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JoePhilly

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16. So the war that everyone around here predicted would start

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #9)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 02:41 PM

Sep 2013

with Obama calling in air strikes, followed by a 2nd Iraq style escalation ... that's NOT the war with Syria the OP refers to ...

The war with Syria that they refer to is another war with Syria that was actually already underway.

So, to sum up ... we were already in a war with Syria, and President Obama was going to start a 2nd overlapping war with Syria by calling in air strikes, and then that 2nd overlapping war was going to expand into a 2nd Iraq war ... which would then become a war with Iran and Russia.

We have so many wars going on with Syria, and predicted in Syria, that its getting tough to keep them all straight.

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Meanwhile, 1,000 dead in Iraq in July. Bombing will cause more suffering in Syria, not less. [View all] grahamhgreen Sep 2013 OP

Oh, Iraq, that's just our last glorious intervention. Pay no mind to it now. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #1

"You just don't get it" whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #2

Which "war with Syria" are you talking about? JoePhilly Sep 2013 #3

The one that he's still threatening. He had a big speech about it the other night. Would you like a grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #5

Let me know when the war starts ... ok. JoePhilly Sep 2013 #6

Most were not predicting, but preventing, is how I see it. grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #7

It was predicted to start on the Thursday before Labor Day. JoePhilly Sep 2013 #15

Well, now we are arming Al Quada to kill Syrians. When Al Quada fights us, we call it a war, so grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #17

Uh, the US is now officially funding, training, and arming insurgents there. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #9

So the war that everyone around here predicted would start JoePhilly Sep 2013 #16

So, wht do you want to do about the dead Iraqi's? grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #19

I love this willful ignorance nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #13

So were starting a 2nd Iraq war in Syria? JoePhilly Sep 2013 #14

A very safe bet. While it's tempting to say US intervention in Syria kenny blankenship Sep 2013 #4

Your expectation is everything we do is a fuck up? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #10

When it involves violence and killing, yes, it's a major fuck up, LOL grahamhgreen Sep 2013 #12

Yes...threatening to was a "major fuck up" this time wasn't it? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #18

Big difference is that there was no civil war in Iraq before we invaded. geek tragedy Sep 2013 #8

& I'm waiting for a major "D" politician to pjt7 Sep 2013 #11