Russia and Iran Warn Against Intervention in Syria

[Sikonge]

Ushahidi huu hapa.

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Una ushahidi gani wa haya usemayo?

Hebu ulete hapa huo ushahidi kama unao!!!

 

[bmalale]

[h=3]Syria crisis: Latest updates [/h]

 

[Kiranga]

John Kerry is making it plain.

The UN is toothless.

It's perpetual war for perpetual peace all over again.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Obama drew a foolish red line and now he has to attack just to save face.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Indeed hypocrisy is a common currency in politics. Look at this foolish vice president back in 2007 when he was still a senator.

Ain't his boss now trying to do the same thing? Bombing Syria without Congressional approval....SMDH.

 

[MaxShimba]

Did Clinton get congressional approval for his strikes on Iraq in 1993 for the attempted assassination of poppy bush?
it was loosely called a 'punishment strike'..

which is the only thing they are wanting in Syria ... unless you've seen more than I have that indicates Obama wants to invade and occupy Syria..

 

[Natalia]

Obama drew a foolish red line and now he has to attack just to save face.

Yani nimeshangazwa na Obama .Obama alienda cairo akaomba msamaha ,Nobel peace prize akapokea hapo ,Tukana bush na Iraq .Sasa Leo hii yupo ready Kwenda Syria bila congress ni maajabu .

 

[Nonda]

Yani nimeshangazwa na Obama .Obama alienda cairo akaomba msamaha ,Nobel peace prize akapokea hapo ,Tukana bush na Iraq .Sasa Leo hii yupo ready Kwenda Syria bila congress ni maajabu .

 

[Nonda]

Yani nimeshangazwa na Obama .Obama alienda cairo akaomba msamaha ,Nobel peace prize akapokea hapo ,Tukana bush na Iraq .Sasa Leo hii yupo ready Kwenda Syria bila congress ni maajabu .

Tazama na sikiliza kuanzia dakika ya tano

 

[Natalia]

John Kerry anaweza kutumia nafasi hii kujiimarisha Kama Akitaka kugombania tena Urais 2016 .Naona ananguruma huyo na Obama kimyaa vi statement tuu.Obama Lazima ata vamia Syria kwa sababu Kerry loves war alipigana vita John Kerry .Nyie mnaonaje?

 

[Cynic]

Yani nimeshangazwa na Obama .Obama alienda cairo akaomba msamaha ,Nobel peace prize akapokea hapo ,Tukana bush na Iraq .Sasa Leo hii yupo ready Kwenda Syria bila congress ni maajabu .

punguza kuangalia the O'Reilly factor../uchaguzi ulishapita. Madikteta lazima yaadabishwe tu. Badala ya kununua mabomu ya machozi linanunua mabomu ya sirin gas! Huoni kwamba kama likiachwa madikteta mengine (kama Mugabe, PK, CCM, ..) yataiga?

 

[Rock City]

Nafahamu Kerry alipigana Vietnam, lakini atambue kuwa hiyo Syria itawaacha hoi kutokana na strong allies alizonazo.

 

[Nonda]

Sikiliza kuanzia dakika ya 2

 

[Natalia]

Nafahamu Kerry alipigana Vietnam, lakini atambue kuwa hiyo Syria itawaacha hoi kutokana na strong allies alizonazo.

Obama ni weak president to fight the war .God forbid akienda tu ,hii itakuwa out of control kama NSA,IRS .Hata Huyo snowden ameshindwa kuomba arudishwe ndio ataweza vita Jamani .Hayaaa

 

[Nonda]

John Kerry anaweza kutumia nafasi hii kujiimarisha Kama Akitaka kugombania tena Urais 2016 .Naona ananguruma huyo na Obama kimyaa vi statement tuu.Obama Lazima ata vamia Syria kwa sababu Kerry loves war alipigana vita John Kerry .Nyie mnaonaje?

Ingia link hii THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST PROJECT | Syria 360° utakutana na links nyingi zitakazokusaidia kufahamu kinachoendelea duniani.

Kama sio mvivu wa kuangaza huku na huko pitia link hii pia Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a

 

[Natalia]

punguza kuangalia the O'Reilly factor../uchaguzi ulishapita. Madikteta lazima yaadabishwe tu. Badala ya kununua mabomu ya machozi linanunua mabomu ya sirin gas! Huoni kwamba kama likiachwa madikteta mengine (kama Mugabe, PK, CCM, ..) yataiga?

Obama is a weak president .Vita hawezi ,John Kerry sound more like a president kuliko Obama.USA haina Pesa za vita

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Yani nimeshangazwa na Obama .Obama alienda cairo akaomba msamaha ,Nobel peace prize akapokea hapo ,Tukana bush na Iraq .Sasa Leo hii yupo ready Kwenda Syria bila congress ni maajabu .

B.we.ge ti huyo. Kama kweli anajali basi angeenda tokea mwanzoni mwanzoni ambapo waasi walipoanza kuelemewa.

Kuna tofauti gani kati vifo vinavyotokana na conventional weapons na chemical weapons?

Inasadikika zaidi ya watu laki moja washakufa mainly kutokana na conventional weapons tu. Where was his half-breed azz then? Why didn't he send his cruise and tomahawk missiles then to put the kibosh on the mass and indiscriminate killings?

I think he is now threatening to attack only because he opened his big mouth and drew a red line (which supposedly had been crossed several times) and in order to not look like damn fool, he has to save face.

 

[Nonda]

punguza kuangalia the O'Reilly factor../uchaguzi ulishapita. Madikteta lazima yaadabishwe tu. Badala ya kununua mabomu ya machozi linanunua mabomu ya sirin gas! Huoni kwamba kama likiachwa madikteta mengine (kama Mugabe, PK, CCM, ..) yataiga?

Bofya Link Commit a War Crime to Cover Up a War Crime? Phoney Syria Poison Gas Story Planted By Mossad in the Western Media | Global Research link 2. Chemical Weapons in Syria: Media Lies and Propaganda | Global Research

 

[BAK]

US set for Syria strikes after Kerry says evidence of chemical attack is 'clear'

• Secretary of state brands Assad 'a thug and a murderer'
• Kerry: attack killed 1,429 Syrians including 426 children
• 'History will judge us harshly if we turn a blind eye'
• Obama considering 'limited, narrow action'

• Paul Lewis and Spencer Ackerman Washington
• 
  The Guardian,
  Friday 30 August 2013 19.32 BST
• Jump to comments (1614)

Kerry said Obama was still consulting with Congress to determine 'when and how and if to use military force'. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

John Kerry advanced what he called a "clear and compelling" case that Syria was responsible for a chemical attack that killed nearly 1,500 people, in a statement on Friday that made clear the US was on the verge of military strikes against the Assad regime.
Speaking in a blunt terms, the US secretary of state branded the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad a "thug and a murderer", and said the United States could not stand by and let a dictator get away with such serious crimes.
"History will judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turn a blind eye to a dictator's wanton use of weapons of mass destruction," Kerry said in a briefing to reporters at the State Department in Washington.
Speaking soon after, Barack Obama said that he was considering "limited, narrow action" against Syria. "We can not accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale," he said.

Pointedly, Kerry made no mention of the decision by the British government to pull out of the coalition, after prime minister David Cameron lost a crucial vote in the House of Commons on Thursday. Instead, Kerry referred to France as the "oldest ally" of the US, after president François Hollande pledged support for military action against Syria.
As Kerry spoke, the White House released a an unclassified four-page dossier. The assessment said the US intelligence community had "high confidence" that Assad's forces were behind the attack, which it said killed at least 1,429 Syrians, including at least 426 children.

Obama said that the US did not intend to be dragged into Syria's civil war. "We're not considering any open-ended commitment," he said at a photo opportunity with Baltic leaders. "We're not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach."

The president conceded that many people, himself included, were "war-weary" after a decade of US military interventions, but added: "A lot of people think something should be done – but nobody wants to do it."

An attack could happen as soon as Saturday, when UN weapons inspectors are due to leave Syria, after their mission in the country was apparently cut short amid expectations of an attack. However the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told security council members on Friday evening that it could be two weeks before the final results of their analysis is ready.

On Thursday, the White House said any strikes would be "discrete and limited".
Kerry said there will be no boots on the ground, and that the attack would not be open-ended, "and it will not assume responsibility for a civil war that is already under way." He described a "limited and tailored response that a despot's flagrant use of chemical weapons will be held responsible".

He insisted the impending military action would not be a similar to conflicts in Libya, Afghanistan or Iraq, saying of the 2003 invasion of the last named: "We will not repeat that moment."
However, in a line reminiscent of George W Bush's "axis of evil", Kerry specifically mentioned a host of US enemies, saying Iran could be "emboldened" if the US did not act.

"It is about Hezbollah, and North Korea, and every other terrorist group that might ever again contemplate the use of weapons of mass destruction. Will they remember the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons current or future use? Or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?"

Kerry portrayed taking tough action as a matter of US credibility, saying other countries that might use chemical weapons were watching. "They want to see whether the United States and our friends mean what we say," he said. "It matters deeply to the credibility and the future of the United States of America and our allies."

The secretary of state, who along with Obama has been involved in an intense diplomatic offensive to garner support for its Syria policy, sought to cast the planned action as having broad support. He mentioned an Arab League statement which condemned the Syria, and quoted statements from leaders of Australia and France.

In his statement, Kerry gave the most detailed assessment yet of what happened on 21 August. He said Assad's forces had the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Middle East and used them several times this year. He said Syria also wanted to clear problematic Damascus suburbs of opposition forces and had grown "frustrated".

"We know that three days before the attack the Syrian regime's chemical weapons personnel were on the ground in the area making preparations," Kerry said.
He claimed Syrian forces took precautions such as putting on gas masks before the attacks.

"We know that these were specific instructions. We know where the rockets were launched from and at what time; we know where they landed and when. We know rockets came only from regime controlled areas and went only to opposition controlled or contested neighbourhoods." Thirty minutes later, "all hell broke loose" on social media, Kerry said.

Kerry chose to highly emotive language to describe the aftermath of the attacks, painting a vivid scene of "twitching bodies" and victims "foaming at the mouth", all captured in video posted online. "Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children, lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor – all of them dead from Assad's gas, and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate."

The secretary of state sought to reassure the public that the intelligence, which has come under growing scrutiny in recent days, was reliable. "This is common sense," he said. "This is evidence. These are facts."
Kerry added that it was in the interests of the world to punish Assad, but repeatedly cast the impending action as a matter of US credibility. "If we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar Al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity, even after the United States and our allies said no, and then the world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve, and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe they can do what they will."

Meanwhile, senior administration officials pressed the case against Syria in a telephone briefing for journalists. "I don't think there's any doubt to the world that a chemical weapons attack took place given the thousands of sources," one said on the call.

The senior officials were authorised by the White House to speak on condition of anonymity. On Thursday, White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest discouraged reporters from trusting anonymous administration sources, saying they should "place more credibility in on-the-record statements".

"We feel like our case is strong, our case is clear: the Assad regime is responsible for this mass casualty chemical weapons attack," one of the officials said.
Kerry's remarks came five days after he first signalled the US was planning to take tough action against Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons in a suburb of Damascus. Kerry and Obama have been involved in an intense round of diplomacy over the last week, seeking to conjure international backing for a tough response against Syria. However, they are now faced with launching a military assault with less support than George W Bush received for the 2003 war in Iraq.

Three out of the five permanent members of the UN security council, the only international authority that can sanction military action that is not in a nation state's self-defence, now oppose action.
Russian and Chinese opposition was widely expected. But the vote in the British parliament on Thursday came as a deep surprise to Washington, which appears to have taken for granted that London, which has spent months lobbying for tough action on Syria, would support strikes.

The White House has indicated it does not believe it needs the backing of Congress, nor the support of traditional allies, before taking action against Assad.
France is the only major power that has indicated it would support force against Syria. French president François Hollande told Le Monde on Friday that France wants "proportional and firm action", adding that the chemical weapons attack in Syria "cannot and must not remain unpunished".

Germany has ruled out backing military action against Syria, and it was not clear whether the US had significant support from the region, although the Arab League strongly condemned the Syrian regime.
Late on Thursday, the administration held a conference call with congressional leaders and the chairs and ranking members of relevant committees. The White House said the call was to "to brief them on the administration's thinking and seek their input" on what to do about Syria.

Reports said senior administration officials assured members of Congress that there was "no doubt" Assad's forces were responsible for the chemical attack. Sixteen members of Congress asked questions during the 90-minute call; 11 apparently did not.
Administration officials, while pledging to work with Congress, were non-committal about whether a strike requires legislative approval, a longstanding tension between the congressional and executive branches of the US government.

There were few signs of a consensus emerging from the meeting. The Democratic senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the armed services committee, was notably more cautious than the administration's position. "I have previously called for the United States to work with our friends and allies to increase the military pressure on the Assad regime by providing lethal aid to vetted elements of the Syrian opposition," Levin said after the call.
"Tonight, I suggested that we should do so while UN inspectors complete their work and while we seek international support for limited, targeted strikes in response to the Assad regime's large-scale use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people."
Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee, said after the call that Obama was "still weighing his options and will continue to consult with Congress". Engel said he was persuaded that Assad's forces used chemical weapons "intentionally" against Syrian civilians on 21 August.

Politico reported that Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress and a former House speaker, pressed Obama on the phone call to "do something" in response to the chemical attack.
Yet even some some typically hawkish Republicans are balking at intervening in Syria. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate armed services committee, issued a statement ahead of the call rejecting a Syria strike, partly on the grounds that Obama's Pentagon budget cannot afford it, and questioning the utility of a limited attack.
"It is vital we avoid short-sighted military action that would have little impact on the long-term trajectory of the conflict," Inhofe said. "We can't simply launch a few missiles and hope for the best."

More than 200 members of Congress, mostly Republicans, have signed a letter rejecting military action without the explicit permission of Congress.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Wanasiasa ni wanafiki sana. Huyu Obama na mwenzake Biden walikuwa mstari wa mbele kupinga endapo Bush angeishambulia Iran peke yake bila ridhaa ya UN na bunge la Marekani hadi wakatishia kum-impeach. Leo hii wao ndo wako mstari wa mbele kutaka kwenda kuangusha mabomu Syria.

Halafu kwanza hata haijulikani kwa uhakika nani aliyatumia hayo makemikali kati ya yeye Assad au waasi.

Na eti intelligence ya Marekani inadai watu takriban 1,400 wamekufa kutokana na hayo masilaha ya kemikali. Hii vita imekuwepo zaidi ya miaka miwili sasa na inasemekana zaidi ya watu laki moja washakufa.

Huyo Obama alikuwa wapi muda wote huo? Au kufa kwa conventional weapons ni sawa lakini kufa kwa silaha za kemikali si sawa? And what's the difference anyway?

Hawa jamaa huwa ni wajinga sana wakati mwingine. Watarusha hayo makombora yao kwa siku mbili tatu lakini mwisho wa siku Assad bado ataendelea kuwa rais wa Syria na ataendelea kuwapa kipondo hao waasi kwa kutumia silaha za kawaida kama alivyofanya kwa zaidi ya miaka miwili sasa.