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The
unmitigated gall of this man and this administration to lecture
anyone on morality. Mush less the morality or lack thereof in
the killing of innocent women and children. How dare they stand
there and criticize anyone!
So use of chemical weapons is immoral and condemned by civilized societies?
Why then do they not condemn drone attacks?
Why then do they not condemn using depleted Uranium in bombs?
Why
then did they look the other way when Saddam Hussein was gassing
Kurds ? Only to use the humanitarian card when it suited them?
Enough
with the lies and the hypocrisy ! We are not idiots to fall
for these lies again! Get your own house in order and stop
meddling in affairs that are not your concern. Stop putting oil
and power ahead of the lives of innocents. Enough with the
Interventionist Foreign Policy that has taken so many innocent
lives.
This
hypocritical and shameful display is fooling no one. It is
immoral now becase you want an excuse to invade Syrian just
like the Bush Administration invaded Iraq.
Why no outrage at the crimes being perpetrated against the people of Bahrain or Saudi Arabia?
Simply
because they serve your reedy and power hungry plans. You could
care less what happens to the people or the children. All you
care about is what's in it for you.
And as for the statement , “That is not the behavior of a government that has nothing to
hide. That is not the action of a regime eager to prove to the
world it had not used chemical weapons,” said Kerry. Rather,
the official said the Assad regime’s latest actions are “too
late to be credible.” My response is remember Iraq, Benghazi, The Patriot Act, NDAA, Prism, an endless string of innocent civilian lives lost to drone attacks, birth defects to children born in the middle east where depleted Uranium bombs have been used , the deaths of how many Egyptians due to meddling in a sovereign nations affairs for self interest and so many others?
Now that is the behavior of a government that has nothing to hide right?
Disgusting, simply disgusting!!
~Desert Rose ~
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Les Grossman
Published on Aug 26, 2013
Secretary of State Kerry Says Use Of
Chemical Weapons In Syria Is Inexcusable. Kerry Says Chemical Attacks
In Syria Should 'Shock The Conscience Of The World'
Kerry Says Attacks Defy 'The Code of Morality'
Editor's
Note: The State Department announced that Secretary John Kerry's
remarks will be delivered at 2:30 p.m. ET, rather than 2 p.m. as
originally scheduled.
Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver a
statement on the crisis in Syria at 2 p.m. ET, the State Department
announced Monday, as the U.S. girds for possible military action against
the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr. Kerry will deliver the statement in the briefing room at the State Department.
His
statement comes as the U.S. considers plans to respond forcefully to
reports that the Assad regime used chemical weapons last week that
opposition groups said killed more than 1,000 people. The White House
held meetings over the weekend to decide how to respond but officials
said late Sunday that President Barack Obama has yet to make a decision.
Mr.
Kerry's statement will precede the daily briefing at the State
Department with reporters. White House press secretary Jay Carney was
supposed to brief reporters at the White House at 12:30 p.m. ET, but
changed the time of his briefing to 3 p.m. Shortly after, the State
Department announced that Mr. Kerry would make a statement on Syria.
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Syrian Kurdish leader says Assad not to blame for attack
By Alexandra Hudson
BERLIN |
Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:15pm BST
(Reuters) -
Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad would not be "so stupid" as to use chemical
weapons close to Damascus, the leader of the country's largest Kurdish
group said.
Saleh Muslim, head of the
Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said he doubted the Syrian
president would resort to using such weapons when he felt he had the
upper hand in the country's civil war.
He
suggested last Wednesday's attack, which the opposition says was
carried out by government forces and killed hundreds of people, was
aimed at framing Assad and provoking an international reaction. Assad
has denied his forces used chemical weapons.
"The regime in
Syria
... has chemical weapons, but they wouldn't use them around Damascus, 5
km from the (U.N.) committee which is investigating chemical weapons.
Of course they are not so stupid as to do so," Muslim told Reuters.
At the time of the incident, U.N. experts were already in
Syria to investigate three previous alleged chemical attacks dating from months ago.
Muslim's
PYD, which has well-armed and effective militias, has clashed with
Assad's forces as well as rebels, but has allowed both to move through
its territories during the war.
Some
rebels and rival Kurdish groups accuse it of having been close to the
state, a position Muslim disputes. He said Kurdish areas the PYD
controlled were under attack from al Qaeda-linked rebels.
Muslim
suggested "some other sides who want to blame the Syrian regime, who
want to show them as guilty and then see action" lay behind the chemical
attack, which has led to speculation that Western countries will order a
military response.
He said that if
the U.N. inspectors found evidence Assad was not behind the gassing and
the rebels were, "everybody would forget it".
Read More Here
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US accuses Syrian government of using chemical weapons and destroying evidence
Published time: August 26, 2013 18:56
Edited time: August 26, 2013 21:27
Secretary of State John Kerry (AFP Photo / Mark Wilson)
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that
the Obama administration is "all but certain" that the Syrian government
used chemical weapons to attack innocent civilians.
Sec. Kerry made a statement from Washington, DC on Monday
afternoon underscoring that the White House has little
doubt the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deployed
chemical weapons on the outskirts of Damascus last week, killing
hundreds.
Reports from Syria of chemical warfare “
should shock the
conscience of the world,” Kerry said, adding that the
indiscriminate slaughter of women and children carried out by the
Assad regime constitutes a “
moral obscenity.”
President Barack Obama has yet to make a determination about how
the US will respond, Kerry said, but a decision would be
forthcoming. The US has already mobilized warships in the
Mediterranean Sea which may begin striking Syrian target upon
permission from Washington.
Kerry said the White House has “additional information” about
this attack that is being compiled and reviewed by the
administration and will be released in the days ahead.
“
While investigators are gathering additional
information on the ground, our understanding of what has already
happened in Syria is grounded in facts, informed by conscious and
guided by common sense,” Sec. Kerry said. “
The reported
number of victims, the reported symptoms of those who were killed
or injured, the first hand accounts from the humanitarian
organizations on the ground . . . these all strongly indicate
that everything these images are already screaming at us are
real: that chemical weapons were used in Syria.”
“
Moreover, we know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of
these weapons,” Kerry added.
Pres. Assad had been uncooperative with the United Nations’
requests to inspect military compounds for chemical weapons until
this week, Kerry said, and a UN convoy sent to investigate this
week reportedly found what the secretary called a “
cynical
attempt” to cover up a “
cowardly crime.”
“
That is not the behavior of a government that has nothing to
hide. That is not the action of a regime eager to prove to the
world it had not used chemical weapons,” said Kerry. Rather,
the official said the Assad regime’s latest actions are “
too
late to be credible.”
Read More Here
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