***** LIVE on C-SPAN: House Hearing on Military Force in Syria *****

[Coyotl]

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

SoS Kerry just said there is a 100% probability Assad will use chemical weapons AGAIN if the US does not strike! 100% is a very high probabilty!

[polichick]

1. The War Drum Circle plays on...

[Coyotl]

2. The red hands being held up in the background is the new Code Pink tactic.

[Coyotl]

3. $40,000 debt per American family for Iraq and Afghanistan = Rep. Higgins

[cali]

4. I had to turn it off. Couldn't take a second day of Kerry spewing his bullshit

[Catherina]

5. I have been tormenting myself for you

Normally I have a very strong stomach for wading through their bullshit but this is so obscene that I don't think even I can take it much longer. Lie after lie piled on steaming bullshit.

You made a better choice but some masochistic streak compels me to witness their complicity as long as I can.

[cali]

8. I just couldn't keep doing it.

too painful.

[Catherina]

10. I got so mad about 15 minutes ago that I left the house

I went to buy some pork loin and I'm going to spend the morning in the kitchen angrily making up a new pasta dish.

Chuck Hagel is droning on right now. I can't take it any longer either.

Kinzinger is droning on right now about the US being paralyzed into inaction and using a picture of Syrian kids to pretend he cares. Where are the pictures of the Iraqi, Afghan, Gazan, Yemini kids?

Emotional manipulation to enrich the profiteers again. Fuck them.

The hypocrisy is too painful.

OMG, he just brought up Saddam Hussein! Who do these people represent?

[Catherina]

6. Kerry is not fucking bringing up Mohammed Bouazizi (Tunisia) right now!

I can't believe my ears. How fucking dare he!

[Union Scribe]

7. I applaud Secretary Kerry on his restraint

in not saying 1000%. Or 110% even. No, he limited himself to the completely reasonable absolute certainty of a future event.



(I'd better throw this in )

[jakeXT]

9. ohh .... he dodges the Oli North question

[snappyturtle]

11. I've only been listening a few moments....Kinzinger (R-IL) holding

up pictures of unaffected (by sarin) children....could be them!

How can Kerry say the same shit a gazillion different ways is
torturous to listen to.

I spent part of the morning reading about what a bigger war
this could become if we attack Syria. As heinous as the CW
attack was it's potential to become much more involved
could bring about WWIII...imho.

The reaon I went looking is because I question the President
turning on a dime to bring in the Congress to his decision.
I am wondering if he hasn't been listening to what Russia,
Iran and Syria, in particular, have been threatening and he
needed more time to be ready in case it "implodes" as Kerry
referenced yesterday. The whole thing stinks.

[Waiting For Everyman]

12. Grayson asked about what countries have offered to participate.

Kerry passed to Dempsey, and Dempsey wouldn't say -- classified.

[polichick]

14. How convenient.

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. Kerry was also asked if rebel opposition asked for the strikes.

(I think it was Grayson who asked that too, but not sure now.)

He said "no" and didn't elaborate. He obviously didn't want any focus on that question. I want to see more info about that point somewhere.

Along with no UN backing, this is the part that bothers me the most -- the Syrians themselves do not seem to be strongly wanting us to do this.

[snappyturtle]

15. Kerry just loves to talk! Won't answer the question...I don't remember

it...brought up being raised during the cold war, 9/11, cemetaries
in France of our dead....yada, yada,,,,,,if we do not stand up now
in national security interest.....on and on....

I'd like to ask what in the hell do we do if other countries enter
the fight? WHAT THEN! Yes, I'm yelling.

[pinboy3niner]

16. Now adjourned. nt