Posted on 09/05/2013 6:51:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yesterday, editor in chief Lifson reported on the astonishing claim by President Obama that he didn't set a redline for chemical wepons in Syria and that his credibility was not on the line.
Lifson pointed to a meeting of Obama's political team where the message on Syria was being massaged. If this is the best they could come up with - simply denying reality - then the president is in a world of hurt.
The reality, as Jean Kaufman (Neo-Neocon) points out this morning at PJ Media is undeniable:
"I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line."
But in his statement back in August of 2012, Obama unequivocally and undeniably did set a red line. Watch the video, and note especially around 2:07-2:08 when he gestures to himself and says, with emphasis, "us," and his back-and-forth use of the terms "we," "us," and "I" to mean the same thing: himself, or his administration with himself in charge. At no point does he cite the international community, except earlier in his statement when he speaks briefly and generally about the international community's role in a possible eventual transition from the Assad regime to a new government in Syria.
Kaufman takes apart Obama's answer from his press conference in Sweden. Here it is in its entirety:
Let me unpack the question. First of all, 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Where’s Candy Crowley when you need her?
He definitely needs her to cover up his lies now.
There’s no legal basis for military action when Syria isn’t a party to those treaties. They have reserved the sovereign right to use chemical weapons within their own borders, and if we attack them for doing so, it would be US that is committing aggressive war without provocation.
“Big Money rules.
The Big Money wants another war.”
You sound like a democrat.
If (__)o(__)bama said it, of course it stinks!
BHO is openly and arrogantly lying to this country and because it is an international matter, lying to the world. I would like to know how anything being represented by Obama, Kerry, Hagel, and Dempsey in these hearings can be trusted. Their desperation to strike Syria is close to frantic and is quite obvious they will say and do anything. What is wrong with a warning to Syria, if one more ounce of CW is used, we will destroy you. Make a plan, build international support based on this warning and wait.
involuntary chuckle...
This is something from “the culture” - I know you think you have me dead to rights in some wrongdoing, but it wuddenme.
It appears he needs Candy Crowley to fling her big fat butt in here and help her “boy” out again.
Bama is delusional
Dunno about them, but this is making the rounds: No, MSNBC, President Obama is Not ‘Defensive’, He’s Righteously Fed Up.
Uh ... okay ...
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