Syria: Samantha Power deployed to convince liberals of case for war

The White House today deployed Samantha Power, the former human rights activist turned UN ambassador, to try to convince President Barack Obama's liberal base to support strikes against Syria.

Speaking at the Centre for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, Ms Power acknowledged "how ambivalent Americans are" at the prospect of another Middle Eastern conflict but argued there is "something different" about chemical warfare which demanded action.

Ms Power worked her way through a list of progressive objections to Mr Obama's plan for intervention, saying: "Those of us who are arguing for the limited use of force must justify our position, accepting responsibility for the risks and potential consequences of action."

She insisted that the US had "exhausted the alternatives" to war, saying that all efforts to engage the Syrians directly and through intermediaries like Iran, Russia and the UN had failed.

Ms Power also addressed concerns that Mr Obama, a president elected partly on his opposition to the Iraq war, was about to follow George W Bush's path of launching military action without the blessing of the UN.

She said Russian support for Bashar al-Assad had "paralyzed" the UN Security Council and blocked even a press statement signaling the global body's disapproval of the civilians death in Damascus on August 21.....

Hey, Sam, here's a graphic for your use in making your case to turn Syria's Christians over to obozo's muzzie pals!

Islam is a political, legal and economic system masquerading as "the religion of peace". Their "holy book" (so called) describes 3 ways for muslims to deal with NON-muslims: They may convert to islam, if useful to islam (easy to imagine when it is remembered that most muslims are stuck in the 12th century!), non-muslims may be allowed to live in "dhimmitude", a system under which infidels are heavily taxed in a form of servitude or, finally, they are to be KILLED, frequently in bizarre, grotesque and painful ways.

Before some PC/diversity/tolerance TROLL comes back with “Yeah, but Christians have also done horrible things”, I remind you that brutal acts such as this ARE NOT authorized or codified in the Christian New Testament. Unlike the Koran, It urges us simply to share Christ with non-believers, NOT SHOVE HIS CROSS DOWN THEIR THROATS AFTER MURDERING THEM. Those “Christians” who do such things do so in DEFIANCE of His instructions to us!

If there ARE any muslims out there who reject the insane and murderous commands of their so-called "prophet", they'd better speak out -- NOW -- before these psychotic criminals who claim to share their "belief system" (I can't bring myself to call it a "faith") get all of them killed in what is shaping up to be a confrontation that will make the Crusades look like a day at the beach.

If your jury is still out on the subject of "tolerance" and "diversity" vis-a-vis islam, this might cause it to reach a verdict! It might also cause you to ask why obama and his criminal enterprise is aiding and abetting these radical beasts over the more secular and Christian friendly (or at least neutral) Assad regime?

I can't prove it, but the way they trussed her up on that bed screams that she was almost certainly brutally gang raped before they killed her! These people are SAVAGES!!! Bet you haven't seen any detailed reports of this sort of thing on the networks or the NYT.

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