Posted on 09/05/2013 6:40:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mike McCaul was "stunned" by Kerry's assertion. The briefings members of Congress had been getting stated that the number was closer to 50% - and that may be lowballing it too.
Reuters calls Mr. Kerry out for his lie:
Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.
At congressional hearings this week, while making the case for President Barack Obama's plan for limited military action in Syria, Kerry asserted that the armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution.
"And the opposition is getting stronger by the day," Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
U.S. and allied intelligence sources and private experts on the Syrian conflict suggest that assessment is optimistic.
While the radical Islamists among the rebels may not be numerically superior to more moderate fighters, they say, Islamist groups like the al Qaeda-aligned Nusra Front are better organized, armed and trained.
Kerry's remarks represented a change in tone by the Obama administration, which for more than two years has been wary of sending U.S. arms to the rebels, citing fears they could fall into radical Islamists' hands.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Note to Capt. Ketchup, it took less than 2 doz. camel turds to cause 9/11 so a quarter of the population might be a problem.
Let their circular firing squad do its job. Its free for us and much safer for our troops.
Yeah. And a anti-Muslim video caused Benghazi!
It will only be “limited” if others decide NOT to strike back. Then it becomes WW3.
Yeah, and only 10% of the old Soviet Union belonged to the Communist Party yet they won every election. Can we get an audit of that 25%?
Pray for America to Wake Up
Looks like they copies G Bush’s chin.
They say his wife is a boitch, may explain changes, however, The Obama has tendencies that suck the life out of you........Doran Grey?
The hand grenade propelled rice that got embedded in his a** must have migrated to his brain. Wonder if he’ll put in for a new Purple Heart?
The Sub-Saharan African Americans are less than 15% of the population of the US and look at the havoc they wreak in the country; and they, officially, most of them aren’t even trying to over throw the regime.
Lurch looks like a comic-book supervillain these days. How seriously can you take a guy on this topic who once claimed the American military was full of war criminals? Did you take a poll, Johnny?
But, seriously though, there is something changed about his facial appearance. His face is more pale than before (not enough time on the windsurfer board I guess) but also noticeably puffier, almost bloated. Under the glare of the TV lights of the congressional hearings, he looked especially bad, and I don't just mean his testimony. Botox? Stress? Illness? His face is not as "chiseled" as it was recently in the Senate. As a Photoshopper myself, it does almost look like his facial images on TV and online have been manipulated by Photoshop. Aging can do wonders to faces at his age too. Maybe it's a combination of several things. But as vain and arrogant as he has always been, I vote for Botox injections gone bad.
Is it the jihadists or the ‘other’ that puts men on the ground with their faces in the dirt and executes them?
The New York Times and MSM cover for our liberal elite Idiots in the United States - but the rest of the world sees the fools for what they are....
Yes, you are correct!
I remember the Left, saying in 1949, that Mao & Crew were “just simple agrarian farmers” and years laters saying Castro “was just a Cuban verson of George Washington”.
They’re still at it, just with a different sock puppet.
Point taken. At least according to Ann Coulter I think you meant to say “agrarian reformers” not “agrarian farmers” which is more or less redundant :)
But yeah.
This guy is a lying sack of crap! Where did he get that survey from PPP?
Agreed. That was a memory from 1949 when I was 16. Even at that tender age I could recognize the B/S. It was just a few years before that that they were wringing their hands over the "blood-thirsty" veterans coming home and going on a murderous rampage. All those who survived wanted to do is catch up for their missing four years. When nothing happened in the '50s, they were snickering it was a "boring time" during Eisenhowers's presidency.
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