Are We Poised for a War in Syria?

[If_I_Loved_you]

Have you followed the Assad Family over the years? His father was a butcher and they run their country like a dictatorship. A lot like Russia and Putin? I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall and listen to Putin and Obama today behind closed doors? But your right the U.S. has their own agenda. And I like this Pope but I'm not Catholic I'm a Methodist. So I don't follow the same teaching as the Catholics are taught.

The world is full of butchers and dictators, but I don't think it's the United States' job to get rid of all of them.   Heck, half the time we put them into power or propped them up.  We were Murbarak's biggest supporter just a couple of years ago, until that became inconvenient. 

If we're going to get rid of every dictator out there, then we're going to run out of money and lose a lot of young Americans in the process.  The fact is, Syria doesn't pose a credible threat to the US or to US interest, and that's where it ends for me.  If the UN wants to go in after Assad, then fine.  That's what they were created for anyway.  But for the US to go in alone, without any other freaking country in the world joining us?  That's ridiculous.

Ajax if you and Diane win and we don't go into Syria it will only be for a short time before this Powder Keg pops. So lets wait and see what happens next week?

[BridgeTroll]

If none of the previous listed reasons to not attack Syria did not convince you... then this should.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/

Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."

A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."

In addition, Forghani warned, "We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha." The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

"Obama will attack Syria and then you'll go to hell, and the world's public opinion will accept that you deserve to be attacked and assaulted, so please attack," Forghani concluded.

Forghani, though not holding an official position within the regime but in a country that tightly censures the media, has stated his radical positions in articles that have been run by the majority of the regime's media and has written several commentaries on the need for the destruction of Israel. One such article described the need for the Islamic Republic to have nuclear weapons and in another he laid out the legal case for the annihilation of Israel and all Jewish people. The latter, which ran in all of the regime's media outlets, called for a pre-emptive strike on Israel. Based on this pre-emptive doctrine, he suggested, several "ground zero" points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated.

Forghani cited the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority, 5.7 million, are Jewish. The census breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population. Forghani wrote that Iran could target the three with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all of its inhabitants.

Forghani's threats last Wednesday were further emphasized by the chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, who on the same day told the regime's Fars News Agency that "America's vision in its ability for a limited strike in Syria is an illusion. The reactions will be beyond Syria's borders ... [and] those who participate with America in this matter will soon witness threats on their national security."

Taeb, the head of the Ammar Strategic Base, had previously stated that, "Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us ... if we lose Syria, we won't be able to hold Tehran."

Regime officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made it clear on many occasions that Assad's regime is their red line and that any attack on Syria will have grave consequences for Israel and America.

Obama has stated that he is determined to punish Assad for the alleged recent chemical attack on his own people that killed more than 1,400 civilians, hundreds of them children.

[BridgeTroll]

http://www.youtube.com/v/RtzOmx55c8Y

[carpnter]

If none of the previous listed reasons to not attack Syria did not convince you... then this should.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/

Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."

A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."

In addition, Forghani warned, "We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha." The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

"Obama will attack Syria and then you'll go to hell, and the world's public opinion will accept that you deserve to be attacked and assaulted, so please attack," Forghani concluded.

Forghani, though not holding an official position within the regime but in a country that tightly censures the media, has stated his radical positions in articles that have been run by the majority of the regime's media and has written several commentaries on the need for the destruction of Israel. One such article described the need for the Islamic Republic to have nuclear weapons and in another he laid out the legal case for the annihilation of Israel and all Jewish people. The latter, which ran in all of the regime's media outlets, called for a pre-emptive strike on Israel. Based on this pre-emptive doctrine, he suggested, several "ground zero" points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated.

Forghani cited the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority, 5.7 million, are Jewish. The census breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population. Forghani wrote that Iran could target the three with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all of its inhabitants.

Forghani's threats last Wednesday were further emphasized by the chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, who on the same day told the regime's Fars News Agency that "America's vision in its ability for a limited strike in Syria is an illusion. The reactions will be beyond Syria's borders ... [and] those who participate with America in this matter will soon witness threats on their national security."

Taeb, the head of the Ammar Strategic Base, had previously stated that, "Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us ... if we lose Syria, we won't be able to hold Tehran."

Regime officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made it clear on many occasions that Assad's regime is their red line and that any attack on Syria will have grave consequences for Israel and America.

Obama has stated that he is determined to punish Assad for the alleged recent chemical attack on his own people that killed more than 1,400 civilians, hundreds of them children.

I'm no fan of Obama and don't think we should intervene in Syria, but if Iran were to even try to kill one of the President's daughters, I just might support turning Tehran into a glass parking lot just to get rid of the radical leaders there. 

[JeffreyS]

Yes threats from Iran should not dictate our foreign policy.

Again I am not for Military action here, freezing assets, world court and embargoes should be first courses of action. Should have happened two years ago or at least when Syria first crossed the Red line. 

[acme54321]

The insanity that comes out of Iran is laughable. 

[If_I_Loved_you]

If none of the previous listed reasons to not attack Syria did not convince you... then this should.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/

Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."

A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."

In addition, Forghani warned, "We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha." The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

"Obama will attack Syria and then you'll go to hell, and the world's public opinion will accept that you deserve to be attacked and assaulted, so please attack," Forghani concluded.

Forghani, though not holding an official position within the regime but in a country that tightly censures the media, has stated his radical positions in articles that have been run by the majority of the regime's media and has written several commentaries on the need for the destruction of Israel. One such article described the need for the Islamic Republic to have nuclear weapons and in another he laid out the legal case for the annihilation of Israel and all Jewish people. The latter, which ran in all of the regime's media outlets, called for a pre-emptive strike on Israel. Based on this pre-emptive doctrine, he suggested, several "ground zero" points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated.

Forghani cited the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority, 5.7 million, are Jewish. The census breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population. Forghani wrote that Iran could target the three with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all of its inhabitants.

Forghani's threats last Wednesday were further emphasized by the chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, who on the same day told the regime's Fars News Agency that "America's vision in its ability for a limited strike in Syria is an illusion. The reactions will be beyond Syria's borders ... [and] those who participate with America in this matter will soon witness threats on their national security."

Taeb, the head of the Ammar Strategic Base, had previously stated that, "Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us ... if we lose Syria, we won't be able to hold Tehran."

Regime officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made it clear on many occasions that Assad's regime is their red line and that any attack on Syria will have grave consequences for Israel and America.

Obama has stated that he is determined to punish Assad for the alleged recent chemical attack on his own people that killed more than 1,400 civilians, hundreds of them children.

I'm no fan of Obama and don't think we should intervene in Syria, but if Iran were to even try to kill one of the President's daughters, I just might support turning Tehran into a glass parking lot just to get rid of the radical leaders there.

(I just might support turning Tehran into a glass parking lot just to get rid of the radical leaders there.) +100,000,000

[Cheshire Cat]

Have you followed the Assad Family over the years? His father was a butcher and they run their country like a dictatorship. A lot like Russia and Putin? I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall and listen to Putin and Obama today behind closed doors? But your right the U.S. has their own agenda. And I like this Pope but I'm not Catholic I'm a Methodist. So I don't follow the same teaching as the Catholics are taught.

The world is full of butchers and dictators, but I don't think it's the United States' job to get rid of all of them.   Heck, half the time we put them into power or propped them up.  We were Murbarak's biggest supporter just a couple of years ago, until that became inconvenient. 

If we're going to get rid of every dictator out there, then we're going to run out of money and lose a lot of young Americans in the process.  The fact is, Syria doesn't pose a credible threat to the US or to US interest, and that's where it ends for me.  If the UN wants to go in after Assad, then fine.  That's what they were created for anyway.  But for the US to go in alone, without any other freaking country in the world joining us?  That's ridiculous. 

Exactly Ajax. 

[Cheshire Cat]

Yes threats from Iran should not dictate our foreign policy.

Again I am not for Military action here, freezing assets, world court and embargoes should be first courses of action. Should have happened two years ago or at least when Syria first crossed the Red line. 

Agreed and agreed.

[Cheshire Cat]

If none of the previous listed reasons to not attack Syria did not convince you... then this should.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/

Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."

A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."

In addition, Forghani warned, "We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha." The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

"Obama will attack Syria and then you'll go to hell, and the world's public opinion will accept that you deserve to be attacked and assaulted, so please attack," Forghani concluded.

Forghani, though not holding an official position within the regime but in a country that tightly censures the media, has stated his radical positions in articles that have been run by the majority of the regime's media and has written several commentaries on the need for the destruction of Israel. One such article described the need for the Islamic Republic to have nuclear weapons and in another he laid out the legal case for the annihilation of Israel and all Jewish people. The latter, which ran in all of the regime's media outlets, called for a pre-emptive strike on Israel. Based on this pre-emptive doctrine, he suggested, several "ground zero" points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated.

Forghani cited the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority, 5.7 million, are Jewish. The census breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population. Forghani wrote that Iran could target the three with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all of its inhabitants.

Forghani's threats last Wednesday were further emphasized by the chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, who on the same day told the regime's Fars News Agency that "America's vision in its ability for a limited strike in Syria is an illusion. The reactions will be beyond Syria's borders ... [and] those who participate with America in this matter will soon witness threats on their national security."

Taeb, the head of the Ammar Strategic Base, had previously stated that, "Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us ... if we lose Syria, we won't be able to hold Tehran."

Regime officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made it clear on many occasions that Assad's regime is their red line and that any attack on Syria will have grave consequences for Israel and America.

Obama has stated that he is determined to punish Assad for the alleged recent chemical attack on his own people that killed more than 1,400 civilians, hundreds of them children.

This is chilling and displays the kind of crazy the U.S. can expect with any action in Syria.  The list of U.S. haters is getting longer and longer and this the result of attempting to police the world.  We can't do it and should not do it.  Of course we defend ourselves against attack and we should also try very hard to mitigate issues of "National Security".  Syria is no threat to us in either circumstance in spite of the hype for those who want to use missiles to strike a country in the midst of a civil war.

[If_I_Loved_you]

Have you followed the Assad Family over the years? His father was a butcher and they run their country like a dictatorship. A lot like Russia and Putin? I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall and listen to Putin and Obama today behind closed doors? But your right the U.S. has their own agenda. And I like this Pope but I'm not Catholic I'm a Methodist. So I don't follow the same teaching as the Catholics are taught.

The world is full of butchers and dictators, but I don't think it's the United States' job to get rid of all of them.   Heck, half the time we put them into power or propped them up.  We were Murbarak's biggest supporter just a couple of years ago, until that became inconvenient. 

If we're going to get rid of every dictator out there, then we're going to run out of money and lose a lot of young Americans in the process.  The fact is, Syria doesn't pose a credible threat to the US or to US interest, and that's where it ends for me.  If the UN wants to go in after Assad, then fine.  That's what they were created for anyway.  But for the US to go in alone, without any other freaking country in the world joining us?  That's ridiculous. 

Exactly Ajax.

France plans to help and once we are getting down and dirty some other countries will help us out.

[acme54321]

Man, you're just choping at the bit to send in some Tomahawks....

Funny if this was old GW a few years ago there are a lot of currently qilent posters on this site who would be raging right now.

[If_I_Loved_you]

Man, you're just choping at the bit to send in some Tomahawks....

Funny if this was old GW a few years ago there are a lot of currently qilent posters on this site who would be raging right now.

What you don't seem to Understand "acme54321" all of this has been in the planning stages for years? If the attack on Syria doesn't happen soon. It will happen before Obama leaves office. This area is a Powder Keg with a very short fuse. I don't want World War III but to believe all we have to do is nothing because you feel it isn't our problem? Is NUTS!

[Ajax]

If none of the previous listed reasons to not attack Syria did not convince you... then this should.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/

Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."

And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.

Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.

"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."

A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."

In addition, Forghani warned, "We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha." The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

"Obama will attack Syria and then you'll go to hell, and the world's public opinion will accept that you deserve to be attacked and assaulted, so please attack," Forghani concluded.

Forghani, though not holding an official position within the regime but in a country that tightly censures the media, has stated his radical positions in articles that have been run by the majority of the regime's media and has written several commentaries on the need for the destruction of Israel. One such article described the need for the Islamic Republic to have nuclear weapons and in another he laid out the legal case for the annihilation of Israel and all Jewish people. The latter, which ran in all of the regime's media outlets, called for a pre-emptive strike on Israel. Based on this pre-emptive doctrine, he suggested, several "ground zero" points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated.

Forghani cited the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority, 5.7 million, are Jewish. The census breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population. Forghani wrote that Iran could target the three with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all of its inhabitants.

Forghani's threats last Wednesday were further emphasized by the chief commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, who on the same day told the regime's Fars News Agency that "America's vision in its ability for a limited strike in Syria is an illusion. The reactions will be beyond Syria's borders ... [and] those who participate with America in this matter will soon witness threats on their national security."

Taeb, the head of the Ammar Strategic Base, had previously stated that, "Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us ... if we lose Syria, we won't be able to hold Tehran."

Regime officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have made it clear on many occasions that Assad's regime is their red line and that any attack on Syria will have grave consequences for Israel and America.

Obama has stated that he is determined to punish Assad for the alleged recent chemical attack on his own people that killed more than 1,400 civilians, hundreds of them children.

Ugh - that is sickening.  This person is crazy.  The article says that he "speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime" but I wonder.  This just made me sick to my stomach reading it. 

[Ajax]

France plans to help and once we are getting down and dirty some other countries will help us out.

Hollande said he would like to do it but I think he's going to wait until the UN report comes out and I don't even think he's going to publicly speak about it until Congress votes next week. 

If we're relying on France to have our back, somehow that doesn't make me feel any better!  

Yeah, when things get down and dirty I'm sure we can count on the Netherlands to send 45 troops and maybe Australia will send 20 translators to help.  Why would anyone jump into the quagmire after they realize that the US is stuck and we'll have to fight our way out of it?