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Harf Scrambles to Defend Obama-Era Syria Chemical Weapons Deal, Says It Was Not ‘Perfect’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 12, 2017 | BY: Cameron Cawthorne

Posted on 04/12/2017 2:23:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Marie Harf, a Fox News contributor and former spokeswoman for Secretary of State John Kerry, scrambled on Wednesday to defend the Obama-era Syria deal from 2013, admitting it was not "perfect."

Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Harf whether she agreed with President Trump's decision to order a military strike against Syria last week.

"I did. I thought it was a good response to President Assad's use of chemical weapons," Harf said. "What I'm more focused on now quite frankly is the strategy going forward and what happens next in Syria."

Harf said that Congress did not give the Obama administration authorization to use force, so Kerry had to conduct a backup plan and negotiate an agreement to get chemical weapons out of Syria.

She conceded to her point that Obama should have just attacked Syria without Congress's authorization, but then she pivoted to defending the Obama administration for getting 1,300 tons of weapons out of Syria.

"Either they hid some [chemical weapons] that we didn't know about or they've made more in the last 3.5 years," Harf said.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: bho44; demlies; failure; harf; harfchemicalweapons; obama; obamachemicalweapons; obamasyria; redline; susanrice; trumpsyria; trumpsyriastrike
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Thank you Lord that Obama is gone and Trump won.
1 posted on 04/12/2017 2:23:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where is Kerry these days?


2 posted on 04/12/2017 2:25:49 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lemme guess — the Iran deal wasn’t “perfect” either.


3 posted on 04/12/2017 2:27:21 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why is this See You Next Tuesday getting paid by FNC to still be Obummer’s mouthpiece? She was horrible as a spokesperson so it can’t be because she’s so eloquent, she’s great for the medium.


4 posted on 04/12/2017 2:27:26 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not perfect like what, the Iran deal that will ensure they get nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them with?


5 posted on 04/12/2017 2:27:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Harfing
To say or assert something so patently stupid and preposterous as to generate widespread mockery. Named in honor of State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf.


6 posted on 04/12/2017 2:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just let her keep blathering and she'll end up with her huge spiked heel in her mouth.
7 posted on 04/12/2017 2:31:26 PM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone at Fox needs to be fired for putting the Harf-wit on the air.


8 posted on 04/12/2017 2:31:32 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Harf said that Congress did not give the Obama administration authorization to use force...”

What do alcoholics and Democrats have in common?

It’s always someone else’s fault.


9 posted on 04/12/2017 2:33:17 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: norwaypinesavage

WHAT?

They got promoted!


10 posted on 04/12/2017 2:33:43 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: norwaypinesavage

For the longest time I thought when I saw her puke up nonsense for Obama her name was actually Marie Barf.


11 posted on 04/12/2017 2:33:49 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: BenLurkin

Hair, glasses and name—I want to barf over Harf.


12 posted on 04/12/2017 2:33:52 PM PDT by Fungi (What is the most important fungus the world has ever known?)
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To: BenLurkin
Harking----To say or assert something so patently stupid and preposterous as to generate widespread mockery. Named in honor of Obama's State Department Spokesperson under Secy Hillary---Marie Harf.

Being Harked. Is that anything like being Farked---Evelyn Farkas blabbing all your state secrets on broadcast TV?

"We been Farked."

13 posted on 04/12/2017 2:36:33 PM PDT by Liz
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Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April6, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 4/6/2017, 2:28:24 PM by Kaslin

RUSH: There’s a fact-check outfit out there called PolitiFact, and it’s like all the other fact-check outfits. The Washington Post has one; the AP has one. These fact-check outfits exist only to discredit and impugn Trump. Well, the PolitiFact has had to retract a story they categorized as “mostly true” three years ago, and this story is big. Three years ago, Barack Obama and his Regime were an abject disaster. But they were claiming success after success after success, particularly in the Middle East.

One of the things that the Obama administration was celebrating was that they had completely removed chemical weapons from Syria. Obama drew that red line and the Syrians and everybody else realized the bad actor they were dealing with, and they cowered in fear, and they did remove 100% of their chemical weapons. There’s a problem now, though. Those chemical weapons were just used in an attack in Syria on Syrian citizens. So how could the Obama administration have gotten rid of all of these? The Obama… You know what the claim was? They claimed they gave all of that chemical weapons stock to the Russians.

Oh, yeah! Yeah, folks! The Obama administration — now the dire enemy of the Russians, victimized by the Russians — gave the chemical weapon stocks in Syria to the Russians.

Which means the Russians probably gave it right back to the Syrians. But the PolitiFact story retracts a 2014 article that said it was “mostly true” that the Obama administration “helped broker a deal that successfully removed 100% of chemical weapons from Syria.” So a story that was a lie backed up by PolitiFact for three years has been retracted, and the upshot is the Obama administration did not succeed in successfully removing all of Syria’s chemical weapons, as we now know because those weapons were used recently.

For full article go to the link below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541780/posts

Obama/Rice lied: Innocent kids died.!


14 posted on 04/12/2017 2:39:19 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don't bother reading fake news about Trump on FR. Trump will tweet or email us his real news!)
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What I'm more focused on now quite frankly is the strategy going forward

Because Mattis called you and asked you what the strategy going forward should be [/sarcasm]

15 posted on 04/12/2017 2:40:53 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Understatement to the nth degree.


16 posted on 04/12/2017 2:42:19 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: All
US TAXPAYERS PAY NOW---Obama collects later. Can you say kickback?

<><> The Iran-Nuclear Agreement, considered by many to be “The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history”… certainly an accomplishment that rates high on the progressive list of ex-president Obama’s “successes”.

JUST WONDERING-- Those Bags full of secret cash and gold to Iran? Where did that money come from?

Does Harf know? And if she tells, will Obama be perturbed?

"We been Farked and we been Harfed."

17 posted on 04/12/2017 2:49:07 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obviously Marie Harf Arsed was the brains of the operation.


18 posted on 04/12/2017 2:53:17 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: AndyJackson
Mattis called Marie and asked what the strategy going forward should be.

Marie said, "call me later" as she munched on unsalted kale chips.

Marie's busy these days....she's writing an article for Health Magazine titled, "Quinoa Changed My Life."

19 posted on 04/12/2017 2:55:35 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why is this ditz employed anywhere except at a fast food restaurant?


20 posted on 04/12/2017 3:20:04 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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