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In reply to the discussion: Guys, what the fuck is the pushback against tangling with Syria? The line. They crossed THE LINE. [View all]onehandle
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Guys, what the fuck is the pushback against tangling with Syria? The line. They crossed THE LINE. [View all]
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
OP
Once the cost/benefit analysis reveals that more profits can be had, sure. Why not?
reusrename
Jun 2013
#71
It wouldn't happen with a full-scale war, though(hell, there probably wouldn't be ANY economy.). n/t
AverageJoe90
Jun 2013
#73
We've passed the point where some folks think they can make money from dropping nukes.
reusrename
Jun 2013
#74
"now we will have to give up our social security and medicare to finance this farce"...and
lunasun
Jun 2013
#61
Unless i missed a recent report, President Obama seems to be holding the line against getting
hedgehog
Jun 2013
#4
That's all a coincidence, whatever you're getting at. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#23
Don't you be subversive! You're subversing all over the place! This is bipartisanship! nt
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#29
The whole bullshit quagmire know as Iraq was an industrial size gravy spigot
MattBaggins
Jun 2013
#31
those fuckers are fucking with intel. no way this is an honest appraisal of the situation
Whisp
Jun 2013
#38
We can't let China get in on this. Then they get the goodies. We can't let them have the goodies.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#11
Oil is different. We shouldn't stop them. It'll probably de-commify them unintentionally.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#21
Warren, this time it's going to be different. I'm telling you. We can change them. I can smell it
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#15
We can say we have drawn a line. But when the line is crossed as it may have been then what we are
totodeinhere
Jun 2013
#24
Atrocities, schmatrocities! George Washington cannibalized 2 British generals and a drummer boy.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#25
They don't care anymore about Syrian Christians than they did Iraqi Christians. Religion is just
freshwest
Jun 2013
#76
We have always been at war with Assad, despite what you may believe you've heard
kenny blankenship
Jun 2013
#39
Curious to think that the sky is the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here....
lunasun
Jun 2013
#67
The line that got crossed was that Assad started winning after a long spell of losing.
kenny blankenship
Jun 2013
#30
^ This. And if Monsanto wants to patent Syrians afterward, we can expedite that. nt
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#34
And if they want to have kids they better pony up the appropriate licensing fee.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#96
Russia is going to get deeply involved in sending weapons to the Syrian military
newmember
Jun 2013
#33
In the face of a reported over 90,000 dead in this outrage, I think that Syria has not reached a
marble falls
Jun 2013
#58
How do you know politicians aren't doing shit? They go to war and waste money. Simple.
MichiganVote
Jun 2013
#68
It appears to me that Obama has been fighting back against the dogs of war for some time.
Laelth
Jun 2013
#88
I want to know the chain of custody on those samples and how many are purported to...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#95
Calling his bullshit almost 80 days in advance. Am I prophetic or is the president predictable?!
Poll_Blind
Aug 2013
#106