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Originally posted by citanon View PostRussia and China has both long figured out that a Kabuki show at the UN is sufficient to keep the Obama administration in a state of paralysis. Then again, it's easy to be fooled into inaction when that's exactly what you wanted in the first place.
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Originally posted by citanon View PostRussia and China has both long figured out that a Kabuki show at the UN is sufficient to keep the Obama administration in a state of paralysis. Then again, it's easy to be fooled into inaction when that's exactly what you wanted in the first place.sigpic
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Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
Haaretz - Still-frame picture from Syrian television of weapons-convoy vehicles
The transporter we can se emost clearly still has its ramps up with maybe some palletized cargo but not a major BUK component. Busses appear to have been heading in the opposite direction. No major evidence of an air strike, just normal battle damage.
just my .02, it looks like the aftermath of a rebel attack on government forces. However the dead busses imply dead civvies and what better propaganda footage than carnage 'caused" by the IAF attacking the Syrian military along a crowded road just as two bus loads of people were driving by.
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Originally posted by zraver View PostSanitized... I see vehicle transporters, low boys but no TEL's, I see busses but no bodies etc. The transporter we can se emost clearly still has its ramps up with maybe some palletized cargo but not a major BUK component. Busses appear to have been heading in the opposite direction. No major evidence of an air strike, just normal battle damage. just my .02, it looks like the aftermath of a rebel attack on government forces. However the dead busses imply dead civvies and what better propaganda footage than carnage 'caused" by the IAF attacking the Syrian military along a crowded road just as two bus loads of people were driving by.sigpic
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Originally posted by Minskaya View PostI was thinking along those lines also. Sanitized, and possibly staged. Everything would have been a charred/melted hulk if the IAF had dropped in. This looks more like an RPG/small arms kill box.
But its whats wrong with the picture that says the most and all the first buses back four windows and the truck cab are uniformly shattered. Fire that many rounds drop that big of a bomb and it will literally be a blood bath. The aftermaths of blood baths be it combat, disaster or traffic accidents are the uniformaly the same and I do not see any discarded medical dressings or blood. No charred corpses either, they are difficult to remove from charred vehicles (of which we see none).
Hell the semi is at best only partially burnt. That is a neat trick. As a former truck driver, when a semi burns it does so with gusto is is hard as hell to put out. The fires climb rapidly upward and leave a pile of grey ash below. Instead the truck looks like it took traffic accident damage and has a flat tire.
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Originally posted by zraver View PostNo charred corpses either, they are difficult to remove from charred vehicles (of which we see none).“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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So we've a typically crude attempt at seizing some residual propaganda value by playing upon the certain maudlin sentiments of the western press and public. So what? Whether this was the product of an ambush or air-strike we know that SOMETHING was hit by the IAF somewhere between a Syrian ASP and the Bekaa valley and that more of the same likely remains to be struck at some undetermined point in the near future. There also seems common consensus that, additionally (and likely more importantly), a biological research facility was flattened.
This seems the more salient element behind the airstrikes. While allowing PoG to obtain SAM systems can't be good, denying potential WMD to any new actors along with the opportunity to rid the present Assad regime of the same seems paramount. Assad will not pre-emptively and proactively rid these weapons as some parting gesture of good intentions. We can, and must, do so-
The Fallout From The Raid On Syria: Why Israel Is Concerned-TIME Feb. 1, 2013
Why ISRAEL is concerned? No. Why ALL OF US must be concerned. For this we need no "national conversation"."This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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Originally posted by Minskaya View PostAnd another thing. How is it that Russia escapes an international/Arab beat-down for vetoing three Syrian cease-fire resolutions?
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Originally posted by Zinja View PostThis is crazy, absolutely crazy! This bears no logic at all! Its amazing what hate ideology does to peopleIn the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.
Leibniz
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I think the quote of the day was from the man himself. Assad seems to be taking hiscues from the now-retired 'Baghdad Bob', PR spinmeister extraordinaire.
President Assad said on Sunday that last Wednesday's raid "unmasked the true role Israel is playing, in collaboration with foreign enemy forces and their agents on Syrian soil, to destabilise and weaken Syria".
A 'straight man' of remarkable skill.sigpic
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Originally posted by Doktor View PostHe is misinterpreted.
His Iranian friends will teach him how to translate himself correctly.sigpic
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