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Obama: Crackdown in Syria is 'horrifying'
Associated Press ^ | July 31, 2011

Posted on 07/31/2011 12:21:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is stepping up his criticism of Syria's crackdown on protesters, charging that the Syrian president is "completely incapable and unwilling" to respond to what Obama calls the legitimate grievances of the Syrian people.

Dozens of people were reported killed Sunday as Syrian security forces escalated their response to protests against President Bashar Assad.

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1 posted on 07/31/2011 12:21:45 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Crackdown by the FBI and DOJ in this country is horrifying.


2 posted on 07/31/2011 12:22:58 PM PDT by rjeffries
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Whatsa matta? Qaddafi got The Won pinned down?
3 posted on 07/31/2011 12:23:54 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Horrifying. And he is busy taking notes. Well, having others take notes while he is golfing.


4 posted on 07/31/2011 12:23:54 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The solution would be to send money to these MUSLIM rebels who want to be “free”....or want money.


5 posted on 07/31/2011 12:26:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But we are bombing in Libya based on the false logic of humanitarianism.......what a frakin’ POS agenda-driven POTUS. =.=


6 posted on 07/31/2011 12:28:07 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So... guess we’re sending the Marines to Syria, too, huh?

To save time and confusion, why don’t we just declare the entire Middle East an American Zone of Interest and claim it all for The Greater Glory of Preimier Hussein?

But, gee, what about Africa and Myanmar and Venezuela and Cuba and North Korea?

Surely the American taxpayer can be expected to foot the bill for eliminating tyranny there, too?


7 posted on 07/31/2011 12:28:26 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is interesting.

Didn’t Zawahiri say this just yesterday?

And now Obama is saying it today???

Makes one wonder if Obama is getting his talking points from AQ.


8 posted on 07/31/2011 12:31:57 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: cranked

Indeed...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2011/07/syria-dozens-dead-as-assad-troops.html


9 posted on 07/31/2011 12:32:37 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Someone, please, give zer0 another plate of peas.
10 posted on 07/31/2011 12:36:46 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Tough nuts to crack, eh barry? What a pathetic loser.


11 posted on 07/31/2011 12:38:51 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Like Obama could give a _____. He’s just saying _____ because it sounds good. Obama our first aspiring rap star president. His idol is Jay-Zee a frequent White House guest. And the Moochelle & Beyonce rivalry

It’s all in the rap.


12 posted on 07/31/2011 12:40:00 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This mealy mouth hypocrite can’t be flushed down the drain soon enough. He is out come Nov 2012 when Rick Perry beats him by 17 points


13 posted on 07/31/2011 12:42:05 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Tell Assad to step down or we'll smoke Damascus. Oh, wait a minute, that might not be the best choice.
14 posted on 07/31/2011 12:44:01 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s what I heard — it is Muslim/ alQ fighters? So, yes, most definitely we have to support them, you Kenyan Marxist.


15 posted on 07/31/2011 12:44:50 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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16 posted on 07/31/2011 12:48:48 PM PDT by WackySam (Obama got Osama just like Nixon landed on the moon.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think a strongly worded letter (perhaps in CAPS) is warranted from the Great One.


17 posted on 07/31/2011 12:52:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: all the best

‘horrifying’... said as though he were a passenger on a bus just having seen a nasty car accident from the window as the bus drives by.


18 posted on 07/31/2011 1:24:45 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Anyone think that Obama will be so upset by this slaughter that he will cancel his gala birthday party?


19 posted on 07/31/2011 1:28:16 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cranking up the not-so-’Way-Back-Machine’, I seem to recall such luminaries as J.F.Kerry (Dem-Vietnam/Mass) sitting with Assad in 2009 and Pelosi [as Speaker of the House & 2nd in Presidential Succession] doing the same in 2007. Well, how did that work out, I’m not hearing anything from these fine folk right now, of course they are too busy messing up the economy I guess.


20 posted on 07/31/2011 1:29:05 PM PDT by SES1066 (1776 to 2011, 235 years and counting in the GRAND EXPERIMENT!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Nearly every nation the US is now supporting in the area has been exterminating their Christian populations and many of the Christians have migrated to Syria.

While I do not care for historic Syrian politics, this position by Obama might not be as humanitarian as he wishes all to believe.


21 posted on 07/31/2011 1:34:38 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obozo and his fellow Chicago thugs are watching the game tapes from Syria every day to get pointers on how to do it right when it comes here.


22 posted on 07/31/2011 1:47:07 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
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To: Cvengr

What did he say about Darfur? Oh wait those were Christians being slaughtered by the religion of peace, never mind.


23 posted on 07/31/2011 1:49:47 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No oil, no gold, lip service only. A government killing its own people is not near as important as one that is alleged to have been killing its own criminal people.


24 posted on 07/31/2011 1:57:45 PM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

LOL. Did he say he was getting “absolutely no sleep” over the situation?


25 posted on 07/31/2011 1:59:59 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good of him to issue a statement while planning his birthday fundraising bash.


26 posted on 07/31/2011 2:07:10 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’d love to be able to get away with doing the same to Tea Partiers...


27 posted on 07/31/2011 2:46:51 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Obama is: “completely incapable and unwilling” to respond to Tea Party calls and the legitimate grievances of the Amrican people.


28 posted on 07/31/2011 2:48:35 PM PDT by Venturer
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