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Subscribe to RSSSyrian troops are now in control of Baba Amr, while rebel fighters have apparently fled. ITV's John Irvine reports.
The U.N. Security Council is deploring the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria and calling on authorities there to grant U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos "unhindered access," according to The Associated Press.
A statement -- the first on Syria to be approved by the council in seven months -- is significant because it requires the agreement of all 15 council members, including Russia and China, who last month vetoed two resolutions condemning the Syrian government's bloody crackdown and calling for President Bashar Assad to step down.
While a U.N. statement is not legally binding on Syria, it does reflect the growing concern of the council about the impact of the year-old conflict on Syria's civilian population.
Syrian rebels retreated Thursday from a neighborhood in Homs that they had held for months, saying they were running out of weapons and humanitarian conditions were catastrophic after almost four weeks of government bombardment.
Within hours of the rebels' withdrawal, President Bashar Assad's government granted permission for the International Committee of the Red Cross to enter the besieged neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs on Friday. Human rights workers have been appealing for access to Baba Amr for weeks.
"The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent received today from the Syrian authorities the green light to enter Baba Amr tomorrow to bring in much-needed assistance including food and medical aid, and to carry out evacuation operations," spokesman Hicham Hassan told The Associated Press.
A guide with a cameraman shot video inside Homs, Syria showing evidence of continuing violence in the besieged city. ITN's John Irvine reports.
Earlier, rebels told journalists that a few fighters had remained behind in the shattered quarter to cover the "tactical withdrawal" of their comrades. The withdrawal appeared to be an agreement between the two sides in order to avoid a showdown, the BBC reported.
Syrian forces, which shelled Baba Amr earlier in the day despite world alarm at the plight of civilians trapped there, said they were in full control of the district, the BBC reported.
The head of the Free Syrian Army, Col. Riyad Assad, told the BBC that government troops had moved in and were combing the area. The Free Syrian Army is composed mainly of Syrian soldiers who have defected and volunteer civilians.
Images: The fear of carnage to come
A senior official in the FSA earlier told Reuters that rebels in Baba Amr were fending off more than 7,000 government troops. Opposition forces had promised to step up attacks elsewhere in Syria to try to relieve the pressure.
Reports from the city could not be verified immediately due to tight government restrictions on media operations in Syria.
Also on Thursday, Kuwait's parliament said it would support the rebel Free Syrian Army, and called on the Kuwaiti government to cut ties with Assad.
The parliament, which has limited legislative powers, called for Assad to be prosecuted for crimes against his people.
'Whatever the cost'
The 4th Armored Division, which was leading the assault on Homs, is commanded by Maher Assad, the president's younger brother, who has won a reputation for ruthlessness during the past year of revolt against the government.
A Lebanese official close to Damascus said Assad's government was determined to regain control of Homs, Syria's third city, which straddles the main north-south highway.
"They want to take it, whatever happens, without restraint, whatever the cost," the official told Reuters, asking not to be named.
He said defeat for the rebels in Homs, a city of 1 million people, would leave the opposition without any major stronghold in Syria, easing the crisis for Assad, who remained confident he could survive.
Smugglers take 'path of death' to supply Syria revolt
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of Congress on Tuesday that Assad could be considered a war criminal.
While shelling continues on Homs, it was confirmed journalist Paul Conroy, of the Sunday Times, who was wounded in the attack that killed reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, is safely out of Syria. ITN's Tim Ewart reports.
The U.N. estimates that more than 7,500 people have been killed since the anti-Assad struggle started in March 2011, when protesters inspired by successful Arab Spring uprisings against dictators in Tunisia and Egypt took to the streets in Syria.
Syria's government said in December that "armed terrorists" had killed more than 2,000 soldiers and police during the unrest.
Journalists escape to Lebanon
On Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said wounded French freelance journalist Edith Bouvier had arrived in Lebanon from Syria along with French photographer William Daniels.
Bouvier's family confirmed the news of her arrival in Lebanon to French TV channel France24.
Sarkozy, in Brussels for a European summit, told reporters that Bouvier would be flown home to France in a government plane. The flight could happen as soon as Thursday evening if doctors agreed, he said.
"Edith Bouvier and William Daniels are safely in Lebanon and will very shortly be under the protection of our embassy in Beirut," he said.
Bouvier's femur was shattered during heavy shelling of Homs's rebel-held Baba Amr district, which killed veteran Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik last week.
Meanwhile, Spanish reporter Javier Espinosa, one of several Western journalists trapped in Baba Amr for a week, crossed to Lebanon on Wednesday, an activist said, following the escape on Tuesday of wounded British photographer Paul Conroy.
Thirteen Syrians were killed while aiding Conroy's escape, the activist group Avaaz said.
The Local Coordination Committees, a human rights monitoring group, said Bouvier had previously refused to leave Baba Amr without the Syrians who were wounded by shelling while attempting to help her escape, and she has called on the French ambassador for help.
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hopefully assad can finish them off quickly and decisively, and we can go back to not pretending to know anything about the affairs of yet another muslim nation.
are you serious? Go Assad, right?
LESSON:
Turning a blind eye to the wrong that is being committed will allow for this exact same wrong to fester and build up. Eventually impacting those who have turned their cheeks when others were begging for their help.
Every country that claims to be humane and that has the ability to prevent this from occurring who is not attempting to stop the killings for their own self serving reasons, I want to introduce you to KARMA!!!!!
It is incomprehensible that we and other major countries are allowing for this to occur.
Trust within your own societies will begin to dissipate and our own citizens' fear of this occurring to them will dampen a great deal of authority that was previously held by governments worldwide over its citizens.
Hello folks, when will we discard our Imperialistic mindset? We’ve cause enough trouble around the world. If you can't see that we are the instigators in most of the world's wars and displacement of millions of people who are fleeing our aggression, than you are in denial and are not paying attention. If you don’t think we have been in Syria covertly arming the rebels you are in denial and forgetting about Libya. We need to stay out of other country’s civil disputes. I hope we aren’t going to go against the United Nations vote earlier this month and unilaterally go into Syria under the pretext that we need to stop the violence like we did in Libya. General Wesley Clark has stated that a Syria invasion has been pre-planned for quite awhile.
General Wesley Clark: "America will take out 7 countries in 5 years"
According to Former NATO supreme allied commander, former presidential candidate and 4 star US General Wesley Clark that they had received a memo that America is going to take out 7 countries in the Middle East starting with Iraq, Libya, Syria Lebanon Sudan and Somalia, seeing what's going on today in Libya but also in Syria where violent protests are ongoing, it is amazing how these things that were planned years ago are being achieved in front of our eyes.
Why is it other countries feel like they have to defend their territory? Could it be that they know we have no problem invading their sovereignty just as we have done to countless other countries. Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians. 1/3 of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage, they are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity. The so-called "war on terror" is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of western Asia.
This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, and to most of the world, we are the terrorists. In these times, remaining silent on our responsibility to the world and its future is criminal. And in light of our complicity in the supreme crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ongoing violations of the U.N. Charter in International Law, how dare any American criticize the actions of legitimate resistance to illegal occupation.
We are going into Syria for a couple of reasons (yes we are in Syria with our Drones at a minimum), one, we are trying to dislodge Russia from there because they have a foothold in the Middle East via two military bases in Latakia and Tartus in Syria. Two, Syria is a strong ally of Iran. If we invade Syria we take out a strong ally and maybe incite Iran to assist giving the U.S. the reason they are looking for to attack Iran. The ultimate goal is to surround, weaken and to invade Iran. The petro dollar is at stake as other countries are switching to other forms of currency in buying Iran’s oil.
Since the Russian war in 1828, Iran has never attacked another country. We on the other hand have attacked to name a few:
Libya, Iran, Nicaragua, Haiti, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, Honduras, Chile, Congo, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Angola, Columbia, Peru, Panama, Yemen, Pakistan, Grenada, Mexico, etc..
Wake up people we are being herded down the Military Industrial Complex gauntlet again to another false war to enrich the greedy Corporations and distract the American people. Did we not learn anything from the Iraq war where we have killed well over 1 million Iraqi people, lost thousands of American lives and God knows how many hundreds of billions of dollars?
Who do you support, humanity or the greedy elite?
Many of our soldiers don't fight for America, they fight for their lives and their buddies beside them, because we put them in a war zone. They're not defending our freedoms, they're laying the foundation for permanent military bases to defend the freedoms of Exxon Mobil and British Petroleum.
Face it we're Imperialists pure and simple. The elite look down on all of us as expendable chattel.
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy" Henry Kissinger
I’m not asking you to hate war but to love peace. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
@ P-Laya
Utter krap. Countries (including the U.S.) are finally waking up, realizing that after being bit so many times, they now know a snake pit when they see it.
@Trust Verify:
Keep fighting the good fight. Good post. Thank you.
TrustVerify: Superb post.
We owe to poor soldiers and their families and huge unemployed, elderly, sick and helpless people. Don't they count anymore?
Let me add a bit of my own.
With Iran and Syria war drum beatings and oil prices about to zoom, let me add my own against intervening in those nations.
Net results of 1991 and 2003 Iraqi wars are
WINNERS
1. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and other rich ME sharks who manipulated oil prices too high.
2. Oil companies and their lobbyists. Oil prices which were hardly $30 a barrel shot up to $140 a barrel.
3. Since 2003, future traders, rating agencies, Wall Street and oil companies and their lobbyists transferred, five trillion dollars from oil importing countries to oil exporting nations.
4. Sunni Islamic radicals and terrorists are rampaging all over the world because of ME Sunni rich sharks (Saudi Arabia in particular) Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world.
LOSERS
1. General US and European nations’ public with high unemployment, cut in welfare measures, housing market collapse and more. US spent since 2001 on Iraq and Afghan wars three trillion dollars.
2. Poor soldiers who lost their lives and injured and their families. In Iraq and Afghan wars 6300 soldiers killed and 40000 injured.
3. High budget deficits and heavier borrowing. Many nations and people are on line to bankruptcy!
4. Iraq will plunge into bloody sectarian civil wars leading to the creation of Shiastan, Sunnistan and Kurdistan. Here the losses are of Iraqis.
Right on.
Liars, that's all you can call the people who think we shouldn't be involved.
So, have you paid at least $12 per gallon for your gas over the past year, and offered your supermarket 3 times more for your groceries? OH, NO? Well, then, you are Full of S**T, because you care. Let's just leave aside the fact that you care more about that than someone's innocent child dying. I'll forego that because it is already established that a person who hasn't paid these prices is already a whore of selfishness.
And you know what? I'm not even going to worry about it either. But let's not pretend that anyone here is anything but a whore for their gas if they pretend not to be interested. There's a million way we can help without sending our blood over there. Don't tell that to the bigots, though. They've got a lot of lies about morality to explain that all away.
Pulled out? What a bunch of bull@!$%#. Assad just sent the troops in there and wiped them out. Amazing how with the terrorist gone Assad has no problem allowing aid in. Perhaps the terrorist have really been using these people in Babr Amr as human shields. These terrorist are nothing but American financed and armed state terrorist. No different from OBL in Afghanistan. The entire Arab spring is one big covert op against Iran.
ya go assad
Gee, the UN wasn't in such a hurry to help when Saddam was exterminating the Kurds!
I have always thought the U.N. should step in and stop this slaughter of the syrian people.. Some think the U.S. should , But we cannot afford yet another war , and we tax payers end up rebuilding their country,because all the contracts to do so are government chosen . When will America wake up to this reality . We are being so exploited for our governments personal gain . Time for a revolution.
You old folks need to get a soul.
TRUST VERIFY My RESPONSE to your comments "FAKE-FOOLS" no one.
Those are the craziest posts ever....
Tell that to the parents of the high school victims who were just murdered!!!!!
Innocent victims....
Do you think children select which area they are born in.
No they are just born and GOD FORBID WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW INNOCENT CHILDREN TO DIE....
What is the difference between the children and innocent victims over there and You guys and your kids????
NOTHING!!!!
So Stop acting like you guys don't have any morals or ethics.
Trust -Verify I always see you post crazy stuff and try to make sense out of it but I remember verbally slaughtering you a number of times.
Syrian rebels are being supported by al-Qaida.
Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists have pocketed many US, British, European politicians, UN and its partisan agencies and human rights groups and many in the media.
Similar dramas were being played before Iraqi wars. We can tolerate a few times.
Now UN, security council, human rights groups and others can use their highly partisan resolutions and others for toilet papers in Kuwaiti ruler's golden toilets! Let them enjoy in his palaces for a few years!
at least we would not have another lybian scenario where the armed gangs are refusing to lay down their arms creating confusion over who really is calling the shots.
Hmmm????
Not a good enough reason to not save lives!!!!
Is al-Qaida our friend or enemy?
al-Qaida is supporting rebels and fighting Assad.
Fountainheads of Sunni Islamic militants groups like al-Qaida, Taliban and other label ones are Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UAE, Kuwait and other Sunni Arab League nations.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, we had to battle al-Qaida, Taliban and others.
Here people want us to support al-Qaida and rebels' efforts.
What an oxymoron!
Just keep away from both Syria and Iran.
Let Sunni the Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and other Sunni Arab League nations handle them instead of our doing dirty jobs for them!
Jonathan
How many other people have to die waiting on the Arab League to step up? We're at what? 7,500? A sad price to pay for waiting. it's not Syria's fault that the Arab League is made up of a bunch of cowards too scared to step into their own backyards.
We have the largest military budget in the world. It's sad, I know. And probably wrong. But why not use it to prevent another 7,500 people being killed? I'm not saying we should put U.S. soldiers on the ground. OR arm the rebels. But why are we not using at the very least a Libya type strategy here?
I don't want even one penny from my taxes to go towards introducing democracy in another Arab country.
Enough helping ME countries. No more money. No more military help or advise. Sorry so many people are getting killed in syria, but we can no longer get involved. I know we to take care of our interests, but syria is not in our interest. Human rights in arab countries or any other middle east country are null.
It is not our business to count those dead in Syria.
As a matter fact, in NONE of the Muslim nations.
Let those, who kill foreign aids workers, march and kill for Quran burning, target NATO soldiers and infidels with totally false allegations of soldiers killing "innocents, children and women."
Let Saudi and others who became richer by manipulating oil prices do them instead of going around their harems and lobbyists and agents.
Mike S: My post was in reply to yours!
Are you guys working for Assad????
None of you accept for a few deserve the freedom that you all claim to want or have.
You deserve just what you're getting.....
A FAST SLIDE DOWN HILL....
There is no way you guys can be my countrymen.
You all have to work for ASSAD...
With sooo... many peoples' mindset in the dumps and with sooo.... many people without the knowledge to understand wrong from right.
I have to say it saddens me.
I can't tell you all how to think but I can shine light on all of your severe thought deficiencies surrounding this subject.
I always said that I believed that the majority of people were good.
I forgot to include that there are exceptions....
A Lot Of Exceptions...
Utterly disgusting. A government responds to popular uprising by indiscriminately killing everybody and the the first 2 comments are supportive? These are the kind of scenarios I would be willing to commit American troops to, but alas, Syria has very little oil, so no-go. This is a straight-out massacre.
Jason-
I'm sure I'm not alone in my doubt over the authenticity of the stories we're getting. Maybe the comment from Assad is correct that "terrorists" have killed 2000 police and soldiers and this is the reason for their strong reaction.
If a group of armed anti-government, American "terrorists" were killing police and soldiers on our soil, I would venture to guess that our government's reaction might be the same. Just a thought.
I'll take it one step further. If the above scenario happened here, would you support Russia and China sending in forces to the US to "protect the civilians?"
Obviously, it is way too early in the morning for you and you need more caffeine to wake up your brain. If small groups of "terrorists' were attacking the goverment, you would not be leveling entire cities and neighborhoods, sniper shooting women, children, Red Crescent workers, etc.!!!!!!! Your observation is totally idiotic and adds nothing to this discussion.
Remember Waco?
I know, it could never happen here, right? Our government is a good god.
How about Ruby Ridge our government (military) killed that boy (shot him in the back while he was going to school) also shoot the wife holding her baby and the brass said to kill every male in the house so they couldn't breed again... tell me if this is someone you want to be in charge when you do something wrong.... and also Waco Texas this is the same government that said they are there to protect the people..... a tank shoot into the building and hit a gas light causing a fire killing children,women and men it was our government that did that... but some don't want to remember...
Atlas,
You must have very little respect for the soldiers serving in our army if you think that they will stand for indiscriminately bombarding entire American cities and the killing of innocent American civilians. I would only hope that if someone gave and order to the soldiers to possibly kill there own or other comrade's family members there would be a rude awakening to whoever gave such an order given by the fine soldiers serving this country.
Jason, interesting that you said you would be willing to commit American troops to, but you didn't say that you would commit yourself to it.
Plain-
I have great respect for my fellow military men and women (veteran), but by no means am I ignorant enough to believe that they are all righteous. What you're saying is that Americans wouldn't kill other Americans, but those in other countries have no morals or self respect and will gladly take up arms against others. Do you remember learning about a small war within the US just over 150 years ago, Americans were killing Americans, brother killing brother? It has been done here, it happens elsewhere, and we are not immune.
When and how all of a sudden we become friend of Syrian?. I love game of chess, very tricky. I am in love with those that hate Syrian, simple. Any connection between China and Tibet?, why the Chiness are supporting Syrian. Any connection between Russian and Churchnian? and why Russian are supporting Syrian. Any connection between Syrian and Isreal and why American are supporting the rebel? Funny world of politics.
I'm in love with writing complete sentences.....
We need to let the Arab league help their neighbors!
Look up coward and you will see a picture of trustverify
Our Election is too far off for President Obama to act. He needs to wait until the election gets close so he can send in troops and say that we should not change Presidents while we are at War.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Where are the weapons, supplies, and anti-armor rounds plus some of those shoulder fired missiles (Libya has plenty) to defend against helicopters?!?!Why aren't the U.S., europe, and the Arab sttes airdroppinmg or smuggling them in?
Kuwait is too small to stand up to the armed militias now disrupting Syria. Makes me think Kuwait is next.
You mean Bahrain - another of the Great Satan's despotic cut-throat 'allies' whom the US Jewish owned and operated media dares not report on - as we see in Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE et. al.
Don't care about Syria.. they will figure it out. So, basically, for all of you pro-let's get involved.. If the native american's became fed-up and took up armed opposition to our government (like AIM, in the 1970's) and Russia, China and other countries recognize their plight, would that make it legitimate to over-throw a government? If so, then it shouldn't be too much longer for the minorities in this country to rationalize and justify the same action. Now, the question is: would you support the American government cracking down with force, if force was used against it? Hmm.. It's always good when it is them, since it could never happen here, right? Hmm... yep, not much longer now, for the oppressed in this country to see the trend. Or is it the do as I say, not as I do foreign policy? Take up arms against the American government and see what that gets you! lol And we think we are so safe and secure. lol.
Dave Koresh tried, he's still smoking.......
assad should be executed because he not only is killing his own people but he killed so many Lebanese Christians in the 30 years was in Lebanon. He assasined the Lebanese prime minisiter Rafik Hariri with the aid of his right hand hezballah. Those are the terrorists who killed the Marines in Beirut. assad assasined the Chamoun president elect as well as the president Bashir Jemayel. assad's war tactic he used on the Lebanese families who died in the more than 200000 of innocent people between kids women and threatened the Lebanese presidents of more assasination in the country if they don't comply with his demands. We shall see assad dead just like kaddafi and saddam husein. They brought nothing but terror to the world. What is the world waiting for. Well assad the son is in his father footstep in realizing syria the great which includes, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and much much more.
P.T. Barnum was right: 'Sucker born every minute.' (Hey Pilgrim, get the facts and then you come back ya'hear?). Pssst, the United Snakes (US/Israel) assassinated Hariri, OK?).
what a bloody jerk, son of the bitch, a mother @!$%#er ... and china and ussr support him ?! wtf !? The UN has more then 100 countries ... from which 2 presidents, 2 jerks, think ass_ad[d] is right ?! and we all other 7 billion have to agree with that ?! fu*k
Correction: 'The kosher 'pigs' are actually in Israel and doing well murdering, maimimg, torturing and demolishing the homes of innocent Palestinians who's only crime is that the EU sic'd these rats on them to rid themselves of the Rothchild thieves after WW II. Hey, maybe #OccupyWallStreet, should now turn on the predator Rothchilds on Wall Street. Go Kristallnacht II!!!!!
Yup, just like the US finances Jewish terrorism - wholesale!
it seems like we never learn, miss goody two shoes (hillary) is just dying to intervene in this middle east pig sty. Ron Paul the only solution
Ron Paul thinks this 1912 not 2012. News flash the, there are things called airplanes and ICBMs. We can no longer shut our selves behind the Atlantic and the Pacific ocians pretending the rest of the world is not there. Washingtons advice not to have foreign entengelments was aplicable at the end of 18th century, it no longer applies now. We are part of the world, a very large part of it, and to withdraw now will lead to its distablitization and will come to bite us much sooner than you think.
Ron Paul is #1 fool! He's not owned by the US corporations or the AIPAC/ZOA Jews. (That's why he can't possibly win - no shekel's coing his way).
Syria burns while the world turns a blind eye
It's not that we turn a blind eye. We just don't care.
kill everyone of the Talibon
There sure are a lot of folks that think that getting involved in another Islamic country is a good idea. Makes you wonder what turnip ship they just disembarked from. Syria is a war between yet another Muslim faction, this time it's the Alawites and the Sunni. They hate each other and do what Muslims do which is kill each other. If we get involved then all of a sudden they love each other and hate us. People get a clue, no involvement in Islamic countries ever again for any reason.
911 isnt a reason?
"911 isnt a reason?"
Just the opposite.9/11 is a reason to not get involved in the Middle East.Our involvement there was the root cause of 9/11.Since then 11 years of more involvement has brought us the "joys" of Iraq and Afghanistan.Over 6,000 dead Americans and 3 trillion dollars later,we need to learn to not get involved in other countries.
william you are sooooooo right
We should of put your family in the towers.
The United Snakes (US/Israel) must be crying n their gifilte fish soup right now. I mean, getting your arse kicked by the Taliban (Where the US/NATO baby killers are suing for peace, as we speak) and now the NED/USAID 'spooks' (CIA in plain language) rats are getting prosecuted in Egypt for trying to make the Egyptian government help the terorist Jews 'bludngen' the downtrodden Palestinians once again, and if things couldn't get worse, the United Snakes are getting hammered in Hom, ZOWEEEEEE! f they could only capture the wicked 'Bitch of the West '(Hillary) and burn 'motor-mouth' at the stake and quiet the bitch down as well as UN/US Ambassador Susan Rice, who keeps screaming (at the top of her voice) "They're killing women and children in Hom!!!!! ( Yes B*tch, what the hell do you think US Predators are doing in AF/PAK, Somalia, Teman and Sudan!!!!).
Yassar Assad you take no mercy on those bass-sterd 'rebel's!' I mean, look what they did (and continue doing) in Libya where the murder and mayhem continues with the killing, torturing, looting and outright mayhem continues as we speak. I mean these US/Israel/NATO MFer's need to be taught a lesson in 'minding their own politics' - short of a nuke on that 1/2 acre of Zionist hell, that is.
GO Assad GO Papa Hugo, GO Fidel (80 more years!), Go Evo Morales and GO Correa in Ecuador. Give the bastard Great Satan no mercy!!!!!
(Ins Man)Where the hell are you from, you must want to live as a communist, go to china or North Korea they would love to have you
Insurance Man
Let me guess.....you are the Neandrathal from the Geico commercial
Now, they've given the terr or ists a name the FSA and the US is supporting them. I don't why the administration makes war against 1 or 2 terr or ist groups and supports others. Never understood politics.
david forgot to take his medication
I think this all this revolting needs to end somewhere. Soon the world will be chaos.
Curious the worlds obsession with this sad, but very ordinary and limited internal insurrection. Compared to what has been done, and considered acceptable, in the region for less reason recently it hardly seems to warrant the wall to wall coverage.
Well, with Arab nations overthrowing dictatorships one by one in the name of democracy, we're seeing history in the making. This isn't just any ordinary rebellion, and Assad isn't just some random totalitarian.
Another nation descends into turmoil and another democratic establishment arises. First Tunisia, then Egypt, then Libya, now Syria. The dominoes just keep falling.
Americans have fought and died for freedon throughout our history. Let the Syrians do the same. If the Iranians, Afghans or any Muslim country truly want freedom from dictators and mullahs, let them unite and fight. US stay out of it!!!
I know people will disagree with this, but here goes: bin Laden said he wanted to put America on it's knees. Well, he came damn close to it. Now the Yellow Elephants want us to be involved in another war? Where is the money going to come from. Remember the deficits don't matter, until now those don't matter deficits the pugbags are screaming about? Who is going to pay for it?
When that is answered, also answer why you are/were crying about the deficit, but now want to put us further into debt. And when is the 101st Keyboard Brigade going to enlist to go fight there? Yes, just what I thought.
More importantly, the U.S. has been pouring billions down the rathole of Israel for decades and Israel now wants to start WWIII with Iran and is allowed to have illegal nuclear weapons it is trying to deny to Iran! How can we prevent our stupid politicians in the hip pocket of Israel from dumping tens of billions more into Isreal to replace all the missiles, planes, damaged cities, etc. once they start their paranoid war with Iran and drag Pakistan or Egypt, or whatever into it?!?!?!
hurry feed the Rebels !!!!! there may still be a fight in them !!!!!! LOL we want too read about the blood shed !!!!!!! MSN need the reader's !!!!!!!!!