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In reply to the discussion: BOOM: Obama has been pursuing a peaceful diplomatic solution for weeks behind the scenes [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,491 posts)69. Such a 'tight circle', the State Dept. spokeswoman didn't know about it
Secretary of State John Kerry was making a rhetorical comment when he said on Monday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad would not hand over his country's chemical weapons.
Kerry told a news briefing on Monday that Assad could avoid a military strike by turning over all his chemical weapons within a week but added that Assad was not about to do that.
"Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used," a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"His (Kerry's) point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That's why the world faces this moment."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-syria-crisis-weapons-idUSBRE9880GE20130909
Kerry told a news briefing on Monday that Assad could avoid a military strike by turning over all his chemical weapons within a week but added that Assad was not about to do that.
"Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used," a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"His (Kerry's) point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That's why the world faces this moment."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-syria-crisis-weapons-idUSBRE9880GE20130909
If Kerry had raised it with Lavrov, then his department ought to have known about it.
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BOOM: Obama has been pursuing a peaceful diplomatic solution for weeks behind the scenes [View all]
Cali_Democrat
Sep 2013
OP
I think Assad also realized that it was imperitive for him to get rid of these weapons.
Old and In the Way
Sep 2013
#8
Media only offers what the billionaire owners order them to sell. Buyer beware.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#10
And here we go.................sheesh, "the sky is falling, the sky is falling"!!!
George II
Sep 2013
#60
Media Matters took them down prettily, didn't they, though? The progressives win again!
freshwest
Sep 2013
#67
LOL, Gullible much? "one administration official said". Wow, that is proof! n-t
Logical
Sep 2013
#15
So the Obama admin says they've been pursing diplomacy and Russia confirms it
Cali_Democrat
Sep 2013
#21
You need to quote our Lord and Savior... William Pitt. (just playing, just playing)
Darkhawk32
Sep 2013
#25
Was John Kennedy a Democrat? F-yes, BOTH of them (K and Obama), and TWO great jobs!
George II
Sep 2013
#63
I'm sure David Cameron loves the notion that Obama set him up to take a grievous hit
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2013
#39
When was Obama's "first" Syria speech? I've searched everywhere and only find last night's speech.
George II
Sep 2013
#75
In that case, it makes the deathlovers here look stupid, cruel, and hypocritical
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2013
#38
no no, man. you see, they were all part of the act as well and have been rehearsing for months now..
frylock
Sep 2013
#48
How incredibly clever of him to conceal that by campaigning (unsuccessfully) for a war resolution.
winter is coming
Sep 2013
#40
Cost nothing to be optimist. I'm asking myself what will Assad do to win his war
Sand Wind
Sep 2013
#45
Well, I'm sure that if Obama capitulates, the pro-war crowd will be here to call us Hitler-lovers.
beerandjesus
Sep 2013
#74
And many here had already crucified Obama because he even raised the possibility...
George II
Sep 2013
#59
Such a 'tight circle', the State Dept. spokeswoman didn't know about it
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2013
#69