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TapTheForwardAssist posted:You ain't lyin': Being anti-war isn't being pro-Ghadffi, FYI.
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dj_clawson posted:That's what I always thought but a lot of writers seem to be ditching Newsweek for Time. I don't see how getting the writers from Newsweek could possibly help the situation.
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Ticonderoguy posted:Smart Money is on Venezuela or some under developed African Nation, like Chad or Nigeria I don't think Gaddafi wants to go to Chad.
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max4me posted:I dont get it. Is that frodo and what is Gaddagi ridding? Bob Dylan is not Frodo 
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Contraction mapping posted:Uh, yeah that's great dude. We're all very impressed by how well-read and enlightened you are, but the Alinsky and Washington connections are far flung tangents to the topic at hand and are basically irrelevant to this thread. It's closer than you think.... 
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straw man posted:I figured I'd test the waters. For Reviewer #1: "Pretty weak loving posting"
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Brown Moses posted:Thomas Friedman weighs in on Libya: Tom Friedman is never worth a read.
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Narmi posted:Yeah, I though of the 4chan thing at first too. Thing is, those results were skewed by a massive campaign to get moot at the top, coupled with a horrible voting system. Presumably these are real results, which is why it's so disappointing. Yeah, but they are real results from the kind of people who think that voting on an online poll is something that may matter.
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dj_clawson posted:Am I the only one with the "shoot Gaddaffi in the drat head" strategy? Listen to me. We've traced this post... it's coming from 1986!!!
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How much recoil does one of those put out seeing as it's only really held in place with a few two-by-fours.
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May 24, 2011 23:35
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The-Mole posted:Just don't go around any sharp turns at 30mph The wikipedia says the whole turret doesn't weigh more than 250 lbs so it might not be too bad.
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Poizen Jam posted:I always hate this argument. I used to use it when I justified my military service and Conservative viewpoints of the time (Often dismissing liberals and democratic socialists as unrealistically idealist on everything from pacifism to anti-death penalty), but it's ultimately an untenable position. It's intellectually dishonest, lazy, and supports the continuing of the status quo because 'CHANGE IS HARD Rrail is literally a mercenary and you don't have to justify his opinion as the way the world really works to him is to get paid to spread misery internationally.
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Nilbop posted:Some of this is ghastly. I understand the need to prove beyond doubt to people that these people are dead but some of this stuff is really grisly. It actually worth looking at this public corpse decoration through the Foucaultian lens on the need groups have for public punishment.
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kylejack posted:This man is literally Genghis Khan. I don't think Genghis Khan went broke because his lovely hotels in Atlantic City went bust.
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az posted:Do you have any information about how much military equipment the Syrian military had at the start of the civil war? As in, helicopters, tanks, heavy artillery etc. Wikipedia has numbers of the arms strength of the Syrian Military. quote:10,885 Armoured Fighting Vehicles: This isn't necessity the same as working pieces of military equipment with able operators, but it's a lot of guns.
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MothraAttack posted:Yeah man and that whole Middle East, how's about that! The thing about chemical weapons is even though they are Real Bad, they're really not that much worse than conventional weapons in terms of killing potential and certainly not as bad as the N or B in NBC. Even with highly weaponized chemical agents dispersal is still very difficult.
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Young Freud posted:Biological weapons are probably even more laughable in effectiveness, at least anti-personnel uses. Too hard to disperse, too big a risk of backfiring, and not really effective against a developed nation that has access to antibotics and vaccines. Anti-agricultural bioweapons are probably better, but has the same risks. Well biological weapons, when done right, can have a huge killing potential. Properly weaponized anthrax has probably the highest killing potential of any weapon known to man, including the hydrogen bomb. It's just extremely difficult to manufacture and disperse.
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Brown Moses posted:This really fishy video video has been posted online supposedly showing an opposition member preparing poisonous gases and killing bunnies, claiming he'll do the same to Alawites. Can any chemistry experts take a look at the compounds and chemicals on display and provide any more info? Looking over that I don't see any potential for any great chemical production. My guess is the reaction he is performing is similar to the chlorine gas production you can get from mixing household bleach and ammonia.
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Muscle Tracer posted:I think the meaning there was that if we were to get involved now, that would be the question. If we are going to act like the world police, why not do it sooner rather than later? Because history tells us that when we get involved we do so in the worst way possible. We choose to arm the most horrible people. We destroy the most important institutions and leave the corrupt in place. Basically the historical view should tell you that anything else than nothing is probably worse than the status-quo.
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cgeq posted:You could argue that if the more secular/liberal elements of the uprising had been given greater support earlier in the conflict, then all the extremist groups wouldn't have grown so powerful. It seems like a fine argument. When in history has the US chosen to arm leftists over theocrats?
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Pedrophile posted:This also leads to the problem where extremists have come in and filled the gaps, potentially making post-assad syria even less friendly towards the west. Being unfriendly to the west isn't the problem that extremists bring that makes them undesirable.
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Brown Moses posted:Another example of a VBIED being used in Syria Besides being a really big goddamn bomb was this a miss? They focus onto a specific building a whole lot before the bomb goes off and then the explosion occurs to the side by a bit. Also how do they remote control that? It seems like either they need a video link or an overhead view.
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Crasscrab posted:Please, tell me more about how the Syrian Ba'aathist government is a "radical Islamic" government. I don't think that's what Warbadger was saying at all.
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Muffiner posted:You expect the higher ups to condone such actions? The point of death squads is you assign local control to units so you don't have to order atrocities yourself.
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McDowell posted:So is it a safe guess that the murder of thee Kurdish Activists in Paris today is a new twist in all this? Has killing decedents abroad been part of the MO for Turkish intelligence?
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You don't have to be outraged to maintain a strong skepticism based on 500 years of horrible history with regards to France in Africa.
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Uncle Jam posted:Wow, nice eyes. I thought that most rockets of that sort were supersonic and there wouldn't be an audio warning?
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Who shot the tank video? It uses a tripod and doesn't have the usually commentary.
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Brown Moses posted:Here's a unique and What happened here? It got taken down and I assume I'm glad I didn't watch it.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Is that a wire-guided missile? It's wire guided. Also the vectored thrust guidance looks really cool on video.
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Is there any chance to hit a plane at that distance and speed with small arms not to mention if they could harm it?
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Brown Moses posted:Here's my segment with ITN's Truthloader talking about the escalation in the conflict, with lots of footage from my video archives so you don't have to look at my face That's a nice piece you have there. Good job on that.
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Dr. Tough posted:The comments are pretty hilarious so far, although I'm not sure what "ZOG" is. It's for "Zionist Occupation Government". It's big with the Ron Paul/Deez Images people.
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When we're talking about "heavy machine-guns" do we mean truck mounted 50 cals or do the rebels have the quad mounted heavy guns like ZSU-23s?
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Well if it wasn't already official we now have a bona fide proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Charliegrs posted:What makes you so sure the US has no hand at all in these weapon transfers? For one I wouldn't be surprised if Obama is looking at this and comparing it to Reagan arming the Mujahideen in eyeing his legacy.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Which made explosives, not chemical weapons. Outside of the political ramifications chemical weapons aren't that much magically worse than chemical explosives.
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Xandu posted:There's some claims on twitter/facebook that the FSA shot an Iranian cargo plane carrying weapons as it was landing in Damascus. Did they just shoot it or did they shoot it down?
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