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No U.S. Military Attacks On Syria

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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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No regrets, No translation #poetry #children

penned in moon dust

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

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the broad young man

in  red and gold

our school’s rising star

making an unbelievable catch

what stories could be told

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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

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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

Leslie and child

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

Pride's Purge

(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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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.

via The Gun Report: September 6, 2013 – NYTimes.com.

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.

via The Gun Report: September 6, 2013 – NYTimes.com.