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2013-09-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
BREAKING: Russian Ultimatum To Assad: Give Up Chemical Arsenal -- Or Face US Attack Alone
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Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-09 13:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 ....Cmdr. Zero owes Vlad in a big way if this (1) turns out to be true and (2) goes through.

Maybe Zero brought his kneepads with him when he and Putin had their "candid and constructive conversation"...?
Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-09 13:28||   2013-09-09 13:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Knee pads? More likely a prayer rug...
Posted by BigEd 2013-09-09 13:53||   2013-09-09 13:53|| Front Page Top

#3 1. Russians weren't going to be targeted by any cruise missiles [unless someone forgot to check the phone book - see Chinese Embassy Belgrade]. It was all going to be locals taking the hits anyway.

2. Internet flood of civilian casualty pictures already prepped.

3. Billy Boy shot off missiles at Saddam for non-compliance, didn't result in anything afterwards. No boots on the ground, no way of insuring what you used as an excuse to shoot has been accomplished. Missiles do not occupy terrain.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-09 13:56||   2013-09-09 13:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will come to the rescue and save the day.
Posted by Lampedusa Lover of the Boskonians8212 2013-09-09 14:01||   2013-09-09 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday afternoon, Sept. 9 that he had urged Syria to hand over its nuclear arsenal to international control if that would stop an American attack.

Is that a typo? Sloppy reporting? A Russian joke? I hadn't thought anybody believed Syria had a nuclear arsenal.
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-09-09 14:40||   2013-09-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Syria has nukes. That is the rebel objective.
Posted by Beldar Glineter4775 2013-09-09 14:43||   2013-09-09 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 >the Syrian army will quickly run out of ordnance for fighting the rebels.

The rebels seem to rely on fairy dust and unicorn drops.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-09 15:01||   2013-09-09 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 This is a brilliant counter by Vlad. A week? It'll take a week just to get the U.N. inspectors to agree on airplane flights. It'll be three months to get them to 'inspect' everything and six months minimum before any of the weapons, assuming they are found, to be shipped out or destroyed. Assad can play the same game Saddam played with hiding the weapons; if not the weapons themselves then at least the machinery and facilities to make the weapons. Oh that? That's a pesticide factory for our farmers. Prove us wrong.

Brilliant. Kerry is a fool.

Based on his past record, he's at minimum a fool, and probably evil to boot. Do I have to go through the numbers again, here of all places?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-09-09 15:14||   2013-09-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Or it could be this is the last thing Zero and company want. Zero, McCain, Graham, etc. have been itching for a fight with Syria ever since this little war started. Clearly the object is not Assad's chemical weapons. They are a red herring. But if the chemicals are removed, and it's all verified, there is no more excuse for attacking Syria on behalf of the Soddies.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-09 15:16||   2013-09-09 15:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Game, set and match to Putin.
Posted by Elmearong Gurly-Brown5896 2013-09-09 15:52||   2013-09-09 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Putin's playing these fools like a violin.
Posted by tu3031 2013-09-09 16:03||   2013-09-09 16:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Reuters: Russia proposes Syria chemical weapons deal to avert war
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-09-09 16:09||   2013-09-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Face it - Obumbles, John F'kin Kerry, and their associates are simply poor beginners (if that) in the international-relations game. Putin is like a gamemaster - he has played them every single step of the way.

The really sad part is - everyone knows it but them and their supporters. They actually think that they are the masters of the game. Heck even I see it.

It's truly pathetic. they honestly believe they can 'community organize' their way.
Posted by CrazyFool 2013-09-09 16:52||   2013-09-09 16:52|| Front Page Top

#14 This way Obama gets a get out clause. Lucky him again!
Posted by Paul D 2013-09-09 19:17||   2013-09-09 19:17|| Front Page Top

#15 The Circus continues. The Hildbeast today was "All excited" about John Kerry's proposal for Syria to turn over it's chemical weapons to International control. Jeebus, does she not listen to anything but personal accolades? As someone said, "If yo go to war you have to go to war with the clowns you have".
Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-09-09 19:28||   2013-09-09 19:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair
And I'm wondering how I'll get down those stairs

Clowns to left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you
And I'm wondering what it is I should do
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face
Losing control, yeah I'm all over the place

Clowns to left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you


Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-09-09 20:57||   2013-09-09 20:57|| Front Page Top

#17 uh oh, AP. Someone's gonna lose an ear
Posted by Frank G 2013-09-09 21:16||   2013-09-09 21:16|| Front Page Top

#18 Assad is highly unlikely to give up ruling power, nor to agree to turn over his chemical weapons, etc. WMDS unless Russia + Iran [China?] agree to increase their level of arms supply + $$$ to his Regime.

Its obvious he's still counting on Russia + Iran at least to continue to support him.

* FYI DAILY STAR LEBANON > KERRY TELLS RUSSIA HIS SYRIA COMMENTS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE [formal = diplomatic] PROPOSAL.

Jaaawhn was just "floating it out there" to see what would happen???

["APRIL FOOL" IN NOT-APRIL SEPTEMBER here].

* RELATED WAFF > RUSSIA: KERRY'S WEAPONS TRANFER [Offer] FROM SYRIA WAS "RHETORICAL".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-09-09 23:01||   2013-09-09 23:01|| Front Page Top

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