Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria

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Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria Daniel Halper September 4, 2013 9:31 AM

President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally "didn't set a red line" on Syria:

"First of all, I didn't set a red line," said Obama. "The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are [inaudble] and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war. Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. Congress set a red line when it indicated that in a piece of legislation entitled the Syria Accountability Act that some of the horrendous things happening on the ground there need to be answered for. So, when I said in a press conference that my calculus about what's happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons, which the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn't something I just kind of made up. I didn't pluck it out of thin air. There's a reason for it."

[savedbygrace]

The objection was never over who set the red line. It was the fact that Obama said that if chemical or biological weapons were used, it would change his calculations about the issue.

And he strongly hinted he would then take military action. And then he didn’t.

That’s the criticism.

But nobody but him cares whether he was the inventor of the red line or not.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

And the media will buy it, end up swooning in jugears' arms, and then promptly be dumped in the mud when he's ready to move on.

[Ackackadack]

“Red line? I didn’t build that.”

[Brown Deer]

[Taxman]

Ophonybama is a LIEberal!

LIEberals LIE!

Move on, this is old news. Nothing to see here.