Posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws
Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him.
It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a âred lineâ by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway, and Hagel had spent the day approving final plans for a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Damascus. U.S. naval destroyers were in the Mediterranean, awaiting orders to fire.
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SHOCK! Play with scorpions, you’ll get both stung and poisoned.
Learned your lesson, RINO?
JMHO
If you roll around with the pigs, you get dirty. Most kids learn this at age 7, Chuckie.
You're probably right - Obama was probably hoping that a Syrian version of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood would run the country. This is what Obama and McCain have in mind when they speak of Syria's "moderate rebels."
“Obama looms large as a most vile creature.....a treasonous president.”
Sorry, wrong word, a traitor is one who turns against his country, Obama was never on our side in the first place. He is an interloper or infiltrator, a foreign agent. I am serious, if you disagree I would like to hear why. Is there any credible evidence that he ever actually intended to do good things for this country?
The Russians have no credibility on the matter- they’re the country which has long supplied every nasty regime on earth with BCW....up to and including the nuclear lab site the Israeli’s took out in 2006 in Syria [where a few Norks were working too.]
And the Russians, along with South Africa, were the folks who helped Saddam’s bud Chemical Ali move Iraq’s stuff across the border into Syria...hence the little incident with Primakov’s motorcade on the Iraq-Syrian border.
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