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U.S.: Assad used chemical weapons against Syrian opposition
The Washington Times ^
| Thursday, June 13, 2013
| By Julie Pace and Matthew Lee - Associated Press
Posted on 06/13/2013 2:34:48 PM PDT by wouldilie
WASHINGTON The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assads regime has used chemical weapons against the opposition seeking to overthrow him, U.S. officials said Thursday, crossing what President Barack Obama has called a red line that would trigger greater American involvement in the crisis.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/13/us-assad-used-chemical-weapons-against-syrian-oppo/
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; israel; lebanon; pestcontrol; redline; russia; syria; waronterror
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
To: wouldilie
Seems governments tend to mess with opposition everwhere these days.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:52:11 PM PDT
by
HollyB
To: wouldilie
Maybe Assad used poison gas, maybe he didn't, but Obama saying he did adds nothing to the credibility of the charge and Obama is busy aiding the more radical terrorists who are fighting Assad. In a choice between two terrible alternatives, Obama will pick the worse, more anti-
American and the one who will kill the Christians. The US had no business being involved, but this will be another step in Obama’s drive to create the Greater Caliphate.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:52:59 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: wouldilie
Plan A to weather the economic collapse due to their debt load was to install a totalitarian police state and eliminate their political opposition. Now that their plans have been exposed, it is on to Plan B. World War III. Some real heavy thinkers we have in DC.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Amen to that!
Have we not lost, maimed and crippled enough heroes? Have we not spilled enough American blood in the sands of the Middle East?
NO MORE, I say. Not a drop of American blood for Syria, not an American dollar for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:54:42 PM PDT
by
faucetman
( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: ex-snook
No, I think the CIA guys are pretty good at not getting killed when these operations are run.
Then again, the only way we’d know is if the CIA announced another star on that wall.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:55:02 PM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: wouldilie
GOOD! F the muslim brotherhood!
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:55:27 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
To: exit82
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:55:38 PM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on...)
To: wouldilie
I don’t care what Assad does.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:55:44 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: faucetman
Did you see the accidental video out of Egypt? They talk about their war on America while we give them billions.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:57:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: exit82
Of course they were Saddam’s! If Assad had them, then we can be positive Saddam would have had them, too. If Assad didn’t get them until Saddam was being overthrown, then there is nowhere else he could have gotten them. We already know semi-trucks were going across to Syria bringing cash, luxury items AND weapons. Only a fool (hello, Liberals) still thinks Iraq’s WMDs were the lies of the Bush Administration.
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posted on
06/13/2013 2:58:20 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
To: wouldilie
The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assads regime has used chemical weapons against the opposition seeking to overthrow him, U.S. officials said Thursday, crossing what President Barack Obama has called a red line that would trigger greater American involvement in the crisis.
A full six months after it became perfectly obvious to just about everybody else that Assad was using chemical weapons, Obama comes to the conclusion that Assad was using chemical weapons.
That's some fine detective work, Barky. I'm real glad you're on the case.
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:01:16 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: wouldilie
For years, USA has supported dictators around the world because they determined they were a lot easier to deal with (or buy out) than Islamic democracies or theocracies.
The new philosophy seems to be to allow hardcore Islamists to take over.
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:01:53 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
To: wouldilie
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:11:37 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
To: Truth29
That’s pretty much the way I see it.
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:36:32 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: Girlene
and now Drudge has up that the US will provide military support to Syria rebels. Isn’t that just great (not).
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:38:43 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: boatbums
"Of course they were Saddams! If Assad had them, then we can be positive Saddam would have had them, too. If Assad didnt get them until Saddam was being overthrown, then there is nowhere else he could have gotten them. We already know semi-trucks were going across to Syria bringing cash, luxury items AND weapons. Only a fool (hello, Liberals) still thinks Iraqs WMDs were the lies of the Bush Administration."
There is another possibility: We shipped them from Benghazi through Turkey to set up a false flag operations carried out by the rebels in order to blame Assad. Assad has long known that the EU and the US has just been looking for the excuse of WMD use in order to intervene, so why would he give them the rationale on a sliver platter?
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posted on
06/13/2013 3:47:37 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: exit82
Syria has an advanced chemical and biological weapons program.
More than likely, the weapons were of Syrian design/manufacture, but “leftovers” from Saddam can’t be ruled out. Just ask James Clapper, who made that claim back in 2003
To: wouldilie
You can imagine how damaging Glenn Beck’s upcoming revelations must be if Obama thinks he has to get us officially involved in a war to get them off the front pages.
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Well, so be it, chemical weapons not being new news. As Samantha Power would tell the President, 90,000 dead, who cares, unless they used chemical weapons. Iran and Hizbollah having a substantial presence in this hemisphere for a long time, I'm sure we're ready for any reprecussions. After all, we have their phone calls. Assad is winning, which I suspect is the real issue. At least McCain admits it. In view of our forthcoming escalation, wonder what the USSR, sorry Russia, new people now, does. Wouldn't take much to pay us back for Afghanistan. Give the good terrorists weapons (money) to fight the bad terrorists (not that long ago folk like Nancy Pelosi thought Assad was the good terrorit), OK. Military force, not my choice but we better be prepared to win on behalf of our Sunni allies. Wonder if the Saudis and Egypt will ever use the arms we sell them for something other than attacking Israel. Call up the Turks too, they've got overwhelming force to put Assad to bed, and a base of operations in Turkey. Don't need us, don't even need the Euros.
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posted on
06/13/2013 4:17:39 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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