Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria
Weekly Standard ^

Posted on 09/04/2013 6:35:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria Daniel Halper September 4, 2013 9:31 AM

President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally "didn't set a red line" on Syria:

"First of all, I didn't set a red line," said Obama. "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 [inaudble] 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 entitled the Syria Accountability Act that some of the horrendous things happening on the ground there need to be answered for. So, when I said in a press conference that my calculus about what's happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons, which the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn't something I just kind of made up. I didn't pluck it out of thin air. There's a reason for it."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chutzpah; fingerpointing; lyingliar; obama; obamabreakspromises; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalies; obamaquotes; obamaswars; redline; syria
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-185 next last
To: Sir Napsalot

Thanks GOP for running two candidates so entirely unacceptable, two election cycles in a row, that that clown was able to be voted into office.


41 posted on 09/04/2013 6:47:03 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
“We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people. We have been very clear to the Assad regime — but also to other players on the ground — that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus; that would change my equation.”

-Baraq Hussein Obama, 20 AUG 2012-

42 posted on 09/04/2013 6:47:13 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: maggief

I surprised he didn’t say “a whole bunch O’ sh#t being moved around”.

LOL He is a dangerous clown for sure.


43 posted on 09/04/2013 6:47:19 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
August 20, 2012...

“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” the president said a year ago last week. “That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”
B.0.

Plain as the fly on his face.

44 posted on 09/04/2013 6:47:20 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ryan71

He is a narcissist and people like that cannot and will not accept the fact that they erred. This explains why his very first instict is to blame someone else and avoid responsibility for any failures.

Narcissists don’t deal well with personal setbacks or challenges to their ego. Obama is about to face his ultimate nemisis: Vladimir Putin. Going to be an interesting face off.


45 posted on 09/04/2013 6:47:30 AM PDT by Starboard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Obama is a complete ‘zero’.


46 posted on 09/04/2013 6:48:07 AM PDT by mulligan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
"First of all, I didn't set a red line,"


47 posted on 09/04/2013 6:48:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thouworm; penelopesire; kristinn

BREAKING

REUTERS:

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain says he does not back Senate panel draft resolution authorizing use of force in Syria.


48 posted on 09/04/2013 6:49:13 AM PDT by maggief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: ryan71
He’s never to blame. He never takes any responsibility. His leadership skills are worse than nonexistent. He lacks courage and honor.

What a wonderful set of qualities for a Commander in Chief who is about to provoke World War III.....


49 posted on 09/04/2013 6:49:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
baghdad bob photo baghdadbob.jpg "I didn't set a red line on Syria."
50 posted on 09/04/2013 6:49:44 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TomGuy

You’re kidding, right?


51 posted on 09/04/2013 6:49:49 AM PDT by mortal19440
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: massgopguy
THE REPORTERS ARE LAUGHING AT HIM!!!!!!!!

Of course he set a red line. He is a mental case trying to deny any liability for the many middle-east disasters and assign blame to everybody else. He is a failed president.

52 posted on 09/04/2013 6:50:18 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Vlad the Impaler proposed no path to citizenhip. Consider that.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: HollyB

Good catch there. Obama always wants things to happen urgently, on demand, and on his time table. This is so people won;t have time to uncover the flaws. Exhibit A for this tactic is the ill-conceived Obamacare.


53 posted on 09/04/2013 6:51:27 AM PDT by Starboard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

He sounds quite stupid when there is no teleprompter.


54 posted on 09/04/2013 6:52:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” said Obama. “The world set a red line.”

So now the narcissist thinks he is president of the world...well that didn’t take long.


55 posted on 09/04/2013 6:52:54 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MrB

“Wuddent me” You gonna believe me or your lying eyes?


56 posted on 09/04/2013 6:52:58 AM PDT by mortal19440
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Rush’s theory about Obama on steroids! “ I didn’t set a red line, I had nothing to do with anything, the world and CONGRESSSSSSSSS did it. However, because I am great, I will have to get involved and correct what has been caused by Congress and the world.”


57 posted on 09/04/2013 6:54:00 AM PDT by Toespi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Satire?
Surely?

58 posted on 09/04/2013 6:55:22 AM PDT by Amagi (God Save the Republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rapscallion

no no no...Obama didn’t didn’t set a red line...

George Bush did...and since the red line was designed and put in place by a white man...

black men can dismiss the red line anytime they wish...


59 posted on 09/04/2013 6:55:31 AM PDT by Caliban (Politics is war conducted by other means...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

This could kill support for his Syria excursion.


60 posted on 09/04/2013 6:56:16 AM PDT by jersey117
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-185 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson