013 05:19:46 AM 755 Views
Hall has frozen over... you are correct. - 02/09/2013 11:22:13 PM 829 Views
Well, glad we can agree on something. - 03/09/2013 02:00:21 AM 826 Views
That comparison is not valid. - 05/09/2013 09:25:38 PM 793 Views
I have to say, I am opposed to a strike against Assad. - 05/09/2013 10:46:04 AM 782 Views

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