Oh my!
Posted on 08/12/2014 6:40:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama recently told lawmakers that their criticism of his policy in Syria is “horse****,” according to a report published late Monday.
A member of Congress told The Daily Beast Obama used the expletive during a July 31 meeting at the White House just before the August recess.
Another lawmaker also said that the president got visibly angry after both Democrats and Republicans questioned the administration’s policy.
Many lawmakers and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have urged Obama to arm Syrian rebels to push back at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attended the meeting and asked a long question in which he sharply criticized a series of U.S. foreign policies, one lawmaker said.
Obama responded by defending the administration’s approach in Syria, arguing that the idea that arming the rebels earlier would have produced a better outcome was “horse****,” the lawmaker told The Daily Beast.
White House officials confirmed the tense exchange, but did not confirm the president used the expletive, the report said.
Rep. Elliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, arrived late to the meeting and caught part of Obama's defense of his policy. Engel said he heard Obama use more polite language.
“The president still feels very strongly that we are deluding ourselves if we think American intervention in Syria early on by assisting these rebels would have made a difference,” Engel told The Daily Beast. “He still believes that. I disagree, respectfully. They were not looking for U.S. troops, they were looking for help and the Syria civil war started with the most noblest of causes.”
Clinton suggested in an interview with The Atlantic published Sunday that the administration might have been able to stop ISIS’s rise if the U.S. had more aggressively armed Syrian rebels in 2012.
Over the last year, the CIA reportedly began to arm the moderate opposition groups in Syria. In June, Obama proposed a $500 million package to train and equip them.
Obama told The New York Times in an interview published Friday that the idea that arming Syrian rebels would have made a difference has “always been a fantasy.”
“This idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth, and that they were going to be able to battle not only a well-armed state but also a well-armed state backed by Russia, backed by Iran, a battle-hardened Hezbollah, that was never in the cards.”
Horse manure is pretty good fertilizer, imho.
How dare these pissants question the King !!!!
It’s an outrage.
He’s mad over the wrong issue. The problem isn’t that we didn’t arm the rebels fast enough; the problem is that we didn’t discern that the strongest rebel groups were even worse than Assad. The Christian massacres in the north should have been a tip-off.
I have to agree with him, on that I can safely say, leave Assad alone, his replacements will be worse, far worse. obama is already responsible for the Benghazi mess because he was running weapons to Syria. obama wanted to get into the Syrian mess, but he had less than zero popular support for it.
bttt
“the Syria civil war started with the most noblest of causes.”
If this is a direct quote, Rep. Elliot Engel (D-N.Y.) needs to go back to 4th grade.
Oh yeah? The Muslim Brotherhood President is really going to hate this then because it exposes what’s going on over there and the evil plans of IS (the Islamic State; f/k/a ISIS) who wants to declare a caliphate over here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCZzpmbEcs
Yup. Assad is no angel but would have likely ended this conflict a year ago without our interference.
Even a bad stable government is better to deal with than an unstable government run by radicals.
Narcissists don’t deal well with criticism. He’s going to have a melt down one of these days.
Oh my!
News flash, Hill old girl, but those rebels ARE ISIS.
NOT MY FAULT! Don’t blame ME!
The buck just never even gets to him, does it?
Give it up Prez, you’re an amateur. The job is WAY above your pay grade. Any other manager would have been canned years ago for the same job performance. Actually now that I think of it, keeping him in power is like having to keep a minority manager that you know is stealing from your store but can’t fire because he would file a discrimination lawsuit against you that would make you more in attorney fees than he’s stealing from you.
Something wrong with his Syria policy?
Whatever could that be???
There is one, exactly one, case where obama didn’t back the most muslim side.
US troops are currently bombing ISIS in Syria.
Why?
To protect the Yazidis.
Who are the Yazidis?
The Yazidis are an ancient religion, one whose people revere Melek Taus, who is also known as the Peacock Angel, or Shaytan, or in English: Satan.
IOW, obama will consistently support any muslim over any Christian, the most radical muslims over any moderate muslims, and Satan worshipers over the most radical of muslims.
Any questions?
Since he loves the MB so much, send him over to Raqqa, Syria where IS headquarters are with a gay pride shirt on, drugs in his pockets and a sack lunch with a ham sandwich. They’ll do to him what the spineless cowards won’t do here.
Guess who has to clean up all the horse$hit, and with who's money?
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