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Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition
http://washingtonexaminer.com ^ | September 16, 2013 | JOEL GEHRKE

Posted on 09/16/2013 5:28:45 PM PDT by lowbridge

President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., in 2001. Assad's regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.

The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would "waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction."

Those two sections prohibit sending weaponry to countries described in section 40(d): "The prohibitions contained in this section apply with respect to a country if the Secretary of State determines that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism," Congress stated in the Arms Control Export Act.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; graham; i; impeach; mccain; moderates; moderateterrorists; obama; syria; syrianrebels; wot
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To: lowbridge

He’s sending arms to the murderers who killed Christians. With our money.


61 posted on 09/16/2013 6:43:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: lowbridge

That’s alright. Keep it fair to level the playing field. [Get it?]


62 posted on 09/16/2013 6:54:13 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: lowbridge

Dear Obama, please just spend the rest of your term golfing and going on vacation.


63 posted on 09/16/2013 6:57:35 PM PDT by matt04
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

>> Twelve years after 9-11, We’ve gone from fighting AQ to arming them.

We were and still are against AQ. Maybe the others never were.


64 posted on 09/16/2013 7:08:59 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Nuc 1.1
"..Sounds like dictatorship w/o the usurpation. What must go through his head, if anything does.."

Uuuuhhhh... nevermind.. d;^)

65 posted on 09/16/2013 7:15:17 PM PDT by CopperTop
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To: lowbridge

Someone tell Feinswine that Barry is giving guns away.


66 posted on 09/16/2013 7:33:07 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: lowbridge

And our gutless congress will do nothing.


67 posted on 09/16/2013 7:43:49 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: lowbridge

And our gutless congress will do nothing.


68 posted on 09/16/2013 7:43:53 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: Billthedrill
"Congress should be criticizing bitterly"

On May 22, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15 to 3 to arm the Syrian rebels.

Those voting no were the right wing isolationist Rand Paul and the two antiwar dems, Wyden and Udall.

69 posted on 09/16/2013 7:52:54 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: lowbridge
You mean all Reagan had to do was waive federal law and that made it okay to give arms to the Contras?

I wonder what Oliver North has to say about that.

Obama is waiver happy. He has no authority to do this. Past Presidents were investigated by Congress for doing this.

-PJ

70 posted on 09/16/2013 7:53:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: lowbridge

Impeach. Rinse. Repeat if necessary.


71 posted on 09/16/2013 8:14:31 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: Bender2

72 posted on 09/16/2013 8:24:54 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: penelopesire

So....What does Putin have to say about this latest revelation?


73 posted on 09/16/2013 8:28:47 PM PDT by SisterK (the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly Romans 16:20)
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To: lowbridge

The US arms one side and Russia arms the other. Vietnam II.


74 posted on 09/16/2013 8:32:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: Gene Eric


75 posted on 09/16/2013 8:35:47 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: lowbridge

Obama will be able to now run arms directly to the drug cartels in Mexico, like he has always wanted to do.


76 posted on 09/16/2013 8:58:08 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: lowbridge

Deny guns to the CMP but approves them for Al Qaeda.

Obama- the worst president ever.


77 posted on 09/16/2013 9:09:36 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: EternalVigilance

...”According to Article III, Section 3, it’s treason”...

Sure it is..who’s going to have the guts to stand against this???? There are none.

I’ve racked my brain trying to understand why God continues allowing this man to make these decisions ‘unopposed’.... But then I keep reminding myself Obama could not have risen to be Pres. without going through the Hands of God first.....and in order for the focus of God’s ultimate plans to go forward the focus HAS to be on the ME and we have to be weakened or that would not happen.

Hard watching our nation weaken though....but we knew it would one day have to be so. He’s got three more years and the ME is moving rapidly now...I can see things esculating even more in that time.

My hope is behind the scenes in this country there are good men who are working hard to sustain us when the crap hits the fan over there.....like the oil in N. Dakota and Marcellous Gas Deposits here....moving slow but might be enough... ....then in the next election we might be self sustaining. Big Dream..but keeps me hopeful regardless of how things look at this time.


78 posted on 09/16/2013 10:30:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: Innovative

...“I am more than sure that the Muslim Brotherhood and its leadership in Egypt were actually encouraged by the Americans — and not just in Egypt,”...

The Moslem Brotherhood is 100% with the Globalist Agenda...so of course the US ,under the Congress and Administration we have now, are going to support the thugs. They’re doing the dirty work for all the heavy hitters now playing on the world stage. There is nothing opposing them in our Governance.

We’ve been hijacked by the Globalists and their Agenda.


79 posted on 09/16/2013 10:35:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Well said.

I hear the voices of despair all around these days, those who are too ready to pronounce America dead. But I just can’t join them. How can I, when I have myself experienced God’s mercy, forgiveness, and redemptive power? If He humbly stands at the door of the heart of the individual and knocks, eager to redeem at the mere turn of the knob, how much more does He yearn for the salvation of an entire nation, especially one that was from its very beginnings sincerely dedicated to Him? So, I will go right on hoping, and praying, and working, in the belief that my fellow Americans will turn towards God again, as they have done before, and that the LORD God Almighty will move providentially, swiftly, on our behalf, and on behalf of our children and grandchildren.


80 posted on 09/16/2013 10:39:56 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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