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Originally Posted by crockett
Umm can someone please tell me where Obama has been pushing to arm the Syrian Rebels?
Until this new GFY revelation, Obama has specifically stated that he thinks the weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Obama has so far been very much against arming the Syrian Rebels and instead just been sending them aid..
I think you guys have your whipping boy mistaken because it's John McCain and the right, whom has been making a big fuss about how the US should arm the Syrian Rebels. McCain went as far as to sneak into Syria to meet with the Rebels just last week trying to force the issue into US politics with his typical self serving grandstanding.
yes there has been talks about Arming them, which of course there naturally would be in that kind of situation. However it's mostly the EU that is trying to push the US to arm them.
Obama up til now has taken a wait and see approach, which honestly I can't blame him. It's the Right in the US and the EU whom are pushing hard for us to arm them.
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http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-syrian-...190000613.html
The Aid of which you speak allowed for "clandestine" support. The Benghazi "consulate" was the front for CIA Syrian gun running. Claiming he isn;t actually arming them gives him plausible deniability.
Obama and McCain are working hand in hand "acting" as if they are not.
President Obama?s newest ally: John McCain
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...601.html?hp=f1
Reuters reported Wednesday that President Obama ?signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government.? This latest leak of classified information was attributed to ?U.S. sources familiar with the matter.? Lethal covert assistance undoubtedly will help the rebel cause, but the United States is risking letting advanced weapons fall into the hands of the country?s most deadly terrorist foes.
The Reuters report alleges covert assistance, perhaps including sophisticated man-fired anti-aircraft weapons, is being funneled to the Free Syrian Army through neighboring Turkey.
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The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/wo...nted=all&_r=1&
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/12/0...l#.UaEkhJwueGY
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