Posted on 07/14/2012 1:13:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that she is outraged by reports of a new massacre in Syria.
The Associated Press reported that Clinton demanded that the UN Security Council take action to stop the violence in Syria.
Clinton said in a statement that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is deliberately murdering innocent civilians as it tries to put down 16 months of unrest and that history will judge the Security Council if it fails to act.
“History will judge this council,” she said, according to AP. “Its members must ask themselves whether continuing to allow the Assad regime to commit unspeakable violence against its own people is the legacy they want to leave.”
Although she did not mention them by name, Clinton's warning was directed at Russia and China, which have blocked previous UN efforts to impose sanctions on Syria.
Earlier, AP reported, UN chief Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian government of violating UN resolutions by using heavy weapons against the village of Tremseh, where some reports said as many as 250 were killed.
Ban was quoted by AP as having urged the council to take "collective action" in response.
Ban and Clinton’s condemnations join that of Kofi Annan, the UN special envoy to Syria, who said on Friday he was “shocked and appalled” by the massacre in Tremseh.
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Has cankles expressed outrage at an inept foreign policy that negotiates with the Taliban...you remember the Taliban, right? The misogynistic pricks who laugh as women are murdered and who killed a half dozen American boys this past week....that Taliban.
Where was the outrage over Rwanda, China, North Korea and Saddam Hssein? Remember, according to the libs, we invaded Iraq over Bush’s concern with WMD’s, not human rights.
Day by day, I am waiting for Obama’s “Persian Gulf of Tonkin Incident” to kick it off.
History already judged that council a long, long time ago. It had this to say about it: ....j (supposed to be thumbs down)
Thanks Eleutheria5.
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