US House votes YES to arm Syrian rebels in hopes they will fight ISIS

[cheguevara]

this just beat WMDs in Iraq debacle

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0HC28120140917

when asked "how will you know who's a rebel and who's ISIS?" Obama responded:

"ISIS tends to wear ISIS flags and black turbans that cover their faces. If they are not wearing those, then it's a safe bet they are not ISIS so weapons will be handed to them"

[Wild Cobra]

Wow.

Do we even know who the bad guys are anymore? Seems to me they are all bad...

[angrydude]

What a complete joke.

This is about to go as well as fast and furious.

[cheguevara]

This is unbelievable and unprecedented. Usually the House would vote and taxpayers would be notified. This time because of that Syria debacle the Hous basically voted in secret so average joe doesnt have time to calk their congressman.

If we let this slide, this is the beginning of the end comrades

[cheguevara]

What a complete joke.

This is about to go as well as fast and furious.

excellent comparison comrade

this is pretty much what it boils down to.

[cheguevara]

This is just another move by Saudi and Israel to try and kick Putin and Iran out of Syria. Thats all. Do tbey really think we are THAT STUPID?????

[ElNono]

the US is happy to sell arms to anybody, under whatever guise... det MIC rolling in dough...

[boutons_deux]

Thanks, Repugs! ... for not OBSTRUCTING enrichment of the MIC and unending warfare, since we all know all y'all are so STRONG on national security.

[baseline bum]

the US is happy to sell arms to anybody, under whatever guise... det MIC rolling in dough...

Like Reagan selling to Iran.

Uncle Tom following in re Bush's footsteps. Still, che's quote sounds made up, since it's not in the article he linked and haven't seen it sourced.

[boutons_deux]

MIC, a major, untouchable part of the corporatocracy, doesn't care which party is in power (although it vastly prefers the blood-thirsty, war-mongering, country-smashing Repugs).

The corporatocracy ALWAYS gets its govt policies into practice.

[Winehole23]

Obama's their guy for sure

[boutons_deux]

Obama's their guy for sure

they ALL are.

[vy65]

This will end well ...

[boutons_deux]

This will end well ...

well, duh. Repugs STARTED it un-well.

... the cheese-eating surrender monkeys ( Freedom Fries! ) and the Germans WERE RIGHT. USA/UK should not have invaded Iraq-for-oil.

[TimDunkem]

Didn't the FSA and IS just agree on a non-aggression pact? This is going well already!

[vy65]

well, duh. Repugs STARTED it un-well.

... the cheese-eating surrender monkeys ( Freedom Fries! ) and the Germans WERE RIGHT. USA/UK should not have invaded Iraq-for-oil.

Clearly the best way to put out a fire is to dump gasoline on it

[baseline bum]

This will end well ...

This will never end tbh

[TDMVPDPOY]

how about home grown clowns?

major arrests down here yesterday...

[CosmicCowboy]

We fund the rebels, combined with ISIS they take out Assad, and then ISIS takes out the rebels and owns Syria. Great plan.

[SnakeBoy]

We fund the rebels, combined with ISIS they take out Assad, and then ISIS takes out the rebels and owns Syria. Great plan.

We should be funding Assad.

[boutons_deux]

the West and Sunnis (eg, Bush's friends in Saudi arabia) want Shiite Assad gone.

Russia and Iran support Assad.

Arming the Kurds with heavy stuff against ISIL will almost certainly enable the Kurds to control their region and hold off Iraqi attempts to take it back, establishing an independent, oil-rich Kurdish state.

Thanks, Repugs, for breaking the Middle East.

[boutons_deux]

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/yupbhd/no-boots-on-the-ground-in-iraq

[spurraider21]

Thanks, Repugs! ... for not OBSTRUCTING enrichment of the MIC and unending warfare, since we all know all y'all are so STRONG on national security.

well, duh. Repugs STARTED it un-well.

... the cheese-eating surrender monkeys ( Freedom Fries! ) and the Germans WERE RIGHT. USA/UK should not have invaded Iraq-for-oil.

the West and Sunnis (eg, Bush's friends in Saudi arabia) want Shiite Assad gone.

Russia and Iran support Assad.

Arming the Kurds with heavy stuff against ISIL will almost certainly enable the Kurds to control their region and hold off Iraqi attempts to take it back, establishing an independent, oil-rich Kurdish state.

Thanks, Repugs, for breaking the Middle East.

Oblamo