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Originally posted by neo96
I say hell no!
Our enemies are killing each other off in Syria right now, just as they have been doing for centuries.
I see no need to get involved and spend money and lives, and lose both when there is no effing need to.
That is their crap sandwhich, and I refuse to take a bit out of it.
Originally posted by Bassago
mikegrouchy
Who do we trust running things for our future?
The UN Security counsel,
or ourselves.
This IS OUR MOMENT PEOPLE!
Seize it.
Seize it with both hands!
Mike
We have to disagree. According to you we should give up on the UN completely and withdraw from it? Or is this just about the parts you don't like? Don't get me wrong, just asking cause it seems the US government likes the UN until it disagrees with us. Then we'll "seize" opportunity and do as we please. Right? That's what you seem to be saying.
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
History will look back at us.
It won't see all the posturing and
political games,
It won't see the media spin machine
and the day We The People started to resist it
It won't see that the public,
for the first moment in decades,
was feeling that they were getting
some control of their own country back.
No.
History will only see one thing.
That we dropped the ball,
when it came to an escalation of chemical warfare.
If we fail to act,
History will judge us
as failures as well.
Me must not just act,
we must demand action.
Don't let this be the Governments' idea,
don't let this be the Media's idea.
Make history see that at this moment
we shed our media controlled psy-op conditioning
and at that exact moment
we made the right decision
for the future of all human kind.
Why we SHOULD [color=gold] demand military action on Syria
/thank you for reading
Mike
Originally posted by justwokeup
Take control of the situation how? No boots on the ground remember? Or are you advocating that as well.
The argument to be made is not some abstract (is intervention in principle good or bad) its an argument for the specifics of this case. The case needs to be made that:
- Assad used chemical weapons
- Striking the regime, and therefore strengthening the various rebel factions will be action that saves more lives on balance than it takes.
Neither of these cases have been made in a convincing way. Hence failure to get the UK public on side. Rational people (myself included) can be convinced. It needs proof of guilt and a plan for the future that doesn't include Al Qaeda overrunning Syria.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by mikegrouchy
I am the most anti-war,
least war mongering person here.
But you are calling for war, right?
History won't look back at the spin like you say. It will only see a nation that time and again toppled nation after nation in a typical Empirical grab of power and wealth. Just like every other on the ash heap of history.
They will also forget (the spin) too and be on their own road to destruction. We'll all be dead so it will be easy for the same type greedy bastards to control their minds into thinking it is for the good of mankind, the children or decency, whatever.
"Deutschland ubbe alles!" "Germany above everything!"
Originally posted by crazyewok
Originally posted by neo96
I say hell no!
Our enemies are killing each other off in Syria right now, just as they have been doing for centuries.
I see no need to get involved and spend money and lives, and lose both when there is no effing need to.
That is their crap sandwhich, and I refuse to take a bit out of it.
O god I agree with you on something ...... This is BIG
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
We are not doing it for the Middle East,
we are demanding it be done for us,
because in this over sensationalized
desensitized media controlled world
we are living in, the use of chemical weapons
is something in a class all by itself.
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
Originally posted by justwokeup
Take control of the situation how? No boots on the ground remember? Or are you advocating that as well.
The argument to be made is not some abstract (is intervention in principle good or bad) its an argument for the specifics of this case. The case needs to be made that:
- Assad used chemical weapons
- Striking the regime, and therefore strengthening the various rebel factions will be action that saves more lives on balance than it takes.
Neither of these cases have been made in a convincing way. Hence failure to get the UK public on side. Rational people (myself included) can be convinced. It needs proof of guilt and a plan for the future that doesn't include Al Qaeda overrunning Syria.
You are still thinking about this
as a passive consumer and by-product of government,
and not as the source of all authority and legitimacy in our government.
Demanding action on this = taking possession of our Country again.
Demanding that we land a rover in Syria is trivial in comparison.
Don't we already have the tech to do this on mars?
Is Syria really _that_ far away.
/WAKE UP PEOPLE
This is the moment!
Mike
Originally posted by DrHammondStoat
Surely we should question why in this media controlled world, the pictures of dead Syrian children are being rammed down our throats when we are hardly ever shown anything of the hundreds of thousands of civillians killed as a result of our invasions of Iraq and Afganistan? Also very little news coverage of our 'gifts' of depleted uranium left in those countries, Also Israel the US and UK are all 'alleged' to have used chemical weapons, why is Syria getting this special treatment?
I think there is an agenda here and I don't know exactly what i going on but demanding military action BEFORE we know who used the chemical weapons is ridiculous.