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U.S. Readies ‘Plan B’ to Arm Syria Rebels
The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 12, 2016 9:03 p.m. ET | Adam Entous

Posted on 04/13/2016 5:43:30 AM PDT by Vostok-1

The Central Intelligence Agency and its regional partners have drawn up plans to supply more-powerful weapons to moderate rebels in Syria fighting the Russia-backed regime in the event the country’s six-week-old truce collapses, according to U.S. and other officials.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cia; middleeast; planb; syria
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1 posted on 04/13/2016 5:43:30 AM PDT by Vostok-1
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When will these people realize that we have no business in Syria? How would we feel if another country was arming rebels inside the US in an attempt to overthrow our government? And yes I know our gov’t currently sucks as it is tyrannical. But IF the Constitution was being followed we wouldn’t have many of the problems we currently have.


2 posted on 04/13/2016 5:45:22 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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Supplying powerful weapons to Muslims. No chance of blowback there.


3 posted on 04/13/2016 5:46:11 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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Because we know THAT will cause less Syrian refugees to flood into the West.

Morons.

Putin has shown how to beat ISIS, etc.

Why doesn’t the CIA just speed up the fall of the West and arm ISIS with tactical nuclear weapons?


4 posted on 04/13/2016 5:46:19 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: rfreedom4u

You have it all wrong. Obama is arming the “rebels” heading here as refugees.

That’s Plan “B”.


5 posted on 04/13/2016 5:47:13 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Vostok-1

Our proxy war against Russia and Syria. The Democrats do want all out war in the Middle East


6 posted on 04/13/2016 5:47:35 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: rfreedom4u

“When will these people realize that we have no business in Syria? How would we feel if another country was arming rebels inside the US in an attempt to overthrow our government? And yes I know our gov’t currently sucks as it is tyrannical. But IF the Constitution was being followed we wouldn’t have many of the problems we currently have.”

Very well said and worth repeating!!!


7 posted on 04/13/2016 5:47:54 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: rfreedom4u

I wonder how the US would react if Russia and China armed the Mexican Reconquista-types in the US with a billion dollars worth of anti-tank, anti-air and small arms?


8 posted on 04/13/2016 5:48:24 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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Our proxy war against Russia and Syria.

On behalf of Saudis Arabia, who supported and abetted 9/11, then celebrated afterward.

9 posted on 04/13/2016 5:50:30 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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I wonder how many arms were smuggled though Libya to “rebels” in Syria or elsewhere? I’d even go so far as to say Hildabeast tipped off Libyans about the location of Ambassador Stevens so that he could be killed in order to prevent him from spilling the beans about the whole thing.


10 posted on 04/13/2016 5:50:46 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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Saudi Arabia


11 posted on 04/13/2016 5:51:26 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: Vostok-1

And this treachery is the hallmark of the current regime, with a dead soul demon, Brennan, running the CIA. America should step away from Syria and let The Russian’s step in.


12 posted on 04/13/2016 5:52:38 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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The weapons will be sold to, transferred to, or captured by ISIS in short order.


13 posted on 04/13/2016 5:58:30 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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Sensible people know why Obama wants to arm these “moderate” terrorists, but I have no idea why the CIA is cooperating. I’d like to see inept and bumbling compliance that never gets teh weapons to the terrorists that Obama has chosen for this anti-Western mission.


14 posted on 04/13/2016 6:08:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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I love how the West actually has a brisk non-oil trade with the Middle East. Our CIA and regional “allies” export weapons to the terrorists and in turn we import terrorists, rapists and colonists into the West.

How far does one have to take stupidity and lunacy for it to become treason? If a country is truly ruled by “the consent of the governed”, then isn’t importing murderers and rapists into the country treason?

I wonder if a thousand years from now (assuming the Earth is not a radioactive pile of ashes), if humans will wonder why we as a people didn’t dispose of our traitors?

I wonder how far does it have to go? What if our leaders ordered a US Naval vessel into a combat area, and had them deliberately turn off all their radar, sonar and defenses, intentionally letting them get sunk. Then a week later did the same thing again? And then the next week.

I wonder how many Navy vessels would have to get sunk before someone did something about it?

I also wonder how many Europeans have to be blown up, shot, stabbed, and raped before the Europeans revolt against their leaders, and either refuse to obey their leaders or initiate deadly force against their leaders in self-defense?


15 posted on 04/13/2016 6:12:25 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Vostok-1

Where is the Congress?


16 posted on 04/13/2016 6:18:26 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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ISIS clearly needs better weapons

17 posted on 04/13/2016 6:24:01 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: rfreedom4u

“”I’d even go so far as to say Hildabeast tipped off Libyans about the location of Ambassador Stevens so that he could be killed in order to prevent him from spilling the beans about the whole thing.””

I can just hear her chuckling - cackling - over that accusation! “There are just such mean old stories out there about me and there have been for years but my sakes, how can anyone believe that’s the kind of person I am?”

I think the only people who believe her are her husband and her daughter and I have my doubts about her husband.


18 posted on 04/13/2016 6:24:07 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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Giving weapons to any muzzy is a mistake. Thinking that we have friends in muzlim countries is a mistake. They are all our enemies. The enemy of our enemy is our enemy in the middle east.


19 posted on 04/13/2016 6:44:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Two choices the way I see it. 1. Stay out of it. 2. Full blown all out declared war to destroy the bad guys regardless of collateral damage. No arming sketchy groups no half measures.


20 posted on 04/13/2016 6:55:45 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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