Obama team thought Iran would not tolerate Bashar Assad's use of WMDs

The Washington Examiner ^ | September 6, 2013 | Joel Gehrke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Iran is enduring economic sanctions designed to slow the country's nuclear weapons program, but President Obama's team thought the regime might abandon dictator Bashar Assad over his use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.

Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hoped that a team of UN investigators — many of whom, presumably, have a longstanding relationship with Iranian leaders -- could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States.

"We worked with the UN to create a group of inspectors and then worked for more than six months to get them access to the country on the logic that perhaps the presence of an investigative team in the country might deter future attacks," Power said at the Center for American Progress as she made the case for intervening in Syria.

"Or, if not, at a minimum, we thought perhaps a shared evidentiary base could convince Russia or Iran — itself a victim of Saddam Hussein's monstrous chemical weapons attacks in 1987-1988 — to cast loose a regime that was gassing it's people," she said.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

So they really are idiots.

[GeronL]

Morons

[dfwgator]

[lonestar67]

Looks like they almost persuaded them. Probably just. Little more and they’re all in:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413657/Iranian-strategic-expert-warns-Obamas-daughters-kidnapped-raped-America-attacks-Syria-Secret-Service-intercepts-orders-attack-US-targets.html

[Revolting cat!]

could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States.

Words are not enough to describe the idiocy of this type of thinking.

[Viennacon]

What idiots!

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow. They really are completely dense.

[struggle]

Yeah, Iran used a bunch of armed Basij in 2009 to shoot protesters into submission, but they’ll be offended by chemical weapons.

[ConorMacNessa]

The naivete of these people regarding what happens in the real world is absolutely staggering!
Only through the efforts of a concupiscent media could this kind of misrule be tolerated.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[munin]

Words are not enough to describe the idiocy of this type of thinking.

you got it, I know kindergarten girls with a better grasp on reality

[barmag25]

Wow just wow.

[Spok]

Miscalculation seems to be the hallmark of Obama’s foreign policy. It could well be the hallmark of another world war.

[Revolting cat!]

[barmag25]

This regime has officially reach the pinnacle of stupidity.

[Milton Miteybad]

Iran is enduring economic sanctions designed to slow the country's nuclear weapons program, but President Obama's team thought the regime might abandon dictator Bashar Assad over his use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.

Industrial-strength stupidity such as this is indeed difficult to quantify.

[BobP]

[7thOF7th]

It is called cognitive dissonance. Their script doesn’t match the unpredictability of reality.

[peeps36]

Is that Austin Powers in drag? It can't be,even he wouldn't be that stupid.

[Darksheare]

Remember when the left was promoting the fantasy that the world would magically become rainbows and puppies after brak was enthroned?
This goes to show they never gave up on magical thinking.
And never will.

[CMB_polarization]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign

Note the dead animal in this picture of a street of Halabja after an Iraqi gas attack, taken by Iranian photographer Sayeed Janbozorgi. In the recent pictures of alleged Syrian attacks, how many dead animals have been seen, along with apparently dead humans? I mention this only as a method to discern the authenticity of a gas attack claim.