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Obama: "I understand" American people aren't with me on Syria strike [Doesn't care, like Obamacare]
CBS ^ | September 09, 2013

Posted on 09/10/2013 5:05:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

[Clown]: ... I have shown great restraint, I think, over the last two years, despite the heartbreak that's happened there. But what I have said is...

... I understand deeply how the American people, after a decade of war, are not interested in any kind of military action that they don't believe involves our direct national security interests. I-- I get that.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.cbsnews.com ...


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The Clown couldn't care less....after all, he needs the Russians to save his bacon.
1 posted on 09/10/2013 5:05:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Want to drive a liberal insane?

Tell them that Bush offered Iraq the opportunity to document and turn over all its chemical weapons before he threatened military action.

Obama threatened military action first, and then offered diplomacy after.


2 posted on 09/10/2013 5:10:09 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Obama threatened military action first, and then offered diplomacy after.

He might still attack them if he can find another excuse. The objective is to make Syria a caliphate.

3 posted on 09/10/2013 5:14:35 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Heartbreak” happens all over the world where ruthless dictators commit atrocities against their own people. Why take military action only against Syria and not these other countries?

We’re tired of helping people who hate us attain power only to have them turn around and cut our throats by supporting terrorist actions against us.


4 posted on 09/10/2013 5:15:13 AM PDT by randita
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hillary says that Obama’s tough stance forced Russia and Syria to make yesterdays offer, It was all part of Obama’s plan.

cant wait to see what comes tonight.


5 posted on 09/10/2013 5:18:21 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Obama threatened military action first, and then offered diplomacy after.

Actually, Obama threatened military action first, and then Putin offered diplomacy after.

6 posted on 09/10/2013 5:18:28 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Richard Nixon 2.0.


7 posted on 09/10/2013 5:19:37 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: SoFloFreeper

No, you don’t “get it” you stupid king wannabe! What you MISS is that, if you could not go after the ones responsible for Benghazi, why should we support your use of military power to avenge strrangers?


8 posted on 09/10/2013 5:21:36 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

First I find it extremely offensive that obama is giving his speech on Syria one day before the worst terrorist attacks in our nations history. Second, he is willing to do more for Syrian rebels then he did for the four Americans who died in Benghazi. What a shame his concern is only for muslim terrorists and not the people of the country he is running into the ground. He should have been impeached long ago.


9 posted on 09/10/2013 5:23:03 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Appeasement photo chamberlain1.jpg
10 posted on 09/10/2013 5:24:56 AM PDT by henkster (democrats will sacrifice the lives of our servicemen so 0bama doesn't look bad.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064777/posts
11 posted on 09/10/2013 5:26:17 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: sickoflibs
“cant wait to see what comes tonight.”

I can...it is going to a lot of bravado by the asshat followed by he is happy that Assad has gone along with a plan he proposed in private through Putin (which will give Putin another chance to call him a liar).

What I really can wait for is what he is going to do to the US population which refused, en masse, to not support his ideas. Even some of the sycophants were against it and if not, never supported him. Most in his position of a second term would try to keep the party together for unity sake but not this guy...his sole goal has been to get on Mt. Rushmore (which I'd like to see happen in AF-1 at 575mph) and anyone or thing in his way is a speed bump. Lastly, after he leaves this job, he has his sights set on something else, bet on it. Perhaps supreme ruler of the world. His ego knows no bounds. So, hunker down for what is going to be a tough ride for the next 40 months.

12 posted on 09/10/2013 5:26:30 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: henkster

I don’t get the Chamberlain anology, maybe I am dumb. Chamberlain returned to England announcing peace in our time had been achieved with Hitler, Obama is not announcing peace with anyone, he is still blustering about attacking Syria for something about which we have no strategic interest no matter how hard they try to parse it.

Meanwhile if the asshat had something at hand to help our strategic interests, get the pipeline built and balance the budget.


13 posted on 09/10/2013 5:31:07 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Please allow me to point out by means of graphical device what ought to be glaringly obvious even in plain text:

" I have shown great restraint, I think, over the last two years, despite the heartbreak that's happened there. But what I have said is... ... I understand deeply how the American people, after a decade of war, are not interested in any kind of military action that they don't believe involves our direct national security interests. I -- I get that.

It's not about you, America. It's about him. Always.

14 posted on 09/10/2013 5:31:51 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: tacticalogic

I can’t help wondering if his real objective was to bomb Syria tomorrow — September 11 — as “reparations” to Al Qaida . . .


15 posted on 09/10/2013 5:32:32 AM PDT by maryz
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To: SoFloFreeper; All

First proposed by Congress and immediately dismissed by Mr. Shuck and Jive...

excerpt...

Only concerted international action under United Nations Mandate to enforce the removal of such chemical weapons from Syria can guarantee against their future use by either the Assad regime or the rebel forces.

Such an option was put to President Obama at his press conference:

“I wonder if you leave here and return to Washington, seeing the skepticism there, hearing it here, with any different ideas that might delay military action. For example, some in Congress have suggested giving the Syrian regime 45 days to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, get rid of its chemical stockpiles, do something that would enhance the international sense of accountability for Syria, but delay military action.

Are you, Mr. President, looking at any of these ideas? Or are we on a fast track to military action as soon as Congress renders its judgment one way or the other?”

It was at this point that the opening available to President Obama to possibly step back from his planned military action — and instead initiate international action at the UN to collect and destroy these chemical weapons — was not grabbed with open arms.

His response was dismissive:

“So far at least, I have not seen ideas presented that, as a practical matter, I think would do the job”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/lost_chance_at_g20.html


16 posted on 09/10/2013 5:33:30 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: SoFloFreeper

17 posted on 09/10/2013 5:35:37 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Well, after all. He knows “better” than us. We know that’s true because Hollyweird and MSNBC tell us so/sarc


18 posted on 09/10/2013 5:36:44 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Sooth2222

Obama wishes he was as competent as Nixon was.


19 posted on 09/10/2013 5:37:45 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: SoFloFreeper

What an IDIOT. Totally clueless.


20 posted on 09/10/2013 5:38:39 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Why does my phone go all wonky every time I say something bad about Obama?)
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