en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/555687 Comments by Valerianus http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292603393 There's a huge group of these deluded twits, and they're called Americans. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:56:13 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292603393 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292602772 Next we'll hear that Assad has set up gas ovens and is using Zyklon-B on Israeli prisoners of war from the 1973 war . . . Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:55:15 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292602772 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292601554 You forgot to pin the blame on Assad's father for dumping the Kuwaiti babies out of their incubators in 1990, and then covering up his diabolical actions by joining the US coalition against the Iraqis! Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:53:24 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/defector-assad-using-nerve-gas-russians-helping/#IDComment292601554 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/nato-we-found-dead-children-after-air-strike/#IDComment292599383 NATO ROEs are roughly analogous to the situations in which American police officers use their tasers on old women during traffic stops. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:49:51 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/nato-we-found-dead-children-after-air-strike/#IDComment292599383 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292593357 Well, there's truth in the connection of the "world democracy" movement with war-mongering. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:40:19 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292593357 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292590634 That's quite a racket - er, I mean compensation for their suffering. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:36:02 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292590634 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292588992 Normally, I'd agree with Ian and Nathan, because the Russians certainly have an appallingly bad record of putting their money where their mouths are. However, faced with the prospect of having their navy shoved back into the Black Sea and seeing it forced to be based in ports in areas over which they have no direct control (Sevastopol, in NATO-candidate Ukraine, is hardly a long-term guarantee), they may decide that this one is worth fighting. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:33:26 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/02/13/on-to-tehran-or-is-it-damascus/#IDComment292588992 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/israel-blames-iran-hezbollah-for-attacks-on-diplomats/#IDComment292583659 Presuming the Indians fall for the Mossad provocation. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:25:22 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/13/israel-blames-iran-hezbollah-for-attacks-on-diplomats/#IDComment292583659 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/arab-league-pushes-for-un-invasion-of-syria/#IDComment291439580 The term used by the Beltway Elite is "strategic narrative." This, of course, is a Freudian slip, because it points to the fact that there is a made-up story to "explain" events to the citizen-idiocracy. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:40:32 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/arab-league-pushes-for-un-invasion-of-syria/#IDComment291439580 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291434387 Nice work! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:33:14 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291434387 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291433551 It's cut from the same cloth as the Israeli bleating that, even with possessing the largest military in the Middle East and the only indigenous nuclear arsenal in the region, they're "existentially threatened" every time a Muslim uses the toilet without permission from Tel Aviv. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:32:01 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291433551 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291431641 In that case, it is the US that is deploying suicide vessels in the Persian Gulf. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:29:06 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/12/us-navy-iran-boats-could-theoretically-be-used-for-suicide-bombings/#IDComment291431641 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/11/us-iraqi-officials-al-qaeda-behind-syria-bombing-arming-opposition/#IDComment290562823 "Elements of al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Iraq have been moving into Syria to distribute weapons to the opposition and to carry out attacks against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials." Here I call foul, for a more blatant piece of disinformation never existed. The idea that "elements" of the supposedly "decimated" Iraqi Sunni Islamists are somehow distributing weapons numerous enough and powerful enough to require the use of Syrian artillery and tanks to counter is not only unbelievable, but indeed could only have have been promulgated by an entity - to with, the Zionist FedGov - known for its unlimited contempt for the intelligence of its citizenry. No, the Syrian Islamists, who do indeed form the core of the rebels, have been receiving Iraqi weapons from US controlled stockpiles of the Saddam Hussein era. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:10:24 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/11/us-iraqi-officials-al-qaeda-behind-syria-bombing-arming-opposition/#IDComment290562823 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/09/amputations-soared-among-us-troops-in-2011/#IDComment289195201 But secretly the generals are furious that more and more of their troops can't salute. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:47:20 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/09/amputations-soared-among-us-troops-in-2011/#IDComment289195201 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/#IDComment289140246 The foreign influence to which you refer is "domesticated" by dual citizenship. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:18:41 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/#IDComment289140246 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/#IDComment289135293 The perplexity of Washington's initial response to the Egyptian uprising points very strongly to it actually having started as the result of popular discontent. The lack of direction of the protesters, who clearly had no agenda other than to get some sort of change, severely contrasts with the smoothly programmatic nature of the color revolutions. However, as I have said before, the FedGov doesn't stay clueless for very long, and it obviously came up with a contingency plan in short order and has tried to implement it. But operations planned in a hurry have a tendency too fail for lack of planning and missteps in implementation. The NED organizations were clearly involved and almost certainly carried out their tasks with an arrogance that attracted the attention of the Egyptian regime. To arrest politically well-connected US persons is to play with fire, for I can assure you that the FedGov elite does not willingly submit to being placed in such situations, even for a PR stunt. Nor does it willingly allow its subversive activities to be publicized. If the FedGov wanted a PR stunt, they'd have recruited a few recent college graduates, desperate for work, as patsies to be caught. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:11:29 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/#IDComment289135293 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/09/as-reports-of-violence-grow-in-syria-so-do-western-calls-for-intervention/#IDComment289111377 "Syrian state media claiming regular terrorist attacks" Meanwhile, on the home page of antiwar.com there is a link to a BBC story about what can only have been a well-prepared attack on Syrian security forces that inflicted hundreds of casualties. The unnamed color revolution in Syria has been sufficiently weaponized that the Western propaganda press is starting to become comfortable with reporting serious blows against Assad's regime. And not so coincidentally there is a simultaneous uptick in the warmongering against Syrian ally Iran. As they say in the spy world, there's no such thing as a coincidence. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:34:29 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/09/as-reports-of-violence-grow-in-syria-so-do-western-calls-for-intervention/#IDComment289111377 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/07/us-begins-review-of-military-options-in-syria/#IDComment287447036 Many of us are all too aware of the truth of what you say. The Syrian rebellion has been an armed affair from the very beginning. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:44:58 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/07/us-begins-review-of-military-options-in-syria/#IDComment287447036 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/obama-imposes-yet-more-sanctions-on-iranian-central-bank/#IDComment286584792 If the US sanctions lead to the collapse of the petrodollar through the realization of enough countries that using the dollar just isn't worth having to suffer economic enslavement to Washington, then a better case of blow back could never occur. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:19:58 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/obama-imposes-yet-more-sanctions-on-iranian-central-bank/#IDComment286584792 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/us-closes-damascus-embassy-ending-two-year-experiment/#IDComment286571109 The so-called two year experiment was to use the US diplomatic presence to create a CIA base in Damascus. With a civil war now raging, it's "Mission Accomplished" for Ambassador Ford. Does the name "Raymond Davis" sound familiar? He had his equivalents in Syria. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:57:45 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/us-closes-damascus-embassy-ending-two-year-experiment/#IDComment286571109