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Dondilion
10-06-2013, 09:54 AM
A good sign that the Russians are committed to carry out the deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24419468

CarlV
10-06-2013, 11:01 AM
Wow, that is awesome news! :)


Carl

icenine
10-06-2013, 12:20 PM
This may have been better than a useless surgical strike in the long run.
Time will tell.

bobabode
10-06-2013, 02:41 PM
Sure is funny how the right hates it when 'gunboat diplomacy' works.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-523aa234/turbine/la-na-tt-conservatives-are-livid-20130918-001/600

Dondilion
10-07-2013, 08:11 AM
That is funny!

BTW who is the guy with pot on his head?

piece-itpete
10-07-2013, 09:26 AM
Oops I did something good? :p

It is excellent news.

Pete

finnbow
10-07-2013, 09:43 AM
That is funny!

BTW who is the guy with pot on his head?

John Bolton, I'd guess.

Dondilion
10-07-2013, 10:00 AM
John Bolton, I'd guess.

So right!

I knew the features look familiar but just could not connect the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

bobabode
10-08-2013, 06:07 PM
Yep, Bolton. Thanks Finn. I really like this dude at the LA Times, David Horsey. He usually writes a blistering critique of the pols along with every cartoon. :D

Zeke
10-08-2013, 08:18 PM
So, just to re-cap, we wound up getting what we wanted without having to kill anyone? :)

finnbow
10-08-2013, 09:02 PM
So, just to re-cap, we wound up getting what we wanted without having to kill anyone? :)

It's enough to drive a NeoCon crazy. Time to sell your Lockheed Martin stock?;)

piece-itpete
10-09-2013, 08:56 AM
Only because Obama stood firm with the threat of force and made clear he was going to follow through on it, regardless of flack from his own party.

Pete

Zeke
10-09-2013, 09:30 AM
Only because Obama stood firm with the threat of force and made clear he was going to follow through on it, regardless of flack from his own party.

Pete

So, just to re-cap, we wound up getting what we wanted without having to kill anyone? :)

piece-itpete
10-09-2013, 09:53 AM
Yes indeed, a good outcome.

Pete

bobabode
10-31-2013, 04:15 PM
"Syria has destroyed its declared chemical-weapons production facilities, international inspectors said Thursday, marking a major step in the complex task of ridding the country of the weapons of mass destruction."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syria-has-destroyed-chemical-weapons-facilities-international-inspectors-say/2013/10/31/dc1ff6b8-4214-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html?hpid=z3

Way to go.:)

piece-itpete
11-01-2013, 09:00 AM
:applause:

Pete

CarlV
11-01-2013, 09:25 AM
A most welcome step indeed. :)


Carl

Dondilion
01-19-2014, 11:46 AM
The decommissioning of Syria's chemical weapons has encourage Israel to stop the distribution of gas masks at the end of February.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.569367

merrylander
01-19-2014, 12:18 PM
It's enough to drive a NeoCon crazy. Time to sell your Lockheed Martin stock?;)

Probably now that we have discontinued the MIC entitlement program of aid to Egypt.:rolleyes: