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Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver a statement on the crisis in Syria at 2 p.m. ET, the State Department announced Monday, as the U.S. girds for possible military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr. Kerry will deliver the statement in the briefing room at the State Department.
His statement comes as the U.S. is under growing pressure to respond forcefully to reports that the Assad regime used chemical weapons last week that opposition groups said killed more than 1,000 people. The White House held meetings over the weekend to decide how to respond but officials said late Sunday that President Barack Obama has yet to make a decision.
Mr. Kerrys statement will precede the daily briefing at the State Department with reporters. White House press secretary Jay Carney was supposed to brief reporters at the White House at 12:30 p.m. ET, but changed the time of his briefing to 3 p.m. Shortly after, the State Department announced that Mr. Kerry would make a statement on Syria.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/26/kerry-to-deliver-remarks-on-syria/
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)... http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/223510
Thanks for posting this cali.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Daily Briefing to Reporters for after Kerry's speech.
I hope I'm wrong.
cali
(114,904 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)living through this over again.
cali
(114,904 posts)I can't imagine that the President himself wouldn't make a statement if they were announcing military action, but who knows? The have postponed the the daily WH briefing as well as the State briefing.
cali
(114,904 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)that it will be a final ultimatum. If we were going to attack immediately, the Prez would, more likely, make a statement from the Oval.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)will speak afterwards.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...be seeming to upstage the troops, or President Obama. He's much too respectful and classy for that.
cali
(114,904 posts)using this to lay the groundwork for the coming attack.
makes me nervous that they keep delaying this.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)this is all about emotional manipulation to get support for an attack.
His fucking rhetoric is just disgusting.
I'm in slow tears right now. More madness.
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)Neither can they describe the Ceremony to Honor the Afghan hero which took place at the time that Kerry's Speech was scheduled that I watched for almost 40 minutes waiting for Kerry.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)War Powers Res is short. It's simply lazy journalism to misreport that Pres can take unilateral action for 60 days. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1541
https://twitter.com/repjustinamash/status/372074823939153920
I'm making calls to Congress right now. Hell NO.
cali
(114,904 posts)this is just another tragic rush to war.
cali
(114,904 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Rah Rah War!!!!!!!
cali
(114,904 posts)round and round and round we go.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)I saw something on Youtube that looks awful. Kill !!!!!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)which I found ironic since Kissinger was such a great guy in Kerry's Vietnam days.
Kerry said Speaking to State Department personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil this past Tuesday:
Im a student of history, and I love to go back and read a particularly great book like [Henry] Kissingers book about diplomacy where you think about the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the balance of power and how difficult it was for countries to advance their interests and years and years of wars,
Kerry said to a gathering of State Department employees and their families.
And we sometimes say to ourselves, boy, arent we lucky, Kerry continued.
Well, folks, he said,
ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators, and that was complicated further by
this
little thing called the internet and the ability of people everywhere to communicate instantaneously and to have more information coming at them in one day than most people can process in months or a year.
It makes it much harder to govern,
makes it much harder to organize people,
much harder to find the common interest,
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/08/213088.htm
markpkessinger
(8,392 posts). . . that he spent a lot of time making the case that chemical weapons were, in fact, used -- something I don't think many are disputing -- and very little time making the case for who, exactly, used them, other than saying "we know the Assad regime has custody of these kinds of weapons."