Another Middle East Crisis, Syrian Special "WMD"

[Kuya]

An Obamabot is a liberal on the things that count, such as:

Lounging in starbucks
Eating "all natural food"
being into new age mysticism
voting democrat
riding bicycles
collecting an assortment of minority friendships

[Kuya]

Oh, and reflexively defending Obama no matter what he does.

[notorious bum]

Everytime I hear the "but, he was left with Bush's mess" or "he can't/has to do this because of republicans" defensive rebuttals, I feel like cramming a bunch of chips in my mouth and exclaiming that they shouldn't feed me that bullshit. It's just fucking rude.

[Mazmaz]

Georgia the state?

[chazzyphizzle]

yes the state georgia got into a fight with russia

[Mazmaz]

They reached a deal!

[Mazmaz]

TAKE THAT RHINOX!

[kuronosan]

you can separate the validity of an argument from the individual making it but anyone who gives Putin the slightest moral authority or sees the document as anything other than self-serving and hypocritical political theater is a retarded person

That's exactly how I see it.

[Rhinox]

If you think this went according to plan you're even more retarded than I gave you credit for.

Fortunately the Obama administration fuck this up so bad they might have avoided a war accidentally.

[kuronosan]

Kerry finally put those 3 purple hearts to good use.

[archibaldcrane]

I hadn't really thought about the possibility of international takeover of Syria's chems. It was a pretty good idea, albeit an accident.

[archibaldcrane]

Just think about the reporter who asked "what could Syria do to avoid a US strike?"

Talk about changing the course of history.

[Rhinox]

Give that reporter Obamas Nobel.

[ronin sparthos]

Now the regime can get back to unabashedly killing insurgents and 'Murica can move its eyes back to the next Middle East shitstew. Egypt? Iran? Libya?

Mission Accomplished seems appropriate here. Last thing we needed was mission creep though getting those chemical weapons out will be an adventure in itself.

[notorious bum]

Thirty-three years ago to the day, the United States narrowly missed a nuclear holocaust on its soil. The so-called "Damascus Accident" involved a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile mishap at a launch complex outside Damascus, Arkansas.

During a routine maintenance procedure, a young worker accidentally dropped a nine-pound tool in the silo, piercing the missile's skin and causing a major leak of flammable rocket fuel. Sitting on top of that Titan 2 was the most powerful thermonuclear warhead ever deployed on an American missile. The weapon was about 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. For the next nine hours, a group of airmen put themselves at grave risk to save the missile and prevent a massive explosion that would've caused incalculable damage.

The story is detailed in Eric Schlosser's new book, "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety," which explores how often the United States has come within a hair's breadth of a domestic nuclear detonation or an accidental war. Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified government documents and interviews with scores of military personnel and nuclear scientists, Schlosser shows that America's nuclear weapons pose a grave risk to humankind.

[Callisto]

Sometimes you gotta nuke yourself just to prove to the enemy that you're just fucking crazy enough to do it to them so they know not to fuck with you.

[archibaldcrane]

Reminds me of this:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_...alarm_incident

[ronin sparthos]

Think of the resume potential that's had for that one worker.

[Callisto]

Isn't it the plot of Canadian Bacon?

[Tarage]

I'm more surprised there is a Damascus Arkansas.