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Chuck Todd: Obama Didn't Want To Go Public With Syrian Chemical Weapons Evidence
NewsBusters.org ^ | April 28, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 04/28/2013 12:02:25 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: GreyFriar

Hmm, I did not realize that Brian Wilson was not on FOX News anymore.


21 posted on 04/28/2013 1:26:41 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: SunkenCiv

You are welcome


22 posted on 04/28/2013 1:29:58 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Regardless of where the chemweps came from, Obama didn’t want to ‘go public’ with the information that they have been used because it illustrates that his blustering about a ‘red line’ meant pretty much the same as everything he says: nothing.

Now he’s been exposed to the country and the world as a bad poker player, and he’s trying to pretend that we don’t have enough evidence that they were used. And trying to figure out what he can do to save face, avoid making difficult leadership decisions and not get himself (and ‘Mommy’) all wee-wee’d up...

What a jackass.


23 posted on 04/28/2013 1:33:32 PM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Kaslin

He also doesn’t want to investigate the Boston bombers for fear it will reveal an overseas Islamic connection. And the MSM certainly won’t press for the truth. More will die to protect his lie.


24 posted on 04/28/2013 1:41:54 PM PDT by Spok
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To: GreyFriar
Former CIA Director Porter Goss was on the WMAL Radio Morning Show (630 AM/105.9 FM) This past Friday (26 Apr 2013) morning. He said that the Russians helped the Iraqis move the WMDs to Syria during the 6 months that Bush spent trying to convince (at Tony Blair’s urging) the UN that Iraq had WMDs and an invasion to seize them was needed. Goss said that the convoys were going out at night and crossing into Syria.

WOW!

That really needs a separate thread.

25 posted on 04/28/2013 1:45:52 PM PDT by what's up
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To: okie01

Read post #16.


26 posted on 04/28/2013 1:47:43 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Kaslin

They crossed Zero’s bright red line. Now what? Does that mean he’ll have to do something?

It’s too bad, because it was a great sounding phrase.

I have an idea. Just mutter some platitudes and move on to something else.


27 posted on 04/28/2013 1:49:17 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Kaslin

0bungles writes checks his arse can’t cash.


28 posted on 04/28/2013 2:00:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: Kaslin
Reuters, AFP, NYTimes, and the BBC are the four major news sources in Syria.

They all avidly support the destruction of Assad.

They all avidly support the victory of the Islamic Brotherhood, which is Obama’s chosen favorite also.

Assad is a bad man, but, by and large, he has not been an aggressive threat to Israel and America.

The Brotherhood, in contrast, is vehemently anti-American and anti-Israel.

I have never believed the MSM’s estimated death toll in this war - 70,000, which comes out to more than 100 deaths each day.

And I have never believed the endless rumors about Assad's use of chemical weapons on civilians.

It makes no sense.

Assad has at least half a dozen countries he can flee to and save his life.

If he uses chemical weapons, he will be a pariah, and he will have to bet his life that the Iranian regime will protect him.

29 posted on 04/28/2013 2:04:22 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Spok

Of course the 0bama media won’t press him for the truth. He got them right in his pocket


30 posted on 04/28/2013 2:10:36 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Too bad it wasn't a "line in the sand".

Problem is, Obama's line will probably turn red--with blood!

31 posted on 04/28/2013 2:11:18 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement.--or one's family--)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, puleeez. Bammy goes “public” with anything that is convenient to provide distractions to his FAILED presidency when he feels like it. Too bad he’s opted to NOT go public with Benghazi and Fast and Furious.


32 posted on 04/28/2013 2:18:29 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Kaslin

In other words, they are really concerned they will have to a) admit Bush was right about WMDs in Iraq and b) do something. But Zero is incapable of doing anything in the best interest of the U.S. I bet giving the order to kill OBL was absolutely gut wrenching for him, because he knew he had to do it or get kicked out in 2012.


33 posted on 04/28/2013 2:23:51 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: plain talk
An Iraqi Air force General has testified and even written a book about this subject, that Iraq had WMD and leading up to the invasion by the US and others as the UN finally gave the go-ahead, Iraq sent the WMD to Syria!

What this General and many others found so difficult to understand, is why Geo. W. Bush would rather claim either not to know what happened to the WMD (when they clearly did know, know that it was sent to Syria), at the cost to his Administration, at the cost of leaving others who knew exactly what happened, but claim not to know and allow leftists, the media and many political enemies, claim "Bush lied, people died!"

Did the administration deny knowing what happened because they feared having to take on Syria while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time, did they fear Syria's launching nuclear and/or chemical weapons against Israel, it is anyone's guest but now another administration is refusing to tell the truth about Syria and chemical weapons.

What's the deal?

34 posted on 04/28/2013 2:32:11 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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Did the administration deny knowing what happened because they feared having to take on Syria while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time, did they fear Syria's launching nuclear and/or chemical weapons against Israel, it is anyone's guest but now another administration is refusing to tell the truth about Syria and chemical weapons.

I think that is likely. also .. don't forget Dubya was embarrassed on the world stage for claiming at the UN that Iraq had WMDs but were never able to conclusively prove it to the world. How would they prove the weapons were in Syria or that they ever really made it to Syria? As you say they weren't going to invade Syria to get them. By then Dubya had had enough of all of it I am afraid ... and likely said we had to let this go and move on. Unfortunately it was an opening the dems relished and used to destroy him politically. conservatives turned against him because he fully exposed his "compassionate" conservative crap. That was definitely the turning point.

35 posted on 04/28/2013 3:17:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: GreyFriar

I remember seeing satellite photos of large truck convoys moving at night from Iraq to Syria just before we invaded Iraq. I was sure they were carrying WMDs that Saddam didn’t want us to find. However, if the WMDs were chemical shells or bombs, the ingredients are probably too degraded to use after all this time.


36 posted on 04/28/2013 3:19:19 PM PDT by zot
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To: zot

Mustard gas (phosgene) has a long ‘shelf life’ i.e. decades. If the Sarin is binary, then it too should have a couple of decade life.


37 posted on 04/28/2013 3:24:00 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks. I knew mustard gas has a long shelf life, but I didn’t know about Sarin.


38 posted on 04/28/2013 3:32:53 PM PDT by zot
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To: what's up
Read post #16.

I did.

Doesn't change the fact that Syria had their own WMD program and was, in fact, producing chemical warfare weapons.

Chemical weapons degrade over time. Therefore, it is likely that any chemical weapons used were of recent Syrian production rather than Iraqi inventory.

39 posted on 04/28/2013 3:41:13 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Kaslin

Blame the Jooz.


40 posted on 04/28/2013 3:51:20 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (And winter is coming.)
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