"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that ongoing attempts to threaten the use of force against Syria would provoke the opposition and disrupt a chance for peace negotiations in Geneva that the United States and Russia have been trying to organize, after meeting Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Monday."
If you read the article it is still about REGIME CHANGE, folks.
And what were the Russian and Egyptian foreign ministers meeting about? Globe keeping me in the dark about that (frown).
Related: Syrians make pleas to members of Congress
So has the 800-pound gorilla.
UN data says Syria targets hospitals
UN investigators said Friday in a new report that it also documented instances of attacks on hospitals by opposition forces, [and] Human Rights Watch said in a report that mass killings took place.
Who is Human Rights Watch anyway?
Looks like the should be called Juman Rights Watch to me.
UN confirms rockets loaded with sarin in attack
With all due respect, I no longer trust anything that comes out of the JU.N., either.
Russia doesn’t share US ‘values’ in Syria, Obama says
The deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons also offers the potential for reviving international peace talks to end a civil war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives and sent 2 million refugees fleeing for safety, and now threatens the stability of the entire Mideast.
What values are those, the mass-murdering invasions and occupations based on damnable lies, sir?
UPDATE:
[Thanks to the Washington Examiner for breaking the following revelation. Obama has openly moved to arm the Syrian terrorists by issuing the following waiver on the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, which outlaws the provision of weapons to "international terrorists." Based solely upon Obama's promise that he knows which of the Syrian outlaws are not terrorists, Obama openly steps outside Constitutional law, and embraces the international terrorists who are waging a war of aggression against the government of Syria. Obama is siding with war criminals, in order to wage a criminal war of aggression, all in the name of "stopping war crimes." It is Obama and the Saudis who are responsible for the criminal war in Syria. For the sake of whatever remains of our shredded Constitution, I call upon all residents of the United States to rise-up and to do whatever you can to become an impediment to Obama's war of aggression.] -- Obama Waives Constitutional Law To Openly Arm the International Terrorist Army In Syria
He still hasn't seen the light.
"Obama hails US-Russia deal on Syrian weapons; Both sides say Assad will not be removed soon" by Michael D. Shear | New York Times, September 16, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Obama hailed the agreement reached with Russia during the weekend to seize and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons as a “foundation” that could eventually lead to a political settlement of the civil war, but both sides in the conflict see the deal as a sign that President Bashar Assad will not be removed from power any time soon.
Ali Haidar, the Syrian minister of national reconciliation, told a Russian state news agency Sunday that the deal struck a day earlier in Geneva was a “victory’’ for the Assad regime.
‘‘We welcome these agreements,’’ Haidar was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. ‘‘On the one hand, they will help Syrians get out of the crisis, and on the other hand, they averted a war against Syria by removing the pretext for those who wanted to unleash one.’’
Under the agreement, Syria will provide an inventory of its chemical arsenal within one week and hand over all of the components of its program by mid-2014.
The US-Russian deal was a disappointment for the Syrian opposition because it defers outside intervention for the foreseeable future....
Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week’’
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Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union’’
I don't watch those shows, so why would I care what they said?
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Obama and Kerry have stressed that if diplomacy fails, the United States is prepared to launch a military strike alone to respond to chemical weapons.
In his ABC interview, Obama said the United States was not going to “get in the middle of somebody else’s civil war.” But....
BUT WHAT?!?!?!
Asked about the possibility of a settlement that would leave Assad in power in Syria, Obama said, “It is hard to envision how Assad regains any kind of legitimacy after he’s gassed, or his military has gassed, innocent civilians and children.”
And if he did not do it, then the legitimacy of the U.S.-supported insurgency is illegitimate, isn't it, and you are f***ing liar!
Obama took credit for creating the pressure that led to the deal by threatening — and then backing off from — a military strike in Syria.
Related: Russian Proposal Was Obomber's Idea
It's okay because he is insane, folks.
He also defended his actions during the past two weeks, saying his critics were judging him on style, not on the substance of his policies.
That is only something you do when you have done something wrong.
The president said his administration had focused on preventing Assad from using chemical weapons again.
“If that goal is achieved, then it sounds to me like we did something right,” he said.
Obama also responded to criticism that Putin had been playing his American counterpart by seizing control of the diplomatic efforts.
Putin has made him look like the war-mongering bastard he is.
He said the Russian president did not have the same “values” as the United States about the future of Assad, but still played an important role in the Syrian conflict.
Putin wrote a column for the New York Times where he said the AmeriKan government needs to drop the stuck-up elitism of exceptionalism, and arrogant Obomber took offense!
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"US, Russia strike deal on Syria chemical arms; Assad required to remove chemicals by mid-2014; military strikes on hold" by Michael R. Gordon | New York Times, September 15, 2013
GENEVA — The United States and Russia reached a sweeping agreement Saturday that called for Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by the middle of 2014 and indefinitely stalled the prospect of US airstrikes.
However, the joint announcement, on the third day of intensive talks in Geneva, also set the stage for one of the most challenging undertakings in the history of arms control.
Already the excuses are being trotted out for failure, much like Iraq's UN inspection regime.
“This situation has no precedent,” said Amy Smithson, an expert on chemical weapons at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. “They are cramming what would probably be five or six years’ worth of work into a period of several months, and they are undertaking this in an extremely difficult security environment due to the ongoing civil war.”
Although the agreement explicitly includes the UN Security Council for the first time in determining possible international action in Syria, Russia has maintained its opposition to any military action.
But George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, emphasized that the possibility of unilateral US military force was still on the table.
No emphasis needed, but I thought I would too.
“We haven’t made any changes to our force posture to this point,” Little said. “The credible threat of military force has been key to driving diplomatic progress, and it’s important that the Assad regime lives up to its obligations under the framework agreement.”
And let's hope Israel doesn't try to pull another USS LIberty and sink one of 'em.
In Syria, the state news agency, SANA, voiced cautious approval of the Russian and US deal, calling it “a starting point,” though the government issued no immediate statement about its willingness to implement the agreement.
In any case, the deal represented at least a temporary reprieve for President Bashar Assad and his Syrian government, and it formally placed international decision-making about Syria into the purview of Russia, one of Assad’s staunchest supporters and military suppliers.
That reality was bitterly seized on by the fractured Syrian rebel forces, most of which have pleaded for US airstrikes. General Salim Idris, the head of the Western-backed rebels’ nominal military command, the Supreme Military Council, denounced the initiative.
“All of this initiative does not interest us. Russia is a partner with the regime in killing the Syrian people,” he told reporters in Istanbul. “A crime against humanity has been committed, and there is not any mention of accountability.”
An immediate test of the viability of the accord will come within a week, when the Syrian government is to provide a “comprehensive listing” of its chemical arsenal. That list is to include the types and quantities of Syria’s poison gas, the chemical munitions it possesses, and the location of its storage, production, and research sites.
“The real final responsibility here is Syrian,” a senior Obama administration official said of the deal.
Speaking at a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry said that “if fully implemented, this framework can provide greater protection and security to the world.”
If Assad fails to comply with the deal, the issue would be referred to the UN Security Council, where the violations would be taken up under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which authorizes punitive action, Kerry said.
Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, made clear that Russia, which wields a veto in the Security Council, had not withdrawn its objections to the use of force.
If the Russians objected to punishing Syrian noncompliance with military action, however, the United States would still have the option of acting without the Security Council’s approval.
Then all this is really nothing but s*** that I am reading here.
The issue of removing Syria’s chemical arms broke into the open Monday when Kerry, at a news conference in London, posed the question as to whether Assad could rapidly be disarmed only to state that he did not see how it could be done.
Oooops.
Now, however, what once seemed impossible has become the plan — one that will depend on Assad’s cooperation and that will need to be put in place in the middle of a fierce conflict.
As the war-mongers yell dammit!
To forge the agreement, arms control officials on both sides worked into the night, a process that recalled the treaty negotiations during the Cold War....
A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under State Department protocol, said there was no indication that any of Syria’s chemical stocks had been moved to Iraq or Lebanon, as the Syrian opposition had charged.
That's the same s*** that was peddled regarding Iraq's WMD!
“We believe they are under regime control,” the US official said....
They would know if they were.
The difference appears to reflect the larger disagreement as to who was responsible for an Aug. 21 attack that the United States says killed at least 1,400 civilians, many of them women and children.
It's disputed, but not by my mouthpiece of a jewspaper.
If the Russians were to agree both on the number of chemical weapons sites and the fact that, as US officials believe, the sites are all in government-controlled areas, that would suggest that the Assad government was culpable for the attack and not the rebel forces as the Russians have asserted.
Sorry, but it doesn't matter how many "assertions" -- fancy word for lies -- the West makes, we already know it was the U.S.-SUPPORTED INSURGENTS who are responsible for the chemical weapons attacks!
The deal would be part of a UN Security Council resolution to be adopted in New York.
One concern about how to implement the deal, however, involves how to protect international inspectors who come to Syria.
Who would want to harm them? Certainly not Assad. He would have kept them from coming then.
Btw, those international inspectors are not going to be CIA spies like those in Iraq, are they?
There will be no cease-fire so the inspectors can carry out their work.
Asked whether rebels would aid the inspectors, Idris, the Western-backed rebel military commander, called the issue “complicated.”
Thanks for throwing those in there.
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"Obama relents on threat of force; Deal closer in UN resolution on Syria" by Peter Baker and Michael R. Gordon | New York Times, September 14, 2013
Oh, now he has relented!
WASHINGTON — President Obama will not insist on a UN Security Council resolution threatening Syria with military action, senior administration officials said Friday, as US and Russian negotiators meeting in Geneva moved closer to an agreement that would seek to ultimately strip Syria of its chemical weapons.
After a second day of marathon talks in Geneva between Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, both sides expressed optimism, while US officials said they would give the process a couple weeks to see if it gained traction. But daunting obstacles remain to dismantling Syria’s vast chemical arsenal as negotiators try to defuse a confrontation that has inflamed politics on three continents.
Translation: we are in NO WAY OUT of the WOODS on WAR!
A significant sign of movement at the United Nations came when the Obama administration effectively took force off the table in discussions over the shape of a Security Council resolution governing any deal with Syria. Although Obama reserved the right to order a US military strike without UN backing if Syria reneges on its commitments, senior officials said the president understood that Russia would never allow a Security Council resolution authorizing force.
Then force is still on the table, pos NYT!
As a strategic matter, that statement simply acknowledged the reality on the Security Council, where Russia wields a veto and has vowed to block any military action against Syria, its ally. But Obama’s decision to concede that point early in the talks underscored his desire to forge a workable diplomatic compromise and avoid a strike that would be deeply unpopular at home....
Oh, that is the FIRST I'VE SEEN of how WE FEEL!
The administration was encouraged by the talks in Geneva. Officials said the Russians seemed serious enough that they might not be simply trying to disrupt the possibility of a military strike, but the officials added that there was no guarantee they could resolve significant disagreements on any eventual deal.
That's more AmeriKa's SOP anyway.
In Geneva, a senior administration official said the two sides had moved closer to consensus on the size of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, an essential prerequisite to any joint plan to control and dismantle it.
Russian officials arrived in Geneva with a substantially lower assessment of the arsenal’s size than the 1,000 tons Kerry had cited. But two days of talks between Russian and American arms control experts, including an intelligence briefing by the US side, came closer to producing a common understanding about “where it is, what it is, and how to track it,” the administration official said.
Obama expressed cautious optimism Friday after a meeting with the visiting emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. “I shared with the emir my hope that the negotiations that are currently taking place between Secretary of State Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov in Geneva bear fruit,” the president said. “But I repeated what I’ve said publicly, which is that any agreement needs to be verifiable and enforceable.”
Another Arab sheikdom in favor of war.
The administration has not laid out publicly how that might be achieved, and officials on Friday left open the possibility that there may be an acceptable alternative to a Security Council resolution, although they did not go into specifics. Verification, they said, cannot simply be a vague commitment but must be a concrete process.
Yeah, those are reserved to Israel when dealing with Palestinians.
Administration officials flatly rejected Russian and Syrian demands that the United States forswear all possible military action. And while they expressed wariness about a negotiating process that drags on, they said talks serve as a deterrent on their own because Assad presumably would not use chemical weapons in the interim.
But he did it just as the U.N. showed up?
The two sides also made progress on how Syria might work with the international organization that oversees compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention that Syria has agreed to sign. US officials declined to say how quickly Syria would be required to turn over data on its chemical weapons, but Kerry has made clear it must be faster than the 60 days allowed by the convention.
Yeah, we ain't waiting forever even if it's illegal.
Kerry and Lavrov worked late into the night, holding an hourlong meeting that ended at midnight. The senior administration official said the two sides were at a “pivotal point” in the talks.”
The confrontation stems from an Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs that, according to American intelligence, killed more than 1,400 people. The United States and dozens of other countries have concluded that Assad’s government was responsible, but Syria and Russia deny that.
Once again the disputed toll and U.S. government inflation is not qualified.
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And those insurgents we are backing?
"Syrian rebel infighting leaves at least five dead" by Bassem Mroue | Associated Press, September 15, 2013
BEIRUT — Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels battled more moderate Syrian opposition fighters in a town along the Iraqi border on Saturday, killing at least five people in the latest outbreak of infighting among the forces opposed to President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Clashes between rebel groups, particularly pitting Al Qaeda-linked extremist factions against more moderate units, have grown increasingly common in recent months, undermining the primary goal of overthrowing Assad.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday’s fighting took place in the town of al-Boukamal between the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant against more mainstream rebel groups.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the more moderate rebels used mosque loudspeakers Friday to demand the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant leave Boukamal. When it was clear Saturday the ISIL had no plans to decamp, the mainstream groups attacked, Abdul-Rahman said....
The moderates are fighting Al-CIA-Duh, huh?
After months of growing tensions, infighting among Syria’s mosaic of rebel factions broke into the open in July. For a time, the clashes contributed to a sense that the rebellion was faltering, and threatened to fracture an opposition movement that has been plagued by divisions from the start.
Because no one likes foreign mercenaries coming to their country and raising hell.
The moderates once valued the expertise and resources that the Islamic extremist brigades brought to the battlefield, and rebel factions of all stripes enter into occasional alliances for specific operations. But many of the moderates now question whether such military assets are worth the trouble — not to mention the added difficulty in persuading the West to arm them.
The West has been arming them for three years. WTF, MSM?
To the south, the Observatory said government forces shelled the village of Ghadir al-Bustan, killing at least five people, including a child and a woman. The town is on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Are you sure it was the Syrian government and not some Israeli false flag like the alleged missile test a week ago, jewspaper?
The area has witnessed clashes over the past days and shells have fallen in the past on the Israeli-occupied side.
In the central province of Hama, Syrian army warplanes bombarded a rebel post in the village of Aqeirbat, killing six opposition gunmen and wounding others, according to the Observatory.
It always amazes me how on the spot my war-pushing paper is when it comes to these things by the enemy.
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The real threat to the stability of the Middle East:
"John Kerry reassures Israel on Iran; Says US still firm on nuclear stance" by Anne Gearan | Washington Post, September 16, 2013
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Jerusalem on Sunday to reassure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that the US-Russia deal to secure Syria’s chemical weapons does not diminish American resolve to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.
His real masters. He goes to Israel before he returns to AmeriKa!
Seeing the deal through the prism of Iran, the Obama administration knows that its commitment to strike Iran if diplomacy fails is now under question.
Then his presidency is over. If the Zionist string-pullers are questioning him, it's over.
So what sensational scandal is waiting to break?
President Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week’’ that Iran understands that its nuclear program is ‘‘a far larger issue for us’’ than the use of chemical weapons in Syria and that the threat a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to Israel ‘‘is much closer to our core interests.’’
Our interests?
He just admitted his administration and this government are controlled by Israel.
Obama said that Iran recognizes it should not draw the wrong conclusion because he made the decision not to launch a missile strike against Syria.
Netanyahu told Kerry that he has been closely monitoring the Syrian weapons diplomacy and supports it.
‘‘The Syrian regime must be stripped of all its chemical weapons,’’ Netanyahu said. ‘‘That would make our entire region a lot safer.’’
Getting rid of all yours would do it, too!
Kerry heads next to Paris for discussions about the Syria deal with foreign ministers from France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
The 21st-century Axis powers and collaborators.
Kerry warned that the use of military force by the United States remains on the table if Damascus does not comply with the agreement to identify and remove all its chemical weapons.
Gee, I am REALLY getting MIXED ME$$AGES from my pos war-promoter I call a jewspaper.
Netanyhu stressed that any action on Syria must be seen in the context of ‘‘the Syrian regime’s patron, Iran.’’
Just like US action must be viewed through the context of the EUSraeli Empire and the Jew World Order.
At the same time, diplomats in Israel worry that the push to have Syria sign and ratify a chemical weapons treaty, and allow for inspections of its arsenal, throws an unwelcome spotlight on the secretive chemical and nuclear arsenal that Israel has built next door.
Related: How Israel Got the Nuclear Bomb
Doesn't it make you mad that Israel was spying on us, American?
Also see: Israel Amassed Chemical Weapons Arsenal, CIA Document Says
And they have known about it for a long, long time.
And why wouldn't they? We gave them the stuff!
Israel, which is presumed to have nuclear weapons and also is suspected of at least some chemical weapons capability, is worried that the Syria deal could reinvigorate calls that the entire Middle East be rid of weapons of mass destruction.
Haven't they declared them? Don't we already know?
Or is there a DOUBLE STANDARD at WORK here?
Yeah, GOD FORBID Israel would have to give up its horrific weapons.
That theme is likely to run through much of the discussion of the Syria arrangement during the annual UN General Assembly later this month.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia earlier said that Syria’s chemical weapons exist as a response to Israel’s military capabilities.
It is called DETERRENCE and it is OKAY if USrael does it!
Russian diplomats have said that Syria’s chemical arsenal has served as a deterrent against Israel, which has not acknowledged possession of nuclear or chemical weapons.
What was that second part again.
Israel signed a chemical weapons convention in 1993, which signals a country’s intent to abide by an accord, but does not bind it to do so. Israel never ratified the treaty.
Netanyahu’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, said in an interview Sunday that Israel does not intend to ratify the chemical weapons convention, because its neighbors still cannot be trusted.
That's chutzpah, and remember what Israel accuses of others are CRIMES it is GUILTY OF ITSELF! We ALL KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THAT!
‘‘Israel has its reasons not to ratify it,’’ Elkin said. ‘‘We are still facing these issues — such as calls to destroy the State of Israel from countries that still have access to these kinds of weapons.’’
Where? I haven't heard any. I saw a misquote from an out-of-office Iranian president and that's it.
Besides, Israel is doing a good enough job at it by itself.
Emily Landau, an expert in arms control at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said that Israel’s wariness is understandable. In 2005, for example, Syria in formal declarations told the United Nations that it had no chemical weapons, a claim that has been proved false.
Amazing, isn't it? If Israel's wariness is understandable, imagine how PALESTINIANS (strangely silent about that is my jewspaper) FEEL about an ARMED NEIGHBOR that has not declared chemical or nuclear weapons and one that HAS USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS on them!
Add to that the implication that poow widdle Iswahell, indeed the whole world, was lied to by the Syrians justifies their retention of the horrible weapons that have so outraged John (Kohn) Kerry.
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So how can they get this war off the ground, 'eh?
"Turkey says it shot down Syrian helicopter" by Desmond Butler | Associated Press, September 17, 2013
ISTANBUL — A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Syrian military helicopter on Monday after it entered Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave, an official said.
The helicopter strayed more than 1 mile into Turkish airspace but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, told reporters in Ankara.
Then it WAS NEVER IN TURKISH AIRSPACE, or they SHOT IT DOWN in SYRIAN TERRITORY!
Arinc said he did not have any information on the fate of the Syrian pilots, but Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said rebel fighters captured one of the pilots, while the fate of the other one was unclear.
The incident is bound to increase tension on an already volatile border. Turkey has been at odds with the Syrian government since early in the country’s civil war and has backed the Syrian rebels, while advocating international intervention in the conflict.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking in Paris after meetings about Syria with his counterparts from other countries, said Monday’s encounter should send a message.
‘‘Nobody will dare to violate Turkey’s borders in any way again,’’ he said, according to Anatolia, the Turkish state-run news agency. ‘‘The necessary measures have been taken.’’
Arinc noted that the Turkish military had put its forces on a higher state of alert and changed the rules for engaging with the Syrian military along the border because of ‘‘constant harassment fire from the other side.’’
So it is going to be a Turkish false flag, huh? Their government is close to Israel!
He also noted that a Turkish jet was shot down by Syrian antiaircraft over the Mediterranean in June 2012.
Related: Turkey a NATO Tool
That really set me off then.
Turkey says it was hit in international airspace, but Syria insisted it was flying low inside Syrian airspace.
Shells from the Syrian conflict have occasionally rained down on the Turkish side of the border.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has warned Damascus that his country would not tolerate any violation of the border by Syrian forces.
But it's okay for him to host insurgent training camps and move weapons over it and into Syria.
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What, my war-mongering, false flag promoting, agenda-pushing jewspaper left that out?
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, the American people weigh in on the matter:
"In Iowa, Biden praises diplomatic effort in Syria; Vice president plays down threat of military force" by Thomas Beaumont | Associated Press, September 16, 2013
INDIANOLA, Iowa — Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to a decidedly antiwar audience in Iowa on Sunday, played down the Obama administration’s pledge to use military force to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
Related: The Globe's First-in-the-Nation Democratic Primary
I don't think Joe is going to do well there.
National public opinion polls show a military strike on Syria is unpopular, especially with Democrats.
It is not just unpopular, it is a HATED THOUGHT!
The vice president worked to stoke hope that the diplomatic solution would work.
I've lost all hope in this administration, sorry.
Making the administration’s first trip outside Washington since Obama’s speech to the nation Tuesday, Biden said Obama ‘‘is the reason the world is facing up finally, finally to this hideous prospect of this largest stockpile of chemical weapons.’’
So Biden is just as delusional as his boss, huh?
There was no applause for his Syria comments from the audience, supporters of Harkin, a veteran Democrat popular with his party’s antiwar activists.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Harkin Hears a Who
That's why he is not running for reelection. But he's a good antiwar Democrat (as if there were such a thing).
But listeners rose to their feet and cheered loudly when Biden ticked through the economic gains the country has made since Obama took office, improvements the vice president could benefit from, should they continue, if he runs for president in 2016.
Related:
"Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families — those earning less than $20,000 — have topped 21 percent, nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression."
History will record the current one as the Grand Depression.
"The 400 people posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever. The increases aren’t surprising, given that net worth for the wealthiest people has risen in the years since the financial crisis, widening the gap between the exceptionally well-to-do and the rest of the country."
Yeah, that was TRILLION with a CAPITAL T!
"Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, the top 1 percent have enjoyed the benefits of rising corporate profits and stock prices: 95 percent of the income gains reported since 2009 have gone to the top 1 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent."
Which means the remaining 99% saw a decline when the Fed's monetary inflation is taken into account.
Yup, corporate profits hit a record high and are in a golden age but the labor market $till $tinks. Judging by the time frame, this economy is on the verge of collapse -- thus the need to rush to war!
"The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of US households, a report released Tuesday said."
Then the "recession" never ended, and we are in the midst of the Great Depression, but everything's all right, yes, everything's fine, we want you to sleep well tonight.
Those are the benefits of the economy for Joe Biden in 2016?
This really sickening s*** to read, folks, but I guess it is understandable considering the source.
Biden praised Harkin as the ‘‘conscience of the Senate,’’ and the senator also raised hope the US-Russian proposal would resolve the Syria issue.
Then why is he quitting when we need him most?
‘‘We didn’t lose one American life,’’ Harkin said, in introducing Biden. ‘‘That’s leadership, folks, that’s leadership.’’
They LEAD US to the BRINK of DISASTER and have to be PULLED BACK by the WORLD YELLING NO, NO, HELL NO -- and they called it "LEADERSHIP?!"
This makes me want to VOMIT!
The hopeful tone in Biden’s and Harkin’s remarks came despite Obama’s warning in an interview Sunday, ‘‘if diplomacy fails, the United States remains prepared to act.’’
Obama, who rode an antiwar wave to victory in Iowa’s 2008 presidential caucuses, had proposed limited air strikes in Syria in response to what the United States says was a chemical weapons attack last month that killed more than 1,400 people.
He RODE a WAVE of ANTIWAR SENTIMENT? Talk about REWRITING and REVISING HISTORY! OMG!!
And ONCE AGAIN that DISPUTED DEATH TOLL is UNQUALIFIED!
Related: Obomber Expanding Syrian Strike
Oh, right, mouthpiece.
His administration blames the government of President Bashar Assad.
Some Democrats who were in attendance said that even if the president later orders a military strike, Obama will not have rushed to war.
Are those the ANTIWAR DEMOCRAPS I have been reading about?
‘‘At the end of the day, if that terrible option has to be played out, this crowd, what they voted for Barack Obama to do, what they wanted, was this kind of leadership: smart, thoughtful, not reactionary,’’ said Sue Dvorsky, former state party chairwoman.
Then WHY ISN'T HE DOING IT?
Oh, yeah, btw, I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM!
His own party cool to a military strike, Obama has struggled to win support for military action from members of Congress, whose constituents have endured more than a decade of war.
That's right, and IT IS TIME for the LIES and the WARS BASED on THEM to END!!
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Have you SEEN the LIGHT yet?
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Russia opposes use of force in Syria resolution
Those Russian rays seem pretty bright. He must be blind if he can't see them.
So how can they get this war off the ground, 'eh?
"Turkey says it shot down Syrian helicopter" by Desmond Butler | Associated Press, September 17, 2013
ISTANBUL — A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Syrian military helicopter on Monday after it entered Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave, an official said.
The helicopter strayed more than 1 mile into Turkish airspace but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, told reporters in Ankara.
Then it WAS NEVER IN TURKISH AIRSPACE, or they SHOT IT DOWN in SYRIAN TERRITORY!
Arinc said he did not have any information on the fate of the Syrian pilots, but Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said rebel fighters captured one of the pilots, while the fate of the other one was unclear.
The incident is bound to increase tension on an already volatile border. Turkey has been at odds with the Syrian government since early in the country’s civil war and has backed the Syrian rebels, while advocating international intervention in the conflict.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking in Paris after meetings about Syria with his counterparts from other countries, said Monday’s encounter should send a message.
‘‘Nobody will dare to violate Turkey’s borders in any way again,’’ he said, according to Anatolia, the Turkish state-run news agency. ‘‘The necessary measures have been taken.’’
Arinc noted that the Turkish military had put its forces on a higher state of alert and changed the rules for engaging with the Syrian military along the border because of ‘‘constant harassment fire from the other side.’’
So it is going to be a Turkish false flag, huh? Their government is close to Israel!
He also noted that a Turkish jet was shot down by Syrian antiaircraft over the Mediterranean in June 2012.
Related: Turkey a NATO Tool
That really set me off then.
Turkey says it was hit in international airspace, but Syria insisted it was flying low inside Syrian airspace.
Shells from the Syrian conflict have occasionally rained down on the Turkish side of the border.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has warned Damascus that his country would not tolerate any violation of the border by Syrian forces.
But it's okay for him to host insurgent training camps and move weapons over it and into Syria.
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What, my war-mongering, false flag promoting, agenda-pushing jewspaper left that out?
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, the American people weigh in on the matter:
"In Iowa, Biden praises diplomatic effort in Syria; Vice president plays down threat of military force" by Thomas Beaumont | Associated Press, September 16, 2013
INDIANOLA, Iowa — Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to a decidedly antiwar audience in Iowa on Sunday, played down the Obama administration’s pledge to use military force to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
Related: The Globe's First-in-the-Nation Democratic Primary
I don't think Joe is going to do well there.
National public opinion polls show a military strike on Syria is unpopular, especially with Democrats.
It is not just unpopular, it is a HATED THOUGHT!
The vice president worked to stoke hope that the diplomatic solution would work.
I've lost all hope in this administration, sorry.
Making the administration’s first trip outside Washington since Obama’s speech to the nation Tuesday, Biden said Obama ‘‘is the reason the world is facing up finally, finally to this hideous prospect of this largest stockpile of chemical weapons.’’
So Biden is just as delusional as his boss, huh?
There was no applause for his Syria comments from the audience, supporters of Harkin, a veteran Democrat popular with his party’s antiwar activists.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Harkin Hears a Who
That's why he is not running for reelection. But he's a good antiwar Democrat (as if there were such a thing).
But listeners rose to their feet and cheered loudly when Biden ticked through the economic gains the country has made since Obama took office, improvements the vice president could benefit from, should they continue, if he runs for president in 2016.
Related:
"Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families — those earning less than $20,000 — have topped 21 percent, nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression."
History will record the current one as the Grand Depression.
"The 400 people posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever. The increases aren’t surprising, given that net worth for the wealthiest people has risen in the years since the financial crisis, widening the gap between the exceptionally well-to-do and the rest of the country."
Yeah, that was TRILLION with a CAPITAL T!
"Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, the top 1 percent have enjoyed the benefits of rising corporate profits and stock prices: 95 percent of the income gains reported since 2009 have gone to the top 1 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent."
Which means the remaining 99% saw a decline when the Fed's monetary inflation is taken into account.
Yup, corporate profits hit a record high and are in a golden age but the labor market $till $tinks. Judging by the time frame, this economy is on the verge of collapse -- thus the need to rush to war!
"The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of US households, a report released Tuesday said."
Then the "recession" never ended, and we are in the midst of the Great Depression, but everything's all right, yes, everything's fine, we want you to sleep well tonight.
Those are the benefits of the economy for Joe Biden in 2016?
This really sickening s*** to read, folks, but I guess it is understandable considering the source.
Biden praised Harkin as the ‘‘conscience of the Senate,’’ and the senator also raised hope the US-Russian proposal would resolve the Syria issue.
Then why is he quitting when we need him most?
‘‘We didn’t lose one American life,’’ Harkin said, in introducing Biden. ‘‘That’s leadership, folks, that’s leadership.’’
They LEAD US to the BRINK of DISASTER and have to be PULLED BACK by the WORLD YELLING NO, NO, HELL NO -- and they called it "LEADERSHIP?!"
This makes me want to VOMIT!
The hopeful tone in Biden’s and Harkin’s remarks came despite Obama’s warning in an interview Sunday, ‘‘if diplomacy fails, the United States remains prepared to act.’’
Obama, who rode an antiwar wave to victory in Iowa’s 2008 presidential caucuses, had proposed limited air strikes in Syria in response to what the United States says was a chemical weapons attack last month that killed more than 1,400 people.
He RODE a WAVE of ANTIWAR SENTIMENT? Talk about REWRITING and REVISING HISTORY! OMG!!
And ONCE AGAIN that DISPUTED DEATH TOLL is UNQUALIFIED!
Related: Obomber Expanding Syrian Strike
Oh, right, mouthpiece.
His administration blames the government of President Bashar Assad.
Some Democrats who were in attendance said that even if the president later orders a military strike, Obama will not have rushed to war.
Are those the ANTIWAR DEMOCRAPS I have been reading about?
‘‘At the end of the day, if that terrible option has to be played out, this crowd, what they voted for Barack Obama to do, what they wanted, was this kind of leadership: smart, thoughtful, not reactionary,’’ said Sue Dvorsky, former state party chairwoman.
Then WHY ISN'T HE DOING IT?
Oh, yeah, btw, I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM!
His own party cool to a military strike, Obama has struggled to win support for military action from members of Congress, whose constituents have endured more than a decade of war.
That's right, and IT IS TIME for the LIES and the WARS BASED on THEM to END!!
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Have you SEEN the LIGHT yet?
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Russia opposes use of force in Syria resolution
Those Russian rays seem pretty bright. He must be blind if he can't see them.
