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To: koan who wrote (52914)	9/6/2013 2:14:41 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Yeah, we stay out and "monitor" and the Russians and Chinese MOVE IN with CASH. In the year 2100 the Chinese will be the ONLY SuperPower and we will be a very big Britain....

To: koan who wrote (52914)	9/6/2013 7:46:05 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

The ME blowing up will be Obama's foreign legacy.

To: koan who wrote (52914)	9/6/2013 10:18:03 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 85487

Verify chemical weapons use before unleashing the dogs of war 4:27 PM 08/29/2013 Kenneth Timmerman President, Foundation for Democracy in Iran The Obama administration has selectively used intelligence to justify military strikes on Syria, former military officers with access to the original intelligence reports say, in a manner that goes far beyond what critics charged the Bush administration of doing in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. According to these officers, who served in top positions in the United States, Britain, France, Israel, and Jordan, a Syrian military communication intercepted by Israel’s famed Unit 8200 electronic intelligence outfit has been doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion reached by the original report. The doctored report was leaked to a private Internet-based newsletter that boasts of close ties to the Israeli intelligence community, and led to news reports that the United States now had firm evidence showing that the Syrian government had ordered the chemical weapons attack on August 21 against a rebel-controlled suburb of Damascus. The doctored report was picked up on Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Aug. 24, then by Focus magazine in Germany, the Times of Israel, and eventually by The Cable in Washington, DC. According to the doctored report, the chemical attack was carried out by the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division of the Syrian Army, an elite unit commanded by Maher al-Assad, the president’s brother. However, the original communication intercepted by Unit 8200 between a major in command of the rocket troops assigned to the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division, and the general staff, shows just the opposite. The general staff officer asked the major if he was responsible for the chemical weapons attack. From the tone of the conversation, it was clear that “the Syrian general staff were out of their minds with panic that an unauthorized strike had been launched by the 155th Brigade in express defiance of their instructions,” the former officers say. According to the transcript of the original Unit 8200 report, the major “hotly denied firing any of his missiles” and invited the general staff to come and verify that all his weapons were present. The report contains a note at the end that the major was interrogated by Syrian intelligence for three days, then returned to command of his unit. “All of his weapons were accounted for,” the report stated. The New York Times reported this morning that the White House is now backing off its claims to have a “smoking gun that directly links President Bashar al-Assad to the attack.” The new argument is more deductive: since the Assad regime has chemical weapons and chemical weapons were used in Mouadhamiya, therefore the Syrian regime must have been the ones to use them. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: koan who wrote (52914)	9/6/2013 10:22:05 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Krugman Overboard! Says Economic Policy a ‘Horrifying Failure’ finance.yahoo.com By Morgan Korn \| Daily Ticker – 34 minutes ago [iframe width="630" height="354" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://finance.yahoo.com/video/krugman-overboard-says-economic-policy-134253716.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=true" name="iframeArticle_bbcb0b9d-ab11-3d1b-be27-8a6dc33fbc21_0" id="iframeArticle_bbcb0b9d-ab11-3d1b-be27-8a6dc33fbc21_0" class="yom-art-video"][/iframe] Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues in his new editorial that U.S. economic policy over the last five years has been “an astonishing, horrifying failure.” Krugman, a long-time critic of the Obama Administration’s stimulus efforts, writes that the U.S. government should have spent three times the amount of money it did to get the economy back on its feet: “…if the U.S. government had actually been able and willing to do what textbook macroeconomics says it should have done — namely, make a big enough push for job creation to offset the effects of the financial crunch and the housing bust, postponing fiscal austerity and tax increases until the private sector was ready to take up the slack…we would be a richer nation, with a brighter future — not a nation where millions of discouraged Americans have probably dropped permanently out of the labor force, where millions of young Americans have probably seen their lifetime career prospects permanently damaged, where cuts in public investment have inflicted long-term damage on our infrastructure and our educational system.”