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In reply to the discussion: So what's your favorite "reason" for bombing Syria? [View all]last1standing
(11,709 posts)52. I hope to always be defined in ways that are unacceptable to you.
Because if you think it is worse to point out that people are using images of dead people to get their way than to actually do it, I believe your value system is gravely flawed.
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It's one thing to support a policy, another to use the same arguments RWers used in 2002.
last1standing
Sep 2013
#8
It's amazing how Deadeye Dick and Yosemite Sam come out when they've got a war-woody! n/t
backscatter712
Sep 2013
#33
Sadly, it's a close paraphrase of the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
rug
Sep 2013
#22
pile of crap flamebait poll because no one here has a favorite reason for bombing anybody.
dionysus
Sep 2013
#25
Those that think Pres Obama cant do any wrong are willing to kill, kill, kill
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#39
"You're a horrible person that hates kids if you don't support the attack!"
backscatter712
Sep 2013
#32
That's ok, I'm being accused of being a meanie for pointing out that some are exploiting the dead.
last1standing
Sep 2013
#62
You shouldn't call out manipulators for manipulating - it hurts their feelings!
backscatter712
Sep 2013
#64
Is that the best you've got? Ok, then yes, "leave Assad alone because Obama/Kerry are lying."
last1standing
Sep 2013
#36
Stay out of the civil war. How hard is that to figure out? I guess the Neo-con Democrats among
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#41
There were a few pic-posts out there that I saw as propaganda and guilt-tripping.
backscatter712
Sep 2013
#61
"Rand Paul is against it, so if you are too, you must be Rand Paul!!" n/t
devils chaplain
Sep 2013
#46
Much more classy to drum up support for war because the president looks good in a swimsuit.
last1standing
Sep 2013
#67