Tag Archives: chemical weapons

Let’s burst the bubble of saint Ronnie…

Well…I am gagging at the new repub talking point that goes something like this: Saint Ronnie would have responded more quickly to any chemical weapon attack than Obama and would not have allowed anyone to use them when he was in office….and this comes from “top republicans” in congress….what a crock of crap. Do these people not even think of history when they open their mouths? Let’s burst this bubble right now with just a small dose of history that these idiots conveniently ignore…first, during saint Ronnie’s term…the administration knew that Iraq was using chemical weapons in it’s war with Iran and even used satellite photos to tell Iraq where the Iranian troops were…hundreds of thousands killed…second, saint Ronnie stood by when Saddam turned his chemical weapons on the Kurds in Iraq that were revolting against his regime…another 100,000 dead or maimed…saint Ronnie knew and did nothing. So, to say that saint Ronnie is the template for action on the use of chemical weapons is to laugh, and laugh, and laugh….what happened on his watch is so much worse than what is happening now in Syria that the repubs need to just shut up about it…not that they will…truth doesn’t mean anything to them when they think they are scoring political points…geez…

No more war…

Well…here we go again….more and more and more war and now here we go into Syria…haven’t we had enough of this crap? When did it become our responsibility to police every country in the world? And, what benefit is it to the world or to us? Governments have been killing their own citizens since there were countries, even before, so why now? What is the difference between Syria and Rwanda where almost a million people were killed? We did nothing in Rwanda, what makes Syria different? The sick thing here is that we have the same people who advocated going into Iraq cheerleading attacking Syria; the same old group of chicken hawks who think that it an affront to the US if every country in the world doesn’t do what we say…and then spout “democracy” out of the other side of their mouths. I have had enough of spending trillions for this nonsense while people go hungry here and the country crumbles as we spend more, and more, and more on the military. One last thing, what made chemical weapons the bright line trigger point? The Syrian government has killed almost 40,000 of it’s citizens in this civil war and many, many thousands more in its secret prisons and we continued to give them aid until last year…how do you justify this hypocrisy? I am tired…just so tired of this continual war and the war profiteers that fan the flames with their lobbyists…when does it end?