[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Right after each of the last two elections, in the unnamed forum, I was told by posters who knew how I opposed this President, that I need to suck it up and understand who is in charge. That I need to support him because HE is the President. That was said to rile me up, and as sad as the meaning of that and intent was, it is true.

It is difficult to ignore what has happened over the years and especially in the lazy, uninvolved foreign policy toward anything that does not serve a political purpose.

Having said that, I do not think there is anything to gain by opposing this resolution as presented. I will support him on this limited action, and hope he learns that saying things does not make them true. There has to be facts to back them up no matter how smart you may think you are.

No matter who, he will leave (after congress fixes also health care), and we will still be the USA. I do not want my country to be viewed as the rest of the world is viewing us now and not backing the President, whomever that is, will simply make us open for more ridicule and in the long run, to me, more danger.

AFTER DOING SOME READING, PERHAPS I AM CHANGING MY MIND.

"A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman warned any military intervention in Syria would create a nuclear disaster.

“If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MSNR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich stated, according to Russia Today.

Lukashevich said if a military strike were launched without seeking approval from the United Nations Security Council that new suffering for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa would occur. He added that the region could be at risk of “contamination by highly enriched uranium and it would no longer be possible to account for nuclear material, its safety and control.”

Russia Warns Of Nuclear Disaster If Syria Is Hit « CBS DC

"The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified men.
The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers. Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. They kept their faces pressed to the dirt as the rebels’ commander recited a bitter revolutionary verse.

“For fifty years, they are companions to corruption,” he said. “We swear to the Lord of the Throne, that this is our oath: We will take revenge.”

The moment the poem ended, the commander, known as “the Uncle,” fired a bullet into the back of the first prisoner’s head. His gunmen followed suit, promptly killing all the men at their feet. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/wo...t.html?hp&_r=0

"Russia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence that Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year.

In a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website late Wednesday. Russia said the report had been delivered to the United Nations in July and includes detailed scientific analysis of samples that Russian technicians collected at the site of the alleged attack, Khan al Asal."

Read more here: Russia says it's compiled 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for a chemical weapons attack | McClatchy

Mr President, why have you allowed so much time to go by and ignored what is happening and why are you now trying to lay this on the back of congress when you did not even want to come to them. Why are you talking as you have today about the red line not being yours. Why will you not talk about Benghazi.

What a mess we are in now.....I am changing....maybe let him be embarassed by this and the oncoming train wreck with health care.

I think now the end game is to blame congress for whatever happens and to try and insure he is credited if anything goes well. I never believed quite that badly, but getting there now