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blm

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5. Bush, war hawks, and neocons wanted to attack Syria in 2005.

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 1, 2013, 11:42 AM

Sep 2013

January 2005 was Kerry's first trip to build a relationship with Assad in order to press diplomatic solutions. He was helped with the revelations of Downing Street Memos in May2005 which further crushed Bush's credibility with other world leaders.

Arab Spring is when Assad began to lose his grip mentally and BEGAN to be unreliable and increasingly prone to miscalculation. I wasn't surprised to hear his brother ordered the chemical attack.

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"He Gassed Hizzown People" "He Tried To Kill Mah Daddy" "No Dictator Can Gas Hundreds of Children" [View all] Stinky The Clown Sep 2013 OP

Bush manufactured the intel to justify rush to war. blm Sep 2013 #1

Uh, Obama didn't reveal his intel HooptieWagon Sep 2013 #2

Bush, war hawks, and neocons wanted to attack Syria in 2005. blm Sep 2013 #5

The uprising in Syria Igel Sep 2013 #9

The point of the OP was not what Bush or Obama did, it is about who supports or opposes it. Stinky The Clown Sep 2013 #3

No - just knowing that Bush lied to have a war whereas Obama and Kerry have blm Sep 2013 #6

No one is arguing that. The OP - which I wrote - was about the war opposers now vs Stinky The Clown Sep 2013 #10

OK. blm Sep 2013 #13

saddam did gas his people. but the blivet neglected to point out it was during their beloved reagan. pansypoo53219 Sep 2013 #4

Heh! Blivet. Haven't heard that one in a while!! madinmaryland Sep 2013 #7

Didn't I hear on Rachel that the US gave him the gas? nt fadedrose Sep 2013 #8

You probably did. Igel Sep 2013 #11

Thank you... fadedrose Sep 2013 #12