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Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitates
Reuters ^ | September 1, 2013 | By Yara Bayoumy and Thomas Ferraro

Posted on 09/01/2013 7:51:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Syria hailed an "historic American retreat" on Sunday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military strike to consult Congress.

"Obama announced yesterday, directly or through implication, the beginning of the historic American retreat," Syria's official al-Thawra newspaper said in a front-page editorial.

Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad accused Obama of indecision. "It is clear there was a sense of hesitation and disappointment in what was said by President Barack Obama yesterday. And it is also clear there was a sense of confusion as well," he told reporters in Damascus.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If there is one thing obama doesn’t like, it is mockery.


61 posted on 09/01/2013 9:53:05 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Yeh and the OBoZerO regime kept the lie going for awhile that a video caused the violence in Benghazi. So we are to believe it was Assad who used chemicals because ZerO tells us what to believe is truth? We aint dupes on this side of the fence.


62 posted on 09/01/2013 9:55:20 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another day, another dollop of “Life with Barry”


63 posted on 09/01/2013 10:08:09 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do we know for a certainty that the Syrian army used sarin gas? If so, can we afford to let them get away with it unscathed? Who’s going to use it the next time, and who will they use it against?


64 posted on 09/01/2013 10:21:22 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: EBH

At least donkeys are still useful.


65 posted on 09/01/2013 10:29:26 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: DoughtyOne

I won’t say who it was because who she is. But right after obama won a little smart ass beeeatch said to me “You’ve never been to Europe. You don’t know how much people over there hate us.” Oh, how I wanted to slap....... I wonder how she thinks Europe feels about us today.

Of course, it doesn’t matter. Now the leftist retards will be saying “The muslims hate us. See how good the president is for America?” How they will justify their “I have a muslim friend” mantra is beyond me at the moment.


66 posted on 09/01/2013 10:34:21 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A wonderful twofer for our Marxist leader: posturing on Syria and backing down for Russia and China.

If he wanted to destroy all international credibility for the US, he couldn’t have done better.


67 posted on 09/01/2013 10:37:28 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: dfwgator

Biden is thinking “I made a speech saying I’d try to get Bush impeached if he did what obama is thinking about doing. Maybe I can be president after all.”


68 posted on 09/01/2013 10:39:57 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The fault of: BushCheneyObamaHaliburtonWallstreetTeaPartyWhiteHispanic


69 posted on 09/01/2013 10:41:38 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: dfwgator
Zer0 needs to send ambassadoress Nanzi to deal with Flathead...


70 posted on 09/01/2013 10:43:28 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Tell your friend that Obama is supplying weapons to al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Explain to her that he is giving the Palestinians funding (money that is funneled into other terrorist groups) also.

It won’t make any difference, but at least she will have been told.

These Arab entities trash us, but they are actually laughing at Obama, a man that thinks he is buying their loyalty with his depraved actions.

I think the fact of the matter is, nobody respects or fears us any longer. That is very dangerous.


71 posted on 09/01/2013 10:53:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another Obama first!

The greatest President our enemies have ever known!

ONE man has fundamentally transformed the most powerful, most prosperous free nation on earth into a corrupt, third world banana republic.

I really don’t believe any other man could have accomplished so much in just five years.

No wonder Hussein is the ONE!


72 posted on 09/01/2013 11:01:49 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: DoughtyOne
I think the fact of the matter is, nobody respects or fears us any longer. That is very dangerous.

I don't think there's a single country on earth that doesn't respect and fear the US. Having the largest economy in the world, as well as the strongest military, does have that effect. Nobody really respects or fears Iran, because it is an economic basket case and has no military to speak of. Iran has no military options. We do - between our nuclear and conventional capabilities, we can literally kill every single person within Iran's borders. Iran can't reciprocate. That's why countries fear us - for our capabilities. Because nobody can really tell when those capabilities will be unleashed. This is why Pakistan, which conspired with al Qaeda to kill 3000 Americans on 9/11, did a 180 degree turn afterwards and gave us access to dismantle a decade of Pakistani investment in the Taliban and al Qaeda. Because we would have nuked Pakistan.

73 posted on 09/01/2013 11:15:06 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: DoughtyOne

She’s not my friend and I no longer speak to her. I got tired of being insulted and disrespected and talked down to.


74 posted on 09/01/2013 11:23:49 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: mikrofon

That brief-ass needs to get his big feet of my goddam desk!! You have no idea how many times my Dad hollered at me for stuff like that. Just one more item on an ever-growing list of things I hate about this “man”.


75 posted on 09/01/2013 11:37:01 AM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Barry The Feckless will go down in history as the most inept president ever elected by the university fools and the welfare class. Too bad the Founders could not foresee such a disastrous election result and give us a quick escape hatch, such as the “vote of no confidence” that several European countries have.


76 posted on 09/01/2013 11:38:54 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

It makes me wish we had the British form of government where we could force a “vote of confidence.”


77 posted on 09/01/2013 11:40:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: vladimir998

I interpret this as the media pushing Obama to attack Syria.

Why? Why is it in the interest of the US media for Obama to attack Syria?


78 posted on 09/01/2013 11:40:39 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Zhang Fei
I think the fact of the matter is, nobody respects or fears us any longer. That is very dangerous.

I don't think there's a single country on earth that doesn't respect and fear the US. Having the largest economy in the world, as well as the strongest military, does have that effect. Nobody really respects or fears Iran, because it is an economic basket case and has no military to speak of. Iran has no military options. We do - between our nuclear and conventional capabilities, we can literally kill every single person within Iran's borders. Iran can't reciprocate. That's why countries fear us - for our capabilities. Because nobody can really tell when those capabilities will be unleashed. This is why Pakistan, which conspired with al Qaeda to kill 3000 Americans on 9/11, did a 180 degree turn afterwards and gave us access to dismantle a decade of Pakistani investment in the Taliban and al Qaeda. Because we would have nuked Pakistan.

Your comments aren't untrue in a sense.  I know where you are coming from, and so they do make some sense.  Do you honestly think the U. S. is going to unleash it's nukes on some nation?  I don't.  There wasn't even the slightest thought of using nukes on Palistan.  In this era, we don't use nukes because that would open up the right of others to use them.  This is not something we're prepared to do.  I think you recognize that.  You should.

Right now were busy dismantling our nuclear stockpile.  We are reducing our warheads, and telling the whole world about it.  At the same time we're mothballing aircraft, cutting short the procurements of aircraft we need to be effective well out into the future.  We're even talking about cutting our aircraft carrier battle groups.

Russia has just given Syria some anti-ship armaments.  Does that sound like Russia is shaking in it's boots about what the U. S. might do in retaliation.  We're a paper tiger that is getting more paper tiger by the day.

Our own long term allies are not joining us on Syria.  Does that exhude strength or leadership to the world?  We are only kidding ourselves if we think anyone respects us on the same level they did when Reagan was in office.  And anything less represents a slide on our stature, the fear factor, or whatever you wish to describe it as.

We're not going to kill everyone within Iran's borders.  The leadership is hopelessly lost in the fifth century, but it's populace is not totally bad.  It would be wrong to destroy the populace.

Nations don't fear us, because we are a rational nation for the most part.  That can be good.  It can also be a very deadly weakness.

This president we have now telegraphs weakness.  If ever anyone had intents on taking this nation down, this would be the time to give it a go.  If done by proxy, which some smart nations could do, it could be done rather systematically and thoroughly.

We're not talking about massive military engagements like the 50s and 60s might have seen.  Today a few pulse weapons, a nuke or ten, and it's over.

I remain unconvinced that our national security "thinkers" are thinking clearly anymore.  What's more, it doesn't matter what I think.  If foreign powers observe weakness that are real, they may opt to exploit them.

God help us if we do.  This is one time in history when we're not going to be able to simply regroup and fight back.  When you can't feed yourself, you're sitting in the dark, and your own government thinks you're the enemy, you don't muster much resistance to those who wish to harm your nation the most.  Of course that's even if your own team isn't helping them.


79 posted on 09/01/2013 12:00:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I hear ya. Sadly I’ve been in the same boat. It’s not always just associates either.


80 posted on 09/01/2013 12:04:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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