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Hans Blix: U.S. has poor excuse for Syria incursion nowSeeing echoes of Iraq, weapons inspector says "political dynamics are running ahead of due process"
BY NATASHA LENNARD - Salon
TUESDAY, AUG 27, 2013 07:59 AM PDT
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Following Secretary of State John Kerrys Monday announcement that it was undeniable that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons in a rebel-held suburb, calls among Western leaders for military intervention have reached fever pitch.
Hans Blix, the chief U.N. arms inspector for Iraq from 2000 to 2003, who famously decried the Bush administrations over-hyping of the threat of WMD in Iraq to justify war, is seeing a similar pattern with regards to Syria and chemical weapons.
Blix told the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/hans-blix-the-united-stat_b_3819367.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
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Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/27/hans_blix_u_s_has_poor_excuse_for_syria_incursion_now/singleton/
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Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)what could go wrong?
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Damn I'm getting my bullshit wars confused.
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)I forgot I wasn't on Facebook!
But you're so correct, they're all starting to run together..
LearningCurve
(488 posts)Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)David__77
(23,503 posts)It's a good point, that bear repeating again and again and again.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)But it turned out that he really wasn't the one.
No, it was Dr. Bruce Ivins, a guy who had killed himself after being hounded by the FBI.
Not that any of this had any bearing on Saddam, who definitely probably most likely had anthrax.
Trust us.
Lasher
(27,638 posts)There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.
David__77
(23,503 posts)Such a threat, that we must support the al Qaeda and cannibal terrorists fighting Syria. We should even give them gold-plated cutlery!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)that hit all the right spots.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)broiles
(1,370 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)it'll become a mushroom cloud!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)gotta keep your warmonging threats straight.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)The authoritarian warmongers are out in force trying to divert attention away from all of the domestic issues that actually have the American public's attention.
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Again.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)is applicable today as it was then:
"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own -- and if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans. "
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)We don't tolerate war crimes from others, even if we don't actually know who committed them.
This is playing out exactly like Iraq, with one exception: Everyone sees through the justifications and the cheerleaders that support it. It probably helps that the people cheering it on are completely recycling the talking points from Iraq. "They know things you don't!" "We have to trust the president!" I expect to see yellowcake uranium make an appearance any day now.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Funny thing about all the news of our preparing to strike Syria many of my conservative relatives and friends on FB have suddenly gone from posting their usual bigoted ugly rants against the administration and liberals and are posting things like:
Bombs away Mr. President!
and
Make America Proud!
Such sickening bloodlust.
Cannot tell up from down anymore...