No.

[WilliamPitt]

Just no.

Sign on if you agree.

I usually don't do these all-aboard kind of threads, but I'm genuinely curious where matters stand with the crew I've spent twelve years with.

I say no.

What say you?

[scarletwoman]

1. No, absolutely no.

[jsr]

2. Hell no.

[dickthegrouch]

403. The GOP says No all the time and we despise them

What's this "No" for?
If it's Syrian bombs, I can go along with it.
Generalized "No" is BAD BAD BAD

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I'm with you, Will. Not just no, but fuck NO. n/t

[1awake]

342. I must say that every time you use the F word it startles me lol

I don't know why. Anyway... i say NO as well.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

358. My dear Peggy...

No No no no...

[Koko Ware]

4. No only no, but FUCK NO.

[RC]

5. HELL NO!

And I want Single Payer, Universal Health Care too! If we can afford $93 Billion to bomb some country we have a problem with, why can't we have a few comforts here at home?

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. No. Fucking. Way. No. How.

[fadedrose]

7. No, no, no, no, no

[pinboy3niner]

8. No

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. No

[QC]

10. no.

[NV Whino]

11. Nope

[arcane1]

12. Is the question "do you fancy some more red wine?"

If not, then no.

[Union Scribe]

13. Naw, just hell naw

[alsame]

14. NO! nt

[Triana]

15. . . .

[WorseBeforeBetter]

199. I never tire...

of Grumpy.

And that's big N-O from me, too.

[Triana]

202. I love Grumpy Cat!

Little Tard has stolen my heart!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

208. Me too...

and I was about to dig up a photo and post, but KNEW someone else had beaten me to it. Or I guess I should say...

[Triana]

286. Awwwwr.

She's really SO sweet! Not a grump at all! <3

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Your defeatist post advocates that we all & everybody go silent. Wrong. Raise a voice & others join!

Anybody can be an opinion leader by writing cogent, thoughtful articles that hit home points thoroughly and convincingly. One voice like that can inspire thousands and millions. Obama and politicians pay attention to thousands and millions.

Writing like that is hard to do.

Much easier to bomb a thread with a nihilist post like yours that tries to urge us all to go home and shut up. Wrong place to push that line.

[rhett o rick]

248. Well put. nm

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Alas that's the problem

We are nominally still a representative democracy. It is Congress who should listen to citizens, vote this no.

No longer surprised some folks miss this.

[fascisthunter]

52. with the "Unitary Executive" theory, it may not matter

what this Congress says or how it votes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

56. But at that point we might be crossing into

Impeachment, and for sure war crime

[fascisthunter]

61. true

[nadinbrzezinski]

62. That damn Chinese curse strikes again my friend

[Veilex]

369. If it didn't matter,

Obama wouldn't bother trying to get congress or the American people on board.
But, he is, so it does.

[Holly_Hobby]

17. NO! n/t

[Catherina]

18. Hell fucking no! n/t

[Autumn]

19. Oh HELL no.

A thousand times no.

[starroute]

183. Indeed

[roamer65]

20. Noooooooooo.

[devils chaplain]

21. how about... no.

[City Lights]

22. NO! nt

[LWolf]

23. No. nt

[Shrike47]

24. NO.

[nolabear]

25. No way. No how. No exceptions.

[felix_numinous]

26. No!

[MissDeeds]

27. Absolutely no n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

28. Yes Please!!!! I beg for this!!!

Sarcasm of course...had to be different.

[sagetea]

29. No

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

[Brigid]

31. Assuming you're referring to the upcoming war,

HELL NO!!!

[11 Bravo]

32. NO (And while I'm proud to stand with you and several other DUers whom I've come to respect ...

over the years; I've got to say that I don't enjoy siding with the some of the "Kerry's a LIAR", and Obama's a LIAR" crowd.) But fuck it, I'm just a broke down old ex-grunt, and THAT'S the fucking reason I don't wish to see any more American troops sent into the middle of someone else's Civil War. Been there ... done that ... no T-shirt, but I still have the occasional nightmare.

[woo me with science]

34. No.

[Vincardog]

35. No fking way

[WillyT]

36. No !!!

& Rec !!!

[HardTimes99]

37. What, you got a problem with 'common sense'? Why, everyone who's anyone knows that it's

'common sense' that Assad gassed his own people:

The White House asserted Sunday that a “common-sense test” dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response. But Obama’s top aide says the administration lacks “irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence” that skeptical Americans, including lawmakers who will start voting on military action this week, are seeking.

“This is not a court of law. And intelligence does not work that way,” White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said during his five-network public relations blitz Sunday to build support for limited strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“The common-sense test says he is responsible for this."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-working-to-rally-lawmakers-american-public-behind-obamas-push-for-syrian-strike/2013/09/08/66cfb932-1868-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html

I swear you cannot make this shit up. Now pardon me while I go

[Warren Stupidity]

38. No fucking way.

[MotherPetrie]

39. No.

[GeorgeGist]

40. Hell no.

[catnhatnh]

41. Ain't gonna study war no more....

No.

[Change has come]

42. Fuck No.

[fascisthunter]

43. With you Brother

BTW, I hope all is well with you and the fam. You are truly a good man Will... I appreciate seeing folks with your effect on the political landscape with integrity and honor. You walk the walk brother.

Pats game caused me to chew my fingers bare... THIS issue, is causing me to eat my fist and then puke it up again to start all over. I'm sick of it.

[Vinnie From Indy]

44. No

eom

[NorthCarolina]

45. Absolutely NO

[Curmudgeoness]

46. Hell no!

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. yes, i support obama

[AAO]

48. I say, NO WAy, NO HOw!!

(what are we talking about again?)

[think4yourself]

49. No.

Pass it on.

[ocpagu]

50. No, non, não, nein! n/t

[HardTimes99]

53. More to the point:

NYET!

[BuelahWitch]

51. No

[Half-Century Man]

54. No

No in Syria

[Zorra]

55. I'll be your huckleberry...

[SecularMotion]

57. No!!!

[Buddaman]

58. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

NOPE!

NOTTA!

NEGATIVE!

[curlyred]

59. No

[yellerpup]

60. No.

[mike_c]

63. no....

eom

[MoonRiver]

64. No.

[Neutrino_603]

65. No.

_

[cantbeserious]

66. No - Hell - No

eom

[wandy]

67. No. Nothing to win. Much to loose. nt

[OKDem08]

68. If Obama does this in opposition to overwhelming resistance

there will be calls for his impeachment.

[grasswire]

69. Madame Chanel had a slogan.

"Elegance is refusal"

and another

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself"

[Greybnk48]

70. No, no, no.

Enough. We need to take care of our own problems.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

71. Just say no.

[notadmblnd]

72. No

[myrna minx]

73. Hell no.

[NMDemDist2]

74. no.

[mockmonkey]

75. I won't wait for the translation

NO!

[Flaxbee]

76. No.

Complete dismay (and such disappointment).

[Hydra]

77. .

[TeeYiYi]

78. Um,...no. ..nt

TYY

[tavalon]

98. You think Will Pitt doesn't have them on speed dial

You might want to do a little research before you throw your cute and ineffectual barbs. I'd bet good money he's done far more than you for the peace movement and for a pretty long time. Read any of his books?

[KittyWampus]

80. No. Not Now. Maybe Later

[Paper Roses]

81. NO!

[dorkzilla]

82. Fuuuuuuck no!

Enough with war already. How can you let our people suffer, our infrastructure crumble, and think that we can afford this, either fiscally or emotionally?

[Grown2Hate]

83. It was a "NO!" from me with a Republican at the helm, and it's a "NO!" from me now with a

Democrat at the helm.

[DeSwiss]

84. No.

''....and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.''

- K&R

[AzDar]

85. No.

(Horrified and dismayed that this Administration is pushing this shit...)

[Texasgal]

86. NO!

NO NO NO!

[tavalon]

87. No, though I'm good on the humanitarian aid and the UN/ICC getting involved

[Jackpine Radical]

88. I'm still trying to decide.

I'm hung up between No, No Fucking Way, and Jesus Christ, are these would-be hotshots out of their collective mind?

[WillyT]

94. LOL !!!

[Sognefjord]

89. NO!

Clearly not advisable. NO!

[Jackpine Radical]

101. Hvor bliver De? Måske Mågøyane?

In any case, "not advisable" seems something of an understatement. I'd opt for "stupid," "insane" or "criminal."

[Sognefjord]

294. Serene Eastern Iowa

[Jackpine Radical]

370. Western WI in my case.

[secondvariety]

90. No.

[fantase56]

91. no!! absolutely no!!

[redwitch]

92. no

no

[n2doc]

93. No. Unprovoked War must stop here and now. n/t

[neverforget]

95. No

[AnotherMcIntosh]

96. No

to this and any additional optional wars.

[Live and Learn]

97. No. nt

[Alkene]

99. No.

As my dear wife, Beverly, used to say, I'm already against the next war.

[nradisic]

100. yup...absolutely NO!

It's fucking insane from every point of view. Don't do it. Stay the fuck out.

[dinger130]

102. Absolutely

NO!!!!!!

[bigtree]

103. shit no

[Yo_Mama]

104. No, also n/t

[Junkdrawer]

105. Hell No.

[annabanana]

106. nope . .. .n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

107. It was "No" yesterday, it's "No" today, and it'll be "No" tomorrow, too. nt

[Kablooie]

108. Nay

I don't like disagreeing with Obama, I'd love to support him, but in this, I can't.

[whatchamacallit]

109. N fucking O!

[antigop]

110. What, exactly, am I supposed to say "NO" to? nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

111. NO!

[LittleBlue]

112. No

The warmongers can go **** themselves

[raindaddy]

113. No!!!

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is Democrats won't back their president when he loses it. Remembering LBJ and Vietnam....

[ellaydubya]

114. NO

[Melissa G]

115. It may be the only time I agree with my R reps

Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and Lamar Smith.
NO!

[Raksha]

116. HELL NO!!! n/t

[mike dub]

117. DU'er who's on here everyday, yet seldom comment unless I think I have something to really add

But, Hell NO!!!!!!
This has been all I've been thinking about: Hell NO!
(and I voted for President Obama twice, and have tried, and failed to see where the hell he's coming from with this.
Surreal...like everything's moving in bizarre slo-mo)

[99Forever]

118. No, no, no, just plain no.

Did I mention NO?

[Cryptoad]

119. I wonder what

yall's responses will be when Assad uses another WMD on his people?

Many people are going to die in Syria whether it is "yes" or "no".

I got my money that "YES" will save many more lives over all !

[RedCappedBandit]

123. Yes, our military interventions have saved many lives in the past.

[Cryptoad]

126. Very True! nt

[philosslayer]

155. They have

Ask the Jews who survived WWII in Europe.

[RedCappedBandit]

319. And since then?

[Cryptoad]

363. yes

even now!

[Marrah_G]

170. Bombing is always the best way to save people from dying

[Mojorabbit]

203. If he gases his own people he will not give a shit if we bomb them.

It will be a worthless act. No, a thousand times no to more war. I am sick of it. My entire life we have been at war with someone or the other in some way. Enough.

[JHB]

246. What's your response going to be if the whatever is done is ineffective?

Tell us what you want us to commit to. And tell us what you'll do if that's not enough.

Do you want a new Desert Storm? That would take care of the gas, though it will leave the mess of dealing with the rebel factions. You want that too?

I'm going to guess "not", so what lesser measure do you think we can get away with and still be effective? And what's Plan B if what you thought would be enough wasn't?

[Cryptoad]

314. Why do yall think that a GOP type response is the only response?

First you give Assad a ultimatum: He has thirty days to destroy his stockpile of Chemical Weapons with UN verification , sign the Chemical Weapons Ban and turn himself in to the World Court for Trial .

If Those terms are not met, Let Assad know that he is marked man and that we will at the first opportunity use one our very small personal drones and fly it up his ass!

[bullsnarfle]

347. Dude.

So anybody that we are pissed off at, we now just assasinate them.

"America, leader of the free world".
Ha!
Make that "America, no better than a mob hit goon".

[Cryptoad]

362. No,,,,

just people you use WDM's and refuse to quit.

So you think Assad should free range to use Wdm's at his pleasure. .....?

[bullsnarfle]

399. So you think

our President should have free range to assassinate anyone he/she wants to, at their pleasure? Now THAT is a scary thought, pal. There is no guarantee that the next prez won't be a total nutcake, ya know. Hell, this drone crap is bad enough now as it is, how many "collateral" bystanders (incl. little kids, babies) are killed for every presumed bad guy? Lots, dude. Lots. But as long as you get a good chuckle out of Assad with a drone up his keester, well, it's all good, right?

As to the question of WMD's, does that mean it's ok by you to slaughter people with "conventional" weapons? So, if you kill 20 people with a "WMD", and 200 with bombs, are the bombed people somehow "less dead"? Not that I don't think WMD's are horrible, but so is a nutjob wielding an AK47 in a school full of kids, or a batch of white phosphorus, or a bunch of cluster bombs, and on and on it goes...

And why are you in such a god-awful RUSH to jump into the middle of this cluster-fux anyhow? Seems to me, if we had taken a little more time and checked out our shit a bit closer, we would not have had many thousands of our people dying/maimed-for-life in Iraq. Did you buy the "smoking gun/mushroom cloud" then? Why not? Wasn't it the same bunch of black-holers - CIA, NSA, m-o-u-s-e - (or close enough for a smell test) that shoveled up all the BS "intelligence" that Saddam had WMD's? Did you trust them then? If not, then why would you trust them now?

I don't.

[Cryptoad]

416. our President should have free range to assassinate anyone he/she wants to

NO. But WE should be able to deliver Assad's Justice when no other options are available, or any crazy asshole who is using WMD on people.


Words have meanings,,,, dont make up stuff and say i said it;

allowing Assad to bask in his "cheap grace" if no action is taken against him, will only lead to him using his WMD's again.

Welcome to the real world, not all problems have ideal solutions.

WE can deliver Justice to Assad with way fewer people dying than will die by his hands if left to continue his use of WMD

also Your logic is flawed by trying to associate Assad's wmd killings to some other acts of war or lone crazy people. But nice try at that fallacy.

btw..... by definition a weapon that only kills 20 people is not a WMD


Eventually you are unaware that Justice and Retribution are very Liberal concepts.

Somebody needs to stand up for Assad's present and future victims.

Thats Why i am in a hurry to get this done.

It is a shame that so many People who proclaim to be Liberals seem to be more concerned with Assad future than all the people he has and will kill with his WMD

[JHB]

357. You use the term "GOP solution" when you propose "shock & awe for one"? Seriously?

Considering that one of Syria's major potential military opponents for decades has been the Israeli Air Force, any place Assad goes will probably have active air defenses. That's going to be a flight environment that's a lot rougher on drones than remote areas of Pakistan.

Weapon of choice against al Qaeda, drones marginal in Syria
(Reuters) - Prowling the skies of Pakistan and Yemen, armed drones are America's weapon of choice in its war against al Qaeda, but they are unlikely to play a major role in any U.S. strike against Syria, underscoring the limitations of unmanned aircraft.

Drones do not have the capability for air-to-air combat and would be vulnerable to Syria's defense system of surface-to-air missiles and radar which can track and shoot down warplanes, never mind slower-moving drones.

The Hellfire missiles generally carried by drones also lack the firepower of a cruise missile, which is considered the likely weapon for any limited U.S. strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Washington blames Assad's government for a chemical weapons attack near Damascus last month.

"It's well-known that the Syrian air defense system is robust," a U.S. defense official said. "Drones, like any other (aerial) platform, are vulnerable to integrated air defenses."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-syria-crisis-drones-idUSBRE98314C20130904


So the drones are likely to end up as so many clay pigeons without a "GOP solution" to eliminate Syrian air defenses. What's your Plan C? And Plan D. And so on, for each one, what will you do if the plan doesn't work. How far are you willing to ramp it up? When do you "that's enough" and stop. And what makes you think that once it gets rolling it can be stopped where you think it should end and not keep rolling because other groups are still pushing it along?

What I noted isn't a "GOP solution", it's one that can actually eliminate those chemical weapons so that Assad can't use them nor will they fall into the hands of radicals among the rebel groups. I'm not advocating it, I'm making sure you know that THAT is what you want to potentially get us into.

[Cryptoad]

361. WE have drones that so small

that the Syrian Air Defense is unable to detect them.

You are still thinking in GOP mind set!


btw.....Who said ""shock & awe for one"" not me please dont try to rewrite my post. I can fuck them up enough on my own, Thank you;.

[JHB]

373. The problem with your argument is that you need to prove those drones can do that.

If _Assad_ thinks he's safe from drones, then what demonstration do you propose to disabuse him of that notion?

And what do you propose if the demonstration doesn't work?

Also, if you don't care to have your posts "rewritten" with what you think is an unfair characterization, then how about you take your own advice and knock off with the "GOP strategy" and "GOP mindset" garbage.

[Cryptoad]

375. I am sure of very little

but i am sure that the USA can take Assad's last breath!

btw when you have to make up stuff and present them as something i said, you have run out of meaningful things to say.

So You dont think the GOP has/ have had strategies and mindset?

ummmmmm?

[RedCappedBandit]

120. No, god damnit. nt

[sarchasm]

121. No, no, no, and just in case you didn't hear me, NO!

[leftstreet]

122. No

[Shankapotomus]

124. No

The international community's energy and resources would be better spent helping the innocent non-combatants get out of harms way. I don't care how inconvenient relocating millions of refugees will be. It's never more inconvenient than war.

Get the innocents who want out out and let the two enemies of democracy waste their resources and fighters on themselves.

[alittlelark]

125. NO!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,............... etc.

[MrMickeysMom]

127. OPPOSITE OF yes...

Everything that's being thrown at this tells me how wrong we are in this "what-ever-can-be-packaged" action.

It's high time we voiced in unison this "NO". We must know that the whole world has seen us lifting our skirt one too many times... Ain't nothing that should surprise anyone anymore of "what's up there"...

[KarenS]

128. No. n/t

[forestpath]

129. No times a gazillion.

[eridani]

130. HELL NO!!!! n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

131. If I'm not asking why, I'm saying no. n/t

[tnlurker]

132. No

To War!!!

[suffragette]

133. No

[totodeinhere]

134. Of course NO n/t

[davekriss]

135. Absolutely no! No more war!!

[Denver Progressive]

136. Nope. nt

[Auggie]

137. No

[ralps]

138. Hell NO William!!!

[azurnoir]

139. No no no no and again no

nope

[Crewleader]

140. NO.

[90-percent]

141. no

n/t

[T Roosevelt]

142. No.

Just no.

[Iggo]

143. No.

[grattsl]

144. 10-4 good buddy. I'm for NO.

[YankeyMCC]

145. No.

Please no.

[SummerSnow]

146. noooooooooooo

[Tuesday_Morning]

147. no no and hell no

[onyourleft]

148. No. n/t

[PDJane]

149. Not now. Not later. NO.

[Jack Rabbit]

150. If you're talking about another pointless war in the middle east, then I'm with you, Will

No,

[bowens43]

151. No

[cate94]

152. Hell No.

[Hissyspit]

153. No.

[RT_Fanatic]

154. No.

Didn't I say NO already?

[tblue]

156. Absolutely no. nt

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

157. No.

[frylock]

158. hell no

[Initech]

159. No fucking way!

[Dems to Win]

160. No. Details here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023581450

[dog_lovin_dem]

161. Nope. Enough is enough. nt

[avaistheone1]

162. No way. No how.

k&r

[KatyaR]

163. NO.

There has to be some other way to handle this.

We need to stop the war machine.

[wildbilln864]

164. hell no! n/t

[sabrina 1]

165. No

[Denis 11]

166. NO

[emsimon33]

167. NO

[mopinko]

168. fuck no.

unless we are leading a u.n. aid mission with food and doctors.

[sarge43]

169. Absolutely not. nt

[Tien1985]

171. No nt

[jopacaco]

172. No

No, absolutely not.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

173. No....

And we should go back to calling it "The War Department".

[kath]

262. NO! And I agree that we should go back to calling it the Department of War

Been saying that for a while now. Such utter bullshit to call it the Defense Dept.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

263. The change reeks of a Madison Avenue focus group.

[MrModerate]

174. Too whimsical/authoritarian for me.

I just can't commit.

[malthaussen]

175. Presume you refer to Syria. I say no also. n/t

[First Speaker]

176. *sigh* No

...I do not say this with relish. I don't like feeling that the US might lose prestige, that Obama will be humiliated, that the damned Repubs are on the right side of anything...and none of that matters. Avoiding this fiasco preempts everything else...

[DJ13]

177. NO

[Oakenshield]

305. Wait a minute...

Is that Mitch McConnell?

[Carolina]

178. Hell NO!

[vlakitti]

179. I don't usually post here, but I read DU

And I'm sure voting no.

[KansDem]

180. Nein...

Geht es nicht.

[truebluegreen]

181. No!

[Owl]

182. No.

[TransitJohn]

184. I say no.

Weird that it's even in doubt on DU.

[MostlyAmused]

185. Just NO

I'm a quiet one, but I've been here for years. No.

[tencats]

186. NO

[Autumn Colors]

187. 2 DU No's from this household

Mr. AC lurks here once in a blue moon but never posts. Both of us say NO.

[iamthebandfanman]

188. yes.

[Kip Humphrey]

189. no

[LibAsHell]

190. Nope!

Totally agree.

[Not Sure]

191. No

I can actually add a plus one for my RW father-in-law. We found something we agree on.

[SamKnause]

192. Just say NO !!!!

No
Hell No
Fuck No
No fucking way

[Warpy]

193. NO

[DaveT]

194. no

This is insane -- it comes presented as a futile gesture, a statement of disapproval by explosion. How can anybody really believe this is a good idea?

[FailureToCommunicate]

195. Nope.

[senseandsensibility]

196. I think we should all adopt the peace sign avatar and call

our congress critters. Count me as no. I hate this feeling of passivity that seems to have settled over our country. Have TBTB succeeded in dividing and conquering us? I have a very uneasy feeling...

[ChazInAz]

197. No

[geek tragedy]

198. No, not now, no matter what.

Syria is not our problem. Never will be.

[L0oniX]

200. FUCKING HELL NO FFS!

[thatgemguy]

201. Absolutely NO!!!

[radiclib]

204. Uh uh

[Unknown Beatle]

205. Just not no, but

FUCK NO!!!

[Maven]

206. No. It stops now.

[Dash87]

207. Helllllllllllllll No!

[enlightenment]

209. No.

[chocolate ink]

210. NO.

[Bluenorthwest]

211. Nay.

No.

[Ilsa]

212. No.

And I have stayed out of all of these threads.

But I made up my mind pretty early: NO. No benefit, only more pain, heartache, expense.

[Hubert Flottz]

213. Not just no but...

HELL NO!

[ancianita]

214. NO, GODAMMIT.

[marble falls]

215. no no no no no no no no no no no!

[susanr516]

216. No.

[eissa]

217. Everything but this

I've backed our party through it all: welfare reform, bailouts, health care compromises, spying, and a thousand broken promises. But this? Another war when we're supposedly "broke"? When we're slashing Head Start, Meals on Wheels, Planned Parenthood funding, when our infrastructure is crumbling, pensions raided, and our students are starting off life in debt?

NO. No more. This is MY red line.

[1monster]

218. NO

[glinda]

219. N O NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PowerToThePeople]

220. No.

[radicalliberal]

221. All I want to say is . . .

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[xocet]

222. No, but if they feel they need to do something, prosecuting Bush et al would be a nice start. n/t

[TinkerTot55]

253. Weighing in with my " NO,"

and I'm in full agreement with xocet.

Time to hold people accountable, and LOCK THEM UP.

[dougolat]

295. negatory, emphatic

But do prosecute those who slaughter civilians with chemical weapons.

(which would lead to Gaza and Falujah -oops!)

[Blue_In_AK]

223. No

[PADemD]

224. Hell No!!!

[LibDemAlways]

225. Stop the insanity. No!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

226. NO !!!!!!!

[jimlup]

227. NO

[dgibby]

228. No to infinity and back! n/t

[williesgirl]

229. NFW

[JEB]

230. No.

[Phlem]

231. It was no during the Shrubs

it was no where ever we went since and it is fucking no now!

always will be "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no"!

Fucking A! We so have more important things to do as a race of beings choking this earth than *Bombing the people who use bombs, bombing the bomb suppliers, bombing the nay sayer's when it comes to war, bombing the weather, and Santa, etc...!



Fuck!



-p

[gort]

232. No

And no

[Bjorn Against]

233. Hell no.

[octoberlib]

234. NO.

[markpkessinger]

235. No, no and a thousand times no! n/t

[Nay]

236. shit, no. nt

[JHB]

237. No. Nothing "limited" will be effecive, and nothing effective will be "limited".

A missile strike just to "send a message" will obligate us to do even more late if it ends up being ineffective, which is very likely if the target isn't CW stockpiles and and it's not supposed to alter the balance of the civil war.

If a few months later there's another gas attack (and it won't matter if it's plain as day Assad's order, or if it's really muddy as to who actually made the attack) are we going to do nothing? Or will there be calls and pressure for new action: everything from "something must be done, we have to do more" to the dickswingers saying "he's thumbing his nose at us, if we don't do something we'll look like a paper tiger! Our credibility is on the line!"

Does anyone honestly think one missile strike will be the end of it?

If you think we MUST take military action because of the chemical weapon usage must not go unpunished, then that's an argument for something much bigger than anything being planned currently: something that will eliminate those chemical weapons so that they cannot be used by Assad nor by anyone else. And would entail ground forces, the effective destruction of Assad's regime, and dealing with the jihadis and other people that Assad used to keep a lid on through brutal suppression.

Think it through. If Plan A doesn't do the job, what's Plan B? And Plan C? Plan D? Plan E? Plan Q?
Think of what you really want to commit us to... and remember the it'd be very foolish to count on it stopping where you think it should.

So no.

[onestepforward]

238. No.

[NuclearDem]

239. No. Just, no.

[harun]

240. No

[AtheistCrusader]

241. How about a nice big hot cup of 'no'.

[Brewinblue]

242. No

[liberal_at_heart]

243. No.

[appal_jack]

244. I'm absolutely on-board with 'No' to this ill-conceived war.

I'm absolutely on-board with 'No' to this ill-conceived war.

-app

[Turn CO Blue]

245. No! Definitely a "no" here. n/t

[Joe Shlabotnik]

247. No

*But, I say that as a Canadian, who like most Canadians don't support our opportunistic, chicken-hawk Prime Minister either.

[rhett o rick]

249. I say no. nm

[riderinthestorm]

250. No

[CoffeeCat]

251. No, no--a thousand times no!!!!!!!!!

[catchnrelease]

252. Nope

No way!

[GrapesOfWrath]

254. NO

That is all

[factsarenotfair]

255. Hell no!

n/t

[joelz]

256. No

No

[Starry Messenger]

257. No.

Humanitarian aid, yes. Peace talks, yes. Bombing for peace, no.

[cui bono]

258. No. n/t

[proverbialwisdom]

259. NO

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

260. NO a 100 times no. We are not the world's judge, jury and executioner

there's this little thing called International Law. It protects us as much as it should restrain us.

[BillyRibs]

261. No

Fool me once shame on you, Fool Me twice, Fuck you MIC, you ain't gonna fool me twice!

[Safetykitten]

264. No.

[Pachamama]

265. No surprise here Will.....

NO! Absolutely No fucking way! No. No. No. No.

I am just in shock that 10 years after we were out there saying No, after all that has happened, that we would have to be saying it, but that we have to be saying it to Barack Obama....

[liberal_at_heart]

268. Our average was a war every 20 years. Apparently now it is one every 10 years.

[JimDandy]

266. NYET! That's a big no go. n/t

[SlipperySlope]

267. Peanut Butter

and Non Sequiturs are still a K&R

[daleanime]

269. No...

Hell no.

[liberalmuse]

270. Absofuckinglutely NOT.

Not again.

[gblady]

271. absolutely NOT

enough is enough!

[Logical]

272. No, no, no, no, no!

[Lugnut]

273. No! n/t

[TDale313]

274. No.

[mwdem]

275. No.

Absolutely no

[Douglas Carpenter]

276. absolutely no

[defacto7]

277. Nein!

ni ein!

und abermals nein!

[Little Star]

278. NO!!!

[proReality]

279. Absolutely not. n/t

[Oilwellian]

280. No n/t

[donheld]

281. No

[Marr]

282. No.

[Jeroen]

283. no n/t

[TM99]

284. Hell No!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

285. Nuke Syria?

NO!

[Oldtimeralso]

287. No Fíng Way

[area51]

288. No. n/t

[BelgianMadCow]

289. No pasaran! NSA scandals and war on Syria have (finally) made DU

resemble what it was when I joined: a board of pretty awake & critical thinking people.

It's like people are waking up left, right and center. I get the same feeling on this side of the pond.

[nolabels]

290. No

But Maybe we should go all in and just say YES!

Somehow it seems those placed in charged in government as of late, seem to have this major bug up their ass. Both of the supposedly liberal democratic senators in my state of California are in support of Obama on any actions in Syria.

Congress is only slightly more liked and believed in than any supposedly needed military action in Syria. The way I think of it is like we are now in the twilight zone and most population must be crazy. For more people to believe in space Aliens than the inevitable increased military action in Syria tells me not to expect any mass awareness anytime soon

On edit: This is perfect example why that even if someone believes in something does not always make it so. What it kind of looks like to me is just the wormy direction that the 1% opposition readies it's population for it's imperial way

[Speed8098]

291. no n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

292. No... n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

293. No, no,no,no!

[Spirochete]

296. NO!

ON, if I was dyslexic.

[The Traveler]

297. De-lurking to say ... NO!

I'm aboard. I do not consent to this. I didn't consent to Iraq, either, so it is evident that I have no influence on these matters. But if enough climb aboard ... perhaps we can avert this mess.

With ya, Will.

Trav

<lurk mode=on>

[Art_from_Ark]

298. No

Non
Nein
駄目

[Divernan]

299. NO! (& I'm tempted to cancel my IGNORE list to see how the bots desperately spin this)

[mahina]

300. A'OLE

ʻaʻole [Hawaiian Dictionary (Hwn to Eng)]
interj. No, not, never; to be none, to have none, -un. Commonly pronounced ʻaʻale (Gram. 2.7). Cf. ʻaʻohe. ʻA ʻole loa! Certainly not! Not at all! I should say not! Never!

[orpupilofnature57]

301. Nope .

[panader0]

302. And another NO!

[Enthusiast]

303. I say no.

[rusty fender]

304. Hell No!

[Are_grits_groceries]

306. NO

[Oakenshield]

307. No.

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[spin]

308. No!

[lillypaddle]

309. No. nt

[Jasana]

310. No fracking way!

Ha! Got two birds with this stone.

[raouldukelives]

311. No.

Just, no.

[bread_and_roses]

312. No (n/t)

[Laelth]

313. Not at the moment.

Things change, but for the time being, I say no.

-Laelth

[Chiquitita]

315. no

I rarely post, but read here a lot. I say NO.

[hermetic]

316. Signing on

NO!

[Agony]

317. oofy poofy NOPE

just No

[Phentex]

318. No

Always no.

[sulphurdunn]

320. NO

[jumptheshadow]

321. No

[Glimmer of Hope]

322. No way, Jose.

[KeepItReal]

323. No, Sir.

eom

[Celefin]

324. Emphatic NO

[G_j]

325. NO

[pink-o]

326. Absolutely. Freakin'

No.

[backscatter712]

327. Hell no! n/t

[huckleberry]

328. NO!!!!

[Lochloosa]

329. NO!

[yellowwoodII]

330. I found DU twelve years ago

Lost my password once, had to start over. I got a little weary of DU when it seemed to me that it diverged off of anti-war themes. I never forgot that the PNAC never sleeps.

So, no. No. No.

[TBF]

331. No. But there is something that makes me happy --

We may have to endure the trolls in certain *ahem* groups (I can think of two primary groups that are filled with them), and we have to endure the mounds of blue ink from the folks with the *official* line ...

but at least there are 300 people on here who will stand on principle and let our party know when they are going in the wrong direction.

[OneGrassRoot]

332. I say no. Transform and find new ways of dealing with these horrors, not bombs. n/t

[wavesofeuphoria]

333. NO!!!!

[TommyCelt]

334. No more. <nt>

[Caretha]

335. No

and not in my name!

[amb123]

336. NO to Big-Brother Government, Big-Brother Corporations and Big-Brother Religion.

NO to unnecessary wars of aggression, whether they be "full scale" or "limited".
NO to the destruction of the Social Safety Net.
NO to the destruction of the Separation of Church and State.
NO to the destruction of our Voting Rights.
NO to politicians who are either power-mad, brain-dead, bought off or all three.

[alberg]

337. NO.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

338. On the fence for quite a while...

But now I say no. There's nothing but downside to an attack on Syria.

[reflection]

339. Negative. n/t

[kiva]

340. No.

[PATRICK]

341. No.

I'm reviewing all the other call to arms over my lifetime(all post Korean war). It is getting really pathetic I guess because they really don't care what we think anyway. The excitement, the moral issue debate, the closeted evidence, is just chokingly obscene, the information a drumbeat tease, the goals a sick joke.

Pretty much in the style of fighting for voting integrity for the CIA candidate in the Ukraine while the US Canada and Mexico defrauded their voters. I have about ten issues we could debate that would save the planet, the nation, democracy, people, you know those more important things that don't involve murdering someone for points in a country that has nothing really to do with us. It would even be new to involve the UN etc. to establish rules to go after heads of state that commit war crimes, murder their own people. The current debate? Just petty and sick. Right up Congress's alley.

[Autumn]

343. I just checked, it's a new day. I'm not skeptical, I'm still hell NO.

[beerandjesus]

344. NO.

Absolutely not.

[lapislzi]

345. Yeah, no.

Can't do it. Just can't.

[gtar100]

346. No.

[Bertha Venation]

348. NO

[BumRushDaShow]

349. No. There should be an alternative. nt

[Mira]

350. No n/t

[CrispyQ]

351. No more war, killing & fighting.

We're all in this together & if we don't come to realize that, we are all going into the dustbin of history together.


I sent my third email to my senators/rep this morning & I will call again when their offices open. Make your voice heard. I've told my reps that this is a deal breaker. Anyone who votes yes on attacking Syria will not get my vote in 2014. I changed my affiliation to Greens about 6 weeks ago. The dems keep asking, "Who else you gonna vote for?" Well, the Greens, perhaps. Dem leadership continues to drift further & further to the right but wants my loyalty. Not anymore. They have played me for the fool long enough. Voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten me exactly what I didn't want in the first place.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

352. No.

[pecwae]

353. No, not again, never.nt

[Generic Other]

354. NO in thunder!

NO.

[NC_Nurse]

355. No.

[LiberalAndProud]

356. No.

[av8rdave]

359. No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

I can't even imagine all the people and entities whispering in his ear, but the President needs to have the courage, resolve and humility to not listen.

[grntuscarora]

360. No.

[sarcasmo]

364. An emphatic No!

[florida08]

365. hell to the no, nein, nyet etc

Doing this will deeply hurt American credibility again and Obama will be seen as the 2nd George Bush.

From McClatchy Foreign Staff

Intercepts caught Assad rejecting requests to use chemical weapons, German paper says


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/09/4468268/intercepts-caught-assad-rejecting.html#storylink=cpy

[Veilex]

366. Absofrigginlutely...

No way, no how.

And in 61 other languages:


1
Nee - Afrikaans

2
Jo - Albanian

3
La - Arabic

4
Voch’ - Armenian

5
Deyil - Azerbaijani

6
Ez - Basque

7
Nie - Belarusian

8
Ne - Bosnian

9
Ne - Bulgarian

10
No - Catalan

11
Bù - Chinese

12
Ne - Croatian

13
Ne - Czech

14
Nej - Danish

15
Nee - Dutch

16
No - English

17
Ei - Estonian

18
Hindi - Filipino

19
Ei - Finnish

20
Non - French

21
Non - Galician

22
Ara - Georgian

23
Nein - German

24
Den - Greek

25
Pa - Haitian Creole

26
Lo - Hebrew

27
Nahi - Hindi

28
Nem - Hungarian

29
Nei - Icelandic

30
Tidak - Indonesian

31
Ni - Irish

32
No - Italian

33
Nai - Japanese

34
Aniyo - Korean

35
Non - Latin

36
Ne - Latvian

37
Ne - Lithuanian

38
Ne - Macedonian

39
Tidak - Malay

40
Ma - Maltese

41
Nei - Norwegian

42
Na - Persian (Farsi)

43
Nie - Polish

44
Não - Portuguese

45
Nu - Romanian

46
Niet - Russian

47
Ne - Serbian

48
Naha/Na - Sinhalese

49
Ne - Slovak

50
Ne - Slovenian

51
No - Spanish

52
Hapana - Swahili

53
Nej - Swedish

54
Illai - Tamil

55
Naaku Vaddu (I don't want) Naaku Akkaraledu/Avasaram ledu(I don't need) - Telugu

56
Mai - Thai

57
Hayır - Turkish

58
Nei - Ukrainian

59
Không - Vietnamese

60
Nid oes - Welsh

61
Illa - Malayalam

62
No - Jamaica

http://www.wikihow.com/Say-No-in-Various-Languages

If I thought it'd help, I'd upload a video of me signing "no".

[kenny blankenship]

367. No to sticking our weenie into Syria. No to the NSA as Father Confessor

No to letting intelligence officials embark on sprees of perjury in their testimony before Congress. No to letting banksters get off free after destroying our system of property registration and stealing billions and billions of dollars of real estate. No to a policy of giving the aforesaid banksters billions and billions of free money to "invest" in the stock market while the real economy languishes and crumbles and wages erode from the effects of the same banksters bidding up the price of basic commodities like food and petroleum in a speculative spiral fueled with their interest free dough. No to a scheme of rent extraction and profiteering enforced at government gunpoint, masquerading as universal health care. No to doubling and tripling down in Afghanistan. No to repeatedly extending tax cuts for the rich while coming up with artificial gimmicks to create a series of OMYGODWERERUNNINGOUTOFMONEY!!11!! fiscal crises. No to letting war criminals retire to bask in the fruits of their crime without fear of deportation to the Hague. No to repeated attempts to cut Social Security below their already inadequate levels. NO, NO and RE-NO. FUCK ALL OF THAT REPUBLICAN SHIT.

[Randomthought]

368. NO!

[GliderGuider]

371. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

[truebrit71]

372. Yes.

Very Reluctantly.

I just don't think we can sit idly by and watch the use of chemical weapons go unpunished, otherwise what was the point of signing the chemical weapons ban all those years ago?

Am I happy about it, hell no, but it simply cannot stand.

I shall now put on my flame-proof suit.

[florida08]

374. lol...took some guts to say that

[idwiyo]

378. Don't forget to post your description of 'humanitarian bombing' from the front lines.

[yesphan]

376. Noparoo !

[idwiyo]

377. K&R No

[Cummins14]

379. No

If there is a war, then obama AND all the legislators who voted for the war, SHOULD be impeached along with obama.

[hamsterjill]

380. No.

And no means NO!

[MNBrewer]

381. Nope!

[Myrina]

382. No.

n/t

[caseymoz]

383. No!

[Granny M]

384. No. A thousand times, NO! nt

[marmar]

385. Not just no, but 'Oh HELL no'.

[SwankyXomb]

386. What part of NO don't they understand, the N or the O?

n/t

[Maraya1969]

387. NO

[CanonRay]

388. Nyet

[libodem]

389. Not only no

BUT HELL NO!

[Sentath]

390. Sign me up for a 'No'.

Bombing Syria doesn't sound like something we ought to do.

[arikara]

391. No

No war. Ever again.

[Liberal In Texas]

392. No here.

Also signed Grayson's petition.

[BobbyBoring]

393. A big fuck no here too!

[npk]

394. No. Too much for US to lose. Too many wars already.

We should let the international community handle this, even though they are probably going to fail miserably.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

395. NO

No can be a very powerful word, when spoken with resolve.

[gademocrat7]

396. No

[Hell Hath No Fury]

397. No.

I've already been to my first protest -- will hit the streets and phones as long as it takes.

[Catbird]

398. No way

[Arugula Latte]

400. No

[Ganja Ninja]

401. No! No! A thousand times No!

[NewJeffCT]

402. No

no no and no

[malokvale77]

404. Nay Da

[Berlum]

405. No

NO

[bvar22]

406. No!

And NO means "NO!!.

[TlalocW]

407. I'm against it!

I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway,
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it.

Your proposition may be good,
But let's have one thing understood,
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.

I'm opposed to it,
On general principle, I'm opposed to it.

For months before my son was born,
I used to yell from night to morn,
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
And I've kept yelling since I first commenced it,
I'm against it!

TlalocW

[Fantastic Anarchist]

408. In many languages:

AFRIKAANS nee
ALBANIAN jo
ALSATIAN naï
ARABIC laa
ARMENIAN votch
AZERI xeyir
BASQUE ez
BELARUSIAN Не (nie)
BENGALI na
BOBO aïlle
BOSNIAN ne
BRETON nann
BULGARIAN né
BURMESE ma hoke phu / hmar te
CATALAN no
CHEROKEE tla / hla
CHINESE pù shi
CORSICAN nò
CZECH ne
CROATIAN ne
DANISH nej
DUTCH nee
ENGLISH no
ESPERANTO ne
ESTONIAN ei
FAROESE nei
FINNISH ei
FRENCH non
FRISIAN nee
FRIULAN no
GALICIAN non
GALLO nanni
GEORGIAN ara
GERMAN nein
GREEK ohi
GUARANÍ nahániri
HAITIAN CREOLE non
HAWAIIAN ʻaole
HEBREW lo
HINDI nahin
HUNGARIAN nem
ICELANDIC nei
INDONESIAN tidak
ITALIAN no
JAPANESE iié
KABYLIAN ala
KHMER thay
KINYARWANDA oya
KOREAN ahneo
KURDISH no / na
LAO bo
LATIN minime (not at all), non (and repetition of the verb)
LATVIAN nē
LIGURIAN no
LINGALA te
LITHUANIAN ne
LOW SAXON nee
LUXEMBOURGEOIS neen
MACEDONIAN не (ne)
MALAGASY tsia
MALAY tidak
MALTESE le
MAORI kaore
MONGOLIAN ugui (Yгvй
NORWEGIAN nei
OCCITAN non
OSSETIAN нæй
PAPIAMENTU no
PERSIAN kheyr / na
POLISH nie
PORTUGUESE não
ROMANI na
ROMANIAN nu
RUSSIAN Нет (niet)
SARDINIAN no
SCOTTISH GAELIC ag
SERBIAN ne
SHONA aiwa
SINDHI na
SINHALA nae
SLOVAK nie
SLOVENIAN ne
SOBOTA ne
SONINKE aï
SPANISH no
SWAHILI siyo / hapana
SWEDISH nej
TAGALOG hindi (po)
TAHITIAN aita
TAMAZIGHT lla
TAMIL illaï
TATAR yuk
TELUGU kadhu
THAI ไม่ (maï) / ไม่ใช่ (maï chaï)
TURKISH hayir
UDMURT oevoel (with nouns) / ug (with verbs)
UKRAINIAN Ні (ni)
URDU نهين (nahin)
WALOON ("betchfessîs" spelling) neni
WELSH nage
WEST INDIAN CREOLE awa
WOLOF déedéet
YIDDISH nein
YORUBA rara
ZULU cha

[Ragrum]

409. no, nopers, nada

[PrestonLocke]

410. Perpetual war?

NO!

[KamaAina]

411. 'A'ole makemake!

("I do not want this!" But you probably already knew that. )

[Faryn Balyncd]

412. no

[mbuch64]

413. NO NO NO NO

and again, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

[BlueJazz]

414. Ok...William, I'll say no but if you're talking about "Would you like a Coconut Cream Pie" ?

I'll gonna' be really Pissed.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

415. you sound like Ted Stevens. Or my 18 month old son.

[WilliamPitt]

421. Thanks for the kick.

Do it again.

[MichiganVote]

417. Oh hell no.

[blkmusclmachine]

418. F/CK NO!

[onethatcares]

419. no, no, no

and hell no

[onlyadream]

420. No way.

No. No. No. Please, for the love of God, NO!

[chervilant]

422. No, here.

And, quite disappointed in this administration.

[calimary]

423. NO. And hopefully we've found a way out.

[Yavin4]

424. Respectfully, No. I disagree with the President, but I don't hate him like so many other DUers.

Clinton did a ton more shit than Obama did, and I still loved him as president.

[Jamastiene]

425. Hell No!

[NealK]

426. No!

[RetroLounge]

427. NO

RL

[MisterP]

428. STILL no, Hell or high water