Originally Posted by Tom_PM

There's no convincing people who are so apathetic that they don't care if it's proven he's used sarin weapons on civilians and rebels.

In other words, he's going to lay down proofs, but it's already pointless.

Originally Posted by dyna mo

i bet he's gonna show us some gruesome pictures too, to really sell the bombings.

Originally Posted by dyna mo

Politically, if Obama wins Congressional authorization to bomb Syria in a squeaker vote, he will have used so much political capital that there may be little left for the upcoming fights over the budget and the debt ceiling, and Congressional Democrats will likely have lost whatever chance they have of retaking the House in 2014 and guaranteed years more of Washington gridlock and inaction on the nation's pressing problems

if Obama becomes the first president in modern history to lose such a Congressional vote, he immediately becomes a lame duck for the remaining three years of his term.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-...b_3894847.html

Originally Posted by wehateporn

Syria: Assad did not order chemical weapons attack, reports German intelligence

http://www.examiner.com/article/syri...n-intelligence