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2013-08-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The Pentagon Is Preparing A Cruise Missile Attack Against Syria

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Assuming Assad did order the attack, he must be either desperate or confident there would be no significant consequences.

A few dozen cruise missiles could take out most of his best assets.

Perhaps Russia assured him that they would warn US of serious consequences for such an attack. Which makes me pretty confident nothing will happen.

Posted by phil_b 2013-08-24 00:06|| 2013-08-24 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The fact that this 'secret' military action is being announced on CBS suggests it is more for public consumption than an actual operational plan. A nice way to do something without actually doing something. Which isn't as bad as it sounds since there isn't really any good something to do. Besides nuking the whole mess, I mean.

Posted by SteveS 2013-08-24 00:30|| 2013-08-24 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhhh

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2013-08-24 01:57|| 2013-08-24 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "Nervous"....I like that!

ZH did, however, get the feed from CBS, "America's Most Watched Network" (ValJar wouldn't stomach using Fox News.), so I'm-a-thinkin' Phil & Steve are prolly correct....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-08-24 06:56|| 2013-08-24 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's see, the "rebels" include MoBro & Al-Q right? So of course Obastard wants to support them.

Granted he doesn't hate Iran or Hezbis but if he gets a choice.........

Posted by AlanC 2013-08-24 07:56|| 2013-08-24 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 And when the "international community" will look the other way while triumphant Sunnis ethnically cleanse Allawites and Christians.

Hey, maybe even twofer: if some run from the butchering knives toward Golan, Israel will either to take them in or shoot them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-24 08:18|| 2013-08-24 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Champ won't launch Tomahawks unless Vlad provides the targeting folders, then watch the thousands of dead kiddie and woman foto's.

Worst case; some renegade Russian naval commander launches against one of our ships. High stakes he's playing. I hope he knows it.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-24 08:45|| 2013-08-24 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 good thing Assad now has enough time to properly prepare "Baby Milk Factory" and "Orphans of Terrorism Orphanage" signs

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-24 08:56|| 2013-08-24 08:56|| Front Page Top

#9 If true then the rebels are losing just like the Russians have been saying.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2013-08-24 09:18|| 2013-08-24 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Assuming Assad did order the attack, he must be either desperate or confident there would be no significant consequences.

"Assuming" being the critical, operative word here.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-24 09:56|| 2013-08-24 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, Assad has been rolling up the rebels like crazy and regaining control of the country. He may have done it just to rub our noses in it that we don't have any options anymore, and our dog-in-the-fight has been euthanised.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-24 10:12|| 2013-08-24 10:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Channeling bubba, since that strike was so effective. Champ and the real president ValJar, are conducting every act, including foreign policy, through a political lens. As an aside, can anyone recall another prisidential advisor before ValJar that had a dedicated Secret Service detail?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-08-24 11:16|| 2013-08-24 11:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Warm up with the Hezbolla in Lebanon and then work your way into Syria without picking a side; take them all out and let the Kurds and Israelies sort it out.

Posted by Airandee 2013-08-24 12:00|| 2013-08-24 12:00|| Front Page Top

#14 After reading the article's flat-out weird explanation of the US motive for such an attack, I've concluded that the writer is a high-functioning lunatic.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-08-24 12:27|| 2013-08-24 12:27|| Front Page Top

#15 ZF, you sure that the "high-functioning lunatic" isn't the Obamanation?

Posted by AlanC 2013-08-24 12:53|| 2013-08-24 12:53|| Front Page Top

#16 No, it's Tyler.

The others are high functioning sociopaths,

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-24 13:22|| 2013-08-24 13:22|| Front Page Top

#17 The chemical attack of the regime in the outskirts of Damascus is a response to the attack on the convoy of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Eid al-Fitr.

Posted by To all the ranters baggers 2013-08-24 14:25|| 2013-08-24 14:25|| Front Page Top

#18 Ranter-Baggers... LOL

Posted by Shipman 2013-08-24 14:36|| 2013-08-24 14:36|| Front Page Top

#19 an Assad-apologist bitch, hmmm?

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-24 14:39|| 2013-08-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#20 When has Russia stood in the way of our doing anything before....IE Lybia. It is different if we can take down someone who cannot do anything about it, but Syria, where does Obama have any concern... It is not his concern that millions are dying. Just so he looks good. We don't have to set foot in Syria, just send the missles - they can find the targets that are needed. Then let them fight on a even footing.

Posted by To all the ranters baggers 2013-08-24 15:11|| 2013-08-24 15:11|| Front Page Top

#21 When has Russia stood in the way of our doing anything before....IE Lybia.

Depends on how far one wishes to go back.

Iran?

Iraq, pre-second Gulf war?

Extraditing Eric Snowden (assuming the WH wanted him retrieved?)

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-24 18:24|| 2013-08-24 18:24|| Front Page Top

#22 The Russians didn't care about Libya. Gaddafi had pretty much surrendered his WMD programs after the Iraq Invasion, before it turned into the Iraqi Nation-Building exercise, and I'm fairly sure they were actually happy to watch the UK/France/US make an example of a country that had switched sides and started to cooperate with us.

(Isn't it strange how Zero always finds a way to hurt us and give the superficially-inclined a way to pretend he's a tough guy at the same time?)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-24 20:17|| 2013-08-24 20:17|| Front Page Top

#23 Hagel: Obama asks for Syria military options

Will be interesting to watch President Barak "Hamlet" Obama work this crisis about....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-08-24 20:55|| 2013-08-24 20:55|| Front Page Top

#24 "To all the ranters baggers"

Oh, look - a pathetic, unimaginative troll.

Isn't that cute?

Posted by Barbara 2013-08-24 22:15|| 2013-08-24 22:15|| Front Page Top

#25 (Isn't it strange how Zero always finds a way to hurt us and give the superficially-inclined a way to pretend he's a tough guy at the same time?)

He caved to GOP morons like Graham and McCain. Ultimately, the GOP's idiotic neocon dogma, which holds, against our bloody and expensive recent experience, that inside every foreigner is an American struggling to get out, is the cause of all these botched foreign policy problems. Obama's afraid to look weak and he's ceding ground to the GOP on these moronic interventions. The GOP should be making a stand on keeping the F-22 lines open and proceeding with missile defense research. Instead, it lets Obama cut those programs while forging ahead with wasteful, asinine and politically-unpopular foreign interventions. The retards who keep on urging these interventions need to be primaried and defeated, even if the cost is a Democratic pol in their place.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-08-24 22:31|| 2013-08-24 22:31|| Front Page Top

#26 http://www.debka.com/article/23218/The-sarin-shells-fired-on-Damascus---by-Syrian-4th-Division%E2%80%99s-155th-Brigade---were-followed-by-rockets-on-Israel-and-car-bombings-in-Lebanon-

Posted by 3dc 2013-08-24 22:40|| 2013-08-24 22:40|| Front Page Top

#27 YEah, I'm SURE he was a nice little isolationist before that mean McCain man made him make those decisions....

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-24 23:54|| 2013-08-24 23:54|| Front Page Top

#28 Frankly, while I think McCain is, well, possibly demented, I think he's merely providing cover for what Zero really wants to do. As with the F-22 and missile defense, as well.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-24 23:55|| 2013-08-24 23:55|| Front Page Top

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