Sitting here right now watching Kerry testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...It boggles the mind that Obama and anyone in Congress considers a military attack on a sovereign nation to not be an act of war.
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“I want to draw your attention to one absolutely fundamental fact,” he said. “In accordance with applicable international law, the authorization of the use of force against a sovereign state can only be given by the Security Council of the United Nations. Any other reasons, or methods, to justify the use of force against an independent and sovereign state are unacceptable and cannot be qualified as anything other than aggression.”
Should be ok as Obama stated there isn't a red line any more even though that is what he said.
Now we are to believe this is "the world's red line". Funny how none are participating.
That should be our clue to stay out.
Definately back tracking on his own statement.
Obama says he didn’t draw the red line on Syria, world did | McClatchy
Kerry: Arabs Offered to Pay for US Invasion of Syria
Quickly Denies Plans to Invade Syria
by Jason Ditz, September 04, 2013
As the Obama Administration in general, and Secretary of State John Kerry in particular, attempt to foist a war against Syria on the American public, discussion of the enormous costs are become part of the debate.
Kerry dodged the question of the cost of the attack officials promise would be extremely limited, but did so by revealing that Arab nations have offered to pay the entire cost of a full US ground invasion.
Kerry tried to spin this as proof that the international community is “dedicated” to the war, but then hastily backtracked after he realized that a full-scale ground invasion wasn’t supposed to be on the table.
“That is not in the cards and nobody is talking about it,” Kerry then insisted, saying that everyone is “talking about taking seriously getting this job done.”
The puzzling claim follows Kerry’s statement yesterday that he didn’t want to rule out sending ground troops into Syria, which he insisted then too wasn’t explicitly being considered. The statements suggest that turning this “limited,” do-nothing war into an Iraq-style occupation is not only among the options, but has gone far enough that the administration has had discussions with other nations on paying for it.
Dear Mr. Secretary,
It was my pleasure to watch your testimony the other day before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I saw Teresa was there ... she looked just mah-vel-lowss ...
I do have to say that you really showed those fellas a thing or two - particularly that Rand Paul guy - your testimony was a real tour-de-force. I imagine that comes from your having been the committee chairman previously.
Quite impressive how you - as Secretary of State - grilled that Senator Paul with all those questions. I do have one or two questions for you, if it isn't all that much trouble and you don't mind.
I recently read how in your discussions - which weren't actually discussions apparently - some A-rabs offered to pony up the entire cost of a full-scale US ground invasion. Seemingly, it would be a good idea to take advantage of their generosity don't you think ?
Give the kids some exercise ... and we get to have them pay for all the weapons and ordnance that gets used - which will provide jobs here at home and keep up profits for the military suppliers and contractors. We could either take dollars or just have 'em send us some oil ...
Either way - I realize that the costs on the weapons and ordnance is probably pretty straightforward ... but have you given any serious thought as to what you might ask for the life of one of our sons or daughters ?
Sincerely,
rlent
As we reported yesterday, however the inference that only Syria possesses chemical weapons is flatly untrue. In May of this year, Turkish military seized 2kg of sarin from “rebel” fighters from al Nusra Front. As we have extensively reported, al Nusra is the largest, best funded and most organized opposition force to the Assad regime. On May 30, 2013 when Turkish security forces arrested those 12 members of al Nusra Front, they found not only the 2kgs of sarin but those authorities went on to say that the sarin was going to be used in a bomb.
In Secretary of State Kerry’s address on Monday, he pointed out that the “evidence” against the Syrian government included YouTube videos he had watched of the victims. Too bad while scanning YouTube for evidence Sec. Kerry didn’t do a simple Google search of the words “al Nusra Front sarin gas”. Had he done so, he would have known that his claims of only the Syrian government possessing chemical weapons is not only untrue but easily disproved.
That however, didn’t seem to be of much concern considering that no major media have pointed out this fact despite such incredible claims from the Secretary of State. Rather than simply repeat over and over the claims by Kerry to the American people, why aren’t media fact checking him?