<B>John Kerry reveals Arab countries have offered to PAY America to carry out full-scale invasion of Syria</B> By DAVID MARTOSKO PUBLISHED: 22:20, 4 September 2013 As for 'the details of the offer, and the proposal on the table,' Ros-Lehtinen asked Kerry, 'what are the figures we are talking about? 'We donât know what action we [will be] engaged in right now,' Kerry replied, 'but they have been quite significant. I mean, very significant.' 'In fact, some of them have said that if the U.S. is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way weâve done it previously in other places, theyâll carry that cost. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...on-Syria-says-Secretary-State-John-Kerry.html Wonder what kickbacks did Obomber and Kerry receive?
I say make them put up a retainer and every US serviceman that serves in the conflict also gets an enormous US $ bonus.
What now? American military forces have become mercenaries?? IOW... American patriot military servicemen/women are really just fighting for money and kickbacks to Congress and their military defense contractor buddies? Should they be risking their lives for THAT?? If so, would it be on the basis of "we'll reimburse you later"?... (wink) Could we BE any more stupid??
The House of Saud have been trying to get rid of the Shiites in Syria and Iran for the last 200 years. Shiites are strongly persecuted in Saudi Arabia. They funded Saddam to invade Iran and now they have found their useful idiot in Obama.
Like a pimp backs his ho? This is something to feel good about? We're merc's for the Saudi's while providing air support for Al-Qaeda. Nice. No doubt we're on the righteous side of God. Greater good and all that.
"like we did before.." must mean when we intervened in the dispute between Kuwait and Iraq, aka Operation Desert Storm, George H. W. Bush's high point as president. The Saudis paid us for that job too. This is actually a very arab trait, paying foreigners to do their dirty work for them. The Saudis and Gulf states have refined it to an art form, paying a vast collection of asians, europeans and americans to do various jobs they don't want to bother with. Let's review how Desert Storm worked out for us. The first unintended consequence was 9/11, which was planned because of Osama bin ladin's outrage over "infidel" troops setting foot on Saudi Arabia. Then there was the later invasion of Iraq itself, which clearly had its genesis in the earlier operation. Funny thing though, I don't believe the Arabs picked up the tab for that. The U. S. taxpayers did, in the form of billions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost or altered forever. We didn;t even help ourselves to the Iraqi oil reserves to pay for the operation. Now this. We are reduced to arguing that invading Syria to do the Saudis' bidding would be a good idea because they will pay for it? How many Saudi princes will be leading troops into battle and getting blown up? Oh I forgot, they are off on the Riveria with their whores. The irony here is rich. We have former Sen. Sanctimonious John Kerry, who rose to infamy denouncing his fellow troops from vietnam, where he served in case anyone hasn't watched MSNBC for the past 15 minutes. He wants to risk more of his fellow americans' lives in a place where we have zero vital interests. Then we have the community organizer/muslim brotherhood supporter/president, who can't even get the Brits to back him. Does anyone recall how rapturously happy the euros were when he was elected? Now they openly snub him in favor of Putin. One is left with the disquieting feeling that Obama is using this, like the immigration debate, as a wedge to split republicans and anger that party's supporters. If so, he is doing us a huge favor. Let's sort this out now and not get surprised by nominating another McCain. It's way past time for party realignment and support for pointless wars and amnesty for illegal aliens are two excellent litmus tests.
Don't be ridiculous. The Saudis, Turks and Qataris have wanted Syria "liberated" for a long time now, as it allows a pipeline for nat gas to be fed to Europe under Syria. Assad doesn't want that, because Russia wants Gazprom to have the monopoly. That's what all this is about. The problem is that none of these countries is willing to shed it's own blood. Fabricated chemical attacks (at least fabricated that Assad did them) to enable an overthrow of the Syrian government so a friendly one can be put in it's place that will allow this pipeline and crush the stranglehold Gazprom (Russia) has on Europe.
No doubt you'd be splitting the same hairs if a repub was in office. A repubican president advocating military action in a foreign country, a country which poses no threat to us and our intervention will, with 99.9999% certainty lead to escaltion sucking us in even deeper, a action financed by our Arab "friends"...yep, the left would be fine with that, I'm sure.