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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:15 PM
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is bu$h* 'allowed' to attack anyone in any nation he chooses?
Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 02:16 PM by spanone
guess so

Syria claims US helicopters attacked village



By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 7:07PM GMT 26 Oct 2008
Media reports gave conflicting accounts of the incident, which they said had involved an air strike on civilians.
State television, quoting unnamed officials, said that an attack took place near the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal. It gave no further details on the incident.
The private television channel al-Dunia said that nine people had been killed when an unknown number of American helicopters attacked the village of Al-Sukkiraya.
"Nine people were killed and 14 wounded in the raid, which hit a group of builders while they were working," the television station said. "All victims were civilians."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/3264165/Syria-claims-US-helicopters-attacked-village.html
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MattP Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:18 PM
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1. How many of our citizens will die in a war with Syria just to get a Rethug in the White House?
What sick bastards!!!!
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:19 PM
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6. Zero.
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fed_up_mother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:18 PM
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2. McCain's friend is doing what he can for the election.
:hide:
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:18 PM
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3. Yes, this sounds liike Bush is just trying to launch a distraction. Wag the dog style
a final hail mary for his crumbling party.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:18 PM
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4. Border airstrikes happen all the time. Syria's complaining that they were on the wrong side
Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 02:19 PM by Occam Bandage
of the border line. Not exactly the kind of thing wars are made of. This is, after all, very similar to what Obama has proposed doing with the Afghan/Pakistan border.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:27 PM
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10. msnbc reported that if true this would be an escalation of the war
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:32 PM
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12. It'll strain relationships a bit, but nobody in Syria is going to
want to start a shooting war because some American officer decided he could fire a missile at a house on the wrong side of the border.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:31 PM
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11. the report seems to be that the helicopters landed, soldiers raided a building
not like an air strike, exactly
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:34 PM
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13. *shrug* Doesn't change the equation.
Cross-border raids are common.
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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:18 PM
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5. Yes, actually - thanks to the Iraqi War Resolution.
From my understanding, the resolution allows him to attack ANYONE if he thinks it's part of the WOT.

Other countries and the UN, however, would beg to differ.
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FloridaGrl Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:21 PM
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7. If this isn't a reason to vote against
the republican ideology I don't know what is.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:22 PM
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8. That's how I see it.
Country First MY ASS!
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JustAnotherGen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:22 PM
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9. Jesus H -
I'm back to hating Bush. . . his game playing just got innocent people killed. Murder.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:38 PM
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14. No. But if Congress doesn't stop him, then it seems he can.
Only Congress is supposed to be able to declare war. It seems this part of the Constitution has been ignored since Korea.
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:39 PM
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15. Yes, he is. (war powers act)
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 03:06 PM
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16. Yes! Because Bush discusses everything with God first during their weekly potluck dinners together.
Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 03:35 PM by LaPera
And Bush is correct...God wouldn't lie.
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