Well... it certainly would appear so:
Now... we have the Syria cover-up.
In last week’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden
asserted that the United States was working to isolate al-Qaeda in Syria by
ensuring that aid was directed to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition.
“We are working hand and glove with the Turks, with the
Jordanians, with the Saudis, and with all the people in the region attempting
to identify the people who deserve the help so that when Assad goes — and he
will go — there will be a legitimate government that follows on, not an
al-Qaeda-sponsored government that follows on,” Biden declared.
KEEP READING...
Paul Ryan immediately challenged Biden’s claim, saying
that the administration’s inaction has allowed al-Qaeda to get a foothold in
Syria. “The longer this has gone on, the more people, groups like al-Qaeda are
going in,” Ryan said, adding, “We could have more easily identified the Free
Syrian Army, the freedom fighters, working with our allies, the Turks, the
Qataris, the Saudis, had we had a better plan in place.”
KEEP READING...
Biden denied it, declaring: “We are in the process now —
and have been for months — in making sure that help, humanitarian aid, as well
as other aid and training is getting to those forces that we believe, the Turks
believe, the Jordanians believe, the Saudis believe are the free forces inside
of Syria. That is underway.”
WAIT FOR IT... WAIT FOR IT...
(*DRUM ROLL*)
Well, according to a report in this morning’s New York
Times, Biden’s statement was not true.
WHAT A FRIGGIN' SURPRISE...
(*SCORNFUL SMIRK*)
KEEP ON READING...
“Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia
and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar
al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular
opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American
officials and Middle Eastern diplomats,” the Times reports.
(*SHRUG*)
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The paper quotes one U.S. official as saying, “The
opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the
ones we don’t want to have it,” adding that “officials, voicing frustration,
say there is no central clearinghouse for the shipments, and no effective way
of vetting the groups that ultimately receive them.”
In other words, what Biden said was false.
KNOWINGLY FALSE...? OR JUST MORE INCOMPETENCE?
(OH...
READ ON... APPARENTLY IT'S THE FORMER - AT LEAST VIA THE NYT REPORTING.)
Worse yet, Biden knew his statement was untrue when he
said it.
According to the Times, “President Obama and other senior
officials are aware [of this conclusion] from classified assessments of the
Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives,” adding the
intelligence assessments “casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy
of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict is accomplishing
its intended purpose of helping a democratic-minded opposition topple an
oppressive government, or is instead sowing the seeds of future insurgencies
hostile to the United States.”
(*SIGH*)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
If this is the assessment of our intelligence community,
why did Biden say the exact opposite in the debate last week?
AND WHY DIDN'T "WHAT'S HER NAME," THE DEBATE
MODERATOR, THE CHICK BIDEN DESCRIBED AT ONE POINT AS "A FOREIGN POLICY
EXPERT" DIG INTO THIS A BIT AS THE DEBATE WAS HAPPENING...? HMM...?
When Biden was asked during the debate why requests for
additional security in Libya were denied, he pleaded ignorance and blamed the
State Department, declaring: “We weren’t told they wanted more security there.”
JOE... JOE... JOE...
(*TSK-TSK-TSK*)
But in the case of Syria, the Times reports, the
President and his national security team were told that the aid was going to
“hard-line Islamic jihadists.”
(*SNICKER*)
Yet Biden plainly asserted aid was going to “people who
deserve the help” and “free forces inside Syria” and not jihadists.
YEP... THIS IS THE GUY WHO STANDS A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM
THE PRESIDENCY...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
It is simply implausible that, if President Obama and his
top national security advisers were aware of the intelligence assessments,
Biden was not.
The revelation that the Obama administration has presided
over the development of an arms pipeline to al-Qaeda in Syria — and Biden’s
apparently deliberate untruth about it in last week’s debate — is the latest
Obama foreign policy cover-up.
SO IT WOULD APPEAR... (AT LEAST... SO DOES IT APPEAR TO ME.)
Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute last week, Mitt
Romney said that because of Obama’s failure to lead in Syria “we are missing an
historic opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the Middle
East.”
WELL... FRANKLY... I DOUBT WE'RE COMPETENT TO PICK
WINNERS AND LOSERS - AND MY FEAR WOULD APPLY ALMOST AS MUCH TO AN INCOMING
ROMNEY ADMINISTRATION AS IT DOES TO THE PRESENT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
THAT SAID... NO... WE'RE NEITHER LEADING NOR BUTTING
OUT PRESENTLY UNDER OBAMA. WE'RE TAKING THE WORST OF ALL APPROACHES. BASICALLY
WE'RE ALLOWING THE SAUDIS TO TAKE THE LEAD BUT WITH THE ASSUMPTION WE'RE BACKING
THEIR PLAYS - WHICH WE ASSUME TO BE DOING.
Romney declared “it is essential that we develop
influence with those forces in Syria that will one day lead a country that sits
at the heart of the Middle East” and promised that he would “work with our
partners to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our
values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks,
helicopters, and fighter jets.”
Biden looked the American people in the eye last week and
told them the Obama administration was doing exactly that.
He apparently knew it was not so.
AGAIN, FOLKS... WHILE I CERTAINLY DON'T TRUST ROMNEY ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS... TO HAVE BIDEN FLAT OUT LIE... IT'S BEYOND DISTURBING. HERE'S
THE DEAL: IT'S ONE THING TO LIE TO PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY... BUT THE ONLY
REASON I CAN SEE FOR LYING ABOUT THIS IS TO COVER ONE'S ASS POLITICALLY.
(*SHRUG*)
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