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Arab countries offered to pay for invasion
Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.
“With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,” Kerry said. “They have. That offer is on the table.”
Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.
“In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost,” Kerry said. “That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done.
8 Comments on "Arab countries offered to pay for invasion"
rollin on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 12:13 am
Making the US a mercenary army??
DMyers on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 1:05 am
Looks like the CIA has been employing its ten gauge, ear inserted lobotomizer again. I feel strongly that a lobotomy has taken place in one or more of the key players in this international crisis.
Now, which one of you Middle Eastern states wants to step up and be the first to both invite and subsidize the presence of the USA in the region?
This is either an admission that the US cannot afford another military action, or it is the broadcast of a subliminal message, “this thing will be very affordable.”
There is one believable statement in the written portion: “’In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost,’ Kerry said.” If we look at how well the United States has done this type of thing “previously in other places…” we see that we don’t do it very well. So, the Middle Easterners are actually offering their help in our project to go in and fail again.
It’s absurd. Don’t stop there, please distract us with something even more ridiculous. How about this? “Even Iran has offered up a nuclear weapon, at its own expense, and which they’ve never before acknowledged having, to nuke Iran! They love us over there! I’m tellin’ ya, they fuckin’ love us!”
GregT on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 4:28 am
Everyone is entitled to believe whatever they like to believe, and we will all believe in whatever we choose. That is our prerogative. I am not taking sides on this one, but merely an observer.
The truth of the matter is, many believe this to be a religious war, or even more, a self fulfilling prophesy, especially in America, and the Middle East. ( John Kerry himself is a devout Catholic, and was even an altar boy.)
The Christians, Catholics, Muslims, and yes, even the Jews all believe in Biblical prophesy. They all believe in ancient texts, and they all believe in a ‘second coming’ or a divine rule of ‘God” on earth.
The following is a passage from the Bible. Many from all religions believe this to be the beginning of the end of Man’s rule on Earth.
How else can anyone explain the complete insanity, of what these people are doing?
Isaiah 17
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Prophecy about Damascus
17 The [a]oracle concerning Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city
And will become a fallen ruin.
2 “The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks to lie down in,
And there will be no one to frighten them.
3 “The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
4 Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Even the Asherim and incense stands.
9 In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And [n]the land will be a desolation.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.
12 Alas, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning they are no more.
Such will be the portion of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.
DC on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 5:35 am
This is not a religious war, its part of the US drive to ignite WW3. The fact is Syria was a secular, pluralistic NON-terrorist state with a level of social stability on par with most of the civilized western nations(US excluded of course).
Of course, all that started to go our the window as soon as the US mercenaries, Kurds, and whathaveyou started infiltrating the country and randomly killing people of different faiths to make it look as if a ‘civil war’ was breaking out.
However, Syrian civil society still seems to be holding together remarkably well, all things they have been put through considered.
Religious connotations do of course exist, especially in western propaganda. These exists merely to create the impression in gullible western audiences that Syria was and is, some kind of sectarian basket case that requires ‘rescuing’ by the ‘heroic’ US military.
BillT on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 6:19 am
I have read many things about this action.
It appears that the Saudis want this war badly, and specially want Iran destroyed. However, Iran has said that it will bomb Saudi oil facilities if they are attacked.
Syria is an important area for pipelines. Russia wants to block the pipeline from Yemen through Syria to Europe. Yemen wants the pipeline through Syria.
China wants Iranian, Iraqi, and Saudi Oil and does NOT want another war in the Middle East.
The Empire just wants to sell weapons and make money. However, any serious action in the ME could be the oily straw that breaks the fragile Western economy and end the dollar.
This is as close as we have been to a nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Are you prepared?
Fulton J. Waterloo on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 1:36 pm
First of all, since John Kerry believes in the taking of innocent preborn life, he, by definition, is NOT a “devout Catholic.” He is another “Uncle Mick” like Joe Biden. Second, the Catholic Church teaches that the pre-tribulation Raptue of the Church, taught by dispensational pre-millenial Protestants, is a HERESY. Kerry at least knows better than to swallow the latest ravings of TV preachers.
GregT on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 2:27 pm
To the people in the Middle East this is very much a religious war. The Jews, Catholics, Christians, and Muslims are all awaiting the Mesiah. When the Mesiah returns, they all believe that they will be God’s chosen people.
The prophesy of Isaiah is in the old testament, or the Hebrew bible. It foretells the destruction of Damascus, which ignites WW3, the battle of Armaggeddon, the war to end all wars.
Whether one would like to believe it or not, there are billions of fanatics on this Earth that believe just that. The Jews especially, have been praying for the coming of their Mesiah for thousands of years. It is the basis for their beliefs.
Just who do people think are running the show here? I’ll give you one clue, it isn’t Obama.
DC on Thu, 5th Sep 2013 3:32 pm
Since all those petro-dollars were created on US printing presses in the first place and continues to at a record clip even now, exactly *what* are these arabs financing? Sounds like some pretty circular reasoning here.
US prints money
Arabs give Yankee black gold in exchange for printed money.
US keeps printing more money
Arabs offer to bankroll US military takeover of fellow Arabs.
Just who is paying who here again?
If Invading Syria would be so costly, why not just print say, 60 Billion more to pay for it, thats what..2 months of QE? Of course, the banksters would object if there expected QE funds didn’t make there way to the Cayman Islands on schedule I suppose. But it could always be sold to the banksters as ‘in the national interest’.
Or the truth could be the US did in fact print the required funds, wired em to the Saudi Royal family already, and asked them to make this ‘announcement’. So many ways to skin a cat.