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You won’t hear anyone say the word, war.

This parsing of words, this come-to-be expected word weaseling is nothing new. Kerry, Dempsey, the President and every Senator never uttered the word “war” which would require the consent of congress to wage. The refraining from using this word and instead referring to the war plans for Syria as a “strike, intervention or action”, is what the President is relying on to by-pass congress and the Constitution. As long as no one dares call it a war, there appears to be no need for the President to get congress’s consent.

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As the country rises up and resoundingly rejects any action of any kind in Syria, the propaganda is running knee deep in the District of Criminals. Because of the decades long stream of what has turned out to be faulty “intelligence”, outright lies about whatever fictional threat they were using to to attack another nation in order to seize their assets (oil) and to depose one government after another only to install a government more to our liking, we are faced with another needless war.

The US Senate is meeting and discussing how and why they intend to start another senseless war, this time in Syria. The pretentiousness of these discussions borders on the absurd and is an insult to the intelligence of America. Continually citing “intelligence”, human, satellite and other methods of spying, Senator’s Menendez and Corker are followed by the new Secretary of State, John Kerry, among others. Each of them attempting to somehow tie the civil war in Syria to the national security of the United States. This will last for hours of course, due to the fact that there is no connection. This makes the argument particularly tedious.

Among the weakest arguments heard over the last several days; “It would make us appear weak”. Well now, if ever there was an argument for bombing and terrorizing another nation on the other side of the globe, it would have to be our big giant national ego. Apparently, our government believes that the Syrian people are not terrorized quite enough as a result of internal turmoil and the proper response to this would be to create more turmoil, more terror and to destroy everything in sight along with “collateral” damage. This means men, women AND children will be unilaterally harmed or killed by our actions.

Supposedly vast intelligence exists to indicate that a chemical attack actually took place. This intelligence came from the same sources who supplied the intelligence for the Iraq war. You remember…….the evidence that never was?

Collateral damage in Syria is said to be deemed to be “low” in this instance. So,.. what? So are we going to accept 5,000 men, women and children being killed by us? 10,000? 20,000? What’s the magic number?