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Panetta: No military action in Syria without UN OK
CBS News ^ | 5/31/12 | Staff

Posted on 06/01/2012 9:25:00 AM PDT by SaraJohnson

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he does not see the U.S. taking military action in Syria without the backing of a U.N. Security Council resolution — something that so far appears unlikely because of opposition from Russia.

Panetta says his greatest responsibility is to make sure that if U.S. troops are deployed in any military role that America has the support it needs from the international community.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; panetta; syria; un; usmilitary; waronterror

1 posted on 06/01/2012 9:25:12 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

The World’s Police Chief hiding behind the UN.. uhhh

why do we have a UN again?


2 posted on 06/01/2012 9:28:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: SaraJohnson

We need to stay out of this. It’s none of our business. Leave it up to the Middle East to handle their own problems.


3 posted on 06/01/2012 9:30:30 AM PDT by RC2 (Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
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To: SaraJohnson

I can see Osama starting something to try for the “rally around the flag” gambit to save his reelection.


4 posted on 06/01/2012 9:30:49 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: SaraJohnson
Panetta says his greatest responsibility is to make sure that if U.S. troops are deployed in any military role that America has the support it needs from the international community.

No, you old commie. Your greatest responsibility is to protect the United States of America.

January 20th can not come fast enough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

5 posted on 06/01/2012 9:33:12 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
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To: RC2; All

Salve

Agree. Stay out of this totally. They have been killing each other for centuries, it is internal and political struggle that goes back long before United States even existed.

Merci.


6 posted on 06/01/2012 9:34:18 AM PDT by MCSP2008 (Romanian native > ESL)
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To: RC2

“Leave it up to the Middle East to handle their own problems.”
Agreed. After seeing those muzzies jumping for joy, while our people were jumping out of the WT towers. I could ‘shiv-agit’ what happens to them.


7 posted on 06/01/2012 9:35:48 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: SaraJohnson

Syria is not our fight... just as Libya wasn’t... yet watch Obama decide he needs a diversion from the hum-drum of economic failure to buck up his base.


8 posted on 06/01/2012 9:35:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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And Russia didn’t show for the Camp David meeting because???Hmmm wonder why...so he didn’t get lectured by Obama??


9 posted on 06/01/2012 9:41:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ScottinVA

As long as we pay the bill, expect the UN to send the US military everywhere, all the time, for anything.

especilly if it makes a good photo op for Brave Sir Barry.


10 posted on 06/01/2012 9:42:08 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: exit82

Salve

I think your country has enough problems of their own then dealing with something that has been going on for centuries.

Panetta is losing his steam.

Merci.


11 posted on 06/01/2012 9:43:46 AM PDT by MCSP2008 (Romanian native > ESL)
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To: ScottinVA

Without the UN huh? And no mention of the U.S. Congress??? Hmmmmmmmmm


12 posted on 06/01/2012 9:44:27 AM PDT by Mac94
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To: SaraJohnson

Don’t worry,Kofi Annan, UN Envoy, may be “Impatient and frustrated,” but he is handing things just fine. Just as he did on the dusty trails of Rwanda when the Hutu’s came a callin’....


13 posted on 06/01/2012 9:45:57 AM PDT by donozark (One in four Confederate Soldiers who fell at Gettysburg came from North Carolina.)
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To: SaraJohnson

no military action without approval of Congress


14 posted on 06/01/2012 10:08:36 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SaraJohnson

How about no US involvement in Syria without Congressional OK?


15 posted on 06/01/2012 10:12:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SaraJohnson

Sure. Why not? No need for Congress—it’s only a ceremonial body. We have the president and the UN—just like the constitution requires.......................


16 posted on 06/01/2012 12:04:28 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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