Live Thread: Obama to Make Rose Garden Statement on Syria, 1:15 p.m. EDT 8/31/13

Via Twitter ^ | Saturday, August 31, 2013 | Jay Carney

[kristinn]

The President will deliver a statement on Syria at 1:15 pm today in the Rose Garden today.

[llevrok]

Said SecDef Hagel should stand up to Obama

It will take a large jar of Viagra to give that guy any spine.

[advertising guy]

the UN mouthpiece is doin whatever he can to stop this attack

[DoughtyOne]

I have been very tough on Syria...  The Assad regime has been nauty...  This time they've really done it...  This time isn't like the last time...  This time is the last time...  They have run out of time...  We'll have no allies this time...  We don't need any support...  We will do what is right alone...  Ah, correct that at this time...  Congress, the American people, ah basically nobody supports me at this time...  So I am going to go it alone...  I will make the tough call...  I will send in cruise missiles...  I will burn off between $100 and $200 million dollars worth of ordinance...  I will teach the Assad regime a lesson...  I will turn Syria into the Muslim Brotherhood's playground...  Iran will be thrilled, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will be proud...

I will have stood up to evil...  and those who say I have crawled into bed with evil, I say don't know it until you've tried it.

Mr. _resident... Oh Mr. _resident... Mr. _resident please sir...

And so it goes, this time.


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[llevrok]

going into a no moon phase this week. The usual time for strikes based on our past hegemony

[KeyLargo]

Krauthammer Warns Strike on Syria May Result in ‘Major Regional War’
Aug. 31, 2013 10:12am Oliver Darcy

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday warned President Obama that a strike on Syria may result in a “major regional war.”

Speaking on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Krauthammer said a miscalculation could be catastrophic for the region.

“Well, if he [President Obama] miscalculates and the Iranians and Hezbollah react, we could have a regional war – a major regional war,” he said.

According to Krauthammer, a strike on Syria will put Iran in the “driver’s seat.”

“[T]he problem is if you make a miscalculation here and you let Iran imagine that it is in charge, it threatens to attack Israel … Israel will respond fiercely it and it could get out of control,” he said.

Watch the segment, courtesy of Fox News:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/31/krauthammer-warns-strike-on-syria-may-result-in-major-regional-war/

[ConservativeMan55]

Lol did you hear about Putin addressing Obama as the Nobel Peace Prize Winner LOL!!!

[noinfringers2]

It makes sense when a President and his cabal need some action(s) to get the peoples attention off other nefarious deeds; an old political ploy.

[GreenHornet]

He’s going to shoot some cruise missiles “across the bow” and hope that all his Syria troubles simply go away. I wonder how he’ll react if Assad launches another chemical attack. Then the U.S. will really be in a bind. This might escalate out of control, as most wars tend to do.

If Assad retaliates by hitting our ships positioned off the Syrian coast, what do we do then? (Do we know for certain that he doesn't have that capability?)

[madison10]

He’s going out to prove what a complete, egotistical, thin-skinned, @$$ he is.

[madison10]

No. How?

[RKBA Democrat]

Thanks for starting the thread. Would some of you with stronger stomachs than I please let us know what the snivelling bag of snot has to say?

I like y’all and don’t wish you ill. But there are some things I just can’t do. I get ear hives whenever I hear that voice. Some sort of bizarre allergic reaction best I can tell.

[DirtyPigpen]

Can we covert this to a live thread or start one to keep us posted? I hate looking at the guy and can’t stand his voice. Plus, I have not hooked up a tv near my reloading bench and have over 1000 556 cases that need filling.

[NormsRevenge]

Wag-a-docious! Uhhh

Thanks for the thread!

[tomkat]

If (when) it all goes sideways and Israel is attacked, part of me hope.hope.hopes she creates herself several megatons worth of elbow room.

[mulder1]

The ships should be well out if range of any Syrian missiles.

[KeyLargo]

Helping Syrian Rebels Means Helping Cannibals and Murderers

Is the buildup of a United States military strike against Syria a diversion — a wag the dog scenario — in order to divert attention away from President Obama’s many domestic troubles? The economy remains stagnant, youth unemployment is at a record high, and a majority of Americans are beginning to question whether the President has any real solutions to get the economic engine of American enterprise going again. A few well placed missiles in a foreign land where we can’t see the destruction that might end being worse than the gas attacks, might bolster the President’s poll numbers. We’ve seen what our efforts to help the rebels in Egypt have done. Churches have been burned to the ground and Christians have been driven out of their homes. “[A] video from Mideast Christian News shows a Muslim crowd attacking St. George Diocese of the Coptic Church in Sohag, Egypt — setting fire to the church and then ripping out a cross from a wall around the building.”

Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/12373/helping-syrian-rebels-means-helping-cannibals-murderers/#7UfmBGxaW1JaykZ1.99

[kristinn]

Time's Zeke Miller:

"WH official: Obama will not announce imminent military operation in Syria. The President will instead provide update on his deliberations"

[NormsRevenge]

The winds of Change have blown the stench from Benghazi all the way to Syria.. and beyond..

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I’ve completely tuned Obama out. I don’t listen to his speeches, I don’t read news about him, and if he’s on TV I change the channel.

[MagUSNRET]

I wish, that if they are going to go off half cocked and do something, they at least go for the gusto and bomb the piss out of Mecca...That would be a GOOD start, and might get their attention!