Posted on 09/06/2013 3:53:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House today deployed Samantha Power, the former human rights activist turned UN ambassador, to try to convince President Barack Obama's liberal base to support strikes against Syria.
Speaking at the Centre for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, Ms Power acknowledged "how ambivalent Americans are" at the prospect of another Middle Eastern conflict but argued there is "something different" about chemical warfare which demanded action.
Ms Power worked her way through a list of progressive objections to Mr Obama's plan for intervention, saying: "Those of us who are arguing for the limited use of force must justify our position, accepting responsibility for the risks and potential consequences of action."
She insisted that the US had "exhausted the alternatives" to war, saying that all efforts to engage the Syrians directly and through intermediaries like Iran, Russia and the UN had failed.
Ms Power also addressed concerns that Mr Obama, a president elected partly on his opposition to the Iraq war, was about to follow George W Bush's path of launching military action without the blessing of the UN.
She said Russian support for Bashar al-Assad had "paralyzed" the UN Security Council and blocked even a press statement signaling the global body's disapproval of the civilians death in Damascus on August 21.....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“Why not tell the Russians to meet us in the Security Council where we will prove our ‘slam-dunk’ case? If we can, and do, we will have far greater support for collective sanctions or action than we do now. And if we prove our case and the U.N. does nothing, we will have learned something about the international community worth learning.” - Pat Buchanan
Never forget, she wants nothing more than to provoke Israel into a war to justify her invasion.
What do we want?
WAH!
Why do we want it?
All those scandals....
What’s our “slam-dunk case” any way, that a video caused it?
George Zimmerman
She’s a PUNK.
Hey Samantha. Go back to your party in Ireland and get drunk and leave the rest of us alone.
The same mentally ill agendas of Obozo Liar, Samantha Power, Queeg McAinal, Kerry the Faux Vietnam hero, and congressional rats wanting to bomb Syria could apply to 9/11!
Shouldn’t she be at home knitting sweaters?
Yep. Any time we see Samantha Power we know it cannot be good. As an aside...I love what is happening to McCain in his town hall meetings. lol!
Go to the Russians and get them to help. Explain that the only US interest is in getting control of the chem and bio weapons. Tell the Russians they can help collect them and their reward will be: Syria. A poor backward land bereft of exportable goods and filled with young, angry men who want to kill. Let the Russians have it, they will choke on it.
She has that look of death about her.
..and a country descends into chaos.
'Seed of Chucky'
Her heart might be more into it if Obama was sending her out to convince people that the U.S. should be bombing Israel.
Her heart might be more into it if Obama was sending her out to convince people that the U.S. should be bombing Israel.
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