Polk served with Kennedy during Cuban Missile Crisis
said that his hunch was that Congress WILL pass authority, saying we know more than the people, he expects a retaliation, and says he is NOT convinced by Pres evidence so far, and that we have to know for sure who used chemical weapons and how many were killed----we have different countries saying different numbers, 300, 400, 500 and US says 1400 (I ask can the UN count?? is 2 million refugees an exact number??)
Here is the AMAZING interview from Global with Jon Sopel on BBC World News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijttTv_ijM
UN should reopen investigation to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's 1961 death in a plane crash in Zambia---NSA may have more info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24020207
""The report said that given the NSA's worldwide monitoring activities at that time, "it is highly likely" that the radio traffic on 18-19 September 1961 was recorded by the NSA and possibly also by the CIA.""
Russia suggests Syria place its chemical weapons under international control and have them destroyed as a way to avoid military intervention---US not likely to accept that offer
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-3COLIN POWELL
Powell's rules http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96apr/powell2.html
pg 195-196 from The Commanders by Bob Woodward
Powell's unwritten rules
""Sometimes being responsible means pissing people off""
""You never know what you can get away with unless you try""
page 356--Powell says get congressional authorization for a war, don't leave troops dangling and vulnerable, and call a war a war.
page 308 Powell liked Eisenhower who was not a proponent of war but of peace, suspicious of power and the military, hesitant to go to war, preferred containment
page 239 ""surgical limited strike with a few bombs and tomahawk missiles"" is a modern military illusion, ""no one will get hurt on our side"" is pure fantasy.
Pottery Barn Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule
Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/320423-colin-powells-former-chief-of-staff-opposes-a-military-strike-in-syria
Iraq sues western countries who supplied iraq with chemical weapons
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20553826
Israel has already hit Syria over chemical weapons in April----any claim that US is protecting Israel is WRONG in my opinon
http://www.businessinsider.com/report-israeli-bombed-syrian-chemical-weapons-plant-2013-4
Syria got chemical weapons as safeguard against israel
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-syria-crisis-chemical-idUSBRE97R0GJ20130828
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