Obama running weapons to jihadists and al qaeda: Syria’s Fast and Furious

The Moebama adminstration is out of control.

"The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood"
Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post

First there was the Libya coverup. Now, we have the Syria coverup.

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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.

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.”

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.”

Well, according to a report in this morning’s New York Times, Biden’s statement was not true.

“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.

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. 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.”

If this is the assessment of our intelligence community,
why did Biden say the exact opposite in the debate last week? 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.” 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.” Yet Biden plainly asserted aid was going to “people
who deserve the help” and “free forces inside Syria” and not jihadists.
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 coverup. With foreign policy on the
agenda in tomorrow’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney has a golden
opportunity to challenge the president on his administration’s latest
national security scandal.

Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute
last week, 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.” He 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. Romney needs to ask the president tomorrow night: How is it that
most of the aid in Syria is going to al-Qaeda and its allies? Why did
your administration knowingly mislead the American people about this?
And when are you going to stop subcontracting our responsibilities to
others and start making sure aid and training get to those who share
this nation’s values?

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Bob Nordberg

11 years ago

Why would anyone think Obama wanted the ‘good guys’ to gain control of Syria / Libya….when he Campaigned for / funded the ‘bad guys’ in Kenya?…….. What % of America knows 23 million us tax dollars were spent to fund Islamic Shira Law in Kenya? .000001 % is my guess http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2010/aug/10080601

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ApolloSpeaks

11 years ago

TONIGHT OBAMA GOES DOWN AGAIN
At Denver Obama was inwardly, depressingly stone cold dead unable to project moral energy, empathy and strength to connect with the folks. Will this happen tonight again after so much painstaking prep? Will Obama’s magic, mystique, charisma and charm fail him a second time, with Romney knocking him down again and gaining more ground with voters? I believe that it will. I believe that tonight we’ll see Denver all over again, with Romney accelerating his momentum toward the goal of knocking out Obama on Election Day and seizing the presidency.

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judi

11 years ago

It seems that even the media now is reluctantly forced to admit that Americans are being lied to left, right and centre by this administration.

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andrew

11 years ago

Pamela, just last week, in his “major foreign policy speech”, Romney said that he would directly and vigorously support the rebels in Libya. The very same rebels you say are Al Qaeda militants supported by Obama.
Why the double standard? If a REpublican does it is commendable, if it’s a Democrat it’s treason?!

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Alan

11 years ago

Romney and Ryan are almost as big fools on Syria as Obama and Hillary!
We need to stay out and let our enemies kill each other.
There are also more than 100, 000 Russian forces on the ground in Syria. We don’t want to get into something with thoses forces. WW III anyone?

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fna

11 years ago

Hello!
CIA-FSA-AQ
CIA-FSA-AQ
CIA-FSA-AQ
Bueller? Bueller?? Bueller???
WATCH al Jazeera LIVE FREE here at the top of the hour LOOK at the weapons and 4G optics and body armour. Top shelf brand-new US gear. Did they visit their local army-navy surplus store? Did they get it on ebay? Mail order from a P.O. box at the back of SOF magazine?
No! It was fucking hand delivered by the CIA. Can you say benghazi? I knew you could!
Check out al jazeera’s special syria section too.
http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/

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Laura

11 years ago

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.”
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These countries are not our allies nor could an islamic country ever be our ally.
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“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.
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No kidding. Who else would you expect muslim regimes to support but islamic jihadists? Why is this shocking news?
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“And when are you going to stop subcontracting our responsibilities to others and start making sure aid and training get to those who share this nation’s values”?
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Again, there are no muslim entities which share our values. We should not be helping any insurgents in Syria.
When will our elites get it?

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