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September 9, 2013
Cheerios? Cheerios? What? WHAT? Say What!? But... But... What About Fruit Loops?
Attempting to describe the scope of possible American action in Syria to “degrade” the regime’s chemical weapons capacity, an official told USA Today, “If Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he’ll still be able to eat Cheerios.” - - Breitbart. Big PeacePosted by gerardvanderleun at September 9, 2013 10:58 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The accidental symbolism with cheerios and Prez Zero or "O" is too much....
The middle east is eating O for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Posted by: elrr at September 9, 2013 10:22 AM
Put enough sugar in the bowl and you can eat Cheerios with a single chopstick.
Don't recommend that for anyone over the age of 12.
Posted by: Cameron at September 9, 2013 11:15 AM
Its all about giving anti-war protesters some room to support this and claim they aren't being hypocritical. They're already changing the goalposts on their opposition to Iraq.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 9, 2013 12:13 PM
Spoons? Really, spoons? We have backed away from the red line - moving from frowns to tsk-tsk disapproval to now, gasp, taking away spoons. Sort of de-escalating the conflict. Diffusing the ticking time bomb of tension. I suppose we could un-friend them. That'll show 'em.
Posted by: chasmatic at September 9, 2013 3:27 PM
"We have backed away from the red line - moving from frowns to tsk-tsk disapproval to now, gasp, taking away spoons. Sort of de-escalating the conflict."
Well, they didn't award him the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing. (Or perhaps, more precisely speaking, they did.)
Posted by: Grizzly at September 9, 2013 6:31 PM