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Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
Yep, they really got rid of the chemical weapons. Kerry said 100% they were gone. I can only imagine how bad he nuke deal with Iran really is.....
Quote:Susan Rice and other former Obama administration officials are taking heat for past claims that their 2013 Syria agreement successfully led to the Assad regime purging its entire chemical weapons stockpile — in the wake of this week’s alleged sarin gas attack.
On Thursday, President Trump launched a targeted strike at a Syrian airfield in response to what he called a barbaric chemical attack on innocent civilians at the hand of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council,” Trump said.
Video footage from the chemical attack scene immediately raised credibility problems for claims made by members of the Obama administration that the prior agreement had rid the war-torn country of chemical agents.
During an interview this past January with National Public Radio, former National Security Adviser Rice touted the “success” in Syria, in striking a deal with Russia’s help that resulted in the prior administration dropping the threat of military action.
“We were able to find a solution that didn’t necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished,” she boasted. “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”
Rice has come under fire for making misleading comments in the past. Most recently, she grabbed headlines for allegedly being tied to allegations of improper surveillance of the Trump team prior to his inauguration.
Rice isn’t the only Obama-era official who made self-congratulatory statements about removing chemical weapons from Syria.
In July 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to discuss the September 2013 deal that resulted in Russia agreeing to help confiscate and then destroy Syria’s stockpile.
“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out,” Kerry claimed.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/...purge.html
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
Kerry is a horse-faced arse clown. We all knew this then, and it is proven now. We will have the same discussion about Iranian violations of thiei nuclear deal. He sucks at negotiation, and it was clear when the "deal" was struck. He can rot in hell and his "deals" are pure bull****.
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2017 12:53 AM by ODUsmitty.)
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
In John Kerry's douchbaggiest voice, "The Syrians have now fully complied with turning over all of their chemical weapons stockpile because the 10% or of their remaining stockpile are being used up on Syrian civilians."
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
I've predicted that the failures of the Obby administration's foreign policy would ultimately be exposed. I just didn't think it would only take 2 1/2 months.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
This doesn't look good for Trump
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:43 AM)gdunn Wrote: This doesn't look good for Trump
I assume you mean that now he has a distracting mess to clean up.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:45 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:43 AM)gdunn Wrote: This doesn't look good for Trump
I assume you mean that now he has a distracting mess to clean up.
I'm being sarcastic. Mocking the libs if you will.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:46 AM)gdunn Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:45 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:43 AM)gdunn Wrote: This doesn't look good for Trump
I assume you mean that now he has a distracting mess to clean up.
I'm being sarcastic. Mocking the libs if you will.
Thought so but my point is valid. This is a problem that Trump didn't need.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:48 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:46 AM)gdunn Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:45 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote: (04-08-2017 07:43 AM)gdunn Wrote: This doesn't look good for Trump
I assume you mean that now he has a distracting mess to clean up.
I'm being sarcastic. Mocking the libs if you will.
Thought so but my point is valid. This is a problem that Trump didn't need.
It's part of the job unfortunately. He's got good leadership with Mattis to help guide him through it if military action is further needed.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
I honestly didn't believe that the Obama administration was as full of liars and idiots as a many people said.
Really disappointed in them. The most corrupt administration in my lifetime. Makes slick silly look like a choir boy.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:56 AM)shere khan Wrote: I honestly didn't believe that the Obama administration was as full of liars and idiots as a many people said.
I knew it when he was first elected and proceeded to break virtually every campaign promise he'd made.
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RE: Susan Rice, Obama Colleagues Take Heat For Past Claims On Syria Chem Weapons Purge
(04-08-2017 07:35 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote: I've predicted that the failures of the Obby administration's foreign policy would ultimately be exposed. I just didn't think it would only take 2 1/2 months.
that's what #draintheswamp was all about...
DJT isn't going to **** around now that he's in office....
it's funny how too many didn't see that coming either....
disclaimer: I still don't agree with the strike as best method....we need to let their people suffer/die/resolve until and end game is clear...."let them choke on their own phlegm"
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