Posted on 09/04/2013 2:50:13 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.
“With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,” Kerry said. “They have. That offer is on the table.”
Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.
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Invasion.... this what it was all about from the start.
Good God, we are SO effed.......
I’d like a link to the quote of Bush saying that.
I did find this which is not at all what you mentioned-
Days after the U.S. invasion, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a congressional panel that Iraqi oil revenues would help pay for reconstructing the country, i.e. a cost of the war. “The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the course of the next two or three years. We’re dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” he said.
One month before the war, then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Iraq “is a rather wealthy country. … And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.”
Financing their own reconstruction is COMPLETELY different than saying a third party country is offering to finance and invasion.
Nice try with the Bush hate
AS USUAL ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS WHOLE MESS IS EXPLAINED BY BEAUTIFUL BRAINY ANNIE COULTER...NUFF SAID. JUST WATCH:
He lifts the veil just a little. Apparently our military power is for sale.
How insulting! They vote down in the Arab league any action of their own, but they will let Americans spill their blood.
Our blood has been for sale and it is damned high time it stopped.
We are not the middle east cops and we will not send our sons so the elite can rake in payola.
They will not pay. Obama is in on it. They will say take it out of the aid you are giving us.
The US looks so stupid right now. Fubo
This is treason
And Putin just called Kerry a liar. Gotta agree with Putin anyway which is pretty sad by itself. So why would anyone believe Kerry this time?
Reminds me of the Gropos episode from Babylon 5.
It fits the muzzie loyalties of the CIC, who is willing to hire out our sovereign military for a bunch of Arab monkeys too chicken to use their own “fierce” fighters. This is past disgusting that our sec of state thinks this is something good. Whose State is he secretary of, exactly?
I’m given cause to wonder how much they’ve ALREADY paid J fn K.
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More than we can possibly imagine.
The rest of the adminsitraion and most of the Congress too.
The House of Saud wants us to, and we will.
Look at our foreign policy for the last 30 years. We march to the Saudi drums.
Invasion indeed! How did we get from a missile strike to INVASION? For what? Why? For whom? Now The US Military is for hire.
Our Military needs to have their own red line before we have our own 2nd Civil War.
The vile globalists have now come up with the most twisted crime imaginable on the American people.
Hire the US military out to be mercenaries for the Arab countries by providing military support for the group responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Al Queda. We have not forgotten Al Queda is also the group that provided the excuse for our government to steal our rights from us through the Patriot Act, NSA privacy invasions, the TSA and Homeland Security.
When you think the vile globalists couldn’t do anything worse, they do.
It has been since the UN run Korean war, sad to say.
So this horrible man wants to turn our proud military (beloved husbands and sons of patriotic Americans) into a bunch of paid MERCENARIES for ARAB MUSLIM COUNTRIES???? For our ENEMIES?????
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????
I can’t believe he came out and said it. It’s basically what many on here have been saying. Most in our government are bought and paid for by Saudi Arabia it seems. Now they are just coming out in the open about it.
OpusatFR: Our blood isn’t for sale.
Post of the Day.
SURE!! Pay BLOOD money for dead and wounded Dhimmi soldiers!!!
I DESPISE Obama and his henchmen McConnell and Boehner!!!
US military for rent to the highest bidder.
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