Posted on 09/05/2013 5:58:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
Vladimir Putin is making a sport of lashing out at President Obama, again taunting him about the Edward Snowden fiasco while accusing his administration of lying about Syria — on the eve of what will be a contentious showdown in St. Petersburg.
The Russian president ridiculed the Obama administration’s claim that Syrian rebels are not dominated by al Qaeda-linked terrorists.
“They lie beautifully, of course,” Putin said in a wide-ranging interview just before he and Obama meet face to face at the G-20 summit.
He called Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony about the rebels before a Senate committee on Tuesday “unpleasant and surprising for me.”
“We proceed from the assumption that they are decent people,” Putin said. “But he is lying and knows he is lying. It’s sad.”
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You didn’t answer the question.
Kerry is pushing his very intensely, Feels like a possible bigger agenda of the State Department/foreign policy..related to Libya, Egypt, Syria, Benghazi, Turkey..
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Wonder if 0bie was skeert to get out of the car.
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