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Hagel: We Still Support ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels
INN ^ | 12/13/2013, 5:45 AM | Elad Benari

Posted on 12/12/2013 10:49:41 PM PST by Olog-hai

United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that his country would continue to support “moderate” rebel forces in Syria, but will withhold non-lethal assistance to the rebels until it can assess who is in control of arms depots and border crossings.

According to AFP, Hagel told reporters that setbacks for Syria’s Western-backed opposition are a “big problem” and the United States is assessing the damage. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bailoutbiden; chuckhagel; hagel; moderate; putinsbuttboys; rop; syria

1 posted on 12/12/2013 10:49:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Great, I do too.

When we find some, we can support them.


2 posted on 12/12/2013 10:56:49 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Olog-hai
Hagel: We Still Support ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels

Question for Chuckie: Do "Moderates" rebel? At anything?

3 posted on 12/12/2013 10:58:44 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Olog-hai

Hagel: “I’m still as dumb as a fence post”


4 posted on 12/12/2013 11:01:09 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Olog-hai

Pity. The moderate rebels(an oxymoron) have been killed by the islamists, killed by the SAA, or have surrendered to the SAA.


5 posted on 12/12/2013 11:02:52 PM PST by lurk
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To: Olog-hai

Quote of the Day

“Nelson Mandela is a leader who Barack Obama should try to emulate. He could start by spending 27 years in prison.”

— Don Imus


6 posted on 12/12/2013 11:54:10 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Quote of the Day

“Nelson Mandela is a leader who Barack Obama should try to emulate. He could start by spending 27 years in prison.”

- Don Imus

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Well...just so long as Imus didn’t call him a nappy headed ho, I guess it’s alright.


7 posted on 12/13/2013 12:04:17 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Olog-hai

Nane one.


8 posted on 12/13/2013 12:07:35 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sgt. Hagel needs to direct the DoD to spend more time supporting the US Military, instead of kissing the boots of Obama and his Muslim terriorist buddies.


9 posted on 12/13/2013 2:02:11 AM PST by octex
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To: Olog-hai

Hagel and the band of incompetents are wandering in eternal darkness with a solar powered lamp searching for a moderate muslim that doesn’t exist.

Stupid is as stupid does.


10 posted on 12/13/2013 3:00:50 AM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Olog-hai
A "moderate" muslim is a muslim who hasn't actually appeared in an internet video killing a Christian or a Jew - yet.


11 posted on 12/13/2013 3:02:01 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Olog-hai

“would continue to support “moderate” rebel forces in Syria”

Alll 5 of them. :-)


12 posted on 12/13/2013 6:42:29 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Olog-hai
Hagel: We Still Support ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels

Both of them?

13 posted on 12/13/2013 7:01:12 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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