[ April 18, 2024 ]
Having failed abysmally at garnering any support for his Syria military strike in support of Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood forces, President Obama is returning to what he does best: bullying the Congress and the American people.
With help from his ministries of propaganda (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.), he is going to ram this steaming pile of dung down the throats of an uninformed American public, despite the fact that there is no direct link between Assad and chemical weapons attack.
There is a prohibition on discussing the gravest threat the American people face: jihad. Obama has scrubbed it from our counter terror materials, scholars on Islam are blacklisted, and acts of jihad like the Fort Hood mass slaughter are labeled "workplace violence." And the press never queries Obama on this flagrant act of sedition.
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"Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of." New York Times
According to a Washington Post survey, 224 of the current 433 House members
were either "no" or "leaning no" on military action as of Friday. A large
number, 184, were undecided, with just 25 backing a strike.
Call your Congressman. Tell him/her to vote NO. Fight the global jihad.
"Obama urges Congress not to turn 'a blind eye' to Syria" The Telegraph, September 7, 2013
President Barack Obama warned members of the US Congress against turning "a blind eye" to Syria, as Washington sought to muster European Union support for military strikes against the Damascus regime.
Fresh from a G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, where Mr Obama failed to win over
world leaders to his cause, the president urged Congress to authorise an
intervention over President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical
weapons.
"We cannot turn a blind eye to images like the ones we've seen out of Syria,"
Mr Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday."That's why I call on members of Congress, from both parties, to come together
and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in; the kind of world we
want to leave our children and future generations."Congress reconvenes on Monday and Mr Obama is set to address the nation on
Tuesday about a possible US response to the August 21 attack that left
hundreds dead on the outskirts of Damascus.Faced with a war-weary US public and little international support, Mr Obama is
bracing for an uphill battle to convince Congress to back military action
against Assad's regime.
According to a Washington Post survey, 224 of the current 433 House members
were either "no" or "leaning no" on military action as of Friday. A large
number, 184, were undecided, with just 25 backing a strike.
The Senate and the House are expected to vote on the issue within the next two
weeks.
Amid deep global divisions over the Syria crisis – with Assad ally Russia
strongly arguing against any intervention – US Secretary of State John Kerry
has travelled to Europe to bolster support for military action.
Mr Kerry went into informal talks with the EU's 28 foreign ministers in
Lithuania, which currently holds the EU's rotating chair, with the bloc
itself sharply split on Syria and most nations highly reticent over military
action.
In France, so far the sole EU nation determined to join a US-led strike, the
latest public opinion poll showed 68 percent of people opposed to military
action in war-torn Syria, an increase of nine percentage points since late
August.
In Vilnius, Mr Kerry pressed the case for punitive action against Syria over
last month's deadly gas attack, which the United States says was carried out
by Assad's regime – a claim denied by Moscow.
A State Department official said Mr Kerry expected "a fairly detailed
discussion about our thinking" but noted "that there are divisions within
the EU about what is the exact sequencing of the need for an international
response."
As talks between Mr Kerry and his EU counterparts dragged well beyond
schedule, also touching on the Middle East peace process, EU diplomats
reported intense backroom negotiations taking place to seek a consensus on
Syria.
France and Denmark are supportive of a US-led strike but Germany, Sweden and
others were refusing to endorse action without a UN mandate or a debate
within a UN framework.
The talks take place after Mr Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
failed to bridge their differences at the G20 summit of top global powers.
Just over half of the G20 states signed up to a statement calling for a
"strong" response to last month's alleged chemical attack, with Britain,
France, Italy and Spain the only EU countries of the 11 nations that signed.
The statement called for a response that would "send a clear message that this
kind of atrocity can never be repeated".
It did not specify military action and European diplomats said the language
remained vague.
Mr Putin has warned it would be "outside the law" to attack without the UN's
blessing.
Many European nations too are urging a postponement of any action until the
release of a much-anticipated report by United Nations inspectors on the
deadly August 21 attacks that left hundreds dead.
At the G20, French President Francois Hollande vowed to wait for the report
before joining any military action, a decision welcomed by Germany.
In Vilnius, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle had urged the UN on
Friday to publish its report "as quickly as possible" to help Europe's
divided leaders determine a response.
A US State Department official in Vilnius told AFP that while Mr Kerry had
heard those requests, "he also made clear that the United States has not
made the decision to wait (for the UN report)".
Russia and China – both veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security
Council – have on three occasions voted down resolutions that would have put
pressure on Assad.
Washington meanwhile is evacuating non-essential embassy staff from Beirut and
urging Americans to avoid all travel to Lebanon and southern Turkey.
Later Saturday, Mr Kerry is due to fly to Paris for talks with French
officials. He will meet Arab League leaders there on Sunday to update them
on Syria and on progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
He will travel on to London for talks late Sunday with Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas, before flying home Monday.
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5 Comments
10 years ago
obama: WAR CRIMINAL.
10 years ago
Call your Congressman. Tell him/her to vote NO. Fight the global jihad.
Absolutely! The duty of each and every freedom loving American patriot! Don’t give Zero his WWIII!
10 years ago
“this steaming pile of dung”: obama in a nutshell.
10 years ago
WITH ANTI-ISLAMIST FEVER
spreading from Egypt to Tunisia, and given the very secular nature of Syria after 40 years of secular Baathist rule, does anyone credibly believe that Islamists (al-Qaida, Brotherhood, etc.) would stand a ghost of a chance ruling post-Assad Syria?
10 years ago
i tell Congress: VOTE NO!!! do not let this stooge-in chief and criminal in the White House bully you into a war the American people don’t want (89%) and the Middle East Christians don’t want and none of our allies want. you have my support if you vote NO!
