Washington – President Barack Obama says the time has come for Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign for the sake of his brutally repressed people.
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In a stinging written statement, Obama says Assad has overseen a vicious onslaught of his people as they protest for freedoms. He says the Syrian people should decide their country’s future and Assad is standing in their way and must go.
Obama also says that Assad’s calls for reform ring hollow while he is, in Obama’s words, “imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering his own people.”
This was Obama’s first explicit call for Assad to step down. His administration also is slapping new sanctions on Syria.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to speak about the government’s tougher stance later Thursday morning.
Enough of America’s bullying, despotic, gunboat diplomacy!
Wasn’t America’s pointless and bloody involvement in
** Vietnam
** Afghanistan
** Iraq
enough for one century? Does America really want to waste the lives of yet more of its finest men and women in yet another pointless encounter?
Not another one! Does Obomber know which terrorist group is waiting in the wings to take over? Why does Boone in the media or congress tell him, “Barry, we heard all this before in Egypt, and now you have a lawless Sinai, lawless Cairo, and the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood running what used to be our closest Muslim ally.”
He will go like Gadafi went they laughing from America and our dictator
As effective as a Hawaiin Punch.
Don”t make me laugh, do you honestly think assad cares.
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