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This “blast” e -mail was just received from Linda Rosen [Patriot of Lower Bucks, Doylestown, PA 18901, 215-262-3115]; her header is “Please contact your representative and Senators and say no to attacking Numbers.” [It has been reformatted, Syria [and] FORWARD TO OTHERS [because] There’s Strength In Numbers.” halving its length while retaining the myriad articles which are consistent with points made earlier.] Again deferred is a compilation of hyperlinks, but the key-point is that BHO’s desire to launch a war should not be permitted; when Kerry suggested the Saudis would finance the bombing, the immediate reaction was to wonder whether the U.S. would become Mercenaries for Al-Qaeda and, indeed, noting the current balance of forces, the immediate reaction was first articulated by Dennis Kucinich when he claimed a Syria strike would turn US into 'al Qaeda's air force.' In any case, this “blast” e-mail is intended to capture the range of communications and “documentation” that has been flooding the Internet. BHO’s path to war [even if he attempts to limit the bombing to a finite time-frame] violates major principles of war, many of which served as the basis for his [& Kerry’s] scathing critique of Bush-‘43’s approach to Iraq/Afghanistan; this includes NOT invoking the element of surprise, achieving critical-mass, having clearly-defined and readilyachievable objectives, “hoping for the best but planning for the worst,” and articulating an exit-strategy. It is not credible to suggest, for example, that the time-delay was endorsed by Gen. Dempsey; multiple reports suggest ASSAD is stashing WEAPONS AMONG CIVILIANS and is moving troops, troops, even as BHO has asked the US military to revise the Syria strike plan 50 times times.. Indeed, during Congressional testimony, Kerry initially refused to rule-out use of U.S. ground troops in Syria, then backtracked. Note these scenes of executions by “rebels” and of a “rebel” eating the heart of one of Assad’s soldiers ; both have gone viral, and it seem s no one from the “rebel” world has challenged their authenticity.

In contrast, these scenes of alleged-death from sarin gas [due to Assad] are FAKE; the people in the photo were not victims of sarin and they aren’t even dead, as per the description of  sarin and its characteristic symptoms provided by the CDC (Center of Disease Control & Prevention).

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Sarin makes the lungs unable to absorb oxygen, so that victims die of respiratory failure, that is, suffocation. As a result, a person dying of sarin appears blue, and after death looks blackened, particularly in the extremities. All of the “victims” shown have a very healthy – even lively – color. Sarin also operates on the nervous system, causing victims to convulse violently  – violently enough to dislocate joints and break bones. As this veteran put it, “their bodies look like human pretzels.” These “victims” show no signs of such violent convul sions. In fact, none of them even show the characteristics of rigor mortis, particularly in the wrists, hands, and jaws. Because sarin is a nerve agent that interferes with the respiratory system, its telltale effects on the body include: runny nose, watery eyes, drooling and excessive sweating, diarrhea, vomiting, and increased urination. And yet, the bodies, which have obviously not been cleaned because they’re still wearing clothes, are not covered in drool, snot, sweat, vomit, urine, or diarrhea. In fact, they are remarkably clean, particularly in the groin area of the underwear and pants. Sarin is absorbed by the skin and by clothing, and is transferred by touch as well as by air. Also, a person who gets exposed to sarin by touch immediately knows it because it will cause nerve damage to the area touched, inducing local muscle twitching and sweating. And yet the man standing there is completely unprotected from the sarin that should be emanating from the victims’ bodies and clothing, even though he would immediately notice discomfort if he handled the bodies and would suffer from poisoning without wearing a proper breathing apparatus. Because sarin is absorbed by clothing, the first treatment for exposure is to remove all clothes; yet, ALL of the victims still are wearing clothing. Sarin doesn’t do anything that would prompt placement of bandages on foreheads; indeed, people would probably want to remove any such covering. The man standing is wearing US regulation Army camouflage pants. In the hot weather of the Syrian summer, if these bodies were dead, they would promptly either show signs of rigor mortis or bloating.

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It’s highly unlikely that all of these victims died on their backs, and none show any sign of blood-pooling (which would occur, after coagulation, at the bo dy’s lowest points); furthermore, if a body is later turned on its back, the dark-colored blood would remain where it had been, either on the front or the side of the body.

Syria Video Turns the Debate on U.S. Intervention: The tape made ‘New York Times’ editors sick. Lloyd Grove on the footage of a rebel slaughter that’s upended talk of an authorized U.S. intervention

by Lloyd Grove

Sep 6, 2013 4:30 AM EDT

The Daily Beast 

The raw video was so grisly, and so barbaric, that the New York Times staffers who watched and edited it for online publication were made “physically ill,” according to the newspaper’s spokeswoman. Shortly after the Times posted it in the wee hours Thursday morning, the video went viral, leading the influential Drudge Report, Report, proliferating on Twitter, Tumblr, and other social-media sites, and dominating cable news and broadcast outlets. It also became a tricky problem for the Obama White House. The scene of Syrian rebels standing over seven soldiers of the Syrian regular army while the rebel commander recited a bloodthirsty poem—and pointing rifles and a pistol at the heads of  their prostrate, shirtless, and badly beaten prisoners—was shocking enough. Times video editors tactfully blackened the screen as the rebels—who, just like the United States government, oppose the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad —began to execute the soldiers; the only indication of the slaughter taking place was a noisy fusillade of 10 seconds in length. Then an image flashed of the broken bodies in a mass g rave.

Atrocities of the Syrian Rebels (GRAPHIC, NSFW): Who are the FSA fighters?

by Austin Petersen

04 Sep 2013

The Libertarian Republic

As the US government debates on whether to assist Syrian rebels in their war against Bashar alAssad, American citizens are learning more about their potential allies every day. The Free Syrian Army fighters are reportedly made up of al Nusra forces, which are al Qaeda affiliated fighters who have committed incredible acts of brutality in their effort to gain control of the state. The war in Syria has raged for two years with over 100,000 casualties and has no clear ending. United States Secretary of State John Kerry has issued reports in the past week revealing that the government of Assad is using chemical weapons on its own people. The President of the United States Barack Obama has now reached his infamous “red line”, where he declared that the US will intervene to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. catastrophe .The New York Times has reported that the president has deployed a group of CIA backed rebels, who have begun to make their way onto the battlefield. But the FSA fighters backed by the US government are not all likely to be so friendly to America if they do win. Despite enormous casualties and alleged gas attacks by Assad, rebel fighters have woven their own trail of devastation across the countryside, slaughtering innocents and murdering children in the name of Islam. Would America be more secure with a non-secular

Syrian government?... (To see the gruesome videos posted by the terrorists  – oops! I mean our allies in the fight to topple Assad – click the headline’s link. – Dave)

Putin presses US Congress over Syria, says Kerry l ied

MOSCOW

Wed Sep 4, 2013 10:23am EDT

Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the U.N. Security Council, and that doing so would be an "act of aggression". He said "anything that is outside the U.N. Security Council is aggression, except self-defense. Now what Congress and the U.S. Senate are doing in essence is legitimizing aggression. This is inadmissible in principle." In remarks that could raise tension further before he hosts President Barack Obama and other G20 leaders on Thursday, Putin also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lied to Congress about the militant group al Qaeda's role in the Syrian conflict.

"They lie beautifully, of course. I saw debates in Congress. A c ongressman asks Mr. Kerry: 'Is al Qaeda there?' He says: 'No, I am telling you responsibly that it is not'," Putin said at a meeting of his human rights council in the Kremlin. "Al Qaeda units are the main military echelon, and they know this," he said, referring to the United States. "It was unpleasant and surprising for me - we talk to them, we proceed from the assumption that that they are decent people. But he is lying and knows he is lying. It's sad." Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports

By Mark Hosenball & Phil Stewart WASHINGTON | Thu Sep 5, 2013 1:11am EDT

Reuters

Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.

Revealed: Pentagon knew in 2012 that it would take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to secure Syria's chemical weapons facilities

By David Martosko

5 September 2013

The Daily Mail (UK)

Securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday. That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in e arly 2012. U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of  military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S.

confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator w as using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders. 'The report exists, and it was prepared at the request of the National Security Advisor's staff,' a Department of Defense official with knowledge of the inquiry told MailOnline Wednesday on condition of anonymity. 'DoD spent lots of time and resources on it. Everyone understood that this wasn't a pointless exercise, and that eventually we would be tasked with going and getting the VX and sarin, so there was lots of due diligence.'

The logistical difficulties of bringing Syria's chemical warfare infrastructure under control stands in stark contrast with the text of a resolution passed Wednesday by a powerful Senate committee, and with assurances Secretary of State John Kerry has given committees in both houses of Congress. The War Powers Resolution, which passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late Wednesday on a bipartisan 10-7 vote, includes text noting that it 'does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces on the ground in Syria for the purpose of combat operations.' If President Obama were to deploy ground forces in Syria, the final words of that phrase – 'for the purpose of combat operations'  – could become a loophole large enough to drive a Humvee through. Speaking to the committee on Tuesday as he made the case for a congressional authorization to bomb critical Syrian military sites, Kerry seemed to leave open the possibility that 'boots on the ground' could be marshaled specifically to secure chemical weapons stockpiles 'in the event Syria imploded, for instance.' Kerry also mused on a scenario in which 'there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of al-Nusra or someone else and it was clearly in the interest of our allies and all of us – the British, the French and others  – to prevent those weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of the worst elements.'

'I don’t want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to a president of the United States to secure our country,' Kerry concluded… Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL): Syria Intelligence Manipulated

By Steven Nelson

September 5, 2013

US News And World Report 

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war. Grayson made the accusation in an interview published Wednesday by The Atlantic and offered more detail in a Thursday discussion with U.S. News. He says members of Congress are being given intelligence briefings without any evidence to support administration claims that Syrian leader Bashar Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons.

Grayson said he cannot discuss the classified briefings, but noted details in the administration's public, non-classified report are being contested. The White House released its four-page public report Aug. 30, arguing that Assad's government killed 1,429 people on Aug. 21 with a planned chemical weapon attack. Evidence cited in that report included "intercepted communications involving a senior official intimately familiar with the offensive who confirmed that chemical weapons were used." Grayson, however, says "the claim has been made that that information was completely mischaracterized." He points to an article published by The Daily Caller that alleges the communications actually showed Syrian officers were surprised by the alleged chemical weapon attack. The communications, according to unnamed sources paraphrased in article, were intercepted by Israeli intelligence and "doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion." "What they say in The Daily Caller is that [intercepted communications] would lead one to the opposite conclusion," Grayson said. "I don't know if it's right or wrong, [but] there's a very simple way to find out, that's for the administration to show me and other members of  Congress" translated transcripts of the intercepts, he said…

Everyone in This Syria Play is a Liar

September 05, 2013

The Rush Limbaugh Show Trascript 

RUSH: Folks, the Syria news today -- it it was bad yesterday. It was embarrassing yesterday. Today the whole world is laughing at us, and I am not kidding. kidding. Even liberals. Even these wacko Looney Tunes pajama-clad website posters, these progressives, as they call themselves. These people think Obama and Kerry are lying to 'em. They don't want another war. They don't want a single missile launched ever. They think they're being lied to. I mean, Obama doesn't even have his base on this. And according to whip counts and head counts right now, it looks like Obama's request for a congressional authorization for the use of  force in the Syria isn't going to pass the House, after all, thanks to those obstreperous Republicans. Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, that means stubborn. So everything is going according to plan. Once again Obama will be able to blame the evil House Republicans Republicans for all of  the nerve gas damage that's taking t aking place in Syria. Now, you know, Vladimir Putin is saying saying that Obama and Kerry are lying. And I don't know about you, but I find myself myself to be in a really curious situation. situation. Who do I believe, Vladimir Putin or Barack Obama and John Kerry? See, this may be a little tough to hear, but I know that John Kerry lies about things. things. I know that Barack Obama big time misrepresents things. That's what the whole Limbaugh Limbaugh Theorem is. I know liberals lie as a matter of course. They have to. We know that they lied about Benghazi and the stupid video. So here they're telling us one thing, and Putin says, "No, no, no, no, it's just the exact opposite." Russia says they have compiled a 100-page report blaming the Syrian rebels for the chemical weapons attack, not Assad, just as we reported on this program on Tuesday. A 100-page report. Now, I don't know about about you, but what does it feel like to have to agree with a former

KGB agent? "The Russian statement warned the United States and its allies --" which, in this this case, is France "-- not to conduct a military strike against Syria until the United Nations had completed a similarly detailed detailed scientific study into the August August 21st attack." Russia's done their own. It's a 100-page report. Russia has found that the the Syrian rebels did the attack. Now, if you think, "Yeah, come on, Rush, don't fall for this. I mean, this is Putin. This is Russia." I know. But the New York Times, Times, which is Obama's Bible, the New York Times: Times: "Brutality of  Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West." You see, the regime has tried once again to portray the rebels in Syria, the enemies of Bashar Assad, as innocent, harmless men, women and children being forced out of their homes, wandering aimless in the Syrian desert. Don't have any guns; don't have any weapons; don't have anything; don't have any food; don't have any water; don't have any nurse;, don't have have any doctors. This is the picture, the rebels, the anti-Assad anti-Assad forces, people, I mean, they are God's gift. And even the New York Times: Times: "The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified men…

Sign the Petition to Stop U.S. Assistance to al Qaeda in Syria. The United States is at war with al Qaeda; it must not help al Qaeda. Syrian rebels affiliated with al Qaeda and other jihadist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have committed atrocities across Syria. They murdered a Catholic priest. They slaughtered civilians and regime prisoners. They attacked a Christian village even while Congress debated intervention, shelling nuns and other civilians. They cut out and ate the hearts of their enemies and brazenly recorded it for the Internet. The Assad regime's use of chemical weapons is horrific, but the U.S. must not support jihad in Syria.

Sign the Petition to Stop U.S. Assistance to al Qaeda in Syria. Jay Sekulow ACLJ Chief Counsel American Center for Law and Justice Catholic Patriarch of Syria: U.S. Attack on Syria Would Be ‘Criminal Act’

September 3, 2013 - 11:40 AM CNS News

By Michael W. Chapman

(CNSNews.com)  – Were the Obama administration to launch an attack on Syria, as President Obama has said he intends to do, it would be “a criminal act, which will only reap more victims,” said Gregory III, the leader of the t he Greek Catholic Church in Syria and Lebanon.

“We must listen to the Pope’s appeal for peace in Syria,” said Patriarch Gregory III. “If Western countries want to create true democracy then they must build it on reconciliation, through dialogue between Christians and Muslims, not with weapons. This attack being planned by the United States is a criminal act, which will only reap more victims, in addition to the tens of  thousands of these two years of war. This w ill destroy the Arab world’s trust in the West.” “What or who have led Syria to this thin red line, this point of no return?” said Patriarch Gregory in remarks first reported by AsiaNews.it on Aug. 28. “Who created this hell in which our people have been living for months? Every day, Islamic extremists from all over the world are pouring into Syria with the sole intent to kill and not one country has done anything to stop them, even the U.S. has decided to send in more weapons.” Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

4:08 PM 09/05/2013

Reza Kahlili

The Daily Caller 

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.” And in an unprecedented statement, statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of  Obama’s daughters should the United States attack Syria. Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader’s camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime’s Ammar Strategic Base, a radi cal think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the … loss of  U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he threatened. “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of  their amputation will be spread [around the world].” A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran’s order… A “blast” from Obama’s past: “There’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.”

Published on Nov 18, 2012

President Barack Obama

AUDIO AS INCOMING-- As violence rages on the Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama in Thailand defended Israel's right to protect itself. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA, SAYING: "There's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its

citizens from outside its borders. So we are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on peoples homes and workplaces and potentially killing civ ilians." …

Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack

By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Foreign Staff McClatchy 

September 5, 2013

BERLIN — Russia says a deadly March sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations. A statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website late Wednesday said the report included detailed scientific analysis of samples that Russian technicians collected at the site of  the alleged attack, Khan al Asal in northern Syria. The attack killed 26 people. A U.N. spokesman, Farhan Haq, confirmed that Russia delivered the re port in July. The report itself was not released. But the statement drew a pointed comparison between what it said was the scientific detail of the report and the far shorter intelligence summaries that the United States, Britain and France have released to justify their assertion that the Syrian government launched chemical weapons against Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21. The longest of  those summaries, by the French, ran nine pages. Each relies primarily on circumstantial evidence to make its case, and they disagree with one another on some details, including the number of  people who died in the attack. The Russian statement warned the United States and its allies not to conduct a military strike against Syria until the United Nations had completed a similarly detailed scientific study into the Aug. 21 attack. It charged that what it called the current “hysteria” about a possible mi litary strike in the West was similar to the false claims and poor intelligence that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003…

Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?

By Yossef Bodansky

Global Research, September 01, 2013

Global Research

There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters — which makes a very strong case, based on solid circumstantial evidence, that the August 21, 2013, chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a pre-meditated provocation by the Syr ian opposition. The extent of US foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the “horror” of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light. On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and US Intelligence [“Mukhabarat Amriki”] took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, used

as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors. Very senior opposition commanders who had arrived from Istanbul briefed the regional commanders of an imminent escalation in the fighting due to “a war -changing development” which would, in turn, lead to a U S-led bombing of Syria. The opposition forces had to quickly prepare their forces for exploiting the US-led bombing in order to march on Damascus and topple the Bashar al-Assad Government, the senior commanders explained. The Qatari and Turkish intelligence officials assured the Syrian regional commanders that they would be provided with plenty of weapons for t he coming offensive. Indeed, unprecedented weapons distribution started in all opposition camps in Hatay Province on August 21-23, 2013. In the Reyhanli area alone, opposition forces received well in excess of  400 tons of weapons, mainly anti-aircraft weaponry from shoulder-fired missiles to ammunition for light-guns and machineguns. The weapons were distributed from store-houses controlled by Qatari and Turkish Intelligence under the tight supervision of US Intelligence …

Being Your Own Man

September 4th, 2013 - 1:13 pm

by Richard Fernandez

PJ Media

Post  notes that certain Arab countries have offered to pay for the “invasion” of  The Washington Post notes Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily. With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes. They have. That offer is on the table. table. Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion. Voters Heckle John McCain Over Push For Syrian Strike

 Jason Howerton

The Blaze

Sep. 5, 2013

A number of Sen. John McCain’s constituents are not happy with the Arizona Republican’s support of President Barack Obama’s plan to take military action against Syria. Voters made that much perfectly clear when they confronted him at a town hall in Phoenix on Thursday. “We didn’t send you to make war for us. We sent you to stop the war,” one man said to applause, CNN reports. reports. Another man told McCain Congress is ignoring its duty to represent voters. D.C. Delegate: Only Democrat ‘Loyalty’ Can Save Obama on Syria

Sep. 3, 2013 10:00pm

Becket Adams

The Blaze

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is uncertain about the of the prospect of the U.S. striking Syria, but the non-voting D.C. delegate to Congress said she could see herself voting out of  “loyalty” to the Democrat Party and President Bar rack Obama. Speaking during the Bill Press show Tuesday morning, Del. Norton explained that the situation in Syria requires attention, but she’s not sure if the response should involve the U.S. military.

“I can’t believe that the only way to address it is a slight bombing which will somehow punish somebody or deter somebody,” she said. The show’s host then asked if it would be justified for the president to act even if Congress says, “no.” “No, oh boy, no,” she answered. “I think it’ll be like the ‘red line’ trap. He said if the ‘red line’ you cross it. I think once you say, ‘I’m going to Congress,’ you can’t say, ‘Okay, I’m going to do it anyway.’” It’s important to note that Del. Nor ton cannot actually cost a vote in the debate. Still, she told Press: “If [Obama] gets saved at all, I think it’ll be because, it’ll be because of loyalty of  Democrats. They just don’t want to see him shamed and humiliated on the national stage.”… A war the Pentagon doesn’t want By Robert H. Scales

Published: September 5

The Washington Post 

Robert H. Scales, a retired Army major general, is a former commandant of the U.S. Army War College. College . The tapes tell the tale. Go back and look at images of our nation’ s most senior soldier, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and his body language during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Syria. It’s pretty obvious that Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, doesn’t want this war. As Secretary of State John Kerry’s thundering voice and arm-waving redounded in rage against Bashar al-Assad’s atrocities, Dempsey Dempseywas was largely (and respectfully) silent. Dempsey’s unspoken words reflect the opinions of most serving military leaders. By no means do I profess to speak on behalf of all of our men and women in uniform. But I can justifiably share the sentiments of those inside the Pentagon and elsewhere who write the plans and develop strategies for fighting our wars. After personal exchanges with dozens of active and retired soldiers in recent days, I feel confident that what follows represents the overwhelming opinion of serving professionals who have been intimate witnesses to the unfolding events that will lead the United States into its next war. ‘Significantly Larger’ Than Most Anticipated: 'This military strike could do more damage to Assad's forces in 48 hours than the Syrian rebels have done in nearly two years of civil war'

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff

September 5, 2013 7:53 pm

ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported President Obama’s plan for a Syrian strike could be “significantly larger” than most anticipated Thursday on “World News Tonight.”

Karl quoted an unnamed national security official who claimed the attack could do more damage to Assad in 48 hours than the S yrian rebels have done in two years:

JONATHAN KARL: […] ABC News has learned the president’s national security team is preparing for a significantly larger military attack than most had anticipated. The air campaign which is expected to last at least two days will potentially include an aerial bombardment of missiles and long range bombs fired from B-2 and B-52 bombers flying from the United States. That in addition to a relentless assault of Tomahawk missiles fired from those four Navy destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean. Those ships are loaded with nearly 200 missiles, plans call for firing the vast majority of them. As one senior national security official told ABC News, this military strike could do more damage to Assad’s forces in 48 hours than the Syrian rebels have done in nearly two years of civil war. That’s more than President Obama seemed to be suggesting just days ago… GOP Congressman and Marine Corps Vet Pulls Support for Syria Strike: ‘The President’s Leadership Has Degraded’

Sep. 6, 2013 12:40pm

Madeleine Morgenstern

The Blaze

Rep. Michael Grimm said he has withdrawn his support for military action in Syria because he has lost faith in President Barack Obama’s ability to lead. Grimm (R-N.Y.) first said he supported taking action against Pr esident Bashar Assad’s regime, but announced Thursday he had changed his mind. mind.

“What’s changed the most is the president’s leadership has degraded,” Grimm said Friday on Fox News. Grimm, a Marine Corps veteran, said he first backed the president because he wanted to support the commander in chief.

“It seems like he has done just about everything he can to bun gle this and I really have lost faith in his ability as the commander in chief to handle this crisis in Syria,” Grimm said… US Officials: US Considers Training Syria Rebels

WASHINGTON September 6, 2013

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

AP & ABC News

The Obama administration is considering a plan to use U.S. military trainers to help increase the capabilities of the Syrian rebels, in a move that would greatly expand the current CIA training being done quietly in Jordan, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Any training would take place outside Syria, and one possible location would be Jordan… 17 Reasons that Going to War with Syria is a Mistake  – Even if Congress Declares War

September 5, 2013

by William Lafferty

Freedom Outpost 

Whether one or several nations should attack Syria for its use of chemical weapons is a matter of international law. If the security of the United States were at issue, it would be a matter of  domestic law. Absent an emergency, military response by the United States would require a declaration of war by the Congress and implementation of the declaration by the president. Make no mistake: the firing of missiles into a foreign state is an act of war. If a Russian warship anchored near New York fired a series of missiles into the mainland United States, few of us would have difficulty saying that was an act of war. In the United States, we have only one way under the constitution to go to war: the Congress must declare war and the president must carry out Congress's order. If what is going on now in the Congress is other than a declaration of war, say a resolution of support or approval that will not serve as a legal basis for war to be initiated. And that brings us to the wisdom of going to war. Suppose the Congress declares war, what are the reasons that would be a mistake? 1. The United States has not been attacked. 2. The security of the United States is not at issue, and war should always be a response of last resort to a threat to our security.

3. No international body has determined that a human rights violation did in fact occur… Obama Says Intervention in Blitz, Kosovo, Rwanda Was Also Unpopular, Promises to address American people on Syria Tuesday; won't say whether he'll go around Congress if he doesn't get authorization

By Bridget Johnson

September 6, 2013 - 8:50 am

PJ Media

President Obama remained fuzzy on whether he’ll strike at Bashar al-Assad without approval from Congress, telling reporters at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg that he won’t engage in “parlor games” before the whipping and final vote is done. Insisting he’s not “itching for a military action,” the president also compared the current situation Americans face to the intervention questions posed by the blitzkrieg on Britain and the Rwandan genocide, noting that getting involved today “probably wouldn’t poll very well.”

Obama’s statement at the press conference focused on economic issues, yet “even as we focused on our shared prosperity — and although the primary task of the G-20 is to focus on our  joint efforts to boost the global economy — we did also discuss a grave threat to our shared security: and that’s the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons.” He announced that he would directly make a case to the American people from the White House on Tuesday. Syria’s neighbor Iraq in midst of violent upheaval

by Jim Kouri

September 5, 2013

Conservative Action Alerts

While the eyes of most world leaders are focused on Syria, 56 people were killed and another 170 were wounded in separate attacks in Syria’s neighboring Arab country, Iraq Iraq,, on Tuesday, according to a police source who monitors Islamist terrorist bombings. At least one dozen car bombing attacks were perpetrated throughout the Iraqi capital of  Baghdad. The areas attacked were mostly-Shiite neighborhoods. As a result of the 12 bombings, 47 people were killed and approximately 160 others were wounded, said Mike Snopes, a former military intelligence officer and police detective who now serves as a consultant for a number of  U.S. and multinational corporations. According to various reports gathered by Snopes:

* Eight Iraqis died and 28 others sustained wounds when two cars containing improvised  explosive devices (IEDs) exploded in a crowded m arketplace in Baghdad. * In another bombing, an IED loaded into an automobile exploded near a restaurant in eastern Baghdad, killing eight civilians and wounding 25 others. Earlier in the day, four people were killed and 14 were wounded in a car IED blast in the same area, Snopes added. * In yet another similar IED explosion in southwest Baghdad, seven people were mortally  wounded and several others were seriously injured. * In the southeastern part of the city, a car bomb explosion killed four pedestrians and wounded  14 others. The prime suspects for these bombings and terrorist attacks is al-Qaeda in Iraq, although the group changed its name last month to its new name — the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS — clearly expressing the organization’s ideological inclinations and political aspirations, according to Al-Monitor.

Tuesday’s terrorist attacks were not all bombings, with an incident occurring in southern Iraq in which several masked gunmen perpetrated a home invasion and murdered a man, his wife and their three children. Gunmen also killed two civilians in a street ambush in Baghdad’s business district, according to Det. Snopes. The death toll from violence in Iraq in August 2013 was 841, according to a United Nations report released on Sept. 1, 2013. 2013.

‘Syrian Electronic Army’ hacks Marines website

By Associated Press

September 2, 2013

New York Post 

WASHINGTON — Pro-Assad computer hackers today broke into the Marine Corps recruiting website, redirecting visitors to a screed that called President Barack Obama “a traitor who wants to put your lives in danger to rescue al- Qaida insurgents.”

A Marine Corps spokesman confirmed that the site, marines.com marines.com,, was tampered with and redirected temporarily, but no information was put at risk.

Capt. Eric Flanagan wouldn’t say who was responsible for the hacking, but the site was redirected to a message from the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group that’s claimed responsibility for disrupting the New York Times website, Twitter and other media sites the group sees as sympathetic to Syria’s rebels. The message to the Marine Corps was a plea for Americans to fight alongside the Syrian army and not aide the rebels. President Barack Obama is seeking congressional approval for U.S. military intervention in Syria in response to the suspected August chemical weapons attack on Syrian rebels who are trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power. The full message as it appeared on the redirected site is below:

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