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Little-Acorn
09-04-2013, 12:56 PM
That was then:


http://www.slate.com/sidebars/2013/04/barack_obama_s_red_line_warning_to_bashar_assad_th e_president_repeatedly.html

Remarks by President Obama to the White House Press Corps – August 20, 2012

"We have put together a range of contingency plans. We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that’s a red line for us and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons."


And this is now:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/04/201163/obama-i-didnt-draw-the-red-line.html

Remarks by President Obama to a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, September 4, 2013

"I didn’t set a red line, the world set a red line," Obama said. "My credibility’s not on the line."


Aren't you glad we finally have an administration that deals with us squarely and forthrightly, on such important issues as going to war with a foreign country?

CSM
09-05-2013, 06:30 AM
Obama's credibility is not on the line because he has had none from the beginning.