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Kerry says Congress won't turn its back on the Syrian people
Politico ^ | 9/1/13 9:37 AM EDT | By MACKENZIE WEINGER

Posted on 09/01/2013 1:13:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said he “can’t contemplate” that Congress would not authorize military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and therefore “turn its back on” the United States’ allies in the region and “on innocent Syrian people who have been slaughtered by this gas.”

Host Chris Wallace asked Kerry on "Fox News Sunday" what would happen if Congress refused to give its authorization for military action in Syria, and Kerry replied that he does not believe that will happen.

(Also on POLITICO: Kerry: 'Case is building' in Syria)

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Massachusetts; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; isreal; johnkerry; jordan; massachusetts; russia; syria; turkey; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 09/01/2013 1:13:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

But it will turn its back on the American people?


2 posted on 09/01/2013 1:13:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

And the Benghazi Ambassador.

Pray for America to Wake Up


3 posted on 09/01/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

No, of course not. We owe it to them to bomb them.


4 posted on 09/01/2013 1:15:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: All
CNN pabel says this has now gone beyond just strif in Syria,...now is a Regional War....

Jordan has a large number of refugees with fighters recruiting in Jordan .

5 posted on 09/01/2013 1:15:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: cripplecreek

No doubt about it!

Never had the mettle to look us in the eye anyway, right McCain?


6 posted on 09/01/2013 1:16:04 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Remember “Nam” Skerry?


7 posted on 09/01/2013 1:16:13 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Kerry sure as hell turned HIS back on the Vietnamese people when he had the chance. and the American people. He’s nothing but a cowardly communist-loving traitor.


8 posted on 09/01/2013 1:18:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

But they turned their back on the American people numerous times! Kerry is trying to incite a riot with talk like that. What in the hell is wrong with these government elite?


9 posted on 09/01/2013 1:19:10 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Um, what about the Syrians that aren’t so innocent? There’s a lot that Kerry can’t contemplate. I saw the Fox interview, and he seemed dumber than usual.


10 posted on 09/01/2013 1:19:17 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I don’t want our troops fighting alongside those that flew planes into our buildings on 911.


11 posted on 09/01/2013 1:20:51 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

But has no problem turning his effete back on the American people..


12 posted on 09/01/2013 1:21:13 PM PDT by cardinal4 (The GOP, the ultimate battered wife? Or willing co-conspirators?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obozo’s week long media attack to make Congress a rubber stamp or a bunch of do nothings who justify his dictatorship. If he can pull this 8th grade gambit, we really have lost the nation. It’s time to boil the W0n and his media.

If we help them they won’t be grateful and will hate us. If we, as Sarah Palin says, let Allah sort it out, they will just hate us.


13 posted on 09/01/2013 1:21:36 PM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Kerry says Congress won't turn its back on the Syrian people

Which ones?

14 posted on 09/01/2013 1:24:31 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You mean the way his predecessor and Obama turned their back on our people in Benghazi?


15 posted on 09/01/2013 1:24:44 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: bray

The US certainly turned its back on Americans murdered in Benghiza.
Interesting, the intel agencies have all this evidence on Assad but know
NOTHING about Benghazi.

Stop the insanity. Let Arab Countries and Allah sort it out.


16 posted on 09/01/2013 1:28:21 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“the United States’ allies in the region”

We don’t have any allies in the region except Israel (and the administration aims them harm).


17 posted on 09/01/2013 1:29:16 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: boycott

Every last one of those muzzie b@stards in Syria, no matter which side they’re on they hate us and the Israelis, and they want us dead. Among the savage lot of them there isn’t much to choose.

Sick of Americans dying for years to protect the lives of the most ungrateful people on Earth.


18 posted on 09/01/2013 1:29:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: cripplecreek

How about the South Viet people, John ?


19 posted on 09/01/2013 1:30:05 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: All; SunkenCiv
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20 posted on 09/01/2013 1:31:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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