Syria Hails US-Russia Deal on Chemical Weapons (Previous Title:Syria Hails Weapons Deal Victory)

The US-Russia deal on Syria's chemical weapons is a "victory" that averts war, a Syrian minister says.

The framework document says Syria must provide full details of its stockpile within a week - with the chemical arsenal eliminated by mid-2014.

If Syria fails to comply, the deal could be enforced by a UN resolution with the use of force as a last resort.

The US had threatened to attack Syria which it blames for a chemical attack in August which killed hundreds.

President Bashar al-Assad's government denies the allegations and has accused the rebels of carrying out the attack.

Syria recently agreed to join the global Chemical Weapons Convention, and the UN said it would come under the treaty from 14 October.

The framework deal was announced on Saturday after three days of talks in Geneva by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

"We welcome the agreement," Syrian Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar told Russian news agency Ria Novosti, giving his country's first reaction.

I suspect the change in title from "Syria Hails Weapons Deal Victory" to "Syria Hails US-Russia Deal on Chemical Weapons" is that the initial title seemed a bit too celebratory at the expense of the US, the essence of which appeared to mock Obama for being taken for a fool in believing any of what has been agreed upon will actually be implemented.

The details of the agreement are as follows;

The framework document says Syria must provide full details of its stockpile within a week - with the chemical arsenal eliminated by mid-2014.

If Syria fails to comply, the deal could be enforced by a UN resolution with the use of force as a last resort.

In the event the President once again demonstrates his pusillanimous vacillating persona as empty suit resulting in no military action in the aftermath of Syria's failure to comply,
Assad
*Will Lose All Access to His Facebook Page
*All Facebook Apps Disabled
*Be defriended by All Security Council Members, Russia. China, Iranian Members of Parliament
*Loss of All Tweeting Privileges including Texting and Sexting
*Be Suspended From the Kim Kardashian Players Club
Further sanctions to be considered as warranted

We are in a Kafka world. Obama supports the role of Putin in the Syrian civil war; Russia will keep Assad in power and maintain supplying him with unlimited conventional weapons while U.S. agreed that they will no attack Syria under any circumstances, even though the accord for the disposal of the chemical weapons is a charade and complete embarrassment for the prestige of the United States’ role as first world power.

Many of those who support Obama’s involvement on the Syrian civil war are the same people who were opposed to the Iraq war, even though Syria is not a menace to the U.S. and it is a civil war among Muslims in which one band is as evil as the other.

To further their agenda those who want to involve U.S. in another Middle Eastern war are using as an emotional argument that Assad killed with chemical weapons over 1,400 civilians, most of them children according to the pictures. (According to the French intelligence, the dead were about 300 and the French leftist organization working in Syria, “Physicians without Frontiers”, put the dead count over 400.)

The problem is that the picture they are using was posted by the BBC and they had to retire it when the photographer who took the photo saw it on the BBC web site, it was taken on Iraq in 2003 when Saddam Hussein murdered with chemicals weapons more than 5,000 Kurds in a single day!

Even though BBC retired the picture, the fake photo was edited and all TV news programs keep posting it as proof of the horrendous crimes against humanity committed by the butcher of Bagdad. Obama, and those supporting the involvement of U.S. on Syria’s civil war on humanitarian grounds, prefer to ignore that they kept silent when Assad last year used chemicals weapons in Syria and when he murdered with conventional weapons more than 100,000 of his own people.

It is unconscionably that Obama had not shown the same humanitarian concern for the lives of the Christians, since Obama took power, more than one million Christians have been massacred all around Africa and their churches set on fire by Muslims while Obama, the United Nations, and the rest of the world, kept a thundered silence.

Just out of curiosity, do you get the impression that we are all being played?

Within the confines of this discussion, the word "we" does not define the population at large but "we" in terms of our leadership.

The conventional wisdom seems to indicate as such, that "we", our leadership, specifically Kerry and Obama were, are being 'played', that is, assuming the President,no matter how anti-American he's demonstrated to be, still has the moral imperative to defend America, to see Putin and Russia as the adversaries they are, and looks to fight for America and its interests. That is if you assume he is looking out for America's interests at least as far as it pertains to the geopolitical struggle between the US and Russia.

Within those delineated confines, and all that has transpired in chronological terms and in the way they played in Congress, Obama it seems rather palpable, took the option of the deal to remove the poison gas when he had no real option to do otherwise, Congress let it be known it would authorize an attack, Obama acknowledging, after threatening war he could not authorize an attack without Congress. So, what was he left with? Having no choice but to accept the deal,to mean only one thing, to save face because the deal in the manner it was played out is an utter and complete farce.

So based on everything that happened, happening out in the open I have to conclude we were, are being played in the sense that the weapons will never be removed.

But as you commented;
Remember, Obama is more of a friend to Russia than he is to the United States. Whatever undermines America is good in the eyes of Obama.

But in the end Obama will sell out America, as I express in my tagline, as Obama himself said to Putin overheard on an open mike that he would be more flexible once his reelection was secured, the tone of which has an ominous sound to it. At this juncture it doesn't seem like Obama had been colluding with Putin simply because of the way he circumstances on the ground don't indicate as such. But I definitely concur with you that in the end Obama is intent on America's downfall.

Here below is an article I posted earlier with my opening comments about why, absolutely, positively I believe we are being played.

Free Republic September 15, 2013:10:54 AM:Obama Hails Syrian Pact, Calling It a Crucial Step

Obama Hails Syrian Pact, Calling It a Crucial Step??? Crucial step? By what parameters? I can not for one second believe he believes there's a single iota in which America gets any benefit out of this, except for not having lost even the tiniest, infinitesimal respect he still might have had, had he gone to Congress and been rejected in his bid for war against Syria.

On what basis is there to believe that these two nations, one rogue, one outlaw, both on the polar opposite end of the political spectrum, will follow through on what has never been attempted, let alone accomplished? Are you envisioning any scenario in which Russia demands the poison gas for removal, that which has been instrumental in making Syria a regional power on the strength of its illicit arsenal in its ability to intimidate, threaten others with impunity?

Do you see Syria ready to give it all up on some say so, as if Syria would ever reveal the secret locations of, as if this outlaw nation working with its outlaw patron in the removal of its outlawed arsenal of death, would ever rid itself of its most effective card in its struggle to maintain its survival?

I keep on imagining the scenario of Putin and Assad laughing their silly, collective as*es off in sheer incredulity at the utter stupidity, naivete, paralysis of the once greatest nation of them all hoodwinked into this totally non-credible sucker arrangement and one which Zero hails as a "crucial step"

Zero,you're standing there with nothing left but you're bare fudge-packed b^tt, Putin has even taken your last shred of clothing as you step away from the game, and you having called it a crucial step?

Zero, you've crossed the Rubicon in your effort to dispel any notion of yourself as a buffoonish, clueless naif, a black hole of emptiness ensconced within the empty suit that you are bereft of even the slightest social redeeming value.

And that's the good news, because for America, Obama the worst is yet to come. Perhaps Putin and Obama are cooperating in secret but only appear to be at odds in public? Remember, Obama is more of a friend to Russia than he is to the United States. Whatever undermines America is good in the eyes of Obama. In the final analysis, you are absolutely correct and couldn't agree with you more. After all, Obama had offered Putin to be more flexible once unshackled by his reelection as overheard by the open mike. The word "flexible" within the contents of Obama's conversation takes on ominous tones.

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