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No U.S. Military Attacks On Syria
With the Iraq War an all too recent memory and the war in Afghanistan being further extended as the longest war in US history, President Obama has asked Congress to approve military action against Syria in response to alleged use of chemical weapons by government forces against Syrian civilians. In my opinion, the President should abide by prevailing American public opinion, as well as predominating international preference and rescind his plan to conduct military strikes against Syria at this time. Furthermore, Congress should vote not to authorize such action as requested by the President last weekend.
The American people are tired of seemingly endless and increasingly pointless wars. The memory of the lead-up to the Iraq War is all too fresh in our minds, along with the faulty intelligence (read here “lies”) about the existence of weapons of mass destruction which seemed to have vanished into thin air as soon…
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New Film: Diana Nyad Tells about Her Swimming and Experience in “The Other Shore”
Swim from Cuba? You Can Do It Too, In a Manner of Speaking
No regrets, No translation #poetry #children
Open the door to the past
look just there
toward the horizon of unfulfilled dreams
can you see her
yes she was the county’s beauty queen
the broad young man
in red and gold
our school’s rising star
making an unbelievable catch
what stories could be told
*
I wanted nothing more
than to save children
average unassuming doctor
where there was no translation
just a need to be helped
with pediatric medicine
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but beauty queens get old and dye their hair
football stars break a leg
drink beer in a lazy chair
and smart kids with no money
go on any one’s coat tails
to third world countries
*
in the end did it really matter
that she dyed her hair
that he beer cans scattered
that all over the world she flew
offering hugs in languages
she barely knew
Do you have regrets, something you aspired to…
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West and Russia clash over whether to kill Syrian children with gas or with cruise missiles
(satire?)
Britain, France and the US on Thursday tried to pile pressure on an increasingly emboldened Vladimir Putin by producing new evidence which proves that blowing children up on their way to school with cruise missiles is better than gassing them in their beds with lethal sarin nerve gas
The predominantly British claims were based on tests of clothing and soil samples that David Cameron said had been taken from Syria which showed that children who were blown up were much less likely to suffer than children who were suffocated with chemical weapons.
On the first day of G20 summit in St Petersburg – dominated by the conflict between the West and Russia over how Syrian children should be killed – the British prime minister said:
Samples taken from Damascus and tested in the Porton Down laboratory in Britain clearly show that the gassing of children by the Assad regime is considerably worse…
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US Foreign Policy Summed Up In Four Short Sentences
Kerry: Many countries ready to partake in Syria action | Maan News Agency – 10 dummies does not a smart man make
Sorry – that a number of folks are prepared to take rash action does not in any way justify rash action or prove you are on the right track. You’d think, folks could think up new ways to justify actions that are not really justifiable.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that many countries were prepared to take part in US-led military strikes against the Syrian regime.
“There are a number of countries, in the double digits, who are prepared to take military action,” Kerry said at a press conference with French counterpart Laurent Fabius.
“We have more countries prepared to take military action than we actually could use in the kind of military action being contemplated.”
via Kerry: Many countries ready to partake in Syria action | Maan News Agency.
The Gun Report: September 6, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A man was killed in a fight over a basketball game in northwest Houston, Tex., Thursday night. After the game ended, the losers followed the winners for a few blocks when a fight started, and someone pulled a gun and started shooting. Witnesses vaguely recognized the shooter but haven’t been able to lead police to him.
The Gun Report: September 6, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A passenger was accidentally shot and wounded by another passenger on a Houston, Tex., bus Thursday afternoon. According to surveillance video, the gunman had a firearm in his waistband and it accidentally discharged, ricocheting off a security glass pane before grazing the other passenger. The shooter, who was on parole, fled but was apprehended 20 minutes later.

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