"Proposal for Syria’s chemical weapons long in making" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, September 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — To some, it seemed like a gaffe. To others, an offhand comment.
It could have been either, or both, but the ultimatum that Secretary of State John F. Kerry issued on Monday morning to President Bashar Assad of Syria reflected a deeper discussion that had been taking place behind the scenes over the past year.
Related: Russian Proposal Was Obomber's Idea
President Obama and President Vladimir Putin of Russia first discussed the idea of securing Syria’s chemical weapons about a year ago when the two leaders met in Mexico’s Los Cabos during the G-20 summit, according to a senior administration official. That is a much earlier time frame than has been previously reported.
Meaning this is spinning logs of rolling bull shit, folks.
And IF TRUE then OBOMBER is JUST AS CULPABLE as Assad (if you buy the government bs, that is).
Obomber was PROPOSING THIS a YEAR AGO?
Then Aug. 21 could have BEEN AVOIDED, huh? The alleged chemical attack would NEVER HAVE TAKEN PLACE!
Related: Chemical attack was Syria rebel provocation, former hostages say
They also did one in March, and Turkey busted insurgents with sarin gas.
Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
The NEXT FALSE FLAG?
Also see: Don't Show Obama This Report About Who Really Is Behind The Syrian Chemical Attacks
“The Obama administration gave green signal to a chemical weapons attack plan in Syria that could be blamed on President Bashar al Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country, leaked documents have shown. As per the scheme ‘Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons,’ the Daily Mail reports.”
Say what?
Deleted Daily Mail Online Article: “US Backed Plan for Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria to Be Blamed on Assad”
Never even saw it in my Globe.
The details add new context to a dizzying few days of diplomacy during which the United States teetered from calling for US-led strikes to considering a potential nonmilitary solution backed by Russia.
They SURE AS HELL DO!
These discussions took place quietly, even as US-Russian relations took a dive, with the United States outraged that Russia harbored Edward Snowden, who has leaked secrets about American intelligence programs.
This is such crap.
Putin last week said Kerry was lying to Congress after he downplayed Al Qaeda’s presence in Syria and said the opposition was becoming more moderate.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: John Kerry is a Liar
Putin is right.
Although the relationship between top US and Russian officials has been icy, high-level talks continued for months.
Then the WHOLE THING could have been AVOIDED, 'eh?
In April, during Kerry’s first trip to Moscow as secretary of state, he spoke with Putin about securing Syria’s chemical weapons. He continued the conversation over a long dinner with Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia. At the time, they discussed replicating the potential model of Libya’s nuclear program, which in 2003 was removed under an international agreement.
And yet this is the first we are hearing of it, huh?
WHY EVEN BOTHER READING the pos PROPAGANDA WAR PRE$$ then?
Nothing but OBFUSCATIONS, OMISSIONS, DISTORTIONS, or LIES!
The discussions at the time were focused on ways to lay the groundwork for broader peace talks that would end the Syrian civil war.
And not the slightest leak, huh?
But when pro-Assad forces were accused of using chemical weapons on his own people on Aug. 21, the dynamic changed.
And now we know why!
Part of the reason for the harder line from Obama was because he established the use of chemical weapons as a “red line” that would spur military action.
Related: The Defining Moment of Obomber's Presidency
With the United States calling for a strong international response, and considering military strikes to punish Assad, Russia became more engaged.
“There is no question that the seriousness of Russia’s interest in playing a role in securing the chemical weapons increased following the attack,” said the senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations.
I'm not going to comment on this kind of garbage.
Un-friikkin'-believable.
How do you guys stay conscious with the stench of your s*** filling the room?
Putin last Friday approached Obama during the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. The conversation began with small talk, and then the two leaders retreated to the corner of the room, pulling up chairs and conversing while other world leaders watched.
They spoke for nearly 30 minutes, entirely about Syria, according to the senior administration official. They still disagreed on what role Assad would have in a future Syrian government — Obama has called for his ouster, while Putin has defended him — but they agreed to cooperate on an effort to secure chemical weapons stockpiles.
Putin broached the idea about reaching an international agreement to remove the chemical weapons. Obama agreed that it could be an avenue for cooperation and said Kerry and Lavrov should try to shape a proposal.
Putin agreed to relay the message to Lavrov.
Kerry, meanwhile, was getting ready to depart on a three-stop trip to Europe to continue building support for US-led strikes on Syria.
Susan Rice, the president’s national security adviser, called Kerry and updated him on the discussion that Obama had with Putin. They discussed having Kerry and Lavrov speak about it in the coming days.
Rice and Kerry were skeptical and unsure if a credible proposal was possible, but the Russians, a key Syrian ally, were increasingly showing a willingness to play a facilitating role.
Discussions between US and Russian officials about averting a military strike had been ongoing, but the paced quickened on Monday, a day of extraordinary diplomatic activity. The remark that triggered it all came when Kerry appeared to offer an ultimatum to the Syrian president during a press conference in London.
“Turn it over, all of it, without delay and allow the full and total accounting,” Kerry said, in response to a question from a CBS News reporter about what Assad could do to avoid military strikes.
He seemed to dismiss the proposal almost as soon as he mentioned it.
“But he isn’t about to do it,” Kerry said. “And it can’t be done.”
They CALLED YOU R BLUFF, you stupid s***!
State Department officials quickly issued a statement that Kerry’s remark was not intended as a formal ultimatum. Kerry, they said, was merely making a “rhetorical” answer – and articulating a deal that was so outlandish that it would probably never happen.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Then WHY WERE THEY WASTING a YEAR TALKING ABOUT IT?!!
It is SO LAUGHABLE to see the MOUTHPIECE MEDIA caught up in the s*** storm!
The effort by the State Department to try to walk back the impact of Kerry’s remark helped create the impression that he had committed a gaffe.
You can't argue with "impressions" -- especially when it's the truth!
But then Obama’s administration publicly embraced the idea. Even though Kerry had not made a formal proposal, his remark was consistent with the early stages of a discussion taking place within the administration, according to a senior State Department official.
“I didn’t misspeak,” Kerry said during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “I was asked about it. I responded because I was asked.”
Whatever, thanks.
After the Monday press conference in London, Kerry spoke with Lavrov for about 15 minutes. The United States was not ready to embrace a proposal from Russia, Kerry told him, but it would examine one.
Shortly after, Lavrov announced that Russia wanted to play a role in securing chemical weapons.
As Kerry’s plane flew to Washington, he spoke with Rice. There was a flurry of diplomatic efforts going on around the globe. The Syrian foreign minister, who was in Moscow, said he welcomed the Russian proposal.
The French, the British, and officials at the United Nations also were enthusiastic about it.
By the end of the day, Obama was cautiously embracing it.
“We’re going to run this to the ground to see if we can arrive at something . . . enforceable and serious,” he said in an interview with CNN.
Russia said it would develop a plan that would force the Syrians to turn over their chemical weapons to the international community so that they can be destroyed.
“This can’t become a process of delay and avoidance,” Kerry said during his congressional testimony on Tuesday. “We are not waiting for long. The [United Nations] Security Council can’t be allowed to become a debating society.”
Here is what else he said:
“Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging”
You are first in line, John. Focused yet?
I guess he just can't help himself.
But the outcome is still uncertain, and negotiations are continuing.
Translation: the war push is still on!
The State Department announced Tuesday night that Kerry plans to fly to Geneva to meet with Lavrov on Thursday in hopes that a deal, which appeared to come about in such an unlikely fashion, can be consummated.
But they were talking about it for a year.
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"Disposal of Syria’s toxic weapons daunting" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff, September 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — The task of securing Syria’s chemical weapons would present a host of obstacles, from safeguarding inspectors in a war zone and locating thousands of components to safely disposing of the deadly munitions, according to US and international specialists.
Here we go again.
The United States and key allies Britain and France began hashing out a UN resolution Tuesday based on a Russian proposal for President Bashar Assad of Syria to swiftly relinquish control over his arsenal of poison gas. In exchange he would avoid a retaliatory US strike for using the weapons against civilians.
Carrying out such an agreement would be virtually unprecedented in the history of disarmament, according to former weapons inspectors and the international organization responsible for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention, which 189 countries have signed since 1993.
“It is a bold proposal,” said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Netherlands, which was established to police the international treaty banning chemical weapons. “There has never been a country in a state of civil war with chemical weapons that has joined the convention. Our personnel can only operate with so much risk. We’re not an army. These aren’t soldiers.”
For the first time Tuesday, Syria acknowledged its arsenal of chemical weapons and said it would sign on to the international convention banning their use.
When is Israel going to acknowledge their nuclear and chemical weapons?
Related: Israel Amassed Chemical Weapons Arsenal, CIA Document Says
With U.$. help, of course. Why didn't my Boston Globe tell me that?
How international inspectors could safely operate in the war-torn country, however, is just one of numerous challenges.
Another is simply the sheer size of the arsenal, which is believed to be one of the largest in the world — estimated by the US government to total hundreds of tons and thousands of weapons designed to be delivered by artillery and aircraft.
Says who, my Jewish War Press?
“There is a scale issue,” said Leonard Spector, a chemical weapons specialist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. “The quantity of material is enormous. Bunkers upon bunkers.”
Like Saddam's?
Another question would be the circumstances under which they would be destroyed.
The chemical weapons treaty stipulates that the destruction, while monitored by international inspectors, must be undertaken by the country itself.
While Syria would be eligible to receive outside assistance, as other nations have, it would be responsible for the actual dismantlement of the chemical shells and rockets.
Syria does not currently have the facilities required to safely incinerate chemical weapons, like those constructed in the United States, Russia, India, South Korea, Iraq, and most recently Libya.
There is the potential that the United States could assist in the destruction, including providing mobile chemical weapons destruction facilities, specialists said. But that would depend on the security situation on the ground.
The "mobile" chemical weapons labs are back!
Then there is the central question of Assad’s sincerity....
This coming from a lying jewspaper.
Given its history, however, there is the real prospect that the regime would not be fully forthcoming....
Good Lord, they REALLY ARE STUPID ENOUGH to think we will FALL FOR THIS AGAIN!!
Spector cited the example of Iraq in the 1990s, when the United Nations destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as a cautionary tale of Syria’s true intentions.
SAY AGAIN!
Something WE ALL KNEW BEFORE BUSH INVADED over those damnable LIES!
“We saw what Saddam Hussein did in Iraq to hide material,” he said. “Syria could slow things down and obscure what is really going on.”
Yeah, except HE DIDN'T HIDE ANYTHING!
He COOPERATED FULLY and DIDN'T HAVE WMD!
This is SICKENING, absolutely SICKENING JEWISH WAR SPIN!
Another cautionary tale could be found in Libya, which agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2003 under the treaty.
Yeah, that means don't disarm or cooperate with the West. They only attack people who can't defend themselves.
That process was nearly complete when it was halted in 2010 amidst the country’s civil war. When it resumed under a new government, treaty monitors discovered that Libya was not truthful in its initial declaration of the size and location of its weapons and had been hiding some.
Well, SOMEONE ISN'T BEING TRUTHFUL and HIDING THINGS around here, and it is not Libya!
There is also a deep distrust of Russia’s intentions.
Aren't we friends now?
And for what it's worth, I do not trust Israel, not after the whole USS Liberty thing.
Moscow has been a key supporter of Assad and is supplying arms to help bolster his forces against the rebel groups fighting to oust him since early 2011.
Who is supplying the insurgents?
Such lack of trust is a major reason the Obama administration continued to express deep skepticism on Tuesday that it was possible to fashion a credible disarmament process in a timely fashion.
This guy WANTS WAR despite the war-promoting media's promotion of him as a diplomacy-seeking peacemaker. After a little bit of time we will get the whole Iraq thing all over again.
“We’re waiting for that proposal. But we’re not waiting for long,” Secretary of State John F. Kerry told a hearing of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. “President Obama will take a hard look at it. But it has to be swift, it has to be verifiable. It cannot be a delaying tactic.”
Straight from the horse's ass!
Members of Congress, who are deeply wary of giving Obama the authority to punish Syria with military strikes, urged Russia on Tuesday to keep its word and convince Syria to cooperate with the proposal....
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"Obama argues for attack but says he will pursue deal" by Matt Viser and Noah Bierman | Globe Staff, September 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — “When dictators commit atrocities they depend upon the world to look the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from memory,” Obama said. “What happened to those people, to those children, is not only a violation of international law, it is also a danger to our security.”
Related: 10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn't Want You to Talk About
Obomber not looking that way.
Related:
"Obama.... utilizing more of the executive powers of the presidency.... the plan to take full advantage of the legal powers of his office, relying more on executive orders to impose his agenda.... the evolution in his thinking.... what powers there are in the presidency and how to use them more fully.... the president would have to decide what laws he wants to break...."
That sure as hell looks like a dictator to me, and he has the drone strike death toll to prove war criminal status.
In a methodical, point-by-point approach, Obama sought to address doubts over the possible attack. In doing so, he used a technique he has consistently employed before, referring to correspondence he received from everyday citizens worried about the repercussions of military action.
He also urged Americans, in an emotional appeal, to watch the videos taken after the gas attack, which included images of children dead and dying.
Now I am starting to believe they are a staged and scripted psyop, especially since the health care workers(?) were injecting dead bodies with something(?), and none of them were suffering any effects despite not wearing protective gear they would have needed.
And now Obomber is saying go watch the videos? And JouTube took down the ones showing the repositioning of children's bodies for different photos, etc?
That's if it happened at all, or was the TV lying to me once again?
Obama underscored his political challenge as he sought to reassure politicians both on the left and the right — as well as those in the middle — that Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons could not go unpunished.
He is anything but that.
He said that without serious consequences, other enemies will feel emboldened to use such weapons and possibly transfer them to terrorist organizations.
Like you did?
He also argued that Syria’s neighbors, including American allies Turkey and Israel, would be put at risk....
He said, “What kind of world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way?”
Related: 10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn't Want You to Talk About
Yeah, that kind of world.
This man is sickening, and the fact that he can disassemble so badly is frightening.
Obama’s address to the nation was scheduled before Russia latched on to a suggestion by Kerry that a US strike could be avoided if international inspectors took control of Syria’s chemical weapons....
What more is there to type, really?
As a result, Obama modified his address, and the United States worked with allies and the United Nations to explore a Russian plan that would allow the international community to take control of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. That decision earlier Tuesday followed calls Obama made to President Francois Hollande of France and Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain.
Also, earlier Tuesday, Syria signaled its willingness to sign on to the Russian proposal. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, an Arab satellite channel, that the government had agreed to acknowledge it had chemical weapons and would put them under UN control under the agreement with Russia.
But that plan was far from certain. Obama earlier Tuesday expressed doubts in a closed-door meeting with senators. And Russian authorities said they would refuse an effort by US and French officials for a UN resolution that would outline severe consequences for Syria if it failed to turn over its weapons. Putin said the United States should renounce force.
Never! That's only a demand "we" place on the other guy.
Obama directly addressed Congress, urging members to cast aside some of their deep reservations about beginning a new military engagement.
“To my friends on the right, I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America’s military might with a failure to act when a cause is so plainly just,” he said. “To my friends on the left, I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain and going still on the cold hospital floor.”
Kuwait incubator story! They threw the children out of the incubators to die on the cold floor! NEVER HAPPENED! It was a CREATION of the Kuwaiti government and HILL and KNOWLTON! It NEVER HAPPENED!
And yet Bush I and now Emperor Obomber are CITING DEAD CHILDREN on the COLD FLOOR!
HOW SHAMELESS, sir! How UTTERLY SHAMELESS!
It continued the stutter-step approach on how to handle Syria. The White House, largely through Kerry, had spent nearly a week outlining the case for strikes on Syria but then quickly pulled back when Obama decided he wanted to first get congressional authorization.
The administration last week launched an aggressive campaign to try to persuade a war-weary Congress and a skeptical international community to jump aboard.
The 800-Pound Gorilla was lending him a hand, as are other surrogates.
But that quickly began to shift on Monday, with a new Russian offer to avert military strikes.
The administration has been working on a two-track path: keep up the potential threat of military strikes, while searching for a diplomatic solution.
Translation: they are doing everything they can to avoid diplomacy and get this wider war going.
Obama asked senators to continue delaying their vote, saying he wanted more time to explore a diplomatic solution. But administration officials also want to continue putting the pressure on for potential strikes, saying it would strengthen their hand during negotiations.
“Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging,” Kerry said during congressional testimony.
Yes, he DID SAY IT before the WHOLE WORLD!
I guess that's all those southern boys were doing when they lynched black people way back when, 'eh? Focusing their mind!
Now if only we could only get a noose around the necks of WALL STREET EXECUTIVES! Bet that would focus 'em plenty!
That, too!
You focused yet, John?
“Well, it is the credible threat of force that has been on the table these last two weeks that has for the first time brought the regime to even acknowledge that they have a chemical weapons arsenal.”
Yeah, you're a real hero.
As the Obama administration recalibrates its strategy, Congress is also shifting, with support diminishing across the political spectrum.
Yeah, YOU BETTER LISTEN TO US or NO REELECTION!
Senator Edward J. Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who won the seat Kerry occupied for nearly three decades, said Tuesday before the address that he opposed authorizing military force.
I would like to think I helped him make that decision.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell announced he, too, would oppose it.
“A vital national security risk is clearly not at play,” the Kentucky Republican said. “There are just too many unanswered questions about our long-term strategy in Syria, including the fact that this proposal is utterly detached from a wider strategy to end the civil war there.”
Senate majority leader Harry Reid said he would delay the vote to see what happens with the diplomatic negotiations.
“It’s important we do this well, not quickly,” he said. “We have to see what goes on. The last 24 hours have [shown] remarkable changes in what people are talking about.”
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of eight senators, led by Republican John McCain of Arizona, began working on a resolution Monday afternoon that would back up diplomatic efforts with the threat of strikes.
The senators’ plan would set a deadline for the UN to vote on a resolution confirming that Syria used chemical weapons and would call on the UN to remove those weapons. The plan would authorize a strike if a deadline for UN action — the timing of which has not been worked out — is not met.
McCain said the United States should continue efforts on the diplomatic front, but was doubtful they would work.
He's hoping, anyway.
“If you can get a result, then obviously it’s something that all of us can support, but I’m very, very skeptical,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean that we should reject out of hand any action that will call for securing these chemical weapons stocks.”
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Related: The Defining Moment of Obomber's Presidency
He is turning it into one.
"After wavering, Markey opposes strike resolution; Regime-change amendment was a concern, he says" by Noah Bierman | Globe Staff, September 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Senator Edward J. Markey said the administration made the same case to him that it has made publicly, but he was not persuaded....
No one is.
“It was strictly the issue,” Markey said. “It’s a very great responsibility to have a vote that calls for the use of force and calls for the overturn of a regime in another country, and so each of us has to weigh the question ourselves.”
Markey said he was chiefly concerned with a late amendment to the the current Senate resolution that supported regime change, even though Obama has said repeatedly that the strikes were not part of a plan to oust Assad....
The 800-Pound Gorilla in the room?
And Obomber is a LIAR? What else is not new?
Markey’s decision not to support the measure could be embarrassing for Kerry, who for nearly three decades held the Senate seat that Markey now occupies.
Who gives a flying f*** how it makes John (Kohn) Kerry look, as if his scum elitist ass were somehow entitled to that seat? I'm embarrassed that I ever cast a vote for that f***.
And I'M SORRY, too, world. I am so, so sorry.
While Markey said he is convinced of the evidence that Syria used chemical weapons, he said he remains haunted by Iraq, where he came to regret his vote to authorize force when he served in the House.
“After Afghanistan, after Iraq, after Libya....,” Markey said.
Yeah, that last one owned by Obomber -- same as this one!
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Markey’s colleague in the Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, has declined Globe requests for interviews since Friday.
As of early Tuesday evening, she had not said how she would vote on a resolution to use force in Syria....
If she votes with the president I will be severely disappointed, and she will never receive another vote for me, and it better not be because the president needs her to save him from a debilitating public defeat.
That's a really rotten reason to vote for a mass-murdering war criminal exercise.
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And I don't think I want to Watch Human Rights anymore:
"Evidence of nerve gas, Assad link cited" by Barbara Surk | Associated Press, September 11, 2013
BEIRUT — An international human rights group said Tuesday that evidence ‘‘strongly suggests’’ Syrian government forces fired rockets with warheads containing a nerve agent — most likely sarin — into a Damascus suburb last month, killing hundreds of people.
How could they know that? Have they seen the U.N. results?
The report by Human Rights Watch was released as the international community weighs how to respond to the attack on Ghouta, which the United States, France, and others also have blamed on President Bashar Assad’s forces. The regime blames the rebels.
If this doesn't prove their function as nothing but human rights cover for the war agenda, nothing will.
Ever notice HRW comes out with timely reports that bolster such things?
Who is Human Rights Watch anyway?
No wonder they are constantly cited by my Jewish War Pre$$.
Human Rights Watch did not have direct access to the affected areas or the victims, but said its conclusions are based on witness accounts, the physical fragments of the weapons used, and the symptoms exhibited by victims and documented by medical staff.
BUT nothing! This report can be THROWN in the TRASH!
The New York-based group said it sought technical advice from a specialist on the detection and effects of chemical warfare agents, and its analysts studied documented medical symptoms of the victims and videos posted on the Internet by activists after the attack.
‘‘This evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government troops launched rockets carrying chemical warheads into the Damascus suburbs that terrible morning,’’ said Peter Bouckaert, HRW’s emergencies director.
Actually, it does not, as I linked and noted above.
But hey, what is ONE MORE LIE in a jewspaper full of them?
Symptoms of the victims from the attack ‘‘provide telltale evidence about the weapon systems used,’’ he added.
Three doctors who treated victims told the human rights organization that they exhibited a range of symptoms, including convulsions, frothing at the mouth, and dizziness — all of which are consistent with exposure to nerve agents such as sarin, they said.
Then why were the UNPROTECTED MEDICAL WORKERS(? more like crisis actors ?) not being affected?
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Syria's Sarin Gas
You see who lied to you about it?
The most toxic of the chemical compounds used as weapons, nerve agents affect the nervous system and are hazardous in both their liquid and gas states. They can be delivered in missiles, bombs, rockets, artillery shells, and other large munitions. The Syrian regime is believed to possess tabun, sarin, and VX.
IRAQ!
Human Rights Watch added that evidence related to the type of rockets and launchers used in the attack ‘‘strongly suggests’’ weapon systems that are documented to be only in the possession of Syrian forces.
Which means it is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL! Just what self-serving s***ters said and gave them!
Syria’s main opposition bloc, the Syrian National Coalition, urged the West to go ahead with a strike against the regime.
Which means THEY WOULD HAVE EVERY INCENTIVE to launch chemical weapons IN FRONT of U.S. INSPECTORS just as Syria was defeating the insurgency!
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
The Globe noticed what I remarked upon earlier, although they also went back to ignoring it yesterday. As for today, it is a timely report issued by the U.N. (mostly blames Assad, which destroys the nonexistent credibility of the J. N.) along with a report about diplomacy-seeking peace (from a guy who called for invasion, damn the costs) which is something I no longer read because it is coming from a lying, war-promoting, agenda-pushing mouthpiece. Obviously, I will not be reading any of those articles today. I'm tired, tired, tired, tired of war-pushing s***.
LATER UPDATE:
Syrian regime’s words ‘are simply not enough,’ Kerry says
And your words are too many, so shut the f*** up, senator (sic).
Assad has denied responsibility and accuses US officials of spreading lies without providing evidence.
It wouldn't be the first time.... or the last.
In the interview Thursday, he charged that the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack was a ‘‘US-organized provocation.’’
Yes, the world knows this now.
In Washington, officials said the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks, following President Barack Obama’s decision to arm the rebels.
What bull! They have been arming them for three years!
"US intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups."
"The Obama administration has been reluctant to provide arms to the Syrian rebels"
Which means they are providing.
Which means they are providing.
Let's just stop it with the distorted and contorted semantics, 'kay?
The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: CIA Arming Syrian Rebels
So is Qatar, for a long time now.
Hey, what's more obfuscations and lies when the warpaper is full of them every damn day?
The agency also has arranged for the Syrian opposition to receive anti-tank weapons like rocket-propelled grenades through a third party, presumably one of the Gulf countries that has been arming the rebels, a senior US intelligence official and two former intelligence officials said Thursday.
That means Qatar or Saudi Arabia.
