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Syria: If Bashar al-Assad hands over chemical weapons we will not attack, says John Kerry
The Telegraph ^ | 9/9/2013

Posted on 09/09/2013 4:00:30 AM PDT by markomalley

Mr Kerry was in London on Monday morning on the final leg of a whirlwind European tour to drum up support for intervention in Syria.

When asked by a reporter whether there was anything Assad's government could do or offer to stop an attack, Mr Kerry said: "Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week – turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting (of it).

"But he isn't about to do it and it can't be done." Mr Kerry repeated his belief, stated on numerous occasions, that "the risk of not acting is greater than the risk of acting."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; kerry; obama; syria
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1 posted on 09/09/2013 4:00:30 AM PDT by markomalley
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:....and it can't be done"..???? hmmmmm...is Kerry saying he doesn't HAVE Chemical weapons??

When did Kerry become our President??? Obama better watch out....Kerry is an UBER USUPER!

2 posted on 09/09/2013 4:05:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: markomalley

If you say so.

3 posted on 09/09/2013 4:06:47 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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"But he isn't about to do it and it can't be done."

So set an insurmountable hurdle and threaten to attack if he can't get over it?
4 posted on 09/09/2013 4:11:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: markomalley

Wonder how one says “stuff it François” in Arabic???


5 posted on 09/09/2013 4:14:17 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

افعل ما بدا لك فرانسوا

6 posted on 09/09/2013 4:16:02 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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Can't get that Kennedy vibe no-how.


7 posted on 09/09/2013 4:16:42 AM PDT by Liz
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To: markomalley

Why should we, anyone really, trust obama with chemical weapons more than Assad? How come hussein thinks he has more of a right to have them?


8 posted on 09/09/2013 4:19:23 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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meanwhile....you’re still free to kill each other.


9 posted on 09/09/2013 4:21:04 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: markomalley
I view this as proposal that will let Obama walk this all back. All Assad has to do is say: "Here you go John. We hand over two cases of our best Chemical Weapons. I promise, is all we have."


10 posted on 09/09/2013 4:25:17 AM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: markomalley

He better be careful. Assad might ask him to turn over his Vietnam medals and his DD-214 first. LOL


11 posted on 09/09/2013 4:26:07 AM PDT by dforest
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I have been praying for months that the Lord will harvest strife, envy, greed, lust, jealousy, egos, personality conflicts, and war- between all of the members of this administration AND the entire progressive movement. That every single one of their relationships will be burdened, and that their sleep will be disrupted and taken from them.

I pray that their money will dry up, and their bank accounts will get messed up, and all of the perks and cocktail parties they love so much will turn to filth- and that they will not be able to profit from killing anyone else. No rest, no peace, no joy in the corruption of the United States, in murder, in stealing our birthright and inheritance.

Let everyone who is guilty, be guilty. I pray the Lord brings people into redemption, who can be saved. I pray he puts a call on their lives that they can not run from, and someone steps out- and starting speaking the truth about this administration and the progressive movement.

All of these actors need to exit stage right- and go far away.

I hope people will join me in that prayer.


12 posted on 09/09/2013 4:37:38 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: markomalley
amateur hour rolls on

what an embarrassing time for the USA

13 posted on 09/09/2013 4:38:42 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: cripplecreek

The consequences of this game they are playing will be insurmountable.

I cannot believe what we see and hear everyday.

And forward they march with a blindness that nearly seems biblical and fanatical.

I grow very weary of their rhetoric, their empty words, and their voices sound like rushing water after a hard rain. It cascades down into the watershed to create a violent, loud, torrent that destroys all in it’s path.


14 posted on 09/09/2013 4:41:07 AM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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To: markomalley

Roger that. LOL!!!


15 posted on 09/09/2013 4:43:25 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: markomalley

GFY

Jack Wagon...


16 posted on 09/09/2013 4:43:54 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: markomalley

Turning over weapons is thus a plea deal. no punishment for the previous crime?

Kerry did not think about his reply to the question.


17 posted on 09/09/2013 4:51:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Truth2012

AMEN!


18 posted on 09/09/2013 4:57:02 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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To: markomalley

I think if Kerry said that he would give him a big hug and a kiss, he would get better results.


19 posted on 09/09/2013 4:57:10 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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If Bashar al-Assad hands over chemical weapons we will not attack, says John Kerry


Yeah. And if he brushes his teeth, or promises to brush them sometime in the next ten years, we will not attack. Or if he promises to watch more ESPN.

Gawd these guys are amateurs. They are so obviously looking for some worthless agreement to save face that they are embarrassing our entire nation. It’s gonna be a long 3 years, based on the last one.


20 posted on 09/09/2013 4:57:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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