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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mitt and Newt in agreement with McShame on arming Syrian rebels.
2012-02-23
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Completely unnecessary. We have it on good authority from a Sunni general who defected that Assad will fall by the end of February. Any day now...
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2012-02-23 18:35  

#4  No one has any business getting in the middle right now. There is enough on our plate at home and we cannot trust POTUS to make a correct decision in ANY THING.

So, knock off the hawk talk and concentrate on unseating king obamis tyrannis before we all live like Syrians.
Posted by: newc   2012-02-23 17:25  

#3  when are we going to learn to stay out of this.....its just red on red nothing more.
Posted by: Mad Eye Grumble3489   2012-02-23 12:30  

#2  It needs drones zapping tanks and artillery. The lesson of Libya that even the seat warming beauracrats shouldn't be able to miss.
Posted by: Phil_B   2012-02-23 10:13  

#1  Blathering about it achieves nothing. As does waiting for the government to do something.

Instead, create a "futures" contract.

That is, find some mercenary company and make them a deal. If they transport arms to the rebels, then once we are in power, they are guaranteed a long-term, non-controversial project worth a LOT of scratch.

So, on the surface, it seems like they are acting on their own to support the rebels. No USG involvement at all.

Later, come what may, if Republicans win the presidency, the mercenaries are given a juicy federal contract to make an approximate count of seashells near Caribbean resorts. And if the rebels overthrow Assad, those seashells will need to be counted twice.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-02-23 08:41  

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