Kerry: ‘This is not sending a message per se. This is having an effect, an impact’ #Syria #SFRC pic.twitter.com/4hvrFu0PTW
Kerry: “We did it in Bosnia ...”
There it is.
I am now at Ron Johnson. As others have said he is focused and quite skilled at sifting through the BS.
Kerry: limited, limited, limited, limited, limited......strike
Johnson: But regime change is the Obama Adm’s stated goal
Kerry: Yea but is Congress ready to pay for 30 days of 30,000 air strikes to take out-—and is there a legal justification for doing that...
[slippery, slippery]
Johnson: What do we know about the opposition? .... It seems like initially the opposition was more Western-leaning, more moderate, more democratic. As time has gone by it has degraded and more infiltrated by AlQaeda. Is that basically true?
KERRY: NO! That is actually, basically not true. That is basically incorrect. The opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation; more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to you know democratic process and to an all-inclusive minority-protecting constitution which will be broad-based and secular with respect to the future of Syria....
Hagel doesn’t know the numbers of the opposition. Demsey and Hagel REFUSE to give Johnson the breakdown between moderate vs elements of AlQaeda.
Whether or not Hezbollah has chem weapons can only be answered in classified briefing.
Kerry then gives some numbers....
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WOW! MAJOR lying and hiding going on here-— Worse than “boots on the ground.”
Note to self: Get transcript of Johnson query