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Rubio: ‘If I Was in Charge’, U.S. Would Have Intervened in Syria Earlier
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 17, 2013 4:32 PM | Fred Lucas

Posted on 06/17/2013 7:59:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said if he were president, he would have intervened in Syria much sooner than President Obama did to identify the “reasonable” rebels opposed to the regime of President Basher Assad.

“It behooved us to kind of identify whether there was any elements there within Syria fighting against Assad that we could work with—reasonable people that wouldn’t carry out human rights violations and could be part of building a new Syria. We failed to do that,” Rubio told Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ “This Week.” …

Obama announced this week that the Assad regime had crossed the “red line” and the U.S. now has conclusive evidence the country used chemical weapons. …

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clueless; fakewarhawk; knowitallpunk; obamaspeople; rop; rubio; syria; terrorism; threatmatrix
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To: Memphis Moe

I was being nice


21 posted on 06/17/2013 8:11:03 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai

Pound sand.

That’s twice. Primary coming....

And we are going to get all these TEA Party 501’s in time.


22 posted on 06/17/2013 8:11:58 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Olog-hai
The more I hear about Rubio the less impressed I become.This guy is quickly entering Linc Chafee territory.
23 posted on 06/17/2013 8:12:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Olog-hai

Rubio is spending too much time with the 2 idiots McCain & Graham who spend much of their free time looking to start wars in the Middle East. This politcal class we live under in the USA is Twilight Zone worthy.


24 posted on 06/17/2013 8:12:42 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Olog-hai

*Facepalm*...

Really, Rubio? You’d have intervened to help people who eat hearts and decapitate Christians? And this guy wants to run for president?


25 posted on 06/17/2013 8:13:15 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: LongWayHome

It’s mainly McLame. Grahamnesty is just a puppet parasite.

Many people on FreeRepublic view McLame as a bumbling buffoon (which he is), but he’s also a manipulator for Karl Rove.


26 posted on 06/17/2013 8:15:54 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon

McCain is a nightmare.....I agree. He is a psychological mess. His issues become our politics.


28 posted on 06/17/2013 8:19:27 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Olog-hai

This clown is not ready for prime time.

To think he was elected because he was supposed to be a Tea Partier. He’s Lindsay Graham without the lisp.


29 posted on 06/17/2013 8:20:56 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: DoughtyOne

No kidding! Is this freakin’ dumbass kid Rubio ever gonna say or think anything intelligent? This idiot was supposed to be the new ‘hope’ of the GOP? Good God....


30 posted on 06/17/2013 8:21:43 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: Olog-hai

Rubio loves the Islamo-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood!

Who woulda thought???/s


31 posted on 06/17/2013 8:23:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Olog-hai

The ice cream man is in over his head.


32 posted on 06/17/2013 8:24:07 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

>> If you care about your freedom, you will have left the USSA by then ...

Really?

For where?


33 posted on 06/17/2013 8:24:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Olog-hai
It behooved us to kind of identify whether there was any elements there within Syria fighting against Assad that we could work with—reasonable people that wouldn’t carry out human rights violations and could be part of building a new Syria.

Whoa. Yeah, somewhere in that mob of screaming, homicidal fanatics there must have been a group of Boy Scouts. Let's be charitable and admit that Mr. Rubio's strength isn't in foreign relations. Or history. Or common sense.

34 posted on 06/17/2013 8:24:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bobby.223

I hear ya. What the heck? Man I hate to think it, but with this NSA stuff going on, it really does make you wonder.


35 posted on 06/17/2013 8:25:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Speaker John Boehner (R) no (D) no (R)... has more waffles than IHOP.)
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To: Olog-hai

Marco McCain?


36 posted on 06/17/2013 8:25:52 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Olog-hai
I smell recall . . . (don’t I?)

You don't.

There is no provision for recall of a U.S. Senator.

37 posted on 06/17/2013 8:26:24 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Olog-hai

Islamic people are killing each other again. Both sides hate us and want us dead. Why are we intervening?


38 posted on 06/17/2013 8:29:54 PM PDT by garjog (This message monitored by the IRS and the NSA to improve customer service. Thank you.)
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To: Olog-hai

Rubio keeps going from bad to worse...


39 posted on 06/17/2013 8:29:59 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Olog-hai
screw you Rubio

another Bush clone

40 posted on 06/17/2013 8:35:35 PM PDT by KTM rider ( Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb)
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