Is THAT So Mr. Carney?

[kpete]

Barack Obama's Q&A
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / December 20, 2007

“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat,” Obama told the Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/

MR. CARNEY: It is correct that the President is working with his national security team reviewing the options available to him to respond to the clear violation of an international norm by the Syrian regime with the use of, on a significant scale, chemical weapons against innocent civilians,

as I made clear, it is clearly in the United States' national security interests that that norm be maintained because the consequences of that standard dissolving are enormous and very detrimental to the interest of the United States and very detrimental to the international community, to our allies and partners in the region, and to the world at large.


Q But you're saying that's the standard today. But I'm saying the standard in 2007 to candidate Obama was an actual or imminent threat to the nation. Do you believe that exists right now, an actual imminent threat to the United States?



MR. CARNEY: I believe that absolutely allowing the use of chemical weapons on a significant scale to take place without a response would present a significant challenge to or threat to the United States' national security interests.

Q Not just to our allies in the region, but to the United States?

MR. CARNEY: Correct.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/27/1234291/-Briefing-with-White-House-Press-Secretary-Jay-Carney-Syria-edition

[msongs]

1. geez it's like 2003 all over again nt

[grasswire]

2. note the weasel words. nt

[Autumn]

3. Bull * cough* Shit.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Did he he or did he not consult with Congress in accordance with...

the War Powers Act?

And since when do we expect an elected president to act exactly as the candidate said he would?

Running for office is not the same as being in office, so constantly repeating this little piece of koshit means nothing.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. And, lets not forget the mighty Syrian Navy's flotilla of landing craft headed for Atlantic City.

[Bake]

6. Clear violation of an international "norm"?

I couldn't help but notice he didn't say international "law." Speaking of weasel words ... norms are in the eye of the beholder.

Bake