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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2013 21:51:46 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes US President Barack Obama at the start of the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in Saint Petersburg.
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2013 7:43:57 GMT
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power discusses the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians and the need for an international response. “We have exhausted the alternatives,” Power said in a 20-minute speech at the Center for American Progress. For more than a year, she said, the United States has tried to use diplomacy to warn the Assad regime of the consequences of using chemical weapons. Despite such efforts, Power said, “Assad began using chemical weapons on a small scale several times this year” – a move that caused the U.S. to “redouble” its diplomatic efforts. She argued that the time for diplomacy alone ended Aug. 21, when, she said, Assad staged “the largest chemical weapons attack in quarter century.” She noted that Syrian forces even launched the attack while U.N. inspectors were on the ground.
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2013 16:54:53 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2013 22:08:44 GMT
CNN has obtained 13 different videos seen by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that depict the gruesome scene of an chemical weapons attack in Syria on August 21. The administration told senators that their authenticity was verified by the intelligence community. The attack, allegedly carried out by Syrian forces under President Bashar al-Assad, has touched off the most critical foreign policy question since the uprising began in 2011: Is a military response merited? The videos capture a moment of panic, as those who are standing try to feed water to those who appear incapacitated. Prayers are repeated. Many of the videos were previously posted on YouTube, but this collection of footage is significant because the intelligence community has given it a stamp of authenticity. The footage could be vital in the administration's quest to convince Congress and the American public that the U.S. must launch punitive strikes against Syria, former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson said.
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2013 8:26:55 GMT
John McCain’s favored method of conducting politics is the town hall, in part because you never know just what is going to happen. On Thursday, at a town hall in Arizona, a Syrian woman who said her cousin was recently killed by rebels, confronted McCain on his support for bombing the country.
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