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U.S. sending Patriot missiles to Turkey to deter Syrians
The United States plans to send two Patriot missile batteries and about 400 military personnel to Turkey to defend against a possible Syrian missile attack, two allied officials said Thursday.
The American batteries will be part of a broader push to beef up Turkey’s defenses that will also include the deployment of four other Patriot batteries — two from Germany and two from the Netherlands.
All six batteries will be under NATO’s command and control, scheduled to be operational by the end of January.
Turkey, which has been supporting the Syrian opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, has been worried it is vulnerable to Syrian missiles, including Scuds that might be tipped with chemical weapons.
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If this was a Republican president.
Anti-war movements.
Calls for his prosecution.
Effigies.
Pathetic lap dog media.
Add some water.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 8:45 AM
What could go wrong?
BigGator5 on December 14, 2012 at 8:48 AM
rogerb on December 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Sorry, forgot:
rogerb on December 14, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Cover for the Turks to hunt down Kurds…
albill on December 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Jabberwock on December 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Ding ding ding Hawkdriver
cmsinaz on December 14, 2012 at 8:58 AM
rogerb is one of the great things about not giving up on Hot Air.
And other solid Conservatives that constantly prove they will not give up.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Turkey had been supporting the rebels/opposition/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, they shouldn’t be shocked that they were fired upon. Once again, though, the War Party Establishment sends American troops and treasure to defend another nation and its people. If the Federal Reserve did not exist, and did not have a monopoly on money and printing it, there would be no funds available for the sociopath warmongers who run this country.
And some of you couldn’t care less. All that matters to you is “oh, if a Republcan had done this …”
Dante on December 14, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I’ve already said we shouldn’t risk the lives of our soldiers there. I consider “them” our treasure. As to what you care most about … I also have said we shouldn’t spend a dime on a bullet or bandaid for either side in Syria, dipshit.
Now go copy some DVDs to sell on the corner.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Let’s hope they don’t sell one to Iran.
viking01 on December 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Great…So we get to help another group of Muslims that hate our guts as the rest of the Muslim world does not do a damn thing.
NeoKong on December 14, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Really in Syria they are getting quite a bit of help from Saudi, Qatar, Turkey and of course, every radical group from a host of countries for the FSA or rebels.
On the SAA side, Russia and Iran.
No good side to support in my opinion. Let them duke it out on their own.
It is a horrible urban war of snipers and headshots.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 9:40 AM
rogerb on December 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM
rogerb loves to see Turkey flattened and innocent people die with Assad’s chemical weapons.
And he’s got a circlejerk crew to rely on for confirmation who like him can’t tell the difference between defending civilians under threat of chemical weapons and starting trillion dollar wars based on fabricated evidence of WMDs.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Where did those chemical weapons come from?
cptacek on December 14, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Apparently not if the U.S. has to step in.
NeoKong on December 14, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Great….just great. *sigh*
tencole on December 14, 2012 at 10:22 AM
I am not sure, but think those Patriots are being sent to Turkey to passify them. Alternative is they march on Syria.
Jabberwock on December 14, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Assad built them, Russia probably helped. Doesn’t take a genius. Any government larger than an Iisland nation can build/buy chemical weapons if they want to.
Or the fringe right wing conspiracy theory narrative of use of 24th century teleportation technology which transfers material without a trace of evidence. There would be no evidence of the technology either, since it obviously belongs to future.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:26 AM
What’s the difference? Neither country attacked us, and it is not the role of the U.S. military to defend other nations or its citizens.
Dante on December 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM
rogerb, please show up and tell us why you want a NATO country’s civillians to die and suffer from chemical weapons? Your non-stop defense of flat earthers and young earth creationists is a personal matter of ignorance. Your advocacy for genocide is a whole different concern.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Why is our money being seized by coercion and force to be used in the manufacture of missiles that will be used defending another nation?
Dante on December 14, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Right or wrong, in case of Turkey at least, we are bound by our NATO obligations.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Yes, yes that is exactly what he said. A-ha.
One thing, if you refer to my comments will you please not use crass sexual undertones? Now, I know you’re an expert on circle jerks, so I’ll dfer to your expertise, but please leave me out of your line-up.
BTW, are you ready to praise George Bush is a similar manner for protecting the Kurds from Saddam Hussein?
No?
lol my how the world changes and how rogerb loves to point it out.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM
And again, where were you libs when the US Military and George Bush needed your support?
Pathetic hypocrites.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Going to be a GREAT day !!
Lester has answered two different Dante questions with the same answer.
Nice.
Jabberwock on December 14, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Did those villages Saddam gas come back to life many years later? I was worried about the teleportation tech, it seems like right wing has discovered resurrection technology. Then again…
Did Bush position Patriots in Kurdish villages? That would have been legitimate, sorry, I must have missed that.
I do remember a trillion dollar nation building effort though.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Maybe you missed Northern and Southern Watch? See, you can’t argue your hypocrisy because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
BTW, did you just concede Saddam had WMDs?
Fixed for lester the liberal hypocrite but thankfully (and finally) a US military supporter. Just took the right president for him I guess.
I’m off to work. But later, anything you actually want to know about those conflicts and the Middest East and Southwest Asia, I’ll come back and tell you what happened there.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Lol…..I’m sure you warmongering progressives/ neocons are just loving this. Maybe more Americans will get killed doing a job someone else should be doing. You guys love that. Once again we should stay out of this nonsense – it’s none of our business.
MoreLiberty on December 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I do remember a trillion dollar nation building effort though.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM
PS, talk about a waste of a trillion.
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM
SPAM
hawkdriver on December 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM
How’s it spam? Oh because I don’t blindly follow endless foreign interventions. I served in Iraq 3 times during my ten years in the marine corps. It had nothing to do with freedom or liberty. We didn’t fight for apple pie, mom or our country. We fought for each other. Not one American life is worth this crap. Let the Turks or other Europeans do this.
MoreLiberty on December 14, 2012 at 11:03 AM
rogerb on December 14, 2012 at 11:06 AM
No, you’re confusing the timelines. Thousands of Kurds died and we didn’t do much about it.
At a point in time yes. He obviously used them on Kurds and Iranians. He didn’t have any left when Bush went in for quite some time.
US military follows orders of civilian leaders. Their duty is to protect the country and that’s honourable. Military didn’t march into Iraq on their personal desire. That’s a misconception on the right that left blames the military for decisions made by civilian leaders of military.
lester on December 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM
The further your incapability to argue becomes obvious, the worse your copy paste job gets.
Going from pasting out of context comments to pasting out of context and slightly edited comments and finally we have copy-pasta word-salads. Devolving quickly, are you?
lester on December 14, 2012 at 11:34 AM
It’s funny that you don’t seem to realize who you’ve been forced to argue (and somehow even lose to re:insulting, per you) against.
I remain amused at how quickly you take the bait to argue with him (or her), though.
Well done.
___
And we’ve had this conversation about why you don’t warrant any real effort repeatedly:
Linked for context as always.
This one is now off the front page, so it’s safe for you to abandon it now, too. See you next thread.
rogerb on December 14, 2012 at 11:50 AM
No, you didn’t know about a timeline which was convenient for your weak argumenbt.
BTW, did you just concede Saddam had WMDs?
But it was such a great error on Bush’s fault, right? Because what, even every major liberal player thought he still did too. And still, no proof he didn’t.
Not sure what you were trying to say here. It wasn’t in any context we were talking about. You simply don’t know the military or conflict history you pushing around on your plate here. Most liberals don’t.
I’m still back to you’re hypocrites because obama gets away with this crap and you still hate Bush for doing nothing different.
hawkdriver on December 15, 2012 at 1:17 AM