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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Obama hopes Kerry talks 'bear fruit' on Syria
2013-09-14
[Al Ahram] President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
says he is hopeful negotiations Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
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...
 is having over the future of Syria's chemical weapons "bear fruit."

The president said during an Oval Office meeting with Kuwait's ruler Friday that they agree Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's government used chemical weapons in a criminal act.

Obama told news hounds it's important for the international community to respond and get those weapons out of Syria.

He said he told Kuwaiti Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah he is hopeful for progress during talks this week between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He said any agreement to remove Syria's chemical weapons stockpile "needs to be verifiable and enforceable."
Posted by:Fred

#12  Great, now I have Day-O stuck in my head.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-09-14 17:14  

#11  Squeeze them blueberries
Posted by: KBK   2013-09-14 16:38  

#10  Bitter fruit for the rest of us.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-09-14 15:54  

#9  Obama Concedes To Leave “Threat Of Force” Out Of UN Resolution On Syria If Assad DoesnÂ’t Comply
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-09-14 12:17  

#8  Isn't "bear fruit" a polite term for what bears leave in the woods?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2013-09-14 12:02  

#7  Obama hopes Kerry talks 'bear fruit' on Syria

Tax free docking rights for yachts in St. Petersburg?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-09-14 10:48  

#6  ...my grandfather used to say "I'll hope in one hand and sh*t crap in the other and see which one gets full faster."....
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-09-14 09:26  

#5  Hope is not a plan.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-09-14 01:47  

#4  * TOPIX = GROONG > [Arminfo] US EXPERT: FEAR OF FAILURE - THIS IS WHAT STOPS US FROM STRIKING SYRIA, No chance of the US invading, occupying Syria.

and

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NOT GFIVING MORE OPOWER TO THE EU MAY LEAD TO [new Euro inter-State, inter- Alliance?] WAR | ROLLING BACK THE EU THREATENS RETURN TO "WAR + TRENCHES", SAYS [EU Commission President] JOSE MANUEL BARROSA - TELEGRAPH.

Ditto for USA = CONUS-NORAM as per NAU? Trans-Pac Partnership = PACIFIC UNION? Trans-Atlantic Partnership = ATLANTIC UNION???

[AZTLAN MOVEMENT = PANCHO VILLA?, NORTH KOREAN INVASION OF USA here]
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-09-14 01:26  

#3  Hope?

Is that his 'grand strategy'?

That isn't a strategy! What it is: is stupidity.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-09-14 00:44  

#2  Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK + DAILY STAR LEBANON > FRANCE SAYS CHEMICAL REGULATOR "INSUFFICIENT" FOR SYRIA ARMS CONTROL.

Paris wants a UNIVERSAL, BINDING UNO-APPROVED RESOLUTION EFFECTIVE PER ALL PARTIES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-09-14 00:33  

#1  OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Angirfan.blogspot.UK] RUSSIA SHOT DOWN TWO US MISSLES FIRED FROM SPAIN.

At or very close to the same day as a well-repor secret US-Israeli joint test, ALLEGEDLY CAUSING THE BAMMER ADMIN [+ USDOD] TO WET ITS PANTS + DROP ITS FIRST-PREFERRED PLAN TO LAUNCH MILSTRIKE(S) AGZ ASSAD = SYRIA IN FAVOR OF THE CURRENT DIPLOMACY IN GENEVA [Kerry-Lavrov]???

IFF TRUE, "OBAMA'S WAR AGZ ASSAD" BEGAN + ENDED IN THE SAME REAL TIME DUE TO EFFECTIVE RUSSIAN ABM-BMD???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-09-14 00:29  

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