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In reply to the discussion: why is it so important to Bill Clinton that the U.S. intervene in Syria? [View all]Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)19. Snowden was with the CIA ... What if he never left?
What if the CIA sent him to a private employer for cover? Snowden says he could listen to anyone's conversations, including a Presidents. Maybe that assertion wasn't boasting, but a veiled threat or a warning. Maybe they're already listening to our Presidents.
Bill Clinton was not the first to call out Obama. Obama has been under intense foreign pressure to change his Syrian policy. Perhaps there are those within our intelligence departments that wanted to insure Obama makes the right decision.
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why is it so important to Bill Clinton that the U.S. intervene in Syria? [View all]
cali
Jun 2013
OP
Because the smartest President in my lifetime knows what he's talking about? nt
onehandle
Jun 2013
#3
I don't buy it. you'd have to be stupid as shit to not realize that intervening will cause MORE
cali
Jun 2013
#27
I wonder if he also has East Timor guilt, or maybe a smidge of killing Iraqi's guilt?
Whisp
Jun 2013
#38
There's certainly a lot of options of things he should feel guilty about.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#40
I don't think Obama wanted to go in either, but in the end he did make the decision to
cali
Jun 2013
#46
Awful - CIA to coordinate arming of rebels. NoFlyZone inside Syria to be enforced by US & allies
Catherina
Jun 2013
#50
No kidding! " It started in April and May...""King Abdullah showed a map with "Sunnistan""
Catherina
Jun 2013
#58