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 administrations 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-Assads 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 administrations 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 ISISs 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.
That’s what I was gonna say...
He will nuke a major American city.
++++++
...and woe betide the rogue general who stole his nuclear football out of his closet... “It wasn’t MY fault”
“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.
King James said that of the Colonists, Bammy.
How did that play out in the end?
LOL @ Queen Thin Skin :)
You nailed it...Arming these “Syrian rebels” that are in fact radical jihadists (IS) was a huge mistake but poor little 0bama will not be criticized for anything, his ego bruises easily.
And then there’s his Egyptian fiasco with his muslim brotherhood buddies. 0bama must be incensed along with his MB advisers in the WH now that Egypt is eliminating the MB as a political faction. How sweet it is.
I’ll bet Toots and Gramps mollycoddled this loser throughout his childhood. I’ll bet he never heard the word “No” and now we’re suffering from his abnormal childhood.
He’s losing it
YOU DON’T QUESTION ME! I’M THE OBAMA!
Is that before or after you hit it?
HOW DARE ANYONE EVER QUESTION ANYTHING I DO OR SAY. I AM ALWAY RIGHT AND I AM UNABLE TO EVER MAKE MISTAKES.
My dear friend Laz, we need to get together for a drink so you can tell me what you really think. Seriously I agree with you 100%
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere.
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst.
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
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