Here it comes: Syria
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So basically they're now saying you been a naughty petulant child therefore we are going to take your toys off you and you had better behave from now on...
But please feel free to carry on shooting and blowing seven shades of sh*te out of each other..
Wouldn't fancy being the poor saps that have to fly into Syria to collect his toys, and then how are you going to verify you have got them all?.
It does seem to be a good get out clause, providing the USA plays ball.
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But please feel free to carry on shooting and blowing seven shades of sh*te out of each other..
Wouldn't fancy being the poor saps that have to fly into Syria to collect his toys, and then how are you going to verify you have got them all?.
It does seem to be a good get out clause, providing the USA plays ball.
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Well now....will we see if this is about "Obama's Face" or Disarming Syria?
My bet Obama keeps pushing for War as he has no way to go that does not leave him looking like a complete Dork unless he can puff out that pigeon breast of his, stick his jaw in the air like Mussolini did, and be the MAN!
I wager missiles fly......not cargo aircraft hauling surplus ChemWeaps.
My bet Obama keeps pushing for War as he has no way to go that does not leave him looking like a complete Dork unless he can puff out that pigeon breast of his, stick his jaw in the air like Mussolini did, and be the MAN!
I wager missiles fly......not cargo aircraft hauling surplus ChemWeaps.
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I wager missiles fly
So basically they're now saying you been a naughty petulant child therefore we are going to take your toys off you and you had better behave from now on...
But please feel free to carry on shooting and blowing seven shades of sh*te out of each other..
But please feel free to carry on shooting and blowing seven shades of sh*te out of each other..
I wonder what other "technical assistance" the Russians and Iranians have offered to help him finally get the job done (Russia: boots on the ground?)
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Well if he hands over his Chemical weapons surely that means they can match the ones used with the stockpiles, though that does not mean they were not captured.
But as they have details of the main Components the UK flogged him, I take it they can approximate the quantities that could have been manufactured and hence how much he should have?
But as they have details of the main Components the UK flogged him, I take it they can approximate the quantities that could have been manufactured and hence how much he should have?
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I believe we see the start of a Russian initiative to work out a deal with the Syrians to prevent Obama from ordering an attack.
If the Syrians will play ball with Russia....then Putin shall be the Winner and Obama the distinct loser. Obama should never have dissed Putin personally as he did....as Putin has every motivation to cut Obama off at the knees anyway he can.
Putin shall be seen as a Peace Maker and Obama will be painted as being the War Monger.....and rightfully so as anything that stops an American Attack is the right thing to do.
Obama is way out of his depth...and has been since being elected the first time.
If the Syrians will play ball with Russia....then Putin shall be the Winner and Obama the distinct loser. Obama should never have dissed Putin personally as he did....as Putin has every motivation to cut Obama off at the knees anyway he can.
Putin shall be seen as a Peace Maker and Obama will be painted as being the War Monger.....and rightfully so as anything that stops an American Attack is the right thing to do.
Obama is way out of his depth...and has been since being elected the first time.
As for Putin, he will never been seen as anything other than an opportunistic despot.
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As for Putin, he will never been seen as anything other than an opportunistic despot.
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The next day or two will be defining here. We shouldn't care unduly as to how Putin will be viewed after all of this, he is becoming yesterday's man. More important is how the USA will be viewed, at home and abroad. What is surprising in all of this, is that a potential solution, peaceful one at that, may have been delivered unwittingly by John Kerry's tongue in cheek proposal. Strange indeed but let's hope they run with it.
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But he is an opportunistic despot who has managed to increase Russia's influence n the Middle East to a level unseen since the 1970's... Right now, Putin's performance eval is a lot better than O'Bummer's.
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I must admit I still cannot fathom out how he managed to go from an elected Prime Minister to President, a post that hadn't existed when his final mandated second term was up, thus rendering the original post he was elected to subservient to his position.
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Not exactly a difficult trick to pull off when you don't have a functioning political opposition to worry about, because you've rigged your elections, rigged the press and had your opponents banged up.
managed to increase Russia's influence n the Middle East to a level unseen since the 1970's
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TomJoad, Putin yesterdays man? I would imagine a decade from now he will still be President of Russia and a very much more powerful Russian than it is today. By then Cameron, Hollander and Obama will be nothing but a distant memory.
Putin is a very clever and very gifted leader.
Putin is a very clever and very gifted leader.
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He must qualify for the ex services thread too, being an ex Lt Col in the KGB.
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"Or perhaps, all along, Obama has been playing a very clever bluff to get Assad to give up his CW."
I think you better call Danny boy to explain to you how a bit far fetched
your statement is.
You give far too much credit to Obama.
And as for Putin, he has played Obama like a well played fiddle and Obama
has been dancing to try to keep up, at the same time as making himself
and the US look foolish.
"Or perhaps, all along, Obama has been playing a very clever bluff to get Assad to give up his CW."
I think you better call Danny boy to explain to you how a bit far fetched
your statement is.
You give far too much credit to Obama.
And as for Putin, he has played Obama like a well played fiddle and Obama
has been dancing to try to keep up, at the same time as making himself
and the US look foolish.
AA steals my thunder yet again!