Revealed: Pentagon knew in 2012 that it would take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to secure Syria?s chemical weapons facilities

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Revealed: Pentagon knew in 2012 that it would take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to secure Syria?s chemical weapons facilities Daily Mail (U.K.), by?David Martosko Original Article Posted By:Desert Fox, 9/4/2013 9:05:55 PM Securing Syria?s chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday. That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in early 2012. U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S. confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator was using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders. ?The report exists, ???? ?

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Reply 3 - Posted by: Pros7767, 9/4/2013 9:33:39 PM?????(No. 9506105) So let me get this straight. The Arab world will pay for our soldiers to go into Syria to clean up their mess. Obama is turning our military into a bunch of mercenaries, except they?re not getting the money, our government is and our boys are coming home in body bags. The hell with the Middle East (except Israel), and the hell with a Congress that would vote to support this. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????50?persons like this. Reply 4 - Posted by: TruthAndJustice, 9/4/2013 9:50:25 PM?????(No. 9506120) This was revealed today Durbin let the cat out of the bag.. ".you can?t shut down government if we are at war"...he stated. This war is about holding on to their American gulag...dontfundobamacare has gained such traction and saturation.... that the Dems will even go to war to hold on to Obamacare ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????13?persons like this. Reply 5 - Posted by: mc squared, 9/4/2013 9:52:32 PM?????(No. 9506124) One would think that Bami knows this and is using every pretense to give Syria to the Bro?hood. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????2?persons like this. Reply 6 - Posted by: ruready?, 9/4/2013 10:05:11 PM?????(No. 9506129) #4, You make an excellent point. Maybe its time to negotiate. Syria and no Obamacare. Let?s see how bad Obama wants to go to war. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????2?persons like this. Reply 7 - Posted by: Topic Thunder, 9/4/2013 10:07:44 PM?????(No. 9506133) Naturally, men are gonna have to be killed, possibly a lot of them. They?ll absorb bullets and shrapnel, and by doing so make it possible for others to get through...say five percent killed by our own barrage that?s a very generous allowance. Ten percent more again in no man?s land, and twenty percent more again into the wire. That leaves sixty-five percent, and the worst part of the job over. Let?s say another twenty-five percent in actually taking the Ant Hill we?re still left with a force more than adequate to hold it. General, you?re saying that more than half my men will be killed. Yes, it?s a terrible price to pay, Colonel. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????2?persons like this.

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Reply 8 - Posted by: trapper, 9/4/2013 10:34:32 PM?????(No. 9506151) The "no boots on the ground" lie laid bare. They will say they are not there "for the purpose of combat operations" [language of the resolution] but only to secure Assad?s chemical weapons. Their intention from the start has been to send tens of thousands of ground troops into Syria. If you search hard enough on the internet you will find this has been in the works for quite a while, long before the August 21 "attack" supposedly perpetrated by Assad. If they had just been up front and honest about it, it might have gone easier. "Go get the chemical weapons so al Qaeda can?t get them" would have been an easier sell than this. But hey, why tell the truth when you can make up a pack of lies? Oh, and when they DO get them, will they show us the Iraqi markings on them that show they were Saddam?s? ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????2?persons like this. Reply 9 - Posted by: Crosscut, 9/4/2013 10:34:39 PM?????(No. 9506152) What action our government chooses to use in Syria could be the last straw that could finally result in a massive march on Washington. Obama had better decide wisely and be prepared for the consequences. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????5?persons like this. Reply 10 - Posted by: Babsathome, 9/4/2013 10:43:37 PM?????(No. 9506160) Stupid Headline- very stupid. What the heck do these dimwits think goes on at the War Colleges? Possible plans are made. Contingencies drawn up, great minds exchange ideas or maybe they sit around buttering biscuits. Sheesh! ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ????12?persons like this. Reply 11 - Posted by: bob913, 9/4/2013 11:05:33 PM?????(No. 9506177) So planned all along by the democrats to get the muslim brotherhood in power. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment ???1??person like this. Reply 12 - Posted by: noddy, 9/4/2013 11:30:08 PM?????(No. 9506199) Issue our troops with slippers and Kerry will be right. Our bumbling politicians could be replaced with the Keystone Cops and things might improve; couldn?t be any worse. Not only are they arguing among themselves, they are all telling us lies, different lies depending on who is at the microphone. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment

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Reply 13 - Posted by: Trigger2, 9/5/2013 7:44:45 AM?????(No. 9506420) Soooo, it?s been Barry?s mission from 2012. He sat around for a whole year until a crisis popped up and he didn?t want it to go to waste. After all, the caliphate must be ushered in. ??Click Here if you Like this Comment Below, you will find ... Most Recent Articles posted by "Desert Fox" and Most Active Articles (last 48 hours) Most Recent Articles posted by "Desert Fox" Revealed: Pentagon knew in 2012 that it would take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to secure Syria?s chemical weapons facilities Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 9:05:55 PM ??? Post Reply Securing Syria?s chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday. That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in early 2012. U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S. confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator was using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders. ?The report exists, Alleged chemical weapons sites can?t be bombed safely: experts Associated Press, by Staff??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 9:03:29 PM ??? Post Reply WASHINGTON ? You can?t safely bomb a chemical weapon storehouse into oblivion, experts say. That?s why they say the United States is probably targeting something other than Syria?s nerve agents. Now, however, there is concern that bombing other sites could accidentally release dangerous chemical weapons that the U.S. military did not know were there because they?ve lost track of some of the suspected nerve agents. Bombing stockpiles of chemical weapons ? purposely or accidentally ? will likely kill nearby civilians in an accidental nerve agent release, create a long-lasting environmental catastrophe or both, experts said. That?s because under ideal conditions ? and Pentagon may take charge of arming Syrian rebels: US officials Agence France Presse, by Staff??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 9:02:27 PM ??? Post Reply Washington is weighing expanding support for Syrian rebels by having the Pentagon take charge of arming the opposition instead of a clandestine effort by the CIA, officials said Wednesday. "It?s under consideration," said a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "If and how (it would be done) are both questions being discussed," the official told AFP. The Wall Street Journal first reported the possible change on Wednesday. After concluding in June that the Syrian regime used sarin gas in a small-scale attack, President Barack Obama?s administration decided to start supplying weapons to the rebels through the Central Intelligence Agency. But after another alleged

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The GOP and Syria: Feckless, and Fecklesser American Thinker, by J. Robert Smith??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 8:29:14 PM ??? Post Reply Speaker John Boehner and his boy, Sherman (aka, Eric Cantor), came out yesterday in support of President Obama?s efforts to embroil the U.S. in the Syrian civil war (or proxy war, to some). Clearly, Boehner and Cantor aren?t bucking for Red Badges of Courage, unless, once again, thumbing their noses at grassroots conservatives (and a majority of Americans) counts as courage. Let?s chalk up Boehner?s and Cantor?s support for Mr. Obama to the same timidity and left-footedness that has marked too much of Boehner?s tenure. As frequent American Thinker contributor Pamela Geller wrote at WND yesterday: And it isn?t just McCain. John Boehner On Syria, I Respectfully Dissent National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 8:25:46 PM ??? Post Reply I respectfully dissent from the editors? support for U.S. military intervention in Syria, which expands on the corporate position National Review staked out last week. While the credibility of an American president is no small thing, it is simply wrong to equate Barack Obama?s credibility with that of the United States, as the editors do: ?The other [option left to Congress besides green-lighting an attack on Syria] is to turn [Obama] down and destroy the president?s credibility, and hence the nation?s.? (Emphasis added.) Ironically, their editorial goes on to deride conservative opponents of military intervention as overly simplistic. But it is The Beltway Choom Gang Wall Street Journal, by Editorial??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 7:52:41 PM ??? Post Reply One irony of the Syria debate is that President Obama is now appealing for support on foreign policy from a Congress that he treats with contempt on domestic issues. Witness, in merely the latest example, his decision to suspend the enforcement of a federal drug law because it doesn?t fit his political agenda. In a sweeping memorandum last week, the Justice Department all but ordered U.S. attorneys nationwide not to enforce federal marijuana laws. The memo was a long-delayed response to voter referenda last November in Colorado and Washington states that legalized adult recreational use of marijuana, not merely in the Nobel Winner Coase Showed The Limits Of Big Government Investor?s Business Daily, by Editorial??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 7:51:32 PM ??? Post Reply Economics: It wouldn?t be right to let the passing of one of the 20th century?s great economists, Nobel winner Ronald Coase, go without comment. You might not know his name, but his ideas have surely affected you. The unassuming Coase died this week at 102, productive to the very end: He published his final book, "How China Became Capitalist," in 2012. Talk about longevity. The article that won him fame ? "The Nature of the Firm" ? was published back in 1937. It?s still called the most-cited economic text ever. But Coase?s most influential idea came from a 1960 article, "The Problem Why ?Duck Dynasty? Viewers Heed Its Call Wall Street Journal, by Adam Chandler??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 7:48:01 PM ??? Post Reply Fans of reality TV have long tuned in to gawk at the curiosities of American subculture. Unfortunately, the country on display is typically a blooper reel of drunken brawling ("Jersey Shore"), cutthroat competition and casual racism ("Big Brother"), and amateur singers enduring needless pain for cash prizes ("Killer Karaoke"). Is there any show that paints an admirable, more accurate portrait of life in the U.S.? Unlikely as it might seem, "Duck Dynasty" might fit the bill. The A&E show, now in its fourth season, has managed to become the most popular reality program in cable history. The season premiere on Aug.

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Waging War Against Syria: Madness On The Potomac Investor?s Business Daily, by Doug Bandow??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 7:47:04 PM ??? Post Reply The U.S. faces no serious military threat today, yet is constantly at war. Today U.S. naval vessels are clustering in the Eastern Mediterranean, with Syria the latest target. Traditionally, Washington did not look for wars to fight. The government?s overriding duty is to protect the American people ? their lives, liberties, prosperity and nation. Measured on this scale, there is no cause for entering the bloody Syrian imbroglio. The regime has little capacity to harm the U.S. or to resist the overwhelming retaliation that would occur in response to any attack. Syria?s chemical weapons have little more utility than high explosives and Blurred Red Lines Wall Street Journal, by Editorial??? Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 9/4/2013 7:45:26 PM ??? 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