Farr says no to attacking Syria

[Coyotl]

Source: Gannett - thecalifornian.com

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Sam Farr will oppose President Barack Obama's call to attack Syria when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill a week from Labor Day.

The Carmel Democrat announced his no vote Saturday, hours after Obama said the U.S. should launch a limited military strike to punish the Syrian government for an Aug. 21 chemical-weapons attack against its own citizens.

Obama said he would not act before Congress has had a chance to debate and discuss his plan.

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Read more: http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20130901/NEWS/309010011/Farr-says-no-attacking-Syria

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A Dem comes out quickly in opposition.

[MotherPetrie]

1. Good. Hope he's one of many.

[Dems to Win]

4. +1

[Coyotl]

2. Meanwhile = Opposition to foreign action bolsters Syria regime: Saudi FM

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hHUQlPV-13Pbb542gpZqYe148r5g?docId=CNG.5a80d0d118478c659056d223eda892ac.41

CAIRO — Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Sunday told a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo that opposing military intervention in Syria encourages the Damascus regime to "pursue its crimes."

"Opposition to international action only encourages the regime to pursue its crimes," the Saudi foreign minister told the Arab League meeting on the Syria crisis.

"It is time to ask the international community to assume its responsibilities and to take deterrent measures" against the Syrian regime, he added.

Note, he says "international community" should act, NOT the USA.

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Saudi FM urges Arabs to back Syria opposition on strikes
http://www.authintmail.com/news/asia/middle-east/saudi-fm-urges-arabs-back-syria-opposition-strikes

CAIRO — Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Sunday urged Arab countries to back calls by the Syrian opposition for strikes on the Damascus regime, ahead of an Arab League meeting on Syria.

Arab states must echo demands by the "legitimate" representatives of the Syrian people for "help from the international community to put an end to the bloodbath" in Syria, he said, referring to the opposition.

The Saudi foreign minister did not explicitly mention a call by US President Barack Obama to launch punitive strikes on Syria for allegedly unleashing chemical weapons on its citizens last month, which according to Washington includes Sarin gas and killed hundreds.

But he told a news conference in Cairo that the international community must stop "the aggression against the Syrian people before these people perish." ...........

[Coyotl]

3. Saudi Arabia backs US strike against Syria

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/20139114581262102.html

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"We call upon the international community with all its power to stop this aggression against the Syrian people," Faisal said in Cairo, where he was attending a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers to discuss Syria.

On the prospect of a US strike, he said: "We stand by the will of the Syrian people. They know best their interests, so whatever they accept, we accept, and whatever they refuse, we refuse."

The Arab League meeting was expected formally to blame Assad for the gas attack.

Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Cairo, said that Ahmed Aljarba, the head of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), would give a speech at the meeting of foreign ministers. .........

[atreides1]

14. The Arab League should police their own members!

Between all of the members of the Arab League there is more then enough military personnel and equipment to defeat and arrest Assad and his generals.

Iraq and Jordan share a border with Syria...which makes it easy for all of the Gulf members to reach Syria!

I think it's time for the Gulf State members of the Arab League to step up and use their own resources to remove one of their suspended member states!

[pasto76]

5. no, not quickly. Next week, which is the farce you are all buying into

cant be bothered to consider helping brown skinned people during vacation! they work like 45 days a year after all right.

[Coyotl]

6. What are you trying to say? His two years helping people in Colombia was a vacation?

I can tell you are slamming Congress, but do you know anything about this man?

Peace Corps service

Farr joined the Peace Corps in 1964 and served for two years as a volunteer in Colombia. He spent his time in a poor barrio near Medellin, teaching community development skills.[3]

While he was serving in Colombia, Farr’s mother died from cancer. Following her death, his father visited with Farr’s sisters. While riding horses, one of his sisters (Nancy), was thrown and hit her head. She died on the operating table in a Colombian hospital.[citation needed]

Since his Peace Corps service ended, Farr has visited Colombia several times. He took his wife for their honeymoon and has returned several other times for both personal and official business. During a trip in 2007, Farr spoke in front of the Colombian Congress and was awarded the Orden del Congreso de Colombia.[4]

[customerserviceguy]

7. Quickly?

I've been reading about Repuke opposition to a Syria action for the last several days. This is the first Democratic congresscritter I've seen stand up in opposition to this, and other than a few weasels who are all for it (like my congresscritter, Eliot Engel) I've heard mostly the sounds of crickets from the people who thundered against the Iraq war.

It would be nice if they'd use the next week to step up to the mike and announce that the President's going to have to do it over their opposition.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

8. Good for you Sam!

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. wow, I remember when he was first elected to the California Assembly in 1980 - I think

Leon Panetta who had just been elected for the first time in 1976 was representing the Area in the U.S. House of Representatives. I was living in Capitola at the time. Really nice the whole greater Santa Cruz/Monterey area - lived there from 77-81

[Coyotl]

10. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election

when longtime Democratic Rep. Leon Panetta resigned to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

[Alkene]

11. Sorry...my first take was Farr, Jamie Farr? n/t

[Billy Love]

13. Wrong Farr. Jamie Farr is a Republican

and an obnoxious idiot.

[Alkene]

15. Oh, yeah. Right. Got it. Thanks. n/t

[sarcasmo]

12. Kick!