Posted on 07/08/2013 8:16:03 PM PDT by haffast
U.S. sources told the Reuters news agency on Monday that congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The delay is over fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist rebel groups.
Both the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees have expressed reservations behind closed doors at the effort by President Barack Obama's administration to support the insurgents by sending them military hardware, the sources told Reuters.
There has been growing pressure to arm the Syrian rebels, particularly since the U.S. government confirmed that the Syrian army used chemical weapons against rebel forces on multiple occasions, thus violating the “red line” set by Obama.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Exclusive: Congress delaying U.S. aid to Syrian rebels - sources
By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON | Mon Jul 8, 2013 6:55pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/08/us-usa-syria-arms-idUSBRE96713N20130708
Stop all money to EGYPT!! IT VIOLATES THE LAW!!
House of Representatives intelligence committees...
Actually, now is the time to fund their military as they put down the Muslim Brotherhood.
Congress can still control Zer0 if they so desire?
Doesn’t the House get it? The White House and the MB are joined at the hip, and we are supposed to be their b*tches to fund jihad in order to make the world safe for the one-world caliphate, where we will all be doomed to permanent dhimmi status (or worse) if we do not convert to the religion of pieces.
I mean, the House seems to get the piece about opening our borders to hordes of illegal invaders, ... so, why the sudden hesitation about supporting al-Qaeda in Syria with arms to kill Syrian Christians...?+
Come on, Mr Boehner — stop playing coy, and get with the program! /sarc
Further involvement beyond medical care and political involvement into the resolution of an agreement is unwarranted. The Muslim factions are too diffuse to separate any military approach to taking “sides.”
This is just another political failure doomed to similar inadequate policies as Afghanistan and Iraq among other foreign intrigue that America has been involved with since WW2.
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