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John Kerry to Democrats: ‘Munich moment’
Politico ^

Posted on 09/02/2013 1:02:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

John Kerry to Democrats: ‘Munich moment’ By: John Bresnahan and Seung Min Kim and Jonathan Allen September 2, 2013 01:29 PM EDT

Secretary of State John Kerry told House Democrats that the United States faced a “Munich moment” in deciding whether to respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

In a 70-minute conference call on Monday afternoon, Kerry derided Syrian President Bashar Assad as a “two-bit dictator” who will “continue to act with impunity,” and he urged lawmakers to back President Barack Obama’s plan for “limited, narrow” strikes against the Assad regime, Democratic sources on the call said.

Kerry’s derisive comments on Assad and his reference to the 1938 Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain - after which Chamberlain infamously declared it would lead to “peace for our time” - showed the hard line the White House is taking in its drive for congressional approval of the Syrian resolution. Top administration officials argue that a failure by the United States to respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime would only lead to more violence and instability in the region.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Massachusetts; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bengahzi; iran; israel; johnkerry; kerrylies; kerrysyriaattack; lebanon; maheralassad; massachusetts; munichmoment; nevillechamberlain; playczechoslovakia; roguestatedept; russia; shadowgovernment; thebrotherdidit; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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Does any body have a clue as to what he is talking about?
1 posted on 09/02/2013 1:02:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

It sounds more like a Munchkin Moment.


2 posted on 09/02/2013 1:04:15 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Kerry derided Syrian President Bashar Assad as a “two-bit dictator”

“And I know what I am talking about - I hang out with him all the time!”


3 posted on 09/02/2013 1:04:29 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Sub-Driver

President Obama is still trying to figure out “who’s ass to kick”.


4 posted on 09/02/2013 1:04:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hitlers “victory” at Munich led to Nuremberg. Maybe we can get lucky and have another version of those trials some day and try and convict those who waged war against the United States.....both foreign and domestic enemies.


5 posted on 09/02/2013 1:05:57 PM PDT by rustyboots
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To: Sub-Driver

This administration hopes for another Munich massacre, but they will take what they can get.


6 posted on 09/02/2013 1:06:31 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: a fool in paradise

Or how he is going to “plug the damn hole..”


7 posted on 09/02/2013 1:07:05 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama, America's own Perkin Warbeck..)
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To: a fool in paradise

In European press they’re saying that the West hasn’t learned anything since the Algerian War. Well, the US hasn’t learned anything since Libya and Egypt, that’s for sure.


8 posted on 09/02/2013 1:07:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

That is funny, because it’s true.


9 posted on 09/02/2013 1:07:16 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Stop Worrying And Learn To Love The Bomb!)
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To: Sub-Driver

From the very beginning, this is “wag the dog” BS.


10 posted on 09/02/2013 1:07:45 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s referring to Neville Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler at Munich. But he’s not blaming it on Obama or himself, he’s blaming the Republicans in congress—of course.


11 posted on 09/02/2013 1:08:07 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver
I sure don't. He's a space cadet.

Senator Kerry, why the long face?


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13 posted on 09/02/2013 1:11:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let me guess... someone stole his sweet-roll.


14 posted on 09/02/2013 1:11:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Sub-Driver

Meh, 0bama drew a line in the sand, years ago.
The sun still rises, the birds sing, life goes on.

Give Assad the room to eliminate the Al Queda fighters, and let Allah sort it out


15 posted on 09/02/2013 1:13:50 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Sub-Driver
This is hardly a historical parallel to Munich.

It much more closely resembles the British ill-conceived decision to enter World War I. It got into the war for ill-defined reasons, not really compelled by any treaty, it became embroiled in a bloodbath that cost Britain a generation of its youth, nearly bankrupted the nation, began the fracturing of the Empire, uprooted its entire social structure, invested the country in pacifism leading to Munich, and ruined the nation with cynicism.

As I recall, the British Foreign Minister of the time, John Kerry's equivalent as Secretary of State, had much to do with committing Great Britain to that terrible war.


16 posted on 09/02/2013 1:13:51 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Sub-Driver

I am so glad it isn’t just me, who has no clue to what Kerry is talking about.


17 posted on 09/02/2013 1:13:54 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Munchkin Moment.

Man, you beat me to it. I picture him as just one of those silly little creatures.


18 posted on 09/02/2013 1:14:09 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is it not enough that he has overseen the criminal coverup
of MANPADs and SAMs transfers to al Qaeda at Benghazi?

Now, he wants the Pentagon (bombed by al Qaeda)
to defend HIS Impostor-Calph’s MB and al Qaeda.


19 posted on 09/02/2013 1:16:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Sub-Driver
THIS was Hussein's Munich moment:


20 posted on 09/02/2013 1:17:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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