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MNBrewer

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15. I don't get it either

Reply to rug (Reply #13)

Sat Aug 31, 2013, 11:27 PM

Aug 2013

I AM glad that he knuckled under to public and congressional pressure to take this issue before Congress, for a number of reasons.

I hope Congress votes the war down.

If the US is serious about punishing war criminals, we should sign onto the World Court and send a few of our own war criminals to the Hague, before we start looking into Syria.

But the recent immunity granted to our war criminals puts the lie to the idea that our nation really cares about war crimes as crimes against humanity.

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Obama going to Congress might have been the best political move [View all] gopiscrap Aug 2013 OP

Good points! immoderate Aug 2013 #1

thanks gopiscrap Aug 2013 #2

or, he might know that he doesn't have the votes greenman3610 Aug 2013 #3

Yeah I was thinking that was possible also gopiscrap Aug 2013 #4

If Bush were in office all kinds of people would be saying we Skink Aug 2013 #5

Further benefits... Blue Idaho Aug 2013 #6

Having Congress to authorize a strike is brilliant, Obama has put out he is willing to strike Thinkingabout Aug 2013 #7

Less political and more moral. What do Americans want? Their representatives know their will. freshwest Aug 2013 #8

I thought this was about gassing civilians. rug Aug 2013 #9

Or is it about Blue Idaho Aug 2013 #10

It is about that but this thread is appears to be about intramural Congressional politics. rug Aug 2013 #12

That is a very fair point... Blue Idaho Aug 2013 #14

Always. It just strikes me as odd given how he phrased the issue. rug Aug 2013 #16

Who was gassed should be irrelevant. MNBrewer Aug 2013 #11

I don't get the glee, then, about brilliant political moves. rug Aug 2013 #13

I don't get it either MNBrewer Aug 2013 #15

It was "political" all along... kentuck Sep 2013 #17

Everything is always about politics gopiscrap Sep 2013 #18