We must plan for military action in Syria
Each time the Assad regime gets away with these despicable acts, the world becomes less stable.
By John Slinger Published 31 May 2012 14:55
Members of the Free Syrian Army's Commandos Brigade near Qusayr, nine miles from Homs. Photograph: Getty Images.
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128 comments
Give yourselves some credit. You two are worse.
erm i am not "jewish", nor am i a "hater".
you're not really all there are you dear, go pick on someone your own intellectual stature. may i suggest a cabbage or Peace 1940..?
You are really dumb. I did not say you are Jewish. I said you are a Jewish-hater.
au contraire Peace1940, when you called me a "jewish hater" it implied that i hate and am jewish. not my rules, that's how the language functions.
what you should have called me to get your cretinous accusation across was a "Jew hater". at least that would have been correct linguistically though absolute inaccurate as to my feelings for Jews.
now you can go back under your rock.
You think like a jackass and comment like a jackass so you must be a jackass then.
You even can not spell your name right, instead of jackass you write jankass . You are nothing but an ungrateful, unwelcome intruder. You disturb the scenery.
just when i think you can't portray yourself in a more cretinous light, you go right ahead and do so when you write; "instead of jackass you write jankass"
erm nope, i write my name as jankaas not jankass.
you are way out of your league here Penis1940, go pick on someone on your own level. may i suggest Coleridge...?
You can play with words as much as you like and hid behind as many masks as you like, in reality you (like your mentor Muhammad) are consumed with hate and jealousy against those who are superior to you.
what a weird little fish you are Penis1940. you pick a fight against someone way out of our league, and then when you screw up (repeatedly) you proclaim you are superior.
yawn...
What is your league? You are nothing but little insect. Apart from having a free ride, what is stopping you from going back to your Muslim gutters?
bye bye Penis1940 you bore me.
I am not going to miss you jakASS.
does it turn you on to write about bottoms? not that i mind, but it is a recurring theme Penis1940.
The only thing that turns me on is to see all Muslims put into gutters. jakASS.
that's the only way you can get it up? you dirty sod.
Go back to your gutter you littel insect. jakASS
do calm down, there's a good chap.
You are a real little insect aren’t you? jakASS.
sorry Penis1940, forgot to respond. there, that's better no?
One thing I do not like about this country is that it lets many insects like you to cruel out of the gutters and foolishly treat you as humans. Dam UK's immigration policy. Why do think everyone is calling you jakass? jakASS.
if you want to be funny at least try and be coherent Penis1940;
"to cruel out of the gutters"
and
"Dam UK's immigration policy"
You are like a piece of shit, the more you get disturbed and more smell you make. jakASS.
i think you're now but 1 hissy fit away from telling me your dad is bigger than mine....
You are not going to take extra point for picking out spelling mistakes. You are judged and you will always be judged by been a Muslim insect living among humans.
thanks for the extra points Penis1940 - it's "being" not "been".
You prove my point. You understand what I am saying to you. I am impressed by an insect who's English is good but still, you are nothing more than a little insect.
now repeat that 3 times Penis1940 and will come true. honest!
Fighting each other, still, even if they kill each other, they are guaranteed their 72 virgins in paradise.
Since we are disembodied spirit in the Afterlife, sexual activity has no meaning. It is only in earthly form that it is necessary for procreation, perversions being a spin-off. So the idea of being "rewarded" for killing anyone is an illusion, fed by their religion, just as Christians were fed the idea of punishment by burning in hell by the Vatican.
It's all about control of the masses, as it has always been. At last some masses have started fighting back, as seen in Libya and Egypt. We should be very concerned about our own situation. We are allowing our Prime Ministers to become dictators, taking world decisions into their own hands, or not, according to how the US dictates. We should be demanding referenda on these matters. I think we've been lulled into a sense of powerlessness fed through political spin and TV trite.
Talking of which, have you noticed that there's no news on BBC about Syria recently, or any of the goings-on around the world. It's as if everything's died down or been resolved. That's to get us into the mood for the Olympics and Queenie's Jubilee, no doubt. Forget about children getting their throats cut, get a sense of jollity, lets have street parties, spend money we haven't got and don't be a killjoy.