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strikeforce

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16. 1000 words

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 06:43 PM

Dec 2013

perhaps may be lookin for some help here.

i don't think it is integrity to at first say we should punish assad decisively for the gas attack against his people (400 kids gassed to death in their sleep), and then when the wind shifts to say we will do "pinprick" missile attacks that will be a few missiles launched at that.

that is politician kind of talk not integrity kind of talk. standing your ground is integrity.

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In new role, Kerry back in Vietnam's Mekong Delta [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2013 OP

Can we get them to take John McCain back? jberryhill Dec 2013 #1

Perhaps he can find his integrity there 1000words Dec 2013 #2

I was not aware he had lost it. Mass Dec 2013 #3

+ 1000 n/t MBS Dec 2013 #11

+ 1000 karynnj Dec 2013 #13

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #4

It is my opinion that at some point, Kerry became part of the problem 1000words Dec 2013 #5

Kerry has plenty of integrity. politichew Dec 2013 #6

Exactly. n/t. MBS Dec 2013 #12

You said it karynnj Dec 2013 #14

Hey, I can't let that statement pass without strongly disagreeing with you. NBachers Dec 2013 #7

Getting a bad feeling about this... freshwest Dec 2013 #8

You know nothing of the man and what he has done. Botany Dec 2013 #9

+ 1000 ! MBS Dec 2013 #10

I heard a few of them speak - either in 2004 on TV or in 2010 when most of them surprised him karynnj Dec 2013 #15

+ 1000 freshwest Dec 2013 #21

1000 words strikeforce Dec 2013 #16

Perhaps it was his boss's decision??? Omaha Steve Dec 2013 #17

The point was Never to "punish" but to "deter" Assad from using chemical weapons karynnj Dec 2013 #19

He has now been there twice as many times as the neocon chicken hawk crowd. Kingofalldems Dec 2013 #18

More than that - he was there at least 12 times in the 1990s karynnj Dec 2013 #20

A good article davidpdx Dec 2013 #22

Agree, but the article makes one really big error - saying this is the first time Kerry was back karynnj Dec 2013 #23