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"Cross our lines" stuff is so much hypocrisy, it makes me sick. We've crossed so many lines of decency. Who the hell are we to draw lines for other countries in other regions?

I applaud your honesty, Lash. It is so refreshing to hear honesty instead of the rank bullshyte that has long described these vicious war crimes and the unrelenting terrorism as "world's police" and other nonsensical fictions.

Tens of millions should not die when a country purports to be the world's police.

"Cross our lines" stuff is so much hypocrisy, it makes me sick. We've crossed so many lines of decency. Who the hell are we to draw lines for other countries in other regions?

Regional powers should police their own backyards.

You say it's not policing, but that's what happened. We said you better not do this. They did that. We talked ourselves into an expensive, meaningless sabre-rattle.

Nice "Hey look a squirrel", Baldimo.

Noted that you don't possess Lash's honesty.

Point taken and accepted on faith.

Why aren't the others?

Spicer under fire for claiming Hitler didn't use chemical weapons
By LOUIS NELSON 04/11/17

White House press secretary Sean Spicer [...] quickly walked back the comments, saying he did not intend to "lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust" when he suggested during a daily briefing that Assad's chemical weapons attack on civilians in rebel territory last week made him worse at least in one respect than Hitler, who Spicer said "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons."

I don't agree with Lashs stance and I don't believe in anti-US propaganda.

Israel and many other middle east countries live in fear of ISIS and other terrorists.

Is that why Blatham quoted and highlighted that bit? To show "an example of the movement's focus, power, and success."?

“The funders all got the idea right away—that you can win elections, you can have mass mobilizations, but unless you can change élites and the institutions that are by and large controlled by the élites, like the courts, there are limits to what you can do...”

Zyclon B

In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent.

The intelligence included imagery and maps about Iranian troop movements, as well as the locations of Iranian logistics facilities and details about Iranian air defenses. The Iraqis used mustard gas and sarin prior to four major offensives in early 1988 that relied on U.S. satellite imagery, maps, and other intelligence. These attacks helped to tilt the war in Iraq’s favor and bring Iran to the negotiating table, and they ensured that the Reagan administration’s long-standing policy of securing an Iraqi victory would succeed. But they were also the last in a series of chemical strikes stretching back several years that the Reagan administration knew about and didn’t disclose.

Of course you don't. You needn't have wasted so many words. You are so perfectly brainwashed that you can't grasp up from down, left from right.

t is apparent that you do love the pro-US propaganda. The difference is you can't discuss the issues that illustrate that the US is a deeply evil country because of your deep immersion in US propaganda.

You folks are such cowards in this respect.

You see it in your crazy tangents that come up when anyone, Lash in this case, points up the evil.

It is a short leap from advertising and reality TV to darker forms of manipulation. Consider the parallels since the 1970s between conservative activism and the traditional techniques of con men. Direct-mail pioneers like Richard Viguerie created hair-on-fire campaign-fund-raising letters about civilization on the verge of collapse. One 1979 pitch warned that “federal and state legislatures are literally flooded with proposed laws that are aimed at total confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens.” Another, from the 1990s, warned that “babies are being harvested and sold on the black market by Planned Parenthood clinics.” Recipients of these alarming missives sent checks to battle phony crises, and what they got in return was very real tax cuts for the rich. Note also the more recent connection between Republican politics and “multilevel marketing” operations like Amway (Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is the wife of Amway’s former president and the daughter-in-law of its co-founder); and how easily some of these marketing schemes shade into the promotion of dubious miracle cures (Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, with “glyconutrients”; Mike Huckabee shilling for a “solution kit” to “reverse” diabetes; Trump himself taking on a short-lived nutritional-supplements multilevel marketing scheme in 2009). The dubious grifting of Donald Trump, in short, is a part of the structure of conservative history.

Syria’s deployment of chemical weapons against its own people, and the U.S. missile strikes targeting a Syrian military air base in response, proved that there is no connection between President Donald Trump and the Russian government, Trump’s son said in an interview published Tuesday.

“If there was anything that Syria did, it was to validate the fact that there is no Russia tie,” Eric Trump told The Daily Telegraph during an interview at the family’s Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. Russia, the most powerful ally of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, has condemned the U.S. missile strikes and been critical of the U.S. president for ordering them.