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I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
said Friday that Russia's planned delivery of S-300 air defense missiles to Syria is "not helpful" for efforts to convene a peace conference.
Pie is "not helpful" to my waistline...
Kerry's comments at a news conference with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle came ahead of a preparatory meeting in Geneva next week on a U.S.-Russian bid for talks to end Syria's two-year-old civil war.
"In Geneva, we will test who is serious. Are Russians serious about pushing for that? I believe they are. President (Vladimir) Putin said they are, (Foreign Minister) Sergei Lavrov has said it," Kerry said.
"Now, it is not helpful to have the S-300 transferred to the region while you are trying to organize this peace and create peace," he added.
"It is not helpful to have a lot of other ammunition and other supplies overtly going in not just from the Russians -- and they are supplying that kind of thing -- but also from the Iranians and Hizbullah."
Westerwelle expressed similar concern about the move to supply anti-aircraft missiles to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
's embattled regime.
"I would like to make this absolutely clear. We tell our Russian colleagues, don't endanger the conference in Geneva. The delivery of weapons to the Assad regime is totally wrong," he said.
Assad suggested this week that his government has already received the advanced air defense missiles, but on Friday, Russian media reported they had not yet been delivered.
Russia vowed to supply the missiles -- which would complicate any effort by Western countries to intervene militarily in the conflict -- after the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
lifted a ban on providing arms to Syrian rebels.