Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator, Offers Bill To Arm Syrian Rebels

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator, Offers Bill To Arm Syrian Rebels

Reuters | Posted: 05/06/2013 3:27 pm EDT | Updated: 05/06/2013 3:47 pm EDT

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill on Monday that would provide weapons to some vetted groups of Syrian rebels.

Menendez, a Democrat, was one of a few senators pushing the White House to provide for lethal aid to some of the rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even before reports that chemical weapons had been used in the conflict.

The bill would have to get through the committee and be approved by both the Senate and House of Representatives, and signed by President Barack Obama before becoming law. (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Editing by Alistair Bell and Sandra Maler)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/robert-menendez-arm-syria-rebels_n_3224763.html

[elleng]

1. 'some vetted groups,' eh?

How's he think that will occur???

[Dawson Leery]

2. Idiot.

[Marrah_G]

3. Yes Senator.... that ALWAYS works out

[David__77]

4. What a nut. Dollars to al Qaeda?

Guns and missiles to follows of Osama bin Laden? Lunacy.

[hollysmom]

5. I don't support everything he says, but then,

a product of independent thinking in public school.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Brilliant! Another civil war to get bogged down in with our "help". See Vietnam for precedent.