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pampango

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17. Or maybe that is what makes a good poker player.

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 08:46 AM

Feb 2013

That Clinton was in favor of a policy of arming the Syrian rebels is indeed a fact. She was supported in this by Patraeus and opposed by Biden, Thomas Donilon and Susan Rice.

If Rand Paul wanted to know which Obama adviser took what position on the issue of arming Syrian rebels, he should have phrased his question much differently. (I doubt Clinton have answered that either but at least the question would have been a more honest one.) Instead he pushed the idea that the arming took place even though Obama had decided against it. Now that is a CT which is the kind of tactic that Paul is good at.

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So, when will McCain be made to answer for arming the Benghazi rebels who attacked the US embassy? [View all] bigtree Feb 2013 OP

McCain's Benghazi obsession is that the US didn't fully follow-through and arm the Syrian rebels leveymg Feb 2013 #1

McCain is upset because we didn't arm Syrian rebels. Rand Paul is upset because he thinks we did. pampango Feb 2013 #14

She wouldn't make much of a poker player. Her response is pure "neither confirm nor deny." leveymg Feb 2013 #15

Or maybe that is what makes a good poker player. pampango Feb 2013 #17

What's your source for "opposed by Biden, Thomas Donilon and Susan Rice."? leveymg Feb 2013 #18

NY Times article last night on Obama reconsidering arming the rebels: TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #20

Thanks - please see my response, #22, immediately below. leveymg Feb 2013 #24

I read this to imply that Susan Rice wanted a direct US military intervention, leveymg Feb 2013 #22

Biden and Donilon 'advised against it' and Rice was 'skeptical'. The article does not indicate that pampango Feb 2013 #28

Read these two sentences together, and that's what it says about Rice's position. leveymg Feb 2013 #30

No it does not. pampango Feb 2013 #31

Recall last May, Rice was pushing for Iraq-style US-NATO action outside a UNSC authorization. leveymg Feb 2013 #34

"Rice did not specify what 'actions' she meant." "There are fears that her words could mean pampango Feb 2013 #35

What else could Rice mean other than "the threat of military action"? That's certainly how they leveymg Feb 2013 #36

A New York Times artcie in yesterday's paper. pampango Feb 2013 #23

Most of the GOP critique is a sort of red herring, and only one publicly addressed the real issue. leveymg Feb 2013 #25

Dream on. mccain will just swear at the panel and walk away. Javaman Feb 2013 #2

I sure as hell wish he'd be confronted by this. . .n/t annabanana Feb 2013 #3

Now you're talkin' libodem Feb 2013 #4

As usual, Republicans set the fires thesquanderer Feb 2013 #5

St. John McCain doth protest too much, Methinks formercia Feb 2013 #6

Note to St. John McCain: formercia Feb 2013 #7

it's a bit clearer to me why the President's held off arming Syrian resistance fighters bigtree Feb 2013 #8

The President sets Foreign Policy formercia Feb 2013 #12

To tell John2 Feb 2013 #9

You're implying that we have a media that will hold him accountable. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2013 #10

It sure looks like the Ambassador is saying to himself, sheshe2 Feb 2013 #11

. bigtree Feb 2013 #13

He Playes The Corporate Media Like A Violin... KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #16

k&r... spanone Feb 2013 #19

Amazing how involved he and the GOP were in Libya. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #21

"Shut up with the damn facts. Grrrrrr." - Sen. Grumpy Grampy (R) Berlum Feb 2013 #26

I get what you're doing, but... Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #27

FOX news wouldn't report this bigtree Feb 2013 #29

McCain is in real life what Ned Beatty's ChisolmTrailDem Feb 2013 #32

Right after Lucifer borrows some propane from me Recursion Feb 2013 #33