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Obama team thought Iran would not tolerate Bashar Assad's use of WMDs
The Washington Examiner ^
| September 6, 2013
| Joel Gehrke
Posted on 09/06/2013 9:40:02 PM PDT by 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.....
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; iran; obama; syria
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So they really are idiots.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:42:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:42:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:45:06 PM PDT
by
lonestar67
(I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; a fool in paradise
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.
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:45:25 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:48:13 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow. They really are completely dense.
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:48:52 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, Iran used a bunch of armed Basij in 2009 to shoot protesters into submission, but they’ll be offended by chemical weapons.
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:49:07 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
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09/06/2013 9:49:48 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Revolting cat!
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
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:52:04 PM PDT
by
munin
(MSNBC?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:53:41 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Miscalculation seems to be the hallmark of Obama’s foreign policy. It could well be the hallmark of another world war.
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:55:27 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:57:27 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This regime has officially reach the pinnacle of stupidity.
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posted on
09/06/2013 9:58:55 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: 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.
Industrial-strength stupidity such as this is indeed difficult to quantify.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:00:13 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Viennacon
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:02:58 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: ConorMacNessa
It is called cognitive dissonance. Their script doesn’t match the unpredictability of reality.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:04:00 PM PDT
by
7thOF7th
(Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is that Austin Powers in drag? It can't be,even he wouldn't be that stupid.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:21:53 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags f All Colors)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:24:06 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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