If you remember this speech aimed directly at Syria:







"If you make the tragic mistake of using these {chemical} weapons, there will be consequences..."

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So now what's the president going to do?

Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people – by one report as many as 1,300 – on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades.

Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators – who arrived in Damascus just three days ago – to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war.

Images, including some taken by freelance photographers and supplied to Reuters, showed scores of bodies including of small children, laid out on the floor of a clinic with no visible signs of injuries.

Invade! Don't we still have troops in Iraq?

Honestly, I don't know what the option is Firm... but he's supposedly "drew a line" and Syria crossed it. So basically, Syria has thumbed their nose at the President. So does our commander in chief actually back up his statements or does he do another ... "OH yeah, well, if you cross "THIS" line"...

(08-21-2013 12:24 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Invade! Don't we still have troops in Iraq?

FeeBee, You must be a Dr. of Fatuousness.

Of course, presidents should refrain from "drawing lines" and issuing other such ultimatums when it doesn't directly involve the US. Especially when both sides of these Mideast conflicts since the start of the 'Arab Spring' are of questionable character and motives.

You mean, again? This line was crossed already and guess what happened? Exactly.

So why worry about crossing it again? The response from the ditherer in chief will predictably be the same, more nothing.

Leading from behind since 2008, YOUR new America...

(08-21-2013 12:29 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Honestly, I don't know what the option is Firm... but he's supposedly "drew a line" and Syria crossed it. So basically, Syria has thumbed their nose at the President. So does our commander in chief actually back up his statements or does he do another ... "OH yeah, well, if you cross "THIS" line"...

Easy... He's a coward, yellow, has no backbone, so he does another "OH yeah, well, if you cross "THIS" line"...

(08-21-2013 12:43 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  You mean, again? This line was crossed already and guess what happened? Exactly.

So why worry about crossing it again? The response from the ditherer in chief will predictably be the same, more nothing.

Leading from behind since 2008, YOUR new America...

Aren't you glad you weren't one of the idiots who were sucked in to his lies to vote for him?

(08-21-2013 12:40 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Of course, presidents should refrain from "drawing lines" and issuing other such ultimatums when it doesn't directly involve the US. Especially when both sides of these Mideast conflicts since the start of the 'Arab Spring' are of questionable character and motives.

But then, so is this administration.

I'm guessing some sort of mandate delay or evolving view is in order.

Most not be a persistent CW Agent if you can pick up casualties without dying yourself. Somebody has them some Sarin it looks like.

(08-21-2013 12:34 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 12:24 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Invade! Don't we still have troops in Iraq?

FeeBee, You must be a Dr. of Fatuousness.

Dentistry.

(08-21-2013 12:43 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  You mean, again? This line was crossed already and guess what happened? Exactly.

JMU, the other reported examples were "supposedly" not the leadership of Syria, so I kinda let those ones go in terms of the President's "red line" response.

THis one sure seems to be the leadership of Syria...

The president should have kept his pie hole shut and let Syria sort itself out. It's not like the winner of this dumpster fire is going to be US friendly, anyway.

So much for O's "enormous consequences". Complaining to the UN does not qualify.

I know his staff is a bunch of sycophants, but you'd think SOMEONE on his staff would come out and say that he's looking like a total toothless cowardly lion of a world leader.

Heck, I disagreed with Clinton, but when he _said_ something, he would at least back up his statements with at least the APPEARANCE of strength, (even if it was used at times to cover up domestic "scandals".)

(08-21-2013 01:15 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  I know his staff is a bunch of sycophants, but you'd think SOMEONE on his staff would come out and say that he's looking like a total toothless cowardly lion of a world leader.

Heck, I disagreed with Clinton, but when he _said_ something, he would at least back up his statements with at least the APPEARANCE of strength, (even if it was used at times to cover up domestic "scandals".)

Yea, like bombing an empty aspirin factory.

To your prior post re "supposedly not the leadership of Syria", Yea, I know there was some supposed question about that. I don't buy it for a second, but I know that was floated.

BUT, you know what the Oooofficial response was to the questions about our non-response to their use? It wasn't large scale enough.

Yep, it didn't cause enough mass casualties to trigger zerO's "red line" warning. We have a very nuanced regime in place don't we? Lovely, isn't it?

(08-21-2013 12:45 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 12:43 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  You mean, again? This line was crossed already and guess what happened? Exactly.

So why worry about crossing it again? The response from the ditherer in chief will predictably be the same, more nothing.

Leading from behind since 2008, YOUR new America...

Aren't you glad you weren't one of the idiots who were sucked in to his lies to vote for him?

Ha. I would say there was very little chance of that. Saw Empty Suit for what he was from day 1. Now we are all having to endure his incompetence.

Obama is intentionally managing the long, slow decline of the U.S. economically, politically, and militarily.

Anyone who expects him to do something meaningful is delusional.

(08-21-2013 01:35 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 12:45 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 12:43 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  You mean, again? This line was crossed already and guess what happened? Exactly.

So why worry about crossing it again? The response from the ditherer in chief will predictably be the same, more nothing.

Leading from behind since 2008, YOUR new America...

Aren't you glad you weren't one of the idiots who were sucked in to his lies to vote for him?

Ha. I would say there was very little chance of that. Saw Empty Suit for what he was from day 1. Now we are all having to endure his incompetence.

He's very transparent, but his people are in love with him. Liver lips and all, so they fail to see his constant failure. Ironic.