Video: Syrian jet drops incendiary bomb on playground full of kids. Do not click.
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Assad sucks; I hope you didn't lump me in with that. My point of going in and attacking him while others have been ignored bothers me.
CHEEZMO
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Here's one that turned up immediately. There's dozens and dozens of videos exactly the same as this. You could easily find them if you actually wanted to; they're not exactly hidden or anything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxV8Xae2ERQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbq7EGqe_Qc
Eighty Deuce
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So many cowards and tin foil hat theories.
Flatline
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I don't think anyone is defending that piece of shit Assad, they just preemptively argue while pointing out USA's hypocrisy because they expect people to use it as an excuse for an interventionist war.
Shhh, the tin foil hats are not yet convinced that these are actual people. Tread lightly.
shinobi602
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To get Iran, the ultimate prize.
Yeh especially when Confidential Cables from WikiLeaks confirm it.
Must be the Evil Julian Assange who made this all up years ago because he knew he could assist people like me in forum crusades, mainstream media sure as hell isn't touching the Gulf states with any sort of criticism.
Eighty Deuce
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OOOOOPS big Mistake, I was in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
Or doesn't it count when an Imperialist Colony does the bombing?
Eighty Deuce
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phosphor112
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Dropping a bomb where lots of people are gathered is common. As jets are very high up when they attack.
It does not excuse them though. It's despicable.
It does not excuse them though. It's despicable.
And yet you still think the US wages wars for anything other than profit and the joke of it all is that the profit isn't even for the American people.
Either they intentionally bombed the school or it was a completely off target. I'm not quite convinced the Assad regime would indiscriminately bomb a playground just to make a political point or something, last thing they want is international aid to assist the rebels and for US to come down on them. It is also possible the rebels/terrorists were using the school as a sort of human shield, putting the people at risk. Sad either way.
Thanks for the links. There's no mention of huge civilian injuries in this report. Most of the zones seems to be desolated suburbs or abandoned areas. It's pretty clear the planes are trying to do "surgical" strikes to avoid unnecessary casualties, same as the NATO was doing supposedly in Irak. A civil war is ugly.
Still we have no reason to intervene in order to help the rebels. Both sides are bad.
Eighty Deuce
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Shake Appeal
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It's seriously disturbing how many ignorant conspiracy nuts we have here on GAF.
Eh, there are a couple here that are defending Assad's crusade against the evil rebels.
CHEEZMO
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I'm sure the cluster bomblets dropped from a thousand feet up by a moving aircraft missed the residential buildings by metres on purpose.
Some have profited, Halliburton springs to mind.
Flatline
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You can't be that naive. Do you really believe that the war profiteers have nothing to do with these wars? Have you even read anything in your life about Cheney?
List of notable defense contractors worldwide
14 out of 22
Now just humor me, what would happen to them if there were no wars for their clients to get involved in?
Eighty Deuce
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We start wars for corporations according to this thread.
Speaking of media spreading misinformation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/23896617
Those MI6 agents trying to smear honorable and just Syrian State TV!!!111!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/23896617
Those MI6 agents trying to smear honorable and just Syrian State TV!!!111!
Funky Papa
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Hardly elaborate. And it's older than dirt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_is_a_racket
You don't have to don a tin-foil hat to see that, yes, war is a racket.
I think war profiteers have positioned themselves to make a lot of money off an awful thing. I DON'T believe that wars are intentionally started simply to make these companies profit.
They'd go into door to door vacuum cleaning sales obviously.
Funky Papa
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We start wars for many stupid reasons, but in many ocasions corporations and politicians invested in said corporations are usually among the ones (if not the ones) pushing the hardest for them.
No one is arguing that there are companies who profit from war. But to suggest that something like Iraq was started with the sole purpose of giving Haliburton profit is silly.
BlueSummers
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So glad hymm is on my ignore list 
but anyway this is just awful and no matter who 'wins'..the Syrian people lose.
but anyway this is just awful and no matter who 'wins'..the Syrian people lose.
Flatline
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Yes just like the prison industrial complex has nothing to do with the US becoming a prison country. It was pure coincidence Cheney the former CEO of Halliburton was hellbent on attacking Iraq, it is also a coincidence that the Penagon budget is so incredibly bloated. I'm sure the war profiteers have nothing to do with all that, they're just in a good position...
I'm against intervention in Syria, but this is stupid. If you can't intervene everywhere, you can intervene nowhere? Utter rubbish.
Who said sole purpose?
The biggest advocates for Western intervention in Syria is Saudi Arabia, Qatar and as 3rd probably Turkey after they realized their operation wasn't going to cut it, they don't even have an arms industry, but it is an added incentive for the US economy to take another grab out of the national debt jar.
Are people actually doubting that companies such as Halliburton shower in bajillions during invasions and tragedies, such as the case of Iraq and Afghanistan? Or that most politicians have very real connections to said corporations?
This is a "controversy" now? It's a "conspiracy theory"? God damn it.
As for the topic of the post, I can't even find something to say, I can't imagine the pain and horror of having to experience this happening to your loved ones.
Whether you believe that Assad is Satan and responsible for everything, or that the West is supporting foreign jihadist butchers for various geopolitical gains, or both, one can only hope for a quick end to the bloodshed and the most horrible of punishments for anyone responsible (I said wish, not holding my breath...).
This is a "controversy" now? It's a "conspiracy theory"? God damn it.
As for the topic of the post, I can't even find something to say, I can't imagine the pain and horror of having to experience this happening to your loved ones.
Whether you believe that Assad is Satan and responsible for everything, or that the West is supporting foreign jihadist butchers for various geopolitical gains, or both, one can only hope for a quick end to the bloodshed and the most horrible of punishments for anyone responsible (I said wish, not holding my breath...).
Flatline
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Read what people are telling you. There isn't a sole reason, there's a multitude of reasons most of them being corporate and -believe it or not- banking interests.
RustyNails
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Look dead children in somalia. EVERYONE DO NOTHING.Now that you mention it:
Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people' from 2010 to 2012
Where was the Sunni outrage there?
A fraction of the Billions spent on weapons to conquer a country could have saved 260k Muslims.
WikiLeaks cable: AU SUMMIT: A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH SOMALI PRESIDENT SHEIKH SHARIF
So the people supporting the Jihadists have malicious intentions and don't care for preserving human life but they themselves aren't? is that the argument the Islamist apologists are pushing?
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
And the kind of war does not matter, Jihad, Responsibility to Protect, Humanitarian Intervention, or Imperialist Regime change.
Sorry dude. But your boy Assad's days are numbered and no amount of distractions are going to help.
dripdripsplash
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How about this one ? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a70_1360150672
Relentless enough or not ? Or wait, that little girl is positioned suspiciously near to where the shell hit! False Flag!!!
captainnapalm
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It would be great if we had a truly moral and just world leadership or collective superpower to intervene when bad leaders do bad things, and to intervene solely for that reason. This is sadly not the reality of the world we live in, though politicians still lie and try and make it seem as if this is the case.
The best that you can hope for is that occasionally the interests of those in power favour some kind of intervention that might minimize the suffering of whoever might be involved. We don't have that with Syria.
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Residential buildings probably occupied by armed rebels. The civilians have or should have evacuated. Anyway I don't support any camp. I'm just against the use of propaganda to justify an intervention to help the rebels. Why no western media show atrocities committed by the rebels? Why is it so unilaterally one-sided? Why do we want to help extremists?
The german press is pro assad and reports weekly about the latest victims of the rebels.
Byakuya769
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Go attack some more Titans.
Plenty of western media shows the atrocities of the rebels
The BBC even found and interviewed the guy who ate the hearts of dead Syrian soldiers to ask him just what the fuck he thought he was doing.
EDIT: and the concept that you are fighting against propaganda is absolutely ridiculous considering the propagandist way you have behaved in this thread
Sorry but I don't know the context of this video. Who is manifesting? Who is firing?
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