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http://www.independent.co.uk/

www.drudgereport.com


Will someone help me understand, what is going on, peas?  Thank-you

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http://www.france24.com/en/20130829-france-russia-warships-mediterranean-syria

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/world/middleeast/us-facing-test-on-data-to-back-action-on-syria.html?_r=2&

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Give him more time, peas!!

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NBC poll: Nearly 80 percent want congressional approval on Syria

This story was originally published on Fri Aug 30, 2013 6:40 AM EDT



By Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News

Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe President Barack Obama should receive congressional approval before using force in Syria, but the nation is divided over the scope of any potential strike, a new NBC News poll shows.

 


The NBC poll was conducted Aug. 28-29 of 700 adults (including 210 cell phone-only respondents), and it has a margin of plus-minus 3.7 percentage points

 

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/30/20256971-nbc-poll-nearly-80-percent-want-congressional-approval-on-syria?lite

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COOPER:




And Congress isn't scheduled to come back for another two weeks. Is there any chance they'll come back and early vote on Syria like their British counterparts did? Didn't seem like it.


BASH:

Very unlikely. I mean, first of all, look what happened in Great Britain, Anderson. I was told even before that happened that one of the reasons why even Republicans who run the House don't want to call the House back is because they don't want to have that kind of result.

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COOPER:




And Congress isn't scheduled to come back for another two weeks. Is there any chance they'll come back and early vote on Syria like their British counterparts did? Didn't seem like it.


BASH:

Very unlikely. I mean, first of all, look what happened in Great Britain, Anderson. I was told even before that happened that one of the reasons why even Republicans who run the House don't want to call the House back is because they don't want to have that kind of result.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/29/acd.02.html

   Where is Congress? 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-syria-crisis-britain-idUSBRE97R1BD20130830

Iraq war ghosts end UK plans to take part in Syria action

By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON | Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:49am EDT

In a humiliating defeat for the British leader likely to damage Cameron's hopes of being re-elected in 2015 and set back traditionally strong U.S.-UK relations, parliament defied Cameron by 285 to 272 votes.

Commentators said it was the first time a British prime minister had lost a vote on war since 1782, when parliament effectively conceded American independence by voting against further fighting to crush the colony's rebellion.


 

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  Where is Congress 

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/jimmy-carter-syria-peace-summit-96087.html


 Jimmy Carter calls for Syria peace summit
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 By JAMES ARKIN | 8/30/13 1:02 PM EDT
Former President Jimmy Carter condemned possible chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but called for a “peace conference” and working with the United Nations, rather than using a military solution.

In a statement Friday from the Carter Center, the former president said that the U.N. investigation into possible chemical weapons attacks in Syria is under way and urged against action in the country without U.N. support.

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 Advertisement“It is imperative to determine the facts of the attack and present them to the public. Those responsible for the use of chemical weapons must bear personal responsibility,” Carter said in the statement. “The chemical attack should be a catalyst for redoubling efforts to convene a peace conference, to end hostilities, and urgently to find a political solution.”

(PHOTOS: Scenes from Syria)

The Carter Center urged against a military response to possible chemical weapons use without a U.N. mandate, saying the action would be “illegal under international law and unlikely to alter the course of the war.”

“Instead, all should seek to leverage the consensus among the entire international community, including Russia and Iran, condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and bringing under U.N. oversight the country’s stockpile of such weapons,” the center said in the statement.


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America's Chickens Come Home to Roost: Assad's Kid Taunts Obama on Facebook

August 30, 2013


Rush Limbaugh


TRANSCRIPT

RUSH:  Yeah, John Kerry must not want to be heard.  Whatever he's gonna say on Syria, he must not want anybody to hear it, because he's gonna speak at 12:30, about 25 minutes from now.  That means that nobody's gonna hear what he says.  That doesn't matter, my friends, because I am gonna tell you everything you need to know about Syria -- and really the only thing you need to know is that Bashar Assad's kid, the 11-year-old Hafez Assad Jr. ...


 





  Syria, in and of itself, I don't know what our national interest there is, but Syria as part of the region is important. I mean, if Syria goes, so does Jordan.  If Al-Qaeda takes over Syria, there are some concerns here.  Still, despite that, I can't stop laughing. Here we have this Nobel Peace Prize winner, all of this smoke and mirrors. It was all a mirage.


 
RUSH:  By the way, CNN's reporting that Syrian rebels say that there has been another chemical gas attack.  It was last Monday, five days ago. So it's not now, five days ago, there was another gas attack.  NBC has a poll: "80% of the American People Want Congressional Approval on Syria."  Obama is not going to go to Congress, 'cause they're Republicans in Congress, and nobody likes Republicans, and Republicans don't agree with Obama. So we just gonna bypass 'em. The hell with the Constitution!

We go back to March 6, 2002, in White House Q&A. NBC correspondent Mike Viqueira is asking Obama about foreign policy intervention.

OBAMA:  For us to take military action, unilaterally, as some have suggested -- uh, or, uh, to, uh think that somehow there is some simple solution -- uh, I think is a mistake.

RUSH:  That was just a year ago.  Was a mistake to do what he's going to do today.

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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/08/30/america_s_chickens_come_home_to_roost_assad_s_kid_taunts_obama_on_facebook

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http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/30/will-boehner-stop-our-rogue-president/


 Editor's Choice Will Boehner stop our rogue president?




 By: Patrick J. Buchanan
 8/30/2013 06:00 AM
   

The next 72 hours will be decisive in the career of the speaker of the House. The alternatives he faces are these:

John Boehner can, after “consultation,” give his blessing to Barack Obama’s decision to launch a war on Syria, a nation that has neither attacked nor threatened us.

Or Boehner can instruct Obama that, under our Constitution, in the absence of an attack on the United States, Congress alone has the authority to decide whether the United States goes to war.


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http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/30/will-boehner-stop-our-rogue-president/


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  Kerry: Sending a Message to Whom?
by Bernard Avishai Aug 30, 2013 5:30 PM EDT
 

  Secretary Kerry's trenchant, rallying speech laid out the case, but he and President Obama surely know that attacking Assad in ways constrained by their corresponding principles of action—"no boots on the ground," "limited in scope," or, as former ambassador Ivo Daalder put it on the PBS Newshour, "a punitive strike ... to send a message to the regime that this kind of behavior is unacceptable"—is something like trying to stabilize the picture on an old TV set by smacking it. What good it does bears no relationship to how good it feels.


 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/30/kerry-sending-a-message-to-whom.html
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement about the use of chemical weapons in Syria at the State Department on August 26. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Anticipating Kerry's speech, I checked in again last night with my friend Charles Glass in London, a reporter who knows Syria and Lebanon as intimately as any American. A graduate of American University of Beirut, he's covered the region for 40 years; he was once held hostage by Hezbollah, accompanied the invasion of Iraq, and reported from Aleppo last year. He was preparing to fly to Damascus as we spoke.

And I came away from our conversation believing what Kerry surely understands, that there are essentially two strategic choices for the U.S., the first diplomatic, the second, significant armed intervention. Neither presumes that a limited military action is a "message," unless, that is, the intended recipient is not Assad, but Lindsay Graham.

Let's get things straight. Syria is now fractured into zones controlled by 1) Assad, armed by Russia and backed by Iran, 2) Hezbollah, backing Assad's Alawite Shi'a sect, 3) the Kurds, always looking for ways of unifying the Kurdish homeland on the Iraqi border, 4) an insurgent Sunni-Islamist group, Jadhat al-Nusra—admiring (if not loyal to) Iraqi al Qaeda—and, 5) a (more or less) secular and (more or less) puny Free Syrian Army, the heart of an opposition ("maybe 1,200 free-floating groups") backed by Qatar, and led ("this month, anyway") by Ahmad Jarba, with ties to Saudi Arabia.

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http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/poll/what-would-you-do-about-syria-what-do-you-think-other-gretawire-bloggers-would-do-click-read-vote/

 08/30/2013 at 6:49 pm

What would YOU do about Syria? What do you think other GretaWire bloggers would do? Click, read, vote 


http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/30/email-from-fnc-james-rosen-with-list-of-calls-today-by-secretary-of-state-john-kerry/#disqus_thread   

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http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/index.html

August 30, 2013

Has the White House bungled the Syria crisis?
Congressman who was just at Syrian border describes scene on ground, explains why he believes Pres. Obama has mishandled the crisis

 
 
GretaWire Poll
Do you think President Obama will decide NOT to strike Syria within the next week?
Vote  View Results  (interesting view results) 

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I apologize if I am over posting. 

Perhaps,  Monkeys (or guests) may like to understand or grasp this situation, IMO.

Greta seemed as puzzled on her show, about this self-made, crisis, so I am not alone. IMO

I keep thinking about my revolutionary grandfather, who enlisted four times, to serve in the
war, he must be rolling over in his grave.

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The Washington Post
 
Russia sharply steps up criticism of U.S. over Syria
By Will Englund, Saturday, August 31, 8:49 AM








http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-sharply-steps-up-criticism-of-us-over-syria/2013/08/31/532c48ea-1238-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_print.html

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Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean 'as precaution'

 

Andrea Shalal-Esa 13 hours ago




The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17) departs Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, …By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a "limited, precise" strike, defense officials said late on Friday.

They stressed that the USS San Antonio, an amphibious ship with several hundred U.S. Marines on board, was in the region for a different reason and there were no plans to put Marines on the ground as part of any military action against Syria.


http://news.yahoo.com/sixth-u-ship-now-eastern-mediterranean-precaution-025721221.html

 

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http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/08/31/sen-graham-pres-obama-has-mishandled-syria-badly-he-could-chickens-have-come-home-roost-l

Strikes on Syria- A question of the Obama's ego?



Sen. Graham: Pres. Obama has mishandled Syria as badly as he could, 'chickens have come home to roost' on 'leading from behind' foreign policy

Published August 30, 2013 | On the Record | On the Record

With: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Lt. Col. Oliver North



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  Is this the "peace" president that I voted for?