President Obama is 100% sold on the idea of attacking Syria, and he’ll eagerly tell you so. Sens. John McCain (R – AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R – SC) are too, something they’ll tell you about virtually any country at any given time.
But while the president can count on old-guard hawks to vote yes before they even hear what country they’re voting to lob missiles at, the American public is nowhere near so easy to trick, and despite top officials repeatedly advocating the war in public addresses, the polls continue to show broad, bipartisan opposition among Americans for the conflict.
Nationwide, the administration can’t even crack the 30% mark on selling the war to the public, even with television news networks shamelessly reiterating administration lies about unquestionable “proof” of Assad’s guilt and Secretary of State John Kerry loudly and repeatedly comparing Assad to Adolf Hitler.
While a lame duck president clearly doesn’t care how much the public opposes his wars, such stark opposition looms very large in the Congressional debates, particularly in the House of Representatives, where everyone faces a reelection battle next year and many would prefer not to be caught voting contrary to his constituency’s wishes on such a high profile issue, so close to the campaign season.
While the administration continues to insist they’re confident Congress will back them, the reality is that several days of all-Syria, all-the-time rhetoric has barely budged public opinion, and that remains impossible to ignore.
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When a country has no solution other than war to all problems it is an avowal of diplomatic and moral helplessness.
It is pathethic to see this administration floundering in it's own lies and offering the world only death and destruction while blustering about "credibility."
McCain was playing poker on his i-Phone while Kerry was trying to drum up support for an attack on Syria. Thousands of innocent humans risk losing their lives in an Obama missile strike while this clown plays poker on his i-Phone. These people are beneath contempt. Human lives mean nothing to this crew in DC. It turns my stomach that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. It won't surprise me that he will order an attack on Syria despite public opinion against it. I guess the only people Obama listens to are his buddies in AIPAC.
Cheney would flip the Public the middle finger, and tell us where to stick our opinions. John and Mary Q Public exist to pay for "rogue gubmint" war addictions. The sheeple @ chumps, dupes, fools, patsies, helpless against the war masters. A castrating sensation. One would think that anti war Americans might blow their stacks by now. WHAT is it going to take ?
Middle East has been fighting for 2000 years. what can we do to change. nothing . stop spending money and lives on a war you will not win. let Mideast solve there own problems. McCain is a war hawk. Stop Wars that accomplish nothing.