Obama On Syria Response: ‘It Is Important For Us To Do This In A Prudent Way’
Source: TPM
During a news conference Tuesday at the White House, President Obama said the U.S. needs to tread carefully in its response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
"It is important for us to do this in a prudent way," Obama said, according to a rush transcript. "What I've said to my team is we have to do everything we can to investigate and establish with some certainty what exactly has happened in Syria, what is happening in Syria. We will use all the assets and resources that we have at our disposal, we will work with the neighboring countries and we have called on the united nations to investigate."
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Obama: ‘I’ve Got To Make Sure We’ve Got The Facts’ On Syria
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States should not rush into further involvement into the bloody Syrian conflict, but should rather thoroughly investigate initial intelligence assessments that concluded chemical weapons were likely used by the Assad regime.
"And what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria, but we don't know how they were used, when they were used -- who used them," Obama told reporters at a press conference in Washington. "We don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened. And when I am making decisions about America's national security and the potential for taking additional action, in response to chemical weapon use, I've got to make sure I've got the facts."
He added: "That's what the American people would expect. And if we end up rushing to judgment without hard effective, evidence, then we can find ourselves in a position where we can't mobilize the international community to support what we do. There may be objections even among some people in the region who are sympathetic with the opposition if we take action."
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that U.S. intelligence had concluded with "some degree of varying confidence" that Assad had likely used chemical weapons against the rebels on a “small scale.” That disclosure led to several Republican senators, including John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC), to declare that a "red line" was crossed, requiring further action from the United States.
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does not mean a "Sunni majority mafia" (as if Assad does not run a "Shia minority mafia"
is inevitable.
Are you arguing against majority rule? If so does that argument just apply in Sunni majority countries? Should Whites still be ruling South Africa? They were about a 20% minority and there were plenty of whites who were afraid of a "Black majority mafia". South Africa even had a veneer of democracy in that whites got to vote for their government - something that Shia, Alawites, Christians and other minorities in Syria (much less the Sunni majority) never got to do.
and making the 'facts' fit the policy you really want to pursue. Oh republicans where have you gone? 
