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In reply to the discussion: The disconnect by Americans re violence in Syria is sickening. [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)and we attacked. Indicating that we let that go for a while - and Saddam is every bit as dead, there's no need to hurry.
Maybe they're just gassing their people because they read somewhere that our cops are gassing people who are peacefully protesting. Perhaps they're just trying to impress us. Maybe they didn't have pepper spray - so they decided to use the gas that the CIA 'loaned' them. Maybe they didn't know pepper spray could be used to antagonize people.
What gives us the right to intervene in the affairs of other countries. At best we should issue a statement that it is OK for them to use pepper spray like we do, but make it clear that we frown on deadly gas.
And then we should frown really hard at them, give them some pepper spray and get back to rebuilding our infrastructure.
Anyone with WMDs has to have gotten them from us - because we go to war if we find out that other countries 'might' be making such things.
I knew something like this was gonna happen when everyone was so obsessed with the secret government. This is their fund raiser. Of course it's a bit of an uphill battle because of the old "can't be fooled again" - saying, but they are kind of a one trick pony.