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JI7

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2. Obama's position on military strikes seems to be that if it's something he thinks

Reply to morningfog (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 04:07 PM

Sep 2014

should be done it should be for a reason good enough in itself and politics and polls shouldn't matter.

if he seriously wanted to strike at assad during the chemical weapons thing he owulod have done it .

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Obama doesn't want your approval for Syria strikes [View all] morningfog Sep 2014 OP

Congress long ago cravenly surrendered the powers entrusted to them. malthaussen Sep 2014 #1

Agreed. If I am not mistaken congress did not declare war on North Korea and has not declared on jwirr Sep 2014 #6

Obama's position on military strikes seems to be that if it's something he thinks JI7 Sep 2014 #2

He wanted to last year. He was pressured into morningfog Sep 2014 #4

if he wanted to he would have done it just as he is doing now JI7 Sep 2014 #5

He and Kerry barely ForrestGumped their way out of that leftstreet Sep 2014 #11

By "Congress" you mean the same fuckheads who voted for the first Iraq war. John "whiskey barrel on Erose999 Sep 2014 #3

Congress apparently rates voting on war somewhere below 'vacation' in their priority list. phantom power Sep 2014 #7

it's a bipartisan middle finger KG Sep 2014 #8

I trust Obama to do the righ...center-right thing n/t leftstreet Sep 2014 #9

Yes, Obama is full of shit on this issue. He is usurping powers that don't belong to him. Vattel Sep 2014 #10

as this writer and many other DUers point out Enrique Sep 2014 #12