- Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:48 am
#85866
Susan Rice, Obama colleagues take heat for past claims on Syria chemical weapons purge. During an interview this past January with National Public Radio, former National Security Adviser Rice touted the “success” in Syria, in striking a deal with Russia's help that resulted in the prior administration dropping the threat of military action.Just as Obama claims he has stopped Iran's nuclear weapons program.
“We were able to find a solution that didn’t necessitate the use of force that actually removed all chemical weapons from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished,” she boasted. “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”
In July 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to discuss the September 2013 deal that resulted in Russia agreeing to help confiscate and then destroy Syria’s stockpile.
“We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out, and we did it without firing a round.” Kerry claimed.
On Jan. 6, 2015, then-White House Press Secretary John Earnest praised Obama for his role in destroying the chemical weapons stockpile of the Assad regime.“That was an important step, because it reduced, or essentially eliminated, the proliferation risk from that declared chemical weapons stockpile, that we could essentially destroy those chemical weapons and ensure that terrorists would not be able to get their hands on them and use them in other places.”
Five months later on June 17, 2015, Earnest said that the “declared chemical weapons stockpile that Assad previously denied existed has now been acknowledged, rounded up, removed from the country and destroyed precisely because of the work of this administration and our successful efforts to work with the Russians to accomplish that goal.”
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- By johnforbes