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Kerry on Syrian rebels’ brutality: It’ll get worse if we don’t intervene
Hot Air ^ | September 5, 2013 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/05/2013 5:15:07 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

Drudge has been killing the White House all day by spotlighting that harrowing NYT story about the rebels that Ed blogged this morning, and now here’s Kerry’s response. If you’re worried about Al Qaeda and its jihadi partners like Jabhat al-Nusra running wild, then you should … support a U.S. attack on their enemy Assad. Wait, what? Sure, says Kerry: Only if the U.S. empowers “moderate” rebels like the Free Syrian Army — whose leadership, by the way, is falling apart — will there be an alternative for people who want Assad gone but don’t want fundamentalists to replace him. Never mind that Reuters reported months ago that jihadi groups were successfully sidelining the moderate elements within the rebel ranks and confiscating their weapons. And never mind that, as of just four months ago, the Times famously reported that there was really no such thing as a secular fighting force in rebel-controlled Syria. Evidently we’re going to find, or build, one and then somehow elevate it to prominence over battle-tested jihadi outfits like the Nusra Front.

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To: cripplecreek

Great. All that’s missing is McCain in the backseat.


41 posted on 09/05/2013 6:04:02 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Johnny The Chin is having Vietnam flashbacks. He was on the wrong side of history once and by golly, he can do it again! Maybe there’ll be a medal.


42 posted on 09/05/2013 6:06:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Kerry on Syrian rebels’ brutality: It’ll get worse if we don’t intervene

Another "Jenjis Kahn" moment?

43 posted on 09/05/2013 6:24:12 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Argus
I had this poster in my room when I was 12. I bought it at the Swap Meet.

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By the time I was 17 it had been replaced by this one:

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44 posted on 09/05/2013 6:34:39 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Don't blame me for McCain.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

“....It’ll get worse if we don’t intervene....”

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WTF, I thought we plan to intervene on THEIR side!!!

Words fail me.


45 posted on 09/05/2013 6:37:31 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: 353FMG

46 posted on 09/05/2013 6:41:17 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: Jim Robinson
You are 100% correct Obama’s usurping tyranny is destroying liberty in America and he must be impeached!!

It will be hard to blame Obama entirely for an event 150 years in the making.
I used to read for fun, both fiction and non-fiction.

I am presently reading both Ameritopia, and The Liberty Amendments. Painful to read, and certainly no fun, but aside from the purpose of those books, the background they contain explaining the purposeful transformation of the original U.S.A. is an education that everyone can profit from.

No real practicable solution in sight.
Have the "transformers" already won? Obama is just the current symptom. The complete rot is more difficult to see and to attack.

47 posted on 09/05/2013 6:49:02 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Sacajaweau

He’s not insane. He’s thrashing.
He doen’t have any valid excuse for US intervention.
He doesn’t have a plan for victory.
So he says whatever he can to try to justify his position.
The sad part is the Mainstream Lie Machine will echo this so strongly that a lot of people, including some conservatives (Rod Radosh) will believe him.


48 posted on 09/05/2013 6:50:11 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Kerry on Syrian rebels’ brutality: It’ll get worse if we don’t intervene

Gas 'em.

49 posted on 09/05/2013 6:52:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. N)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Our Secretary of Defense is a guy who became famous primarily for how eloquently he bashed the U.S. military. That’s what happens when the moronic American electorate re-elects a committed anti-American leftist to the White House. And I can’t believe there are so many idiots on the right (Hugh Hewitt comes to mind) who insist we go to war in order to save Obama’s credibility.


50 posted on 09/05/2013 6:58:30 PM PDT by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

say what?

If we don’t help the brutes they become bigger brutes, did I read that correctly?


51 posted on 09/05/2013 7:03:04 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

say what?

If we don’t help the brutes they become bigger brutes, did I read that correctly?


A far cry from anti-bullying programs implemented by the libs here at home...


52 posted on 09/05/2013 7:15:23 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
As an 11-year veteran of the US Army, I never thought I'd pray for large-scale mutinies in the services. But I think I'm there.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

53 posted on 09/05/2013 7:21:05 PM PDT by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

I don’t usually agree with Susan Collins, but I heard a quote from her tonight that rang true to me. She asked, “What do we do after we attack Syria and then Assad uses chemical weapons again? Do we bomb again? That is the definition of “further entanglement.”” I think she makes a good point.

Besides which, I am not convinced at all that it was Assad who used the chemical weapons. He had more to lose than to gain by using them. It seems much more likely to me that it’s a frame job.


54 posted on 09/05/2013 7:39:41 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Correct on both points!


55 posted on 09/05/2013 8:01:20 PM PDT by RetAF_fedUP (God Bless!)
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To: freeangel

Kerry has not the sack nor the gumption to be anything other than a wuss. He “has been” exposed and certified a gold digging, widow hunting fool!


56 posted on 09/05/2013 8:05:50 PM PDT by RetAF_fedUP (God Bless!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

“It’ll get worse if we don’t intervene”

My gosh - I hope so!!


57 posted on 09/05/2013 8:28:28 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

>>Hey hey JFK, how many kids have you killed today?<<

LBJ.

Kennedy was dead before Vietnam became a hot war.


58 posted on 09/05/2013 8:31:34 PM PDT by KAESNO2
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To: KAESNO2

JFK = John Forbes Kerry


59 posted on 09/05/2013 8:59:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Don't blame me for McCain.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Oh yeah, the other JFK.


60 posted on 09/05/2013 9:29:56 PM PDT by KAESNO2
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