Poll - How to help Syria

[Queen K]

Yes! A surgerical strike involving no to few civilians.

Thank you for that Glace, we can all breath easy now and sleep at night.

[mikepysh]

I would prefer to see Stephen Harper arrested for supporting al-CIA-da in Syria. *bleep*!!!
http://www.forterietimes.ca/2013/08/31/ ... ian-rebels

[Thinktank]

$3 billion disappeared. It probably went to Syria.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... nding.html

[zzontar]

Yes! A surgerical strike involving no to few civilians.

Thank you for that Glace, we can all breath easy now and sleep at night.

Especially when you can be assured there will be no retaliation.

[Thinktank]

[Queen K]

Lost in Translation due to being too dang big.

I take it we're going to support Al Q in this one and only time to topple Assad?

[Thinktank]

Didn't we also give hundreds of $millions to Al Qaeda to fight
the Russians in Afghanistan?

[Thinktank]

copied from another forum:

Syria has massive oil and gas reserves – here we go again!

Every time the West goes to war to protect “freedom, human rights and democracy,” there’s always the nauseous stench of oil; whether in Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, the Falklands, Afghanistan… Syria has offshore and onshore oil and gas reserves, and is helping to build a massive pipeline together with Iran, but without Western oil giants’ control.

The full militarization of all oil production and reserve zones, and the militarization of transportation routes to ‘bring oil home’ from everywhere in the world, is a key on-going joint US/UK strategy.

[steven lloyd]

Assad says US will 'pay the price'
by The Canadian Press - Story: 98041
Sep 9, 2013 / 7:31 am

Syrian President Bashar Assad has warned there will be "repercussions" against any U.S. military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack in his country.

"You should expect everything," Assad said in an interview with CBS taped in Damascus. "Not necessarily from the government. It's not only the government ... in this region. You have different parties, you have different factions, you have different ideology."

Asked if he was making a threat of a direct military response to any such attack, Assad was vague, saying at one point, "I am not fortune teller to tell you what's going to happen."

President Barack Obama is seeking authorization from Congress to launch what the administration says would be a limited-scope attack against Syria in response to Assad's purported use of chemical weapons. Assad has denied it, and he argued in the interview broadcast Monday on CBS that Washington has presented no evidence to back up its allegations.

In London on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry reasserted Washington's argument and said the evidence is sufficiently strong to be accepted as evidence in a court of law.

In the CBS interview, Assad said his forces were not in the area of the chemical weapons attack Aug. 21, saying "our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. ... But in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there."

Kerry said Assad's denial is "contradicted by fact."

Asked if chemical warfare could be one repercussion from an American intervention in Syria, Assad told anchorman Charlie Rose: "That depends if the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have it. It could happen. "

"You are going to pay the price if you are not wise with dealing with terrorists," he said.

Assad also said the current incident brings to mind memories of the arguments for intervention that President George W. Bush's administration made over a decade ago in connection with President Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Assad said Kerry's statements reminded him about "the big lie" that Secretary of State Colin Powell said to the United Nations about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Assad also said the majority of Americans "don't want a war anywhere, not only against Syria."

He said Washington's credibility is "at an all-time low."

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... .htm#98041

[fluffy]

This is a very tricky situation, and we have to realize that the information that is reaching us through media channels is questionable at best. The Syrian civil war is being widely characterized as a "Bad-guys vs. Bad-guys" situation and the question of just which side launched the chemical attacks has yet to see a clear answer.

[normaM]

No one can help Syria - but people in Power always seem to enjoy going to War. Gore Vidal was correct.

Don't even think we should be sending aid until things settle down somewhat - as usual who knows where the money goes.

[maryjane48]

No one can help Syria - but people in Power always seem to enjoy going to War

thats the truth, but reality is war makes money

[normaM]

I know, I referenced Vidal who wrote a fab book 'bout it. Meanwhile like Clinton with the Serbs Obama gives the rebels fighters false hope - as long as he keeps saying maybe they keep battling.
Thacher must be spinning in her grave that Britain stood down. Putin makes himself look like a great ally - photo Ops for everyone.

[Thinktank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 68jpk#t=84

[steelrules]

Syria militants ready to target Israel with chemical weapons: Russia Today

Foreign-backed militants in Syria are prepared to attack Israel with chemical weapons, Russia Today (RT) has reported.

“A number of anonymous sources close to the Syrian conflict have told RT that rebel forces are planning to launch a 'provocation-attack' using chemical weapons,” the Russian news channel reported on Monday.

The report came after Syria welcomed Russia’s initiative to put its chemical weapons stockpile under international control in a bid to avert a US military intervention.

The offer was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday during talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Moscow.

Washington is struggling to secure support for military action against Syria over the accusation that the Syrian government was involved in a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on August 21.

The White House has admitted it has no "irrefutable" evidence of Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, but said a "strong common-sense test irrespective of the intelligence" suggested the Syrian army was responsible for the August poison gas attack.

The US Senate will vote on authorizing military intervention in Syria later this week.

MN/AS