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To: Brumar89 who wrote (738057)	9/9/2013 9:29:03 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579842

That's all Obama Does---Obama Lied to American People

To: Brumar89 who wrote (738057)	9/9/2013 11:07:18 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579842

U.S. Amb. to U.N.: Time to Act Outside Legal Framework .......................................................................................................... Sep 9, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER weeklystandard.com The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, allowed on NPR this morning that American action in Syria might not be legal: The NPR host asked, "Let me ask a central question for you, because you're representing the U.S. at the United Nations, which has not authorized a strike. Would an American strike on Syria be legal?" "If we take military action in this context, it will be a legitimate, necessary, and proportionate response to this large scale and indiscriminate use of chemical weapons by the regime," said Power. "Nobody has tried harder than this administration to work through the security council over two and a half years. As you're well aware of, of course, even modest humanitarian and political measures have been rejected by Russia in New York. We've had three vetoes put forward--three resolutions put forward, all of which have been vetoed by Russia. And on chemical weapons, specifically, and perhaps most heart breakingly, even on the day of August 21, when those ghastly images were broadcast all around the world, we couldn't even get a press release out of the security council condemning generically use of chemical weapons." The NPR host pressed, "So let me make sure that I'm clear on this: You're saying that something needs to be done and it is time to go outside the legal system, outside the legal framework. You believe it is right to do something that is just simply not legal." "In the cases of--we've seen in the past--there are times when there is a patron like Syria backed by Russia, we saw this in Kosovo as well, where it was just structurally impossible to get meaningful international action through the security council, and yet in this case you have the grave breach of such a critical international norm in terms of the ban on chemical weapons use, it is very important that the international community act so as to prevent further use," said Power.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (738057)	9/9/2013 11:21:16 AM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579842

John Kerry Is Getting Relentlessly Mocked For Saying Syria Strikes Will Be 'Unbelievably Small'

To: Brumar89 who wrote (738057)	9/9/2013 11:25:16 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579842

How did the US political class ever slip this far this fast? ................................................................................................................. Obama Admin. Official: Assad Will 'Still Be Able to Eat Cheerios' After U.S. Strike Weekly Standard ^ Obama Admin. Official: Assad Will 'Still Be Able to Eat Cheerios' After U.S. Strike Daniel Halper September 9, 2013 11:01 AM Syrian strongman Bashar Assad will "still be able to eat Cheerios" after a U.S. strike, but he'll have to use a fork and not a spoon. At least that's the metaphor one Obama administration official used to describe the nature of a U.S. strike to USA Today. The strike, as envisioned, would be limited in the number of targets and done within a day or two. It could be completed in one fell swoop with missiles, said one senior official familiar with the weapons involved. A smaller, follow-on strike could be launched if targets aren't sufficiently damaged. A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he'll still be able to eat Cheerios.