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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. says Assad must go, will deal on timing
2015-09-20
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 said on Saturday Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
 has to go but the timing of his departure had to be decided through negotiation.

Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond he called on Russia and Iran to use their influence to convince al-Assad to negotiate.

He said there is an urgency to renewing efforts to find a political settlement to end the four-year war and worsening refugee crisis in Syria.

"We need to get to the negotiation. That is what we're looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other countries with influence, will help to bring about that, because that's what is preventing this crisis from ending," said Kerry.

"We're prepared to negotiate. Is Assad prepared to negotiate, really negotiate? Is Russia prepared to bring him to the table?"

He said of Assad's removal: "it doesn't have to be on day one or month one ... there is a process by which all the parties have to come together to reach an understanding of how this can best be achieved."
Posted by:Fred

#11  Loved the Putin vid in #2.

Can you imagine if Romney responded like that to the Dog On The Roof story? Might have changed the course of history.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-09-20 19:50  

#10  No, more like drunken rambling into a smart phone.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-09-20 17:12  

#9  Is that Pappy's "Hemingway"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-20 16:11  

#8  we want all uranium 238 to decay

we're flexible on the timing
Posted by: lord garth   2015-09-20 13:33  

#7  Basically the entire Champ "strategy" in the mid-east has crumbled into dust at the first sign of pressure from Putin.

Doesn't take Putin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-20 13:10  

#6  That was as designed AlanC. By obumbles, ValJar and their media enablers.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-09-20 13:02  

#5  Basically the entire Champ "strategy" in the mid-east has crumbled into dust at the first sign of pressure from Putin.

This was a total farce designed, loosely, to save face after the infamous red line faded to white as in feather. I cannot imagine a more total humiliation the US could have suffered diplomatically than the ME as brought to you by our vile regime.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-09-20 12:57  

#4  An inert version of the "clock" to be used in quantifying the "timing:"



Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2015-09-20 11:25  

#3  Yet another Clinton DoS success story.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-20 07:20  

#2  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-20 02:52  

#1  More interesting than the timing of his departure is the question of who The Next Guy is. Not a lot of George Washingtons floating around loose in the region.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-09-20 00:28  

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