Posted on 04/25/2013 9:51:00 AM PDT by servo1969
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday the U.S. intelligence community believes the Syrian regime used the chemical weapon sarin, a revelation that immediately raised the question of whether a "red line" had been crossed in the country's civil war.
Hagel confirmed the intelligence assessment, which was detailed in a letter to select members of Congress, while speaking to reporters on a visit to Abu Dhabi. The administration swiftly released those letters, which said U.S. intelligence determined with varying degrees of confidence that "the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."
The White House stressed that this was not enough to confirm how the nerve gas was released -- though acknowledged it is "very likely" to have originated with the regime of Bashar Assad -- and pressed the United Nations for a "comprehensive" investigation. The letter from the White House director of the Office of Legislative Affairs to leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the assessment was based in part on "physiological samples."
Secretary of State John Kerry further confirmed that there were two documented instances of chemical weapons use.
The assessment is likely to prompt calls for more serious consideration of intervention. President Obama has said the use of chemical weapons would be a "game-changer" in the U.S. position on intervening in the two-year-old Syrian civil war. Obama said last August that "a red line for us" would be the movement or use of chemical weapons, adding "that would change my calculus."
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested Thursday the "red line" had been crossed. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., also said the assessment is "deeply troubling, and if correct, means, that President Obama's redline has certainly been crossed."
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Even if true, not our fight.
Let them all kill each other. Israel braucht lebens raum.
penelopesire said, “Screw Syria..let them handle their own crap.”
ScottinVA said, “Unless Israel is threatened, this is NOT our fight.”
Agreed. With both of you. Keep our noses out. We have more than enough problems here at home. Unless, of course, you’re a member of the nobama regime. They have no problems at all.
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“Varying degrees of confidence....” - Hagel
- It seems to me that “Mr. Nobel Peace Prize” is moving fast towards getting American troops and aircraft involved in Syria - plus (R-AZ) Senator McCain and (R-SC) Senator Graham
“Look! Something shiny over there!”
- Gun Control bill is going nowhere
- “Immigration Reform” is facing delays after Boston -
- Benghazi - “Hillary lied!”
We do not need to put our soldiers in another bloddy and expensive Mid-East mess now - “Poison Gas by Syria!” sounds a little to convenient to me - especially when money, weapons, troops would be going to help Muslims tied to Al Quada - Muslim Brotherhood - sweet bunch
- Now NYC Mayor Bloomberg says:
“Hey! - They were going to bomb Times Square in NYC! Honest!”
Hearsay - I say -
This is only based upon what Bloomberg and others allege the highjacked Mercedes SUV was told by the two Muzzie bombers in Boston - Bloomberg has to get maximum media facetime for everything -
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The North Korean fear mongering propaganda pooped out.
=> Insert Syria.
Step up to the trough boys, slop is being served.
YEP....I feel the same way...especially when I heard McCain is saying the Whitehouse isn’t wanting to go in....well...gee...maybe for once they should NOT. I wouldn’t want any relative of mine there....let them destroy themselves.
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FBI sez:
“NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Times Square Bomb Attack’ scenario is ‘aspirational at best’”
Bloomie just can’t help jumping in front of the cameras!
Well - his fortune jumped from 6 billion to over 12 billion while he has been Mayor - and still running Bloomberg Inc. himself even if that is illegal.
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Syria has nothing to do with us. We have bigger things to worry about right here at home. We can't even keep our White House doors open, so there's no way we can afford to waste money on other peoples civil war.
This is not going to end well one way or the other. I agree with a poster above. Get the @ell out of there and let them make waste of their own pathetic Muslim carcasses. Time to stop fighting the Jihad for them.
As unpleasant as Assad is, the Islamists who want to overthrow him are far worse in the long run.
Some people are naive enough to think that if only another Arab dictator is overthrown, we’ll have a westernized, pro-American democracy in the Middle East. Hasn’t worked out that way in other countries, has it?
They should have secured those weapons years ago. I just shudder to think of our men going in with Obama as their commander in chief. We already know he doesn’t have their backs. No way!
If we had real leaders perhaps it would be a different story.
But not now!! We just need to secure our borders and deport these people from hostile lands.
I cannot believe these liars for one moment.
Thanks.
I thought the same thing. Should be obvious to everyone, yes? Of course, even if they were those from Iraq, that would mean Bush was right. Therefore, Obama and the MSM will NEVER bring the question up!
Hagel is building the rationale for our military becoming htoly involved in taking over Syria for the al qaeda Mooselimb brotherhood. The reset needs a war to precipitate the final collapse scenarios.
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