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| 2013-09-09 | |||||
"But that's not what we are talking about," he stressed. "Military effort will be targeted and short-term." Kerry added that the only thing Assad's government could do to stop an attack was to turn over all his chemical weapons to the international community within the next week. "But he is not about to do it and it cannot be done," Kerry added. He said that the evidence gathered about the chemical attack blaming the Assad regime was "real evidence I could take into a courtroom". "I've personally tried people who have gone away for long prison sentences or for life for less evidence than we have for this," he said.
Kerry also quoted the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in stressing that the UK and America were "real and true friends". The special relationship between the two countries was as relevant today as it has been in the past, he said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #21 DRUDGEREPORT > [Guardian.UK] RED LINE II: KERRY GIVES ASSAD ONE WEEK TO HAND OVER CHEMICAL WEAPONS OR FACE ATTACK. versus * SAME > [USA Today] PRESIDENT LOSING MOMENTUM IN CONGRESS FOR SYRIA STRIKE. * MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > US CONGRESS DENIED SYRIA FACTS, TOO. Bammer Admin. Report is only 12-pages long, + allegedly so broad as to be inconclusive or indeterminative on whether Baby Assad is truly guilty or not. versus * TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > OBAMA'S OBEJCTIVE IN SYRIA CRISIS IS WAR, NOT JUSTICE, or Truth. IMO it strongly appears that it doesn't matter to the Bammer Admin = USA iff Baby Assad did it or not. All things equal, by the above is the Bammer as POTUS truly for America's + Americans' interests [Nationalism = sovereignty], or as per Marxism/Leftism-Globalism [anti-Nationalism = anti-Sovereignty??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-09 22:49 |
| #20 So if the chem weapons are secured, whatever that means, then Pencil Neck and al Q can go back into duking it out to exhaustion. Its a lose-lose/win-win. Perverted but better than alternatives. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-09-09 20:53 |
| #19 he should have got rid of all his WMDs like Saddam did. Saddam shipped his stuff to Syria just before the war jumped off. Don't think Baby Assad has the same option. If they've sacrificed some of their own to give us an "in" to provide air cover for them then its outrageous of us not to provide that They massacred a whole bunch of civilians to draw us into the war and we should help them? Like Joseph says, words fail. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-09 20:42 |
| #18 "Unbelievably small + limited effort" > WTFH??? Iff true, words fail me - AGAIN! AFAIK there has never E-V-A-R! been any US Officio, top or subordinate, that has used those kinds of words for anything. US Mainstream confusion + nervous twitchiness goes on. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-09 19:53 |
| #17 ^^^ This. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2013-09-09 18:08 |
| #16 Let al Qaeda and Assad fight it out and then bomb the winner. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-09 17:56 |
| #15 Freedom Fighter, I prefer not to provide Al Qaida with an air force. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2013-09-09 17:20 |
| #14 Except we have no dog in this fight. We shouldn't provide Al-Qaeda (who are allied with the rebels) air cover. Pencilneck is not a nice person - but neither are the rebels. And I wouldn't believe John "Winter Soldier" Kerry if he told me my own name. That one is a proven liar and has shown again and again that he has no problem lying even under oath to advance his political ambitions (as shown by his "reminisent of Genghis Khan" congressional testimony). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-09-09 17:19 |
| #13 " IIRC Back in the Spring, the Turks picked up some rebels with sarin in their possession" Naive. In war bad things happen. Assad has the blame for this one, if he doesn't like that he should have got rid of all his WMDs like Saddam did. Its quite possible that the rebels might have used such weapons. So what? They are in a fight, and its our fight. If they've sacrificed some of their own to give us an "in" to provide air cover for them then its outrageous of us not to provide that having encouraged them to do this with talk of the red line. Don't let your congressman shoot down Kerry just because you disagree with his politics... this is bigger than that, McCain and the others understand this. |
| Posted by: FreedomFighter 2013-09-09 17:00 |
| #12 I stand with Assad. The alternative is a rebel takeover of Assad's chemical weapons arsonal. |
| Posted by: Angaimp Panda2522 2013-09-09 14:26 |
| #11 Or else Kerry was one of the ones bumped off the list by Obumbles (or Michelle) - Affirmative action and all that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-09-09 14:15 |
| #10 "Kerry . . . graduated from Boston College law school because he couldn't get into Harvard or Yale." So, they used to have standards? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-09-09 13:35 |
| #9 KerryÂ’s undergraduate degree, not his law degree, was from Yale. He graduated from Boston College law school because he couldnÂ’t get into Harvard or Yale. |
| Posted by: Mugsy Glink 2013-09-09 12:18 |
| #8 JFKerry was an assistant DA for Middlesex county in MA back in the late seventies on a separate matter Gaddafi cooperated with the US in giving up WMD the US bombed him anyway as part of the R2P initiative which we only used once on Gaddafi |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-09-09 11:52 |
| #7 ...as we might say here, the jury is still awaiting evidence that proves the crime by the alleged perp beyond a reasonable doubt. IIRC Back in the Spring, the Turks picked up some rebels with sarin in their possession. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-09 11:48 |
| #6 He said that the evidence gathered about the chemical attack blaming the Assad regime was "real evidence I could take into a courtroom". "I've personally tried people who have gone away for long prison sentences or for life for less evidence than we have for this," he said. Umm, so when were you a Judge, Kerry? Prosecutors take evidence into court, not Judges. Well, not Judges in the United States... Care to clarify? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-09-09 10:41 |
| #5 The legend of Prosecuter Schultz, (played by Jawn F'n Kerry), continues into the sunset. |
| Posted by: Mugsy Glink 2013-09-09 09:38 |
| #4 "I've personally tried people who have gone away for long prison sentences or for life for less evidence than we have for this," he said. So this is not the first time you have tried to railroad somebody? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-09 09:01 |
| #3 "I've personally tried people who have gone away..." Tried everyones patience perhaps, but Jawn F'n Kerry is rapidly overtaking Hillary Rotten Clinton as the worst Secretary of State in this nations history. |
| Posted by: Mugsy Glink 2013-09-09 08:26 |
| #2 this clown is going to demand we go to a "unbelievably small and limited effort" to back his mouth and Zero's credibility. "No Blood for Zero Credibility™!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-09 07:58 |
| #1 Or else...chin quivering? That could affect the climate, given the chin. |
| Posted by: Spot 2013-09-09 07:56 |