Live thread: Hagel, Kerry, and Dempsey to testify in Senate Committee hearing on Syria (2:30pm ET)

[Dave346]

Hearing will be live on CSPAN.

[thouworm]

Hagel: our allies and key partners: France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and friends in the region.

[advertising guy]

traitors on parade...sounds like an off broadway play

[Dave346]

Just hearing these doofuses all acting hawkish against Assad for his WMDs after a decade of defending Saddam I just can’t keep from laughing at them.

These politicians are the worst of hypocrites.

[Red_Devil 232]

Kerry looks like one those foam faced Old men Muppets.

[rainee]

Kabuki is more like it...

[advertising guy]

there it is....boots on the ground is in the plan

know why ?......a chance to cull witnesses

they have a history

[Dave346]

Anyone care to guess at what time we’ll hear the first Republican speaking against war?

[tcrlaf]

Did Kerry just admit that WE WILL HAVE US TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN SYRIA, but that they won’t be there for “Combat purposes”?

[advertising guy]

the dance is, not the intent......this is life and death

[Red_Devil 232]

Is that a female officer to the left and behind Skerry? I hope so.

[clintonh8r]

Something’s going on with him...face lift, steroids, colagen?

[advertising guy]

post 106

[clintonh8r]

We’re going to need some lab work to be sure.....

[maggief]

Stephen Hayes@stephenfhayes 1m

Big moment: Kerry says he doesn’t want to take boots on the ground off the table before scrambling to walk it back. #Syria

[tcrlaf]

He means OBAMA’S credibility, not America’s.

He needs cover, big-time.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I am so behind the issues these days, GF! I do know this. We have no business launching anything towards Syria and so far, I have heard nothing to change my mind.

And what is all of this crap about the need for the US to “keep it’s word?” That train left the station a long time ago.

I had forgotten about her trip to the ER last month. You are right, she does look like she had a stroke.

[thouworm]

posted this earlier on another thread:

Remember the insistence/drum beat that there will be “no boots on the ground”? I can’t find the link but I have already seen an Obama plan that would send special forces into Syria to secure chemical weapons! Insane!

[Red_Devil 232]

Are there actually any on this panel?

[tcrlaf]

So, they will go in to secure Saddam’s... OOPS.. I mean, Assad’’s Chemical Weapons?

[Toespi]

The bottom line, let me give you the bottom line. Hey Kerry, just tell us what has changed between the time Assad was the Democrats best boy and today.....