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Obama Admin. Official: Assad Will 'Still Be Able to Eat Cheerios' After U.S. Strike
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Posted on 09/09/2013 8:19:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama Admin. Official: Assad Will 'Still Be Able to Eat Cheerios' After U.S. Strike Daniel Halper September 9, 2013 11:01 AM

Syrian strongman Bashar Assad will "still be able to eat Cheerios" after a U.S. strike, but he'll have to use a fork and not a spoon. At least that's the metaphor one Obama administration official used to describe the nature of a U.S. strike to USA Today.

The strike, as envisioned, would be limited in the number of targets and done within a day or two. It could be completed in one fell swoop with missiles, said one senior official familiar with the weapons involved. A smaller, follow-on strike could be launched if targets aren't sufficiently damaged.

A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he'll still be able to eat Cheerios.


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I really don't know what to say...........
1 posted on 09/09/2013 8:19:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

If it’s so easy and so small let’s not bother putting our people in harm’s way. M’kay?


2 posted on 09/09/2013 8:20:42 AM PDT by madison10 (I miss America.)
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To: Sub-Driver
uhhh...does Assad get to keep his knife, too?

How did the US political class ever slip this far this fast?

3 posted on 09/09/2013 8:21:28 AM PDT by grania
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To: Sub-Driver

Does this mean that the Obama Administration is supplying Assad with Cheerios?


4 posted on 09/09/2013 8:21:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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To: Sub-Driver

They “knew” the results of the election
even before the citizenry voted.


5 posted on 09/09/2013 8:22:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Sub-Driver

Please pass the Fruit Loops.


6 posted on 09/09/2013 8:23:46 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: Sub-Driver
It could be completed in one fell swoop with missiles

So can nuking the whole bloody region

7 posted on 09/09/2013 8:24:02 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have no doubt this is due to the fact Obama (he of the “57 states” and “corpse-men”) believes Assad is a cereal killer.


8 posted on 09/09/2013 8:24:30 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Sub-Driver

I do, Cheerios suck.


9 posted on 09/09/2013 8:24:45 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If not satire, it’s just insane.

Meanwhile, here’s all anyone really needs to know about the US-Syria issue:

for over a year, the US has been aiding the rebels, and for months has been openly supplying them with lethal arms;

and the US, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia back the rebels.


10 posted on 09/09/2013 8:26:31 AM PDT by HomeAtLast
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To: Sub-Driver

The last grown up left the White House on January 21 at 11:50 AM, 2009.


11 posted on 09/09/2013 8:26:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Sub-Driver

Our Strategic Objective is to have no effect.

Sigh.


12 posted on 09/09/2013 8:27:41 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Are Marines required to salute Al Qaeda yet?)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Our Nation could have afforded, and can afford now, the steps necessary to close the cereal gap.”
Brack Obumagumbe


14 posted on 09/09/2013 8:28:28 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Sub-Driver

That doesn’t even make sense.

The more the Administration representatives open their mouths, the less sense they make.

Their rhetoric has turned into a mishmash of jumbled nonsensical jibberish.


15 posted on 09/09/2013 8:28:34 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Forcing Assad to eat Cheerios instead of his Peas?


16 posted on 09/09/2013 8:29:00 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Sub-Driver

17 posted on 09/09/2013 8:29:01 AM PDT by maggief
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To: madison10; All

Obama’s interest in invading non-enemy Syria has nothing to do with Syria, poison gas, or children.

Obama’s interest in bombing non-enemy Syria has everything to do with creating a long-lasting, controversial, DISTRACTION for Congress in order to keep Congress from defunding Obama”care”/Boehnerkare.

Obama’s “Red Herring” for the 9-11 Benghazi Massacre Coverup was Susan Rice’s fake Video story.

Obama’s “Red Herring” for distracting Congress until Obama”care”/ Boehnerkare kicks in October 1 is Obama’s “Crossing HIS personal Red Line” distraction speech.

Obama speaks only for Obama, not the US Federal Government or America.

REMEMBER BENGHAZI !

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“Jellyfish Spine” Boehner as Speaker of the House is essential to Obama’s continued unchallenged destruction of the US Constitution.

Nothing will change as long as cave-in artists Boehner and Cantor are in leadership roles in the US House of Representatives.

If Boehner is replaced as Speaker with a fighter such as Col. Allen West, then the Articles of Impeachment for B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, can be quickly issued.

The problem is not with Obama, as he is just doing what Communist Tyrants are trained to do.

The problem is not with Boehner, as he loves to lose and wallow in the disgrace of being the worst Speaker of the House, EVER.

The problem lies with our sorry, spineless, RINOs in the House who refuse to replace Boehner with a proven fighter.

BTW, the members of the House can choose anybody to be their Speaker, even if that person is not a current Member of the House.

Tick-tock, long-time House RINOs, tick-tock - - - - .

2 posted on September 9, 2013 9:58:45 AM CDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts’ Commune-Style Obama’care’ violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: ken5050; All
Obama and Holder are publicly speaking about their ‘plan of the week’ that are just more smokescreen distractions to divert attention away from the incompetent manner Obama has handled his day job.

The best indicator of a PHONY ADMINISTRATION is the number of its REAL SCANDALS.

Commie Tyrant Obama’s current talking points are thus smokescreen distractions for the products of Obama’s first 4 years in office:
* Refusal to close US Southern Border to Mexican illegal alien invaders
* No known un-forged records of Place of Birth
* No known un-forged records of University grades
* Benghazi Massacre
* Dereliction of Duty as CIC during Benghazi Massacre
* Cover up of Benghazi Massacre
* Destruction of Seal Team Six
* Cover up of Fast and Furious murder of US Border Agent by Exec. Order
* IRS-Obama’care” Commune Death Grip on Wealth and Health
* NSA-Gestapo Death Grip on all citizen’s communications
* Use of Courts against News Media
* Use of Supreme Court to install Un-Constitutional Obama’care’ Tax
* Destruction of the US Coal Industry
* Refusal to permit XL Pipeline construction
* Trillion Dollar a year Federal Overspending
* Monthly violations of the US Constitution by Obama
* Use of Exec. Orders to bypass Congress.

REPLACE sniveling coward Speaker Boehner with a FIGHTER!

It is time to IMPEACH Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.
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Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, (aka Barry Soetoro), continues his unopposed efforts to expand Totalitarian Obamanation in Liberty-based America.

Where are the Republican opponents of Tyrant Obama?

Why have the Articles of Impeachment for Tyrant Obama not been issued by US House Speaker Boehner, or Pro-Welfare Republicans Cantor or Ryan?

Have House and Senate Pro-Welfare Republicans formed a cave-in pact with Pro-Welfare Democrats to protect Tyrant Obama?

The main thing that Speaker Boehner is afraid of is being blamed for doing his job.

Speaker Boehner’s job now is to shut down the NON-ESSENTIAL parts of the US Federal Government until Obama’care’ is ABOLISHED, and keep it shut down for however long it takes.

Obama will continue to ruin America as long as Boehner is Speaker of the US House of Represenatives.

Four + years of Boehner has proven Boehner to be unfit to combat Tyrant Obama.

It is now up to the Members of the House to replace Boehner so that the new Speaker can shut down the non-essential parts of the US Federal Government ASAP in order to ABOLISH Obama’care.’


18 posted on 09/09/2013 8:29:44 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So what is the point of this “strike” then?

They are lying through their teeth and we know it.


19 posted on 09/09/2013 8:29:45 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Sub-Driver

um.... what the hell does that even mean???


20 posted on 09/09/2013 8:30:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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