Obama: Stay OUT of Syria! Syria is NOT an American Problem!

From the (reorganizing) NSP News Service:  As expected, President Obama pushes the most idiotic and arrogant agenda possible! No, the NSP does not condone the use of chemical weapons (if that, in fact, is truly the case, and not a bunch of ZOG propaganda!). BUT Syria is a nation for Syrians, and the United States has no business going in there on any basis or at any rate. And NO American blood ought to be shed over this nonsense, not to mention that not one thin dime should be paid for a problem in a nation thousands of miles away. LET'S STAY OUT!!!

-- Karl Wolff III, Deputy Commander and Head of Propaganda and Communications, NSP.  1488!

 

 

 

Selling Syria: White House makes its case to Congress for an attack

President Obama affirms his confidence that he will get the votes needed in Congress to pass authorization to take military action in Syria.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

The White House is making the hard sell for a strike on Syria — meeting with strategically important Republicans, trying to persuade skeptical Democrats and sending top members of the Cabinet to testify before Congress.
The administration won a critical show of support Tuesday from the top elected Republican in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner, who said he backed President Barack Obama’s call for military action.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden huddled with the heads of key congressional committees in the White House Cabinet Room. Boehner, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell were among those at the meeting.

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In brief remarks to reporters, Obama stressed that American action would be limited and meant to “degrade” the capability of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, suspected of using chemical weapons against his own people last month.
“This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan,” Obama said.
Among the day’s other major developments in the Syria crisis:
— Secretary of State John Kerry, who twice last week made a forceful moral argument for an attack on Syria, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel were due in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
— Israel test-fired a missile over the Mediterranean Sea, adding to tension in the region. U.S. military officials told NBC News that no American ships took part in the test, and called the test fairly routine.
— The United Nations said that more than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries, about 5,000 per day. A U.N. commissioner said Syria had become “the great tragedy of this century.”
— U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to meet with reporters early Tuesday afternoon.

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— A spokesman for the Syrian opposition said that a Syrian forensic medicine expert has evidence of Assad’s involvement in a chemical weapons attack in March and has defected to Turkey.
The Senate hearing, which also will include Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, follows a long weekend during which the administration backed off what appeared to be an imminent strike and began making its case to Congress and the public.
The administration argues that Assad must be punished for firing chemical weapons into a suburb of the capital last month, killing more than 1,400 people, including more than 400 children.
Obama said Tuesday that he is confident that Congress will authorize military action against Syria. He said he would be willing to rewrite his draft resolution to Congress, “so long as we are accomplishing what needs to be accomplished which is to degrade Assad.”
The timing of a vote in Congress could be tricky. The nation marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks next week, and the U.N. opens its General Assembly on Sept. 17.
Russia and China both have veto power in the U.N. Security Council and would presumably block any American attempt to secure U.N. support for a Syria strike.

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In this photo provided by the White House, President Barack Obama meets with Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to discuss Syria in the Oval Office on Monday.

On Monday, Obama met with two key Republican senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. McCain, after the meeting, called on Congress to pass a resolution approving force against Syria.
Both Republicans said the goal of military action should be to “degrade” the capabilities of the Assad regime and “upgrade” those of the Syrian opposition, which has fought the Assad government for more than two years into a civil war.
McCain and Graham also criticized Obama for failing to make a clear case for intervention.
Also Monday, Kerry, Hagel and National Security Adviser Susan Rice were among the administration officials who spoke to 127 House Democrats by conference call to argue for a Syria strike.
Sources told NBC News that Pelosi came to the administration’s defense, telling colleagues that preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction was an important piece of U.S. national security policy.
Kerry told the call that Congress faces a “Munich moment,” a reference to the 1938 agreement that ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany, and that was judged by history to be an appeasement of Adolf Hitler.
Kerry will go before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
The president planned to fly overnight Tuesday to Sweden to meet with Scandinavian leaders there. He arrives Thursday in Russia for a meeting of the Group of 20 world economic powers.
Obama, preparing to argue his case before Congress and the American public, said Saturday: “We should have this debate, because the issues are too big for business as usual.”