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Obama official: 'We always knew' Assad kept some chemical weapons
The Washington Examiner ^ | April 9, 2017 | Sarah Westwood

Posted on 04/09/2017 3:42:17 PM PDT by kevcol

A former Obama official acknowledged Sunday that the U.S. "always knew" an agreement with Syrian President Bashar Assad did not clear all chemical weapons out of Syria, despite the fact that the administration touted the deal as an unequivocal success at the time.

"We always knew we had not gotten everything, that the Syrians had not been fully forthcoming in their declaration," Tony Blinken, a former deputy secretary of state and former deputy national security adviser under Barack Obama, told the New York Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Syria
KEYWORDS: blinken; johnkerry; obama; obamasyria; sarin; susanrice
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1 posted on 04/09/2017 3:42:17 PM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 04/09/2017 3:42:36 PM PDT by kevcol
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BTTT


3 posted on 04/09/2017 3:43:56 PM PDT by ssfromla (Free)
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4 posted on 04/09/2017 3:44:37 PM PDT by kevcol
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I guess that all rests on the concept of 100% ..

Common Core math.


5 posted on 04/09/2017 3:47:14 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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I don’t know how Democrats sleep at night. How do they kill their conscience?


6 posted on 04/09/2017 3:47:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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LOL!!

CommieCore math strikes, again :)


7 posted on 04/09/2017 3:48:36 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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So they lied for political purposes


8 posted on 04/09/2017 3:48:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Haahhh! Bingo:)


9 posted on 04/09/2017 3:51:41 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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Obama would simply deny it.
The last paragraph at the sites says that they would simply blame Assad for non-disclosure.


10 posted on 04/09/2017 3:52:20 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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"How do they kill their conscience?"

You have to have a conscience in order to kill it.

11 posted on 04/09/2017 3:52:44 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Øbama lied, people died.


12 posted on 04/09/2017 3:59:31 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
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13 posted on 04/09/2017 4:01:37 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Words escape me - at least the kind I could post here without getting kicked out.


14 posted on 04/09/2017 4:01:42 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (DRAIN THE SWAMP.)
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[Other former Obama administration officials blamed Assad for his failure to disclose the entirety of his chemical weapons arsenal.]

Yeah, that’s the ticket. It’s all Assad’s fault.


15 posted on 04/09/2017 4:08:32 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Must be so easy to be a Democrat. Nobody calls you on your BS, you can break laws as you please, and your lies are forgotten.


16 posted on 04/09/2017 4:13:55 PM PDT by Luke21
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So the guy who accussed GWB of lying about WMD, actually ended up lying about WMD, and the entire world now has proof.


17 posted on 04/09/2017 4:15:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Then why did they lie?


18 posted on 04/09/2017 4:17:59 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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They didn’t lie. Remember. There was Intel that they said Trump could not be trusted with.


19 posted on 04/09/2017 4:21:33 PM PDT by MGG
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This does not surprise me a bit. Hussein is the biggest fraud ever put into the white house. And of course, like we always knew, he is a chronic liar, just like The Beast and John F’n Kerry. Is there a dim-o-crat out there who does NOT consistently lie??


20 posted on 04/09/2017 4:24:07 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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