I read the news today.. OH BOY!!!!

Looks like The prez is going to lead us into war in the Middle East and he’s going to do it by touting the Syria has WMDs.

Wait! 

We’ve heard this story before. Where was it? WMD’s allegations of a despot gassing his own people with Sarin… Oh yeah! That was how we got into Iraq.

Wait, wasn’t Candidate Obama in 2008 talking about the failings in the Bush administration one being a quagmire in Iraq over WMDs that didn’t exist?

Didn’t we know at that time that Syria was one of Iraqs allies?

Hadn’t we seen convoys moving materials from Iraq toward Syria? And what exactly do we classify as a WMD?

Obviously Nuclear Weapons, but I’ve always considered Sarin and other nerve agents WMDs in their own right. The only thing worse than a nuke I can think is a weaponized infectious agent.

Ebola crossed with say, a cold or flu. All the hemorrhagic thrills and the spreadability of someone sneezing and coughing. Wheeeee! Now that’s a WMD!

Now we have ANOTHER president going to congress asking to start another war!

What? Two fronts aren’t enough? 

Some folks are calling this the beginning of World War III. After checking my Nostradamus Quatrains I’m looking for someone in a blue turban…

As long as I don’t see one of those I’m pretty sure that this isn’t the start of World War III. 

What concerns the hell out of me is, The President, who is supposed to be someone well versed enough in Constitutional law that he taught it at The University of Chicago law school for 14 years, is attempting to declare war on a country who has done us no harm.

This is a civil war in Syria and is an internal matter between the Syrian people and their government. This is absolutely not something that our military (Note, Not Obamas Military… OURS, you know, We The People) should be involved in.

If the legal Syrian government chooses to use Sarin against it’s own people we can, (along with the rest of the world)

Condemn the Syrian government for it’s actions.

We can offer humanitarian aid in the form of medical supplies.

We can work with other countries to provide refugee evacuation.

We cannot arm either side in the conflict.

We should shut off all financial support immediately . As we should have done already in Egypt.

Humanitarian aid can be continued in the form of medical and food supplies, we could also offer negotiators to help settle the conflict.

Nothing else, no money, no weapons, no troops.

We must get out of the Middle East.