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| Kerry: ‘We Knew That Assad Had Kept Some' Chemical Weapons |
| 2018-09-13 |
| [Free Beacon] Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the Obama administration knew that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad kept some of his chemical weapons despite an international agreement brokered to remove the entire stockpile by mid-2014. "We said we got a hundred percent of the declared weapons out, which is what the Organization for the [Prohibition] of Chemical Weapons was able to track," Kerry said on Fox News. "We knew that Assad had kept some, and we tried to go to the [United Nations] Security Council, and, unfortunately, Russia played games and we didn't get there." In 2013, the United States and Russia struck a deal to remove Syria's entire arsenal of chemical weapons from the country by the middle of 2014. Kerry and other Obama administration officials publicly touted the deal as a major success. "We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in 2014. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 the Organization for the [Prohibition] of Chemical Weapons Another useless pseudo-intellectual hind tit sucker on the public dole. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-09-13 18:36 |
| #4 So Kerry and the Obumble administration lied to us. Again. For the 4,564,356th time. Color me shocked. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-09-13 10:59 |
| #3 "by eliminating Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile" I see what you did there. Nothing about Saddam's stuff, though. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-09-13 08:35 |
| #2 "102% of the chemical weapons we removed, were removed. The rest? Next question" John Fn Kerry; D-Liar |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-09-13 07:32 |
| #1 Real Clear Politics: President Obama, on Aug. 18, 2014: "Today we mark an important achievement in our ongoing effort to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction by eliminating Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile." Kerry on Oct. 31, 2014: "We ... cut the deal that got 100 percent of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria, and people nevertheless have been critical -- of one day of bombing versus the virtue of getting 100 percent of the chemical weapons out of Syria." Kerry reiterated the accomplishment on Feb. 24, 2015, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We got, as you know, last year, all the chemical weapons out of Syria." True, Bloomberg reported on May 13, 2015: "The U.S. government was informed months ago that an international monitoring body found traces of chemical weapons that President Bashar al-Assad had promised to turn over, including sarin gas -- a clear violation of the deal he struck with President Obama after crossing the administration's 'red line' two years ago. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-13 05:39 |