Lawmakers Blast Obama's Syria War Draft

Desperate madman Obama willing to ignite WWIII to cover White House crimes, distract Americans from ongoing Snowden revelations

PRESS TV
09/02/2013

American lawmakers have criticized the draft of President Barack Obama’s authorization for military action in Syria, saying it could open the door to attacks on other countries.

Mass murderer, illegal drone strike killer will drag U.S., world into WWIII

Obama and other White House officials pressed lawmakers on Monday to approve military force against Syria.

However, there is deep disagreement on how to proceed, with some lawmakers saying the draft authorization is too broad in scope and duration.

The lawmakers are worried that the draft could let Obama attack other countries as well. They say although the authorization’s focus is on the use of chemicals in Syria, it has not set a time limit on military action, and has not confined it only to Syria.

The proposal authorizes the president to use the armed forces "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict in Syria," Reuters reported. 

Congress clowns will once again co-sign master Obama's bullshit, face war crimes along with him and entire White House criminal crew

The proposal also explicitly allows military action to deter or prevent the transfer of those weapons into or out of Syria.

Congressional hesitancy reflects the overall weariness of war among Americans who oppose getting involved in Syria.

“People have become, it's more than just war-weary, they've become skeptical of the effectiveness of these military involvements," said Rep. James McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

"The resolution that they are presenting right now is so open-ended, I think even people who are sympathetic to the administration might have trouble supporting it," he added.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters in the United States have taken to the streets to protest against a possible US attack on Syria. 

 

Americans can look forward to much more of THIS

Protests erupted outside the White House on Saturday after President Obama announced that he plans to seek congressional approval for a strike against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In addition, many military service members have expressed reservations with attacking Syria, especially following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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France Accuses Syria of 3 Chemical Attacks, Assad Slams Western Logic

French government now to provide bogus "evidence" of Syrian government gas attack; Moronic Obama puppet Hollande headed for White House guillotine, will fall with Cameron    

RT
09/02/2013

At least three chemical attacks were staged in Syria between April and August, a declassified French intelligence report claims, while President Bashar Assad said it was “illogical” for the government to launch a chemical weapons strike.

Moron frog, Obama bootlicker Hollande will fall along with White house poodle Cameron

The declassified nine-page French intelligence report, issued by the country’s external and military services, suggests government forces loyal to President Assad were behind the attack, which took place on August 21 in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus.

The report alleges the strikes were directed from government-controlled areas to the east and west of Damascus and targeted rebel zones; the intelligence also describes "massive use of chemical agents" involved in the attack.

“Unlike previous attacks that used small amounts of chemicals and were aimed at terrorizing people, this attack was tactical and aimed at regaining territory," government sources commented to Reuters.

The source added that since then Assad’s forces had subsequently bombed the areas to erase evidence of strikes.

Moreover, the report alleges the Syrian government staged at least three chemical attacks since April, according to AFP, including those in the towns of Saraqib and Jobar in April. Those attacks appeared to have killed about 280 people.

Putlin laughing at ludicrous Obama, Cameron, Hollande antics over CIA/FSA chemical attack

The report was published on the websites of the French presidency, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry at 5 pm Paris time (7 pm GMT).

"We are going to give the MPs everything we have – classified until now – to enable every one of them to take on board the reality of the unacceptable attack," French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Monday.

French President Francois Hollande has backed a call from US President Barack Obama for a military strike against the Syrian government as a punitive response to the Aug. 21 chemical attack. However, after Obama requested an authorization from the Congress, France said they do not intend to act alone and intends to create a coalition for intervention in Syria.

Hollande will have a seat beside war criminals Bush and Blair (seen here receiving ludicrous, bogus "Peace Medal" from moron mass-murderer) at the New Hague War Crimes Trials

"It's not for France to act alone. The president is continuing his work of persuasion to bring together a coalition without delay. This act cannot be left without a response," PM Ayrault reiterated after presenting an intelligence report on Syria to lawmakers, his defense and foreign ministers, intelligence and security officials.

"France is determined to penalize the use of chemical weapons by Assad's regime and to dissuade [further attacks] with a forceful and firm response," Ayrault said. "The objective is neither to topple the regime nor to liberate the country," he said, adding that only a political solution in Syria was possible.

Ayrault also said no vote was scheduled for Wednesday’s parliamentary debate on the Syrian conflict. The French constitution doesn't require a vote for the president to be able to authorize military action, Ayrault added.

Assad slams ‘illogical’ accusations of chemical attacks

Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar Assad has derided allegations from the West that his government was behind alleged chemical attacks in the country. He challenged the world to provide “the slightest proof” he had used chemical weapons against his own people, and questioned the logic behind such accusations.

Fraud "mainstream media" criminals that aid and abet Hollande, Obama, Cameron such as the now-defunct CIA Al Jazeera will also be in the dock charged with war crimes, along with their fake "journalists"

“Supposing that our army wants to use weapons of mass destruction… Is it possible that it does so in an area that it is itself in, and where soldiers are wounded by these weapons, which UN inspectors noted while visiting hospitals in which they were treated. Where is the logic?” the Syrian leader said.

“We have challenged the United States and France to come up with a single piece of proof,” he told Le Figaro. “Obama and Hollande have been incapable of doing so.”

“Anybody who contributes to the financial and military reinforcement of terrorists is the enemy of the Syrian people. If the policies of the French state are hostile to the Syrian people, the state will be their enemy,” Assad said, adding that the French people themselves were not enemies, but the French government’s policies were regarded as hostile.

The French people, along with all sane peoples of the world want nothing to do with a U.S. attack on Syria under bogus Obama/CIA/Zionist pretenses; Israel has the most to lose, as it will cease to exist

“There will be repercussions, negative ones obviously, on French interests,” he concluded.

Assad said that any military action from the country would spark negative repercussions on French interests, calling the region a “powder keg.”

“The whole world will lose control of the situation. Chaos and extremism will spread. The risk of a regional war exists,” he said. Assad’s comments came before the French intelligence report was published.

UN chemical attack investigation

The samples collected by the UN chemical investigation team of the suspected chemical attack in Ghouta are to be examined by the Swedish Defense Research Institute in the northern city of Umea, said Ake Sellstrom, who leads the investigation, Russian media reported.

Useless, gutless Obamaphile disgrace Ban Ki Moon exposed for the coward he is

Sellstrom rebuffed assumptions that the samples were not reliable due to too much time having elapsed after the attack. He noted that the material was collected in a short time, so there is a good chance for accurate analysis.

"It is rarely possible to collect samples after such a short time," Sellstrom said. The Defense Research Institute says the analysis of samples brought back from Syria will take about two weeks. Some samples will also be studied in Finland.

The publication of the intelligence report follows Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s call for lifting the veil on all available information regarding the alleged chemical attack.

U.S. Congress clowns once again prepare to dance to master Obama's looney tunes

He added that the evidence provided by the US was not convincing, ‘nothing concrete, no geographical coordinates or details.'

Finally, he warned that a strike on Syria would lead to a huge increase in extremism and have the opposite effect to what the Western powers desire.




The Russian minister had previously warned that Western military action would sink efforts to organize a peace conference in Geneva.

"If the action announced by the US president – to the great regret of all of us – does in fact take place... it will put off the chances of (holding) this conference for a long time, if not forever", Lavrov said.

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the idea that the Syrian government would use chemical weapons on its own people when UN inspectors were in Damascus as “utter nonsense.” The Russian President called the affair a “provocation” by Syrian rebels hoping to embroil Western powers in the conflict.

The Geneva conference which is due to take place in late 2013, is meant to bring the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad and the Syrian National Coalition, the two main opposing sides of the conflict, to the negotiating table in a bid to find a political solution to the crisis.

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Military Members Speak Out Against Syrian War Through Anonymous Meme

Marine Corps, U.S. military closer to outright mutiny than any other time in American history

The Liberty Crier
09/01/2013

Are we witnessing the beginnings of a new military member internet meme?

Marines, Marine Veterans ready to mutiny

Military members are donning their uniforms and posting pictures of themselves with signs covering their faces that read, “I didn’t join the [military service branch name] to fight for Al-Quaeda in a Syrian civil war.”

The first image surfaced on the internet a few days ago and now another military member has made their own version.

Have military members finally found a way to speak out against U.S. Imperial foreign policies?

  

 

U.S. military professionals say NO MORE to Obama criminal regime illegal wars

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U.S. Naval Update Map

Obama, JCS criminals once more put American military lives at needless, criminal risk; Obama again using insane, warmongering traitors McCain and Graham to shill for his illegal war in Syria; U.S. military personnel now going online to anonymously say no to Obama criminals and their bogus aggression that may once again cost them and their colleagues their lives in Bush/Obama illegal wars

STRATFOR/ALALAM
08/29/2013

The Naval Update Map shows an approximation of the current locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups, based on available open-source information. No classified or operationally sensitive information is included in this weekly update. CSGs and ARGs are the keys to U.S. dominance of the world’s oceans. A CSG is centered on an aircraft carrier, which projects U.S. naval and air power and supports a Carrier Air Wing. The CSG includes significant offensive strike capability. An ARG is centered on three amphibious warfare ships, with a Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked. An MEU is built around a heavily reinforced and mobile battalion of Marines.

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The U.S. Navy has beefed up its presence in the Persian Gulf region, increasing the number of aircraft carriers from one to two.

The USS Harry S. Truman arrived in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday and was scheduled to take the place of the USS Nimitz, which was supposed to head home.

The U.S. Navy has also ordered the Nimitz, which is in the Indian Ocean, to stay for now.

U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the decision as prudent planning and said it doesn’t suggest the carrier would play a role in any possible strikes in Syria.

On Wednesday night, the Pentagon announced the USS Truman, an aircraft carrier, is moving into the Persian Gulf to the south, joining the four destroyers already in the Mediterranean.

The U.S. had kept two carriers in the region, but budget cuts in February forced officials to cut that to one.

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