"Here are your million dollar choices":
a Saddam Hussein's birthday was declared a national holiday
b Car bombs went off in Shia parts of Baghdad killing over 60 people
c The Iraqi parliament formally asked Syria to return their chemical weapons
d Genghis Khan invaded the country and cut off everybody's ears
"Can I call a friend?"
"Who?"
"John Kerry."
"Good morning, State Department."
Let me talk to the secretary."
"I'm the secretary."
"No. I mean let me talk to the boss."
"One moment. (Sexist bastard.)"
"Hello. Teresa Heinz Kerry speaking."
"Uh, is John there?"
"Hold on. Johnnie, It's for you."
"Yes?"
"Hey John. What the hell happened today in Iraq?"
" Iraq? Who cares? I'm busy with Syria." (click)
"Well, I guess I'll guess uhh, 'b'?"
"That's right."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23949659
Something must have happened to Kerry (besides his face melting) as he originally testified to Congress, perhaps from the same seat years ago, that our military men were rapists and savages of the worst kind.
ReplyDeleteNow he is all for the military.
I'm paraphrasing a Syria/Iraq comparison here:
Instead of killing a few hundred civilians, if Assad had killed 5,000 civilians with poison gas in a single day, as well as tens of thousands more with chemical weapons in the past few decades as Saddam did.
Assad is not known to torture his own people, administer summary executions, rapes, burnings and electric shocks, often in front of the victim’s wife or children as Saddam did.
Assad has not acted aggressively toward the United States itself, like Saddam, attempting to assassinate a former U.S. president or giving shelter to terrorists.
Assad is not stirring up trouble in the entire Middle East by, for example, paying bounties to the families of suicide bombers in other countries as Saddam had.
It would be different if we knew that any action against Syria would not put al-Qaida or the Muslim Brotherhood in power, but rather would result in a functioning democracy.
This decision would be easier if we knew an attack on Syria would so terrify other dictators in the region that Iran would respond by instantly abandoning its nuclear program.
Strange how Lurch still comes up on the wrong side on these issues.
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