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KoKo

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9. Fair Enough....but the photos of children from GAZA Bombings
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 09:01 AM
Sep 2014

were horrific showing the bloodied, maimed and dead. One doctor at the Hospital was crying over the injuries that he saw with bombs that shoot out metal pieces which embed themselves all over the bodies of the victims causing terrible pain and suffering. Yet, there was little reaction here. We even invited Bibi back to DC to give another joint Congressional speech. The journalists who were beheaded were not children and horrific as it was...they were serving as journalists in a war area, captured and imprisoned (not allowed to be ransomed by their families) and therefore not innocents caught up in a situation beyond their control.

Still it doesn't explain why the news of Assad Gassing his own People (including children) with photos of victims writhing in pain didn't get approval for our bombing the first time around...and yet two beheadings of journalists somehow rushes us into bombing Syria. So, either they knew that Assad didn't gas his people and didn't want to go that far and get found out....or they had to find another opportunity to whip people up into war. Was it the journalists beheading or the Lie about Khorasan sending people with explosives onto planes and ready to invade our cities attack our children in the night (as Senator DiFi seemed to want to infer) that did it? Yet, that seems to turn out to be a lie also. But, they went with it and here we are bombing Syria. Although we can't get anyone else to bomb Syria with us...because? Because of the Lie?

War Pheromones [View all] H2O Man Sep 2014 OP
Truth. scarletwoman Sep 2014 #1
Thank you. H2O Man Sep 2014 #11
There is an old principle taught to fledgeling officers at West Point. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #2
Possibility of Neocons working with RW Fundamentalists on Armageddon? KoKo Sep 2014 #10
"Do SOMETHING" ! H2O Man Sep 2014 #12
Or, to shamelessly paraphrase Jay Gould, Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #14
Mecca and Medina RufusTFirefly Sep 2014 #3
Right. H2O Man Sep 2014 #13
I believe it will prove successful, here is one micro example. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #4
Thanks. H2O Man Sep 2014 #16
I agree, H2O Man, Cheney/Bush left a mess. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #18
Why do you believe so many Americans support this, though. KoKo Sep 2014 #5
To answer part of your question F4lconF16 Sep 2014 #6
Unfortunately, as a nation we citizens react to things personally, at gut level HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #7
Fair Enough....but the photos of children from GAZA Bombings KoKo Sep 2014 #9
Great questions. H2O Man Sep 2014 #17
Heart of Lothian seveneyes Sep 2014 #8
K&R liberal_at_heart Sep 2014 #15
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