Comments on: Bombing Syria https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/ Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460047 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:17:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460047 Trump is tough!

One has to have the mindset of a Sean Spicer to come out with that.

As Bill Marr putts it, Trump is delta-india-charlie-kilo.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460046 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:20:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460046 Two more. Trump and his supporters think accurately reporting on his actions and what he says means the media is against him, and the media pointing out that his allegations about the Clinton’s and Obama were all bogus means they were in his opponents’ pockets. That’s shows stupidity, not toughness.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460045 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:15:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460045 “we already know Trump is tough.”

We know a lot of things. He’s dishonest. He’s admitted to sexual assaults. He takes credit for things that he didn’t do (Ford and jobs here in Michigan being but the latest.) He’s a racist. He’s a bigot. He is anti science. His followers exhibit the same shitty characteristics and say things like “we know Trump is tough.”

]]> By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460044 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:43:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460044 re #5, don’t forget child sex slave trafficking. The USA did that to “keep the peace” in Iraq too. Which, of course, allows people the USA doesn’t like to justify doing it themselves too.

Saddam was only a problem when he was moving all international trade to the Euro for Iraq. If that had been allowed to work, the USA would be entirely and utterly fucked.

]]> By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460043 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:22:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460043 “We already know Trump is tough”

No. We know he’s an idiot and a conman.

“He defeated the combined force of the Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas”

With populist progressive rhetoric. Which he then reneged on.

“with the media against him”

Yeah, right. Compared to Sanders, trumpalina was a darling of the media.

And why were the others in the party clamouring for him to fuck off? Because he was saying that the government would give out healthcare to everyone, curtail the banks, and kill off the corruption of the revolving door in capital city.

ALL PROGRESSIVE LEFTIST PLATFORMS.

]]> By: Jeff Harvey https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460042 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 08:11:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460042 We are expected to believe that Trump exhibits empathy for dead children? Come on now, the only organism on Earth he empathises is himself. Again, we are seeing selective outrage here. The US illegally invades Iraq, more than a million dead, and veritable silence follows in its wake; lest us not ignore the sanctions between 1990 and 2003 that left upwards of another million dead and which two senior UN officials, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck referred to as ‘genocide masquerading as policy’. Down the memory hole. NATO creates a false pretext to change regime in Libya (Benghazi massacre, pure fiction) and we turn the country into a failed state. Drones killing hundreds of civilians across the Af-Pak region. Ignored. Now, without a shred of evidence, and against all logic, Assad is allegedly using chemical weapons?

We have no moral authority whatsoever and as Noam Chomsky and Jean Bricmont have explained, the US, UK and their clients have never actually waged a humanitarian war. Every one of our wars has an economic and strategic foundation. Again, why are we the good guys?

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460041 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 04:33:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460041 We already know Trump is tough. He defeated the combined force of the Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas, with the media against him, as well as most of his party’s establishment who were calling for him to drop out a month before the election.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460040 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:07:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460040 Gregg, this was not intended to accomplish anything. It’s simply a pose to make the lowlife Trump supporters believe Trump is tough.

]]> By: GregH https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460039 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:21:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460039 Nothing was accomplished? They launched $93 million worth of cruise missiles, possibly justifying Trump’s military spending plans. 😀

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/07/bombing-syria/#comment-460038 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:36:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23916#comment-460038 I was surprised you recommended taking out Assad, for this exact reason. While it’s refreshing to see you not adopt every liberal talking point, I really didn’t expect war in the Middle East.

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