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2013-08-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
This is how the US Could bombard Syria
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Posted by Frozen Al 2013-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 HHHHMMMM, HHHHHMMMM, wehell, first thingys must come first - the Bammer always says he = USA must have clear-n-convincing/conclusive evidence before undertaking any kind of unilateral milaction, TO WHICH BOTH THE HAGUE[UNO] + RUSSIA CLAIM THERE IS NONE RIGHT NOW AGZ ASSAD.

* E.G. FREEREPUBLIC > WAPO: ONE YEAR AFTER [giving] "RED LINE" ON SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK, OBAMA [still] HAS NO LEGAL BASIS TO [launch = initiate any...] ATTACK.

ARTIC = The Bammer Admin has seemingly failed to procure ...
> Any complete US INTEL assessment + analysis = final report.
> Must consult wid Allies + espec the US Congress.
> Needs UNO = UNSC Mandate in support of milaction, or in alternate a NATO Mandate.

Perhaps more importantly, as per the so-called "OBAMA DOCTRINE", IIUC BABY ASSAD - AS THE BAMMER'S PERCEIVED "PERPETRATOR" OF THE DEADLY CHEMICAL ATTACK(S) - MUST BE REMOVED FROM RULING POWER, NOT MERELY ATTACKED + HIS CHEMWAR, WMD? CAPABILITIES DESTROYED.

IOW, any US or US-led "limited strike(s)" agz Assad targeting only his Chemwar capabilities VIOLATES THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE"???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-08-27 00:35||   2013-08-27 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Dude, you just lost any pretense of credibility.

As for bombarding Syria, forget the girly-man cruise missiles. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by SteveS 2013-08-27 01:22||   2013-08-27 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 Dude, you just lost any pretense of credibility.

Ah, the ol' disappearing post syndrome. That will teach me to feed the trolls. My bad.
Posted by SteveS 2013-08-27 01:25||   2013-08-27 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 If he's going to take out nerve gas he better have something hot enough to break the chemicals down for a warhead. Many times hotter than the surface of the sun, otherwise we are just helping to gas the mid-east.
Posted by 3dc 2013-08-27 01:27||   2013-08-27 01:27|| Front Page Top

#5 In these many years we have only acquired one Guamanian correspondent. Joe single handedly captured the heavily dug in Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, the last remaining Japanese hold-out soldier of WWII. He writes to us from the lovely shores of Lake Fena. Please do not attack him.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-27 02:06||   2013-08-27 02:06|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 its so easy to get sucked in. Happens.
Posted by Dale 2013-08-27 02:30||   2013-08-27 02:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The strategy will be to attack the units in charge of the Chem weapons.

Although if it were me in charge, I send in every Predator or similar plinking tanks, artillery, missiles etc. Until you either run out of targets or run out of predators.

Cruise missiles are so 20th century. But a good excuse to use them up.
Posted by phil_b 2013-08-27 02:45||   2013-08-27 02:45|| Front Page Top

#8 is it against the rules to aim for the head.? HE HAS TO SLEEP SOMEWHERE.
Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-08-27 06:42||   2013-08-27 06:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Words you will not hear on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, Comedy Central, NPR, CBS, PBS, ABC, etc:

"Beka Valley"
Posted by no mo uro 2013-08-27 07:42||   2013-08-27 07:42|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think it's in American interest to attack Assad even if he did use chemical weapons. I agree with Sarah Palin on Syria. "Let Allah sort it out."

No one has convinced me otherwise.
Posted by Penguin 2013-08-27 09:42||   2013-08-27 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Pretty little sandbox there. And what happens if Baghdad is disabled and/or Afghanistan flight routes are disrupted and/or Pakistain gets closed.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-27 09:49||   2013-08-27 09:49|| Front Page Top

#12 The Second Gulf War took place only after hundreds of UNSCOM WMD inspection missions, and then only after Saddam ran them out of the country.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-27 09:54||   2013-08-27 09:54|| Front Page Top

#13 
If he's going to take out nerve gas he better have something hot enough to break the chemicals down for a warhead. Many times hotter than the surface of the sun, otherwise we are just helping to gas the mid-east.


FAEs would be plenty hot enough.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-08-27 10:05||   2013-08-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#14 This administration seems decidedly against investigations and facts. Ketchup the Hat was on my morning TV and demanded to hold accountable those who are accountable, without an investigation or evidence - not that it matters he is on the sales pitch. Expecting a lot of that and drum beating and moral high ground segments over the next week, with no regard that there are at least 5 teams with their own motives, likely 7 and three sides.

The only thing which would be worse than watching every White Sox game hoping for the playoffs would be anticipating a clean win by this administration on this action. I had better feelings for the 2012 KC Chiefs.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-27 10:16||   2013-08-27 10:16|| Front Page Top

#15 The alleged Syrian WMD crisis is working quite well for them. Not of word of Benghazi or the IRS scandals in the media, or cable nets. F&F is now a fading, distant memory. You've got to hand it to these bastids, they've got an impressive psychological warfare plan in operation.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-27 10:34||   2013-08-27 10:34|| Front Page Top

#16 The Second Gulf War took place only after hundreds of UNSCOM WMD inspection missions, and then only after Saddam ran them out of the country.

And after Saddam invaded Iran and Kuwait, and 15 years after he gassed the Kurds. We went to bat for Sunnis 3x in the decade before the 21st century. Our reward was 9/11. It's time Sunnis resolved their own problems.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-08-27 17:35||   2013-08-27 17:35|| Front Page Top

#17  is it against the rules to aim for the head?

Executive Order 12333, Part 2.11 prohibits assassination by US intelligence agencies, though it has often been interpreted loosely with regards to targets "connected to terrorism."

It would also be probable if as lenient an interpretation would be applied to the leader of a foreign government.

Not that any discussion of that will be brought up while this administration is around.
Posted by Pappy 2013-08-27 18:17||   2013-08-27 18:17|| Front Page Top

#18 "with a neck that long, decapitation of Syrian leadership was ....collateral"
Posted by Frank G 2013-08-27 19:00||   2013-08-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

#19 But PencilNeck sleeps on a Russian warship... so...
Posted by 3dc 2013-08-27 21:54||   2013-08-27 21:54|| Front Page Top

#20 @JosephMendiola

Thank you for your service. I appreciate your posts.
Posted by mossomo 2013-08-27 22:08||   2013-08-27 22:08|| Front Page Top

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