or, what...
Posted on 09/09/2013 5:11:20 AM PDT by Netz
The US secretary of state has said that President Bashar al-Assad has one week to hand over his entire stock of chemical weapons to avoid a military attack, but said he had no expectation that the Syrian leader would comply. John Kerry also said he had no doubt that Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in east Damascus on 21 August, saying that only three people are responsible for the chemical weapons inside Syria – Assad himself, one of his brothers and a senior general. He said the entire US intelligence commnity was united in believing Assad was responsible. Kerry was speaking on Monday alongside William Hague, who was forced to deny that he had been pushed to the sidelines by the House of Commons decision 10 days ago to reject the use of UK force in Syria. The US Senate is due to vote this week on whether to approve an attack and Kerry was ambivalent over whether Barack Obama would use his powers to ignore the Senate, if it were to reject an attack. Kerry said the US had tracked the Syrian chemical weapons stock for many years, adding that it "was controlled in a very tight manner by the Assad regime … Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad, and a general are the three people that have the control over the movement and use of chemical weapons. "But under any circumstances, the Assad regime is the Assad regime, and the regime issues orders, and we have regime members giving these instructions and engaging in these preparations with results going directly to President Assad. "We are aware of that so we have no issue here about responsibility. They have a very threatening level of stocks remaining."
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or, what...
haaha
Isn’t that like, say, drawing a red line in the sand?
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So, two weeks from now, if nothing happens, will they be claiming, ‘we didn’t give them a week, we didn’t draw that line’?
John F’n Kerry is out there making these statements, while the boy prince is getting dressed up to give a public rally war cry?
What the heck is wrong with these mental midgets? They are off their scripts.
Interesting proposal by the Secretary of State. Either this is the official position of the Obama administration or Mr. Kerry will be resigning after a decent interval.
Another red line? Good grief!
..since Odungo’s red pen ran out of ink...Kerry offered his red pen, but Odungo being Odungo said, why do you just take this over and start drawing lines in the sand
Why would Assad trust this White House after having witnessed what they did to Gadaffi?
Reminds me of this: http://youtu.be/F5wSR027pbk
Lord Fauntleroy Kerry channeling Dean Wormer’s “double secret probation” must have Assad shaking like a leaf.
Sounds to me like a deal was struck before Congress ever debated. Bet that the Congress votes and comes out with the same wording. As much as I hate to say it, surely Obamby and crew wouldn’t do something so stupid twice. ( I know I’ll eat my words)
I'll Huff...and I'll Puff...and I'll Blooooooow your house down!! What a feckless Horse's Ass...Both Kerry and his Boss.
The idiots are doubling down. Unfricking believeable.
Did he double-dog-dare him? Or did he skip that and go directly to the triple-dog-dare?
We are so screwed.
Did he pull out his badge too?
My credibility isn’t on the line.
I didn’t draw a red line.
The world’s credibility is on the line.
The world drew the red line.
It’s...it’s...it’s...past my tee time and John needs to get his yacht out of the harbor before the tide ebbs.
When the ultimatums are meaningless, anyone can issue them.
The same mentally ill, empty moralism on Syria, agendas of Obozo Liar, Queeg McAinal, Kerry the Faux Vietnam hero, and congressional rats wanting to bomb Syria could apply to 9/11!
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