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NightWatcher

(39,376 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2013, 06:43 PM Sep 2013

They're selling us ten year old lies for another war. [View all]

Iraq: Saddam was throwing babies out of incubators.
Syria: Assad is gassing the children. (Complete with pictures and video)

Iraq: We're helping defend the Kurds
Syria: We're helping the rebels

Iraq: Their oil will pay for the war
Syria: The Saudis will pay for it

Iraq: It won't last 6 months much less 6 years
Syria: It's a three day strike

Iraq: We'll be welcomed as liberators
Syria: stay tuned

Come on people, ten years ago isn't that long ago. I don't care who the President is, but we're being manipulated and we're about to be screwed into another deadly war. Iraq killed and broke enough people I knew. Please don't do this again. Once we start air strikes and things go to shit, we are going to be forced to own this war. My friend is on his 7th trip to the theatre and is missing his little girl. Can we stop coming up with reasons for young men to be shipped off to fight and die?

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They're selling us ten year old lies for another war. [View all] NightWatcher Sep 2013 OP

I wonder if there will be pallets of missing cash leftstreet Sep 2013 #1

Where did that money Go ? warrant46 Sep 2013 #48

If we keep authorizing all of these never ending wars we will eventually have to bring back the liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #2

A tour of Vietnam was 12 months. DirkGently Sep 2013 #7

A tour of Viet Nam AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #15

Marine Corps 6 months. DirkGently Sep 2013 #19

No, 13 months. How did you get 6 months? AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #20

The Internet. Don't tell me it was wrong about DirkGently Sep 2013 #22

I think we ought to object on artistic grounds phantom power Sep 2013 #3

On the other hand it does have a certain "camp" value. /nt Dragonfli Sep 2013 #40

I wish you wouldn't have fibbed in your OP. No one said Syria 'three days strike' Tx4obama Sep 2013 #4

link NightWatcher Sep 2013 #5

I wish that poster hadn't fibbed calling the OP a fib. DirkGently Sep 2013 #6

Agree with your comments!!! nt TxGrandpa Sep 2013 #13

Well at least there won't be any boots on the ground, AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #16

Irrelevant sulphurdunn Sep 2013 #10

Fuck going to war for Saudi Arabia Ocelot Sep 2013 #8

Don't you mean, "Fuck going to war for Saudi Arabia again." Coyotl Sep 2013 #38

WAR WAR WAR blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #9

Not even close. Daniel537 Sep 2013 #11

Is Syria as murderous as the USA? Think and do a tally before responding. delrem Sep 2013 #18

Wouldn't hurt to educate yourself about Assad and his murderous leadership. We have been lumpy Sep 2013 #61

You didn't do the tally. You didn't even start. You just absolved the US, delrem Sep 2013 #65

Thanks elleng Sep 2013 #31

You'll be about the 4th or 5th warmonger I've asked the following: 99Forever Sep 2013 #34

Who in hell would want to answer such silly questions ? lumpy Sep 2013 #62

You know.. sendero Sep 2013 #49

Show us where the US has been selling chemical weapons. You can't. lumpy Sep 2013 #57

I can.. sendero Sep 2013 #78

Talk about being naive, you take the cake. Here watch this video..... Little Star Sep 2013 #76

And this time there are Democrats buying them. nt LWolf Sep 2013 #12

That's why the PTB allow a "Democrat" to win the White House FiveGoodMen Sep 2013 #52

Yes. LWolf Sep 2013 #80

Syria poses a "grave and gathering threat" to the United States. Martin Eden Sep 2013 #14

I never said Obama is gwb. I never said he wanted to go to war before he came in NightWatcher Sep 2013 #24

"looks a lot like the last march to war" ... to you, not to me. Martin Eden Sep 2013 #25

I can't believe that you honestly don't see the similarities NightWatcher Sep 2013 #26

Similarities and dissimilarities can be found in every military intervention. Martin Eden Sep 2013 #28

The similarity of the Nite Owl Sep 2013 #32

You believe it is a false equivalency.. sendero Sep 2013 #50

ALL GOVERNMENT LIE ... Martin Eden Sep 2013 #59

There isn't.. sendero Sep 2013 #77

Lets hear about all those lies by our government re. Syria. I keep hearing about those lies but lumpy Sep 2013 #60

Sincerely, I would like to know about the lies supposidly said by the present US administration. lumpy Sep 2013 #51

Should any leader of a Nation who use WMD's Cryptoad Sep 2013 #17

They should be arrested and tried for war crimes. morningfog Sep 2013 #35

Agreed,,, Cryptoad Sep 2013 #42

There is a much, much worsr option than doing nothing. morningfog Sep 2013 #43

When you start using WMD Cryptoad Sep 2013 #44

It is not about protecting them. It is about us morningfog Sep 2013 #46

Glad to hear from our leading military leadership. lumpy Sep 2013 #63

The "leading military leadership" are known to lie. morningfog Sep 2013 #79

I really do like the option covered in ths article: truedelphi Sep 2013 #69

YES...let's start with bush and cheney noiretextatique Sep 2013 #56

Is anyone else tired of being the Middle East's little bitch? Snake Plissken Sep 2013 #21

more like Israel's bitch Carolina Sep 2013 #30

K&R n/t DeSwiss Sep 2013 #23

Night Watcher - what you are asking for ain't gonna happen till you get truedelphi Sep 2013 #27

You'll get the chance to vote Mr. Sane in. Why don't you run for office ? You have so erudite. lumpy Sep 2013 #64

Yep, Carolina Sep 2013 #29

The 'red line in the sand' was put forth many years ago when this country and most others signed lumpy Sep 2013 #67

Oh puhleeze Carolina Sep 2013 #81

You forgot: morningfog Sep 2013 #33

For God's sake this is not about Iraq or didn't you notice. Different times, different problem. lumpy Sep 2013 #68

President Obama is lying to us, and should be impeached ProSense Sep 2013 #36

Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #39

Few know what empeachment entails. They love to fling the word around trying to prove lumpy Sep 2013 #70

You don't care who the president is? bhikkhu Sep 2013 #37

I notice that people will say anything ignorant excuse to try and make an argument. lumpy Sep 2013 #71

"They"?! Surely you mean the Neo-Con Boys making the rounds of the talk shows.... Hekate Sep 2013 #41

You gotta do what you gotta do jsr Sep 2013 #45

The war lies are always in black and white felix_numinous Sep 2013 #47

Your post appears to be contructed of blather. lumpy Sep 2013 #53

re: timetable, see post #5 NightWatcher Sep 2013 #54

Yes, I heard Kerry's announcement re. Arabia's offer. As of yet the offer has not been accepted. lumpy Sep 2013 #66

Show me where the US has accepted the Arab's offer of money and I'll go along with you.??? lumpy Sep 2013 #72

Well I have asked so many people to tell me the lies that the administration has committed, but lumpy Sep 2013 #75

But it's a REAL WOLF THIS TIME, people! Honest! WinkyDink Sep 2013 #55

Those of us who live in SoCal tend to view life through the lens of the HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #58

Not just in California do people use movies as history books. lumpy Sep 2013 #73

I know whereof you speak. Half the time I'm Rick in 'Casablanca,' and the other half Napoleon HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #74