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Senate Foreign Relations Panel To Vote On Arming Syrian Rebels Next Week

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With the scandal-ridden administration in major need of a geopolitical distraction, preferably of the exothermic variety, and with Syria still in desperate need of "liberation" by remote controlled-airborne units, the Senate may have put two and two together, and following today's introduction of the bipartisan "Syria Transition Support Act", at least one part of the US legislative process - the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - is set to vote as soon as next week on whether to arm Syrian rebels. The ultimate passage of such a move through Congress is guaranteed to finally escalate the regional mid-east conflict to the next stage with the inevitable involvement of Russia which as a reminder yesterday, in a very demonstrative and well-timed move, exposed a CIA agent operating in the heart of Moscow.

The Hill reports:

The vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would mark the first time lawmakers have voted to approve arming Syrian rebels and could increase pressure on the Obama administration to take action in the 26-month-old civil war.

 

The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations panel announced they had introduced the Syria Transition Support Act on Wednesday. A vote on the bill is expected as early as Tuesday afternoon.

 

Panel Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) agreed to modify the bill he introduced last week in order to get ranking member Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on board. Such bipartisan action would send the strongest signal yet to the Obama administration that Congress is demanding stronger action while giving a boost to similar legislation that the top Democrat on the equivalent House panel, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), introduced in March.

Specifically the bill would create a $250 million a year transition fund to assist the civilian opposition and sanction sales of weapons and oil to the Assad regime.

"The future for Syria is uncertain, but the U.S. has a vested interest in trying to prevent an extremist takeover, which poses a very real risk for us and the region," Corker said in a statement announcing his co-sponsorship.

 

"Without authorizing the use of force or additional spending, this legislation will begin to implement a more coherent U.S. strategy, both now and for the day after Assad, that is focused on trying to shift the momentum on the ground toward moderate opposition groups while also helping them build support within and outside Syria for a new government,” he said.

So in order to prevent "an extremist takeover" which incidentally would mean the continuation of the status quo, the US would be willing to allow yet another extremist group to take control of the split nation: surely that worked out impeccably in Libya...

Most importantly, the White House, formerly a very theatrical opponent to the idea of arming the rebels, has thawed and warmed up substantially to the idea of the US officially entering the armed conflict:

The White House has balked at arming the rebels, saying U.S. weapons would add to the violence that has already killed almost 100,000 people. It also argues weapons could end up in the hands of Islamist militants opposed to the United States. Administration officials have said they are reconsidering their reservations in the wake of reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime may have used chemical

This is a claim which the UN already refuted, and in fact reported that it was the rebels that had used chemical weapons, not Assad. The Al-Qaeda supported rebels we may add.  Although we can also add that it is a good thing the US is only deciding on whether to weaponize one particular group of Al-Qaeda supported militants. Because otherwise it might have to take a long, hard look at Egypt. Again.

Finally, we already heard that John Kerry would "prefer that Russia is not supplying assistance to Syria." We will soon hear how Russia feels about the inverse.

 

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Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:49 | 3565803 Aziz
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Send Hannibal Lecter! He'll show those Syrian rebels how to do cannibalism properly!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:59 | 3565864 TeamDepends
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That's right.  You don't puff out your chest and say, "Look at what a big manly man I am".  No, you calmly look into the camera and say, "What, you don't do this too?"

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:22 | 3565982 LeisureSmith
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You can bet your hairy ass the organ trade is booming. Need a liver, kidneys, a heart some new lungs perhaps? For a fee  Israel and Turkey are willing to oblige....  youthful spesimens fresh of the battlefield every day. 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:50 | 3565809 Aurora Ex Machina
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If they do, they just created the mother of all memes.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:51 | 3565816 kito
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hahaha...voting on whats already done....

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:57 | 3565848 otto skorzeny
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american $ to fight your fellow cheesepopes' battle for them. next up- american blood for Iran's "freedom". why doesn't Israel want to become the 51st state? then they would only have 2 senators to do their bidding instead of 100.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:13 | 3565913 kito
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otto...i know youve never met a cheesepope before.....odds are you dont live within 200 miles of one.....your local "elkkk" lodge probably has books on how to spot one.....you know.... horns...tails......but it just so happens that many american cheesepopes dont back everything israel does.....netanYAHOO is as much of a disliked warhawk by many american cheesepopes as rummy and cheney and the likes...............second, israel does the bidding of the u.s. war machine....... not the other way around........it is ridiculous to think differently................the u.s. will not give a rats ass about the middle east once oil becomes irrelevant.........................

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:18 | 3565947 otto skorzeny
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One lives behind me-it pisses him off when I have AH's April 20 B-day party every year-I have these little formations of RC Stukas that fly overhead. My toddler boys are not naive enough to believe that Israel and AIPAC don't call the shots in the ME via traitourous scumbags like McCain and Lindsey Grahaham and the best Congress $ can buy.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:25 | 3566001 kito
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i feel so sorry that your children are born into such hatred, bias and bigotry..................tell me, if the shtf, is your cheesepope neighbor the first one on your list??????.....oh and mccain and graham (both scumbags, yes) use israel to feed the war machine, not the other way around.................

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:27 | 3566020 otto skorzeny
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I'm working on them-pure blood is important.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:30 | 3566044 kito
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humor me.....are you going to vet them first??.....casually ask them where their parents and grandparents are from?? perhaps run a family tree search on them?????

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:38 | 3566079 McMolotov
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Everyone's got a cheesepope in the wood pile.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:39 | 3566087 Karl von Bahnhof
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I mean, just to add fire to the debate, i guess Henry Makow is quite close in this anticheese thingy

http://www.savethemales.ca/000258.html

Very nasty game is being played upon to us...

http://www.henrymakow.com/000447.html

I guess big players in the "other world" (psssst...russians / BRICs ... Sssst) trying to quietly support real american patriots....

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:10 | 3566678 Go Tribe
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Another joowar over oil and gold. American lives are so cheap.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:08 | 3565902 HelluvaEngineer
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Exactly.  What's the point?  If they vote to stop it, this administration will do it anyway, and if they get caught (again) absolutely no one will be prosecuted or impeached. 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:22 | 3565974 McMolotov
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Each day offers more proof that we are circling the drain as a country.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:04 | 3566203 catacl1sm
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Which direction, clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:28 | 3566527 teolawki
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The path of despotism is a downward spiral. It is not particularly important whether it takes a "left" spin or a "right" spin. The destination of sewer is still the same.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:17 | 3567636 Parisnights
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Each day offers more proof that we are circling the drain as a country.

Amen,  You know if these ass clowns want to fund some bullshit "transition fund" for syrian rebels, why don't they stick a crowbar in their own wallets, instead of getting the taxpayer to do it.  Rand Paul is right- these war mongering, bed wetting, long legged, egg sucking, no account, piss ass polecats will just waste our money.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:52 | 3565822 pods
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Feels really good that more people will be killed in my name.

(yeah that was sarcasm)

pods

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:52 | 3565824 css1971
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These are the "rebels" which are

  1. Al Quaeda - Helloooooo, anybody home?
  2. Fucking CANNIBALS!!!

Does EVERYONE not see that these are the bad guys?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:10 | 3565906 FL_Conservative
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You have a problem supporting the "enemy of our enemy"?  That (failed) policy has brought immeasurable benefit to the US over the past century.  Ask ANY politician.  They'll tell you what it's done for them.....errr....I mean us....as a nation, of course

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:38 | 3565979 ZerOhead
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They may be CANNIBALS but they be OUR cannibals... And Fine Young ones at that too!

Besides... a former FBI translator testified before CONGRESS that we were working WITH Al Qaeda right up to and even perhaps after 9/11...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bombshell-bin-laden-worked-for-us-until-9-1...

It's good thing they gagged her... wouldn't want the people to know this stuff... could ruin confidence in our leaders just like jailing banksters could lead to loss of confidence in the financial system.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:52 | 3565828 the grateful un...
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1) give scud missiles to Al Qaida in Syria

2) Al Qaida in Syria shoots missiles at Jerusalem

3) Israel invades Syria

4) high fives all around

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:59 | 3565863 otto skorzeny
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because Israel gets their asses kicked unless their enemies are rock-throwing Palestinian teens.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:21 | 3565969 kito
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otto has no knowledge of history nor knowledge of the idf........but hey, if it was green arrows you were shooting for...then kudos to you on your ignorant statement...............

 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:24 | 3566000 otto skorzeny
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they really did well in Lebanon in 2006-dumbass.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:26 | 3566011 kito
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you are fucking clueless...south lebanon wouldve been leveled in one hour if they wanted to....you really cant be that foolish..............

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:28 | 3566030 otto skorzeny
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it's the old US playbook-get your ass kicked-pull out and claim victory with the MSM playing along.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:32 | 3566053 kito
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the funny thing is that you dont believe that yourself....no matter how much you try to convince yourself............

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:49 | 3566129 Karl von Bahnhof
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Guys, sorry to screw your party, but we have common enemy.

They screw us constantly and ocassionally sacrifice their "own" people they keep in perpetual fear through self-hate expulsion or antisummitics, while laughing behind curtains.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:44 | 3566112 Sandmann
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Really ? Israel leads the USA by the nose, but even the USA doesn't want to lose its allies and face the world alone

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:50 | 3566133 kito
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you make self serving statements............the u.s. spreads money around the middle east for one reason....to keep the oil flowing..............you will learn once the oil stops flowing........there will be NO POLITICAL WILL to stay invested in that shithole of a region........................

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:52 | 3566147 fonzannoon
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I just popped in here to piss off Francis.

ok, goodbye.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:01 | 3566191 kito
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lol .....

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:27 | 3567666 Parisnights
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yeah Otto like the USA has won ANYTHING since WWII.  We just go in and f everything up,,, leaving a trail of slime...

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:31 | 3567678 Spider55
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OTTO is probably not even a Veteran - they the un-vet normally have the biggest mouths

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:53 | 3565833 maskone909
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Thought we already armed them?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:04 | 3565886 espirit
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Need Moar Woar!

We arm the rebs. ~ the Russkies arm Assad.

Point, counterpoint, people die.

 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:55 | 3566163 Urban Redneck
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Response to Monday's announcement by Moscow of MOAR Russian fleets w/ landing craft right off the Syrian coast?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-15/frontrunning-may-15#comment-3564493

Or does the CIA slush fund just need a 1/4 billion topping up?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:53 | 3565835 OpTwoMistic
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Why does US give a shit.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:55 | 3565844 docj
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Because Moar War is like, bullish, and good for the eCONomy, or something.

(sarcasm, in case anyone needed the clarification)

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:00 | 3565865 otto skorzeny
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it affect Israel-ergo-it affects the US

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:22 | 3565972 Element
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Need to prop up spending on defense stocks. Defense sector's so large that if you cut the WAR spending (I refuse to call it defense spending), then it has large implications for stock levels, solvency, and of course ... banks.

So the Syrian's have been volunteered to help out.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:54 | 3565836 docj
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More evidence in support of Choom Boy's next Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:57 | 3565855 dick cheneys ghost
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NeoCon circle jerk bukkake party at Bill Kristols tonite..........

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:58 | 3565860 BullyBearish
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It's a regional deal...let them figure it out.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:58 | 3565862 sitenine
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Oh, sure. They don't want you to have a gun to defend yourself, but apparently they will spend your tax dollars to give guns to known terrorists. Am I the only one that has a problem with this?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:03 | 3565881 insanelysane
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Exactly, we need to arm rebels so they can defend themselves from tyranny but we need to disarm citizens so they can't.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:09 | 3565916 espirit
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Plenty of weapons to the terrorists so the U.S. doesn't have sooo many false flags to create.

It's troublesome to keep up with the lies.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:01 | 3565870 BattlegroundEur...
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America wants to create another Islamofacist shithole with a populace whose leaders want the rest of the world to convert to islam.

 

Whats not to like.

 

FFS.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:08 | 3565904 Stoploss
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The little moon god is running out of mortals to worship him.

LOL...

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:08 | 3566460 Aurora Ex Machina
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~23% of the world's population.

 

Math. Yeah, let's not go there.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:05 | 3565892 catacl1sm
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Soooo... we're going to arm (more than we have) the 'rebels' that have

  • Used chemical weapons
  • eat the still beating heart of opponents

kk. Jus making sure.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:06 | 3565893 Element
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This is who they want to arm. Don't give them any chance to claim later that they didn't know beforehand.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianGirlWar?feature=watch

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:07 | 3566212 Winston Churchill
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Hope they stuffed it first.

Improves the flavor, at least it does for lambs hearts.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:09 | 3566224 DutchR
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Considering all the meat scandals lately he may be on to something......

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:44 | 3566380 The Heart
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Greetings and Grace Sir E.

Man has seen many atrocities in the fields of war, but they have never seen them on the tubes of their TV's like this.

The craziest thing is, still too many Americans support this kind of pure evil (no offense to said poster here) as it continues unabated.

What it is...is what we have become.

Pray for the innocent people of America who still have no clue what-so-ever.

YOUR tax dollars at work.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:17 | 3566492 bunnyswanson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6_zwB6GLpo4#!

George Carlin - Highlights of his career (1 hour)

"Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but you have no right, we just made that up."

 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:00 | 3566441 IndyPat
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Holy shit why did I watch that.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 19:03 | 3566570 Element
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Sorry dude, I understand what you feel. We have to stop these bastards getting more weapons (even though a blade is clearly enough for these bastards). Plus reject the entire notion that anyone in the western world should be supporting such animals, in any form, plus expose anyone asserting that we should, for what they are. I don't give a shit about anyone's 'narrative' on this stuff, it's time to put them down, but all the crims in the White House and 10 Downing Street want to do is build them up to greater and greater acts of savagery, under the sick and obviously false pretense of saving the Syrian people.

That must be stopped ... the FSA Al-CIAeda as well.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:07 | 3565897 W T F II
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Just drop a huge crate full of loaded weapons in the ciity square and let all the factions run for the cache and fight it out....!!

That's what'll happen anyway...Get it over with and save the pretense....

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:11 | 3565927 otto skorzeny
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if they take good care of them they can use those weapons on US soldiers in 10 years when we have to go in and kick out the muslim extremist govt that replaces Assad (if the US Army is still in business).

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:22 | 3565977 W T F II
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Like the Taliban...!!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:16 | 3565950 Fuku Ben
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You mean the NWO version of dodgeball?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czEXueCNE8Y

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:09 | 3565915 realtick
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Who thinks Israel exploded a nuke over Syria last week?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekEk5ZJIl0

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:14 | 3565939 HulkHogan
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not me.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:16 | 3565949 Element
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oh piss-off - NO!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:16 | 3565952 Sandmann
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Noone. Otherwise Israelis would be dealing with radiation sickness

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:09 | 3565920 malek
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Quick! Give him another Nobel Peace prize!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:13 | 3565936 Fuku Ben
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It seems like they are willing to knowingly and opening admit to funding war crimes. That shouldn't really surprise anyone any more with everything that's been happening lately in the US.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaLsIBHEvXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhOC0Bx0NU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mo7jT5Zs4w

 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:55 | 3566423 The Heart
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"It seems like they are willing to knowingly and opening admit to funding war crimes"

Truth is a terrible cross to bare. What if they showed these videos over the nation-wide television drug and mind-control system on all three major LSM networks for a week straight?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:15 | 3565944 Sandmann
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The US is busy trying to establish another disaster like Libya to infiltrate terrorists into the Caucasus from Syria. They might screw up badly and lose Israel this time. Funny how the US is not helping the opposition in Bahrain.

It is pretty clear where the Evil Empire is nowadays

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:50 | 3566138 harami
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The opposition in Bahrain is Shi'a, we like our Muslims on the Sunni side.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:16 | 3565948 denverdolomte
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Why can't these countries just settle it like men? If Kerry or Obama is not approving of what Putin is doing in this situation then man up, call him out to his face, and settle it like grown men. 

 

::sarc heavily on.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:16 | 3565951 Ignorance is bliss
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Does the Syrian conflict ring stupidly similar to the U.S. involvement Vietnam? I guess I'm a modern day peace-nick. IMHO that's better then being a murderer and oppressor of brown skinned people in foreign lands. 

Perhaps if someone could better explain why we feel the need to be at war with people we have never met, I could really get patriotic and support our effort. There really have been no official "Bush" style explanations for our aggressive stance in Syria.  

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:19 | 3565957 Sandmann
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Not at all like Vietnam. Much more like Iraq or Afghanistan. You know, the Americans arrive, the Americans leave, nothing much changes to America's advantage but Americans die and Americans spend billions to go nowhere

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:07 | 3566458 The Heart
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"Perhaps if someone could better explain why we feel the need to be at war with people we have never met, I could really get patriotic and support our effort."

So far, all is going according to the banksters evil plans. Most normal people knowing and seeing this would never ever support such evil and out-right dishonest corruption that has agendas like these below. All one has to do is look at the trends to see what is happening. The real deal problem with this mad-hatter insanity is there are still too many people who actually DO support this kind of blatant murderous horrific killing. This is why it will continue. The weight of the profits from death and destruction have long outweighed the desires for normal people to live peaceful and prosperous lives WITHOUT war for the banksters profits, and a population reduction agenda.

http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html

http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsU-2zJyNsY

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:19 | 3565960 Catullus
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Doesnt matter if they actually arm the rebels or not. They're still going to purchase the weapons. That's the point of all this. It's another winning lottery ticket to the death merchants. Lindsey Graham and John Kerry are just giddy with excitement. More money to their friends.

Foreign aid doesn't just go to the regimes. It goes to companies that sell the regimes the stuff. Been that way for a century. It's one of the gifts of progressivism. What a joke

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:17 | 3566489 The Heart
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"Lindsey Graham and John Kerry are just giddy with excitement. More money to their friends"

Least all to remember that kerry is a skull and bones man and their whole mantra is all around WAR, and war making.

Imagine having a war maker in the war dept with all the power to make war for his bonesy buddy war monger profiteers. How crazy is that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJO4Chs7-lg

 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:19 | 3565965 pragmatic hobo
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absolute nuts ... the syrian rebels are basically al-queda nut cases who are willing gas their own people in trying to make case for EU/USA invasion.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:26 | 3566010 radwon
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Eat your heart out al-Assad

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:27 | 3566021 Ignorance is bliss
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Man our administration is sick. That's all I can say. 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:34 | 3566061 dbTX
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I'm sure the O child has gotten some pointers from Slick Willie on wagging the dog.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:40 | 3566088 moonman
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But..but there is a sequester going on!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:41 | 3566099 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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i just google who sits on the committee... we are fucked!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:42 | 3566101 Sandmann
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Debka says the Saudis are trying to cut a deal with Iran and Russia is looking to sell arms to Iraq. The US strategy of buddying up with the Islamic Fanatics is really screwing up US policy in the region.

I do wonder if Israel or Turkey will survive in their current form. With Mubrak gone it cannot be long before Egypt needs another war to keep its populace under control and with S300 systems in Syria the whole of Northern Israel will be covered by radar. I can see Israel fighting a three front war in the near future when Jordan folds

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:01 | 3566188 Sandmann
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/13/1

Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:31 | 3566331 Karl von Bahnhof
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Yeah, just cut the peak and climmy bullshit and you got it.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:31 | 3566328 LetsGetPhysical
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They're already arming the "rebels". What do you think Benghazi was about? 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:36 | 3566352 MrBoompi
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When it comes to foreign policy, this government has done nothing but fuck up for the last 30 years, and that goes for both parties.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:27 | 3566522 The Heart
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"When it comes to foreign policy, this government has done nothing but fuck up for the last 30 years, and that goes for both parties."

Thank you Mr B for that.

Actually, all the profiteering actor puppets are playing all their parts well. The god money, and the saints of this god have long well laid these plans for the world domination of the few, and the killing off of the many. These patsies and minions that litter the blogs and real news forums do not realize how used up and dead they already are. This same evil that seeks to kill innocents and unarmed brown people in Syria, will eventually kill them also after they have been sucked dry like a Arizona tarantula does to a large three inch grasshopper on hot desert night-scape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-WfqdcnjvlA&feature=endscreen

http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:45 | 3566385 pashley1411
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What's Arabic for "Gulf of Tonkin"?

This administration is way beyond parody.  

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:49 | 3566402 IndyPat
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Oh, that's right Kerry. You better hope they vote for it, because your stupid goldbricking name is on the packing list for the shit we already gave them, isn't it?
Law post facto...prolly wont cover you in the long run. But maybe it will, since Rumsfeld still has the receipt for the bio weapons that he shipped to Iraq...and they shipped to...oh, we'll...you see where this is going.
I'm to the point that I hope Putin personally delivers suitcase nukes to Assad and tells this asshole checkmate, bitchez.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:46 | 3566571 The Heart
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Excellent post IP. Thank you.

What is really nutty in this picture show is, who is it exactly that has so many Americans angry with their own govt for perpetuating this crazy clown killer show that is ONLY leading to a purposely caused WORD WAR THREE?? THE OBVIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD WAR RUN-UP IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY'S EYES IS LUDICROUS!!!!

And to put a period on that, how in the holy heck does it continue unabated in the face of a world that SEES exactly what is going on? Like, how do they push these charades like the boston bombing drill that was easily exposed as fake, and all these cover ups of the cover up that covers up even more insane lies and deceit? Now who in the bowels of govt could ever cause all this to be like it is and propagate the yellow journalism that supports these lies and deceptions? Hummmmm.

FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY:

http://zioncrimefactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Jew-World-Ord...

Qui bono?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:52 | 3566412 q99x2
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Dear Senator (fucking FeinStein):

Please follow your heart and vote "No" on the support cannibalism bill.

Sincerly

Twisted Constituent.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:41 | 3566556 Motorhead
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Feinstein is an ass hole, period.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:53 | 3566416 Taterboy
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Before they get these weapons will there be a background check?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 16:55 | 3566424 Jack Burton
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We should vote each so called rebel a set of steak knives as well, all the better to carve up their victims for consumption after the battle.

Like I said before, I hope to see Syrian Russian model T-72 and T-90 tanks with Al-Qaeda heads mounted up front.

The USA has gone insane. Back to arming, funding and training terrorists who are allied with or full blown Al-Qaeda members. And HOW do you get called a rebel when the CIA transports you to the battle field from Libya, Iraq or one of the Gulf States or Chechnya??  Funny I thought rebel meant fighting your own government, not being sent hundreds if not thousands of miles to fight another nation's government!

Keep it up. US allied Chechen's blew up Boston. US allied Saudi nationals did 9/11 and now we are back at it.

In the mean time, the US government is going after the US Press and Bitcoin! I said it, I mean it "The US Government has gone fucking INSANE!" Impeach Obama, the "Black Bush"!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 17:27 | 3566523 Motorhead
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Funny that these ass holes on Capitol Hill can't vote to declare war IAW the US Constitution, but they'll vote on arming another bunch of ass holes, no problem.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:00 | 3566636 MeelionDollerBogus
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of course, now we pretty much confirmed rebels in Syria are Al Qaeda and using sarin nerve gas, NOW is the time for the US to give a chunk of military budget to them.

Party on Wayne, party on Garth!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:40 | 3566862 object_orient
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9/11/2013 :

 

The US ambassador to Syria and four security personnel were killed today during an attack on the US consulate in Aleppo. State department officials claim an angry mob descended on the building to protest a video mocking the prophet Mohammad.

Aleppo was the main staging point for the NATO-led rebel forces who captured Damascus and publically executed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in July.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 01:25 | 3567989 EZYJET PILOT
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What are these cunts talking about they've been arming the rebels all along and still are! They must thing we're morons.

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