Posted on 09/03/2013 6:08:07 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A new use-of-force resolution for Syria sets a 60-day deadline, with one 30-day extension possible, for President Barack Obama to launch military strikes against the regime of Syria President Bashar Assad — and it will also bar the involvement of U.S. ground forces in Syria.
Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were also involved in the discussions over the revised resolution.
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Obama calls the world's populace,governments, congress, and American people to account to HIM....I note today, he's blaming everyone for the "Red Line" he himself drew.....and denying it's 'HIS' red line...as follows:
Obama....
"I didn't ....set a red line.....
The world ...set a red line.....
The world ...set a red line....
..... when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war.
Congress... set a red line.....
when it ratified that treaty.
Congress... set a red line.....
when it indicated that in a piece of legislation titled the Syria Accountability Act that some of the horrendous thing that are happening.
My credibility.... is not on the line....
The international community's credibility ....is on the line....
America and Congress' credibility... is on the line....
because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important.
“It doesn’t matter a whit what they pass. Nobody can predict what’s going to happen after the first bomb goes off.”
Post of the week, FRiend. Well said!
There is no better example of the corruption and treason at high places as in the attempts of so-called elites to take the Constitutional right to own firearms from those they view as an unworthy under class of serfs,’ slaves and subjects. They are also at point pushing the un-Constitutional action to have Obama involve us in Syria.
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