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Syrian civil war thread

Do you really think there are western special forces operating there?

Of course there are. No doubt about it. If we're even thinking about launching a military attack in any capacity, then part of the special forces duty is to soften up the approach as it were for the regular guys to do their thing. In this case that means locating and painting targets for airstrikes.
 
I thought the special forces were more providing training in neighbouring countries ?

Still, there is no doubt there will be spies there. The CIA will be in there paying someone off for info, probably some UK spies and French ones also..

I wonder what George Galloway makes of it all ? He was mates with Sadam after all !
 
In 2007, Barack Obama was asked when Presidents have the authority to launch a military strike without congressional authorization. He had a precise answer at the ready.

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat,” Obama told the Boston Globe.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/2...ffirm-obamas-biggest-flip-flop/#ixzz2dHJNLXBj

So the Obama administration has been saying that the Assad regime constitutes an imminent threat to the US.

Also, he continues his war against medical marijuana, even after once again stating that it is not a priority.

And his NSA continues spying on every citizen of the US, and forcing tech companies to do the same.

And Obamacare's individual mandate is about to extort thousands of dollars from hundreds of millions of people.

Where is that thread about Bush being the worst president ever?
 
So the Obama administration has been saying that the Assad regime constitutes an imminent threat to the US.

Also, he continues his war against medical marijuana, even after once again stating that it is not a priority.

And his NSA continues spying on every citizen of the US, and forcing tech companies to do the same.

And Obamacare's individual mandate is about to extort thousands of dollars from hundreds of millions of people.

Where is that thread about Bush being the worst president ever?

Obama reminds me a little of Tony Blair. He was greeted with much fanfare by many, I of course was saying all along the blokes full of shit and so it proved.

Said the same about Obama when he was elected. No such thing as an honest politician.
 
Where is that thread about Bush being the worst president ever?

I just wonder when we're finally going to hit rock bottom in terms of presidents/prime ministers! I'm hedging my bets that it will either be the current bunch of wankstains in the Whitehouse and Downing street that will lead us into a world war or disintegration of the economic system, or the following ones. Obama won't get elected again, and Cameron will hopefully be working on some forgotten Scottish island near the Arctic circle.
 
Here is George Galloways take on it

Over the last couple of weeks a western-backed (and armed) military junta slaughtered many hundreds of Egyptians in broad daylight live on television. The death toll, still concealed, may have been thousands.
The west confined itself to disapproving words and calls for “restraint” on “both sides” – even though the victims were unarmed.
In Syria hundreds of people have just been slaughtered in circumstances which are entirely unclear, and the west is about to launch (in our case without parliamentary approval with the prime minister acting from a beach in Cornwall) a military attack with entirely unforseen consequences on Damascus.
There is a “Wag the Dog” element about this, and indeed the war of President Clinton’s penis satirised in that masterful award-winning movie has already proved a handy diversion from Egypt before its even started.
It is entirely implausible that the Syrian regime chose the moment of the arrival of a UN chemical weapons inspection team to launch a chemical attack on an insurgency already suffering reverse after reverse on the battlefield and steadily losing international support with each new video showing them eating the hearts of slain soldiery and sawing of the heads of Christian priests with bread knives.
In the absence of conclusive evidence one would have to believe that the Assad regime was mad as well as bad to have launched such a chemical attack at a time when it is in less danger than it has been for almost a year. I do not believe that Bashar is mad.
There is ample evidence that the Syrian rag-tag-and-bobtail insurgency, dominated by the most extreme fanatic franchises of Al Qaeda, has access to chemical weapons, indeed any weapons the rag-tag-and-bobtail coalition behind them can get to them.
The US has a long history of using such weapons – and worse – and not just in SE Asia. In the destruction of Fallujah in next door Iraq they slaughtered thousands with the same kind of cocktails.
Israel regularly shares its own chemical weapons stockpile with their neighbours in Gaza. Check the pictures of phosphorous gas raining down upon the UN schools and hospitals in Operation Cast Lead if you don’t believe me.
Britain introduced chemical weapons to the middle east in the first place, dropping gas on the “uncivilised tribes” of Iraq in the 1920s and wondering in parliament “what all the fuss was about”.
Does anyone believe that the foul dictatorships of the Gulf – like Saudi Arabia – wouldn’t give the Syrian rebels some of their chemical weapons? Especially if the purpose was to draw the big powers into the war?
Does anyone believe that a Syrian rebel army whose vile atrocities abound on YouTube wouldn’t use them, for the same purpose?
So now we wait for the summer-surprise attack on yet another Arab country by the former colonial powers. Another summer, another Muslim country under murderous bombardment by the last people on the planet whose motives are trusted by anyone in the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, the money, and the weapons, keep on flowing to the Egyptian junta. The blood of some people, as always, turning out to be of far greater consequence than the blood of others…
George Galloway MP
House of Commons
London.
 
US-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Tuesday that US intelligence services overheard a Syrian defence ministry official in "panicked phone calls with the leader of a chemical weapons unit" after last week's deadly chemical attack.

"Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with the leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people," Foreign Policy reported.

"Those conversations were overheard by US intelligence services," the magazine said in a statement. "That is the major reason why American officials now say they're certain that the attacks were the work of the Bashar al-Assad regime - and why the US military is likely to attack that regime in a matter of days."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201382825511534906.html
 
Of course there are. No doubt about it. If we're even thinking about launching a military attack in any capacity, then part of the special forces duty is to soften up the approach as it were for the regular guys to do their thing. In this case that means locating and painting targets for airstrikes.

I have been reading about the "task force black" operations in Iraq, and the idea of these people roaming around, dressed like natives and wearing false tans is kid of amusing to me. (In a sick way). Also, I believe the intelligence agencies are paying locals to paint some of those targets. I'm referring to to the alleged "spy" who was crucified in Yemen. The poor bastard.
 
I hope once we bomb Syria Iran attacks Israel cause then we get get a real war going finally and have a country in the fight w some real balls for once and put an end to these Arabs once and for all! I pity the fool that attacks Israel!
 
That would be interesting. Source?

Seriously? C'mon now.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-syria-crisis-britain-idUSBRE97R1BD20130828

UK's Cameron forced to delay strike against Syria
Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:09pm EDT

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron was forced on Wednesday to push back his plans for an imminent military strike against Syria in a humiliating climb-down for Britain's leader after coming under fierce domestic and international pressure.



Germany... Just google "germany not keen" or "germany syria" and see if you can fall into an enthusiastically bomby feel.
 
I hope once we bomb Syria Iran attacks Israel cause then we get get a real war going finally and have a country in the fight w some real balls for once and put an end to these Arabs once and for all! I pity the fool that attacks Israel!

Syria said that if they were attacked " tel aviv would burn". Obama now has more incentive to bomb Syria now.
 
I hope once we bomb Syria Iran attacks Israel cause then we get get a real war going finally and have a country in the fight w some real balls for once and put an end to these Arabs once and for all! I pity the fool that attacks Israel!

Are you on crack?
 
I'm glad Germany is supporting a political solution, however it will be hard to hold off the dogs for much longer.
 
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