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Comrade Grumpy

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11. We'll see, I guess. Also, just what would the US do?

Reply to former-republican (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 10:37 PM

Dec 2012

I saw some general on the TV tonight saying it would take 75,000 troops to secure those scattered chemical weapons facilities. This in the middle of a civil war.

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Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order [View all] former-republican Dec 2012 OP

sounds like the run up to Iraq all over again - the WMD story nt msongs Dec 2012 #1

sigh wtf Marrah_G Dec 2012 #2

If the military was smart, they'd tell Assad to fuck off Matariki Dec 2012 #3

This is either a bluff by a person who knows his days are numbered as President or former-republican Dec 2012 #7

HOLY SHIT joeunderdog Dec 2012 #4

Smells like propaganda. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2012 #5

I don't think it is this time. former-republican Dec 2012 #9

We'll see, I guess. Also, just what would the US do? Comrade Grumpy Dec 2012 #11

cut the head of the snake former-republican Dec 2012 #13

wake up the UN spanone Dec 2012 #6

Why? greytdemocrat Dec 2012 #8

So..the un-named "US officials" are on the ground in Syria and have first hand knowledge? AnOhioan Dec 2012 #10

My thought has always been let them fight their own civil war but former-republican Dec 2012 #12

How well did that work in Gulf War II? OnlinePoker Dec 2012 #14