Posted on 08/25/2013 5:35:33 AM PDT by bryan999
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said that President Obama has asked the military to "prepare options for all contingencies" as the crisis in Syria deepens following reports of a chemical weapons attack by that country's government earlier this week.
Speaking in Malaysia Sunday, where he was starting a planned one-week tour of Asia, Hagel said that the administration was still weighing whether or not to use military force against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Among the factors being discussed, Hagel said, were an intelligence assessment of the attack as well as possible international support for a military operation and what he described as legal issues. "President Obama has asked the Defense Department to prepare options for all contingencies. We have done that and we are prepared to exercise whatever option -- if he decides to employ one of those options,'' Hagel said.
Obama had met earlier Saturday with top national security advisers, but will continue to gather facts before deciding on a course of action, the White House said.
Meanwhile Fox News has confirmed that four U.S. Navy Destroyers are being pre-positioned in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, although no immediate instructions beyond deployment have been issued.
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By all means, let’s see Chuck, Juan and Linseed go fight the Syrian army. Just leave Americans who are sick of being involved in the Middle East alone.
Hagel will talk big but President Valerie “Stand Down” Jarrett will have the last word.
Sorry, folks, can't party this time.
Nobody believed their gassing hoax but it’s no matter.
Estimated cost for a Syrian incursion: $50 BILLION——PER DAY.
NO! NO! and HELL NO!
It sounds crazy, but if Obama does strike Syria it may be his childish way to get back at Putin for granting asylum to Snowden.
I know how silly that sounds, but we have an incompetent child as POTUS.
Sabre rattling from the dorkiest President ever. It is to laugh!
” Among the factors being discussed, Hagel said, were an intelligence assessment of the attack as well as possible international support for a military operation and what he described as legal issues. “
‘Legal issues’ ???? .uhhh...like our constitution and a declaration of war maybe? Or are they just talking UN crap?
What an odd way to put it. Signals to me that once again, Obama has no plan to go to Congress before getting us involved in yet another war.
———Legal issues’——
The quaetion being debated in the highest positions of the Administration and the {entagon is......
“If Assad is dead, can he sue”
Come on. this administration has no credibility, no backbone, no will, no sense of American exceptionalism, no mission, no light unto the nations, no purpose and soon, no military...who is he fooling?
Putin?
Assad?
Nassralla (Hizbollah)
Iran?
The guy is a joke. If he DOES attack, it will be 37 Tomahawks, quick and an immediate speech about how it's all over, no intentions for war or for escalation followed by an apology, a bending down and an “Allah HuAkbar”...
LOL...unfortunately..that is probably the things that concern them. Not our constitution or our troops.
Time for the “I see no tanks, there are no tanks” graphic to show up again.
No chemical burns on those bodies and their faces sure don’t look distorted as if they have been gassed by any weapon of mass destruction.
My fellow Americans.
As commander & chief and in light of the Syrians regime use of unconventional WMD against his own people, tonight, I ordered the US Armed forces to launch punishing strikes against the heart of that bad regime in Damascus.
I can say that more than two hundred buildings were hit, but thanks Allah, nobody, no person of Islamic descent was injured. We even intentionally targeted fields, empty buildings and even the sea around their big naval base at Tartus.
We had the moral right and tradition to give the Syrians, and Russians, the target and coordinate lists of what we hit tonight...
Make no mistake about it, we mean what we say and we say what we mean, and... I MEAN IT!
Tonight, we sent a signal to this bad regime, that we will no longer tolerate the use of WMD.
Now, having said that, I must inform you that both the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel have absorbed more than 500 missile hits fired from Syria and the Hizbollah in Lebanon.
Though they are oour only remaining allies in the region, I regret the loss of life in both countries but we will NOT intervene on their behalf as that might jeopardize the fragile, Plaestinian-Israeli talks that were going on, prior to my strike tonight. I would not want the Palestinians, our friends, to think that due to these strikes, I somehow favor a Jewish Settler building a house in the West Bank. Let me be clear, there is no linkage between my strikes tonight and my respect and admiration for Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO..oops, I mean Palestinian Authority leader.
I extend my hand to President Putin and I say, enough is enough. Therefore, unilaterally, we are pulling all of our forces out of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
It is my sincere hope, that Mr. Putin will see this as a first step towards increased understanding between our two countries...
Without God's help, I trust that we will, in time, be not victorious but will be a balanced and moderating force in this tumultuous part of the wpr;d. So, good night and may God not bless the United States of America...
With “leaders” like clowns nobama, skerry and hagel...just what could ever go wrong??????
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