Recasting his role in setting a “red line” on Syria, President Barack Obama insisted on Wednesday that Congress and the world will lose credibility if Bashar Assad’s alleged chemical weapons massacre goes unpunished.

“My credibility’s not on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line, and America and Congress’ credibility is on the line,” Obama said during a visit to Stockholm, Sweden.
The president rejected any notion that he needs to use military force against Syria in order to preserve his personal standing in the world after calling a chemical weapons attack a “red line” in an Aug. 20, 2012, press conference.

“I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line,” he insisted. “The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war.”
And “Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. Congress set a red line when it indicated, in a piece of legislation titled the Syria Accountability Act, that some of the horrendous things that are happening on the ground there need to be answered for,” he added.

He can' blame Bus on this one so he's now blaming congress.

Liar!

The world will lose credibility if Bashar Assad’s alleged chemical weapons massacre goes unpunished. Very True!!!!

But who knows if Assad did it? The rebels had access t chemical weapons too.

Dough!

All the reports I read say 'alleged gassing.

Don't that mean unproven?

Red line, huh?
What, they adding food color to the cocaine lines?

It's Bush's fault. He had to have drawn that line. I mean if he would have never went after the WMD's in Iraq they would have never shipped them to Syria for them to use.

He can't put his credibility on the line...he has none!

In the House hearing today a member of the House of Reps(wish I could remember his name)who also is an Iraq vet asked Kerry "do you consider sarin a weapon of mass destruction"? Kerry answers "yes". "Do you consider VX gas a WMD?" Kerry answers again "yes". The Rep then says "Good, because they were there before I got to Iraq and were there when I got there". It was just one of those feel good moments to watch Kerry squirm

He may not have invented the flip flop but he mastered it.

Voted against increasing the debt limit; then supported raising it.

Campaigned against the Bush tax cuts; then extended all of them.

Promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term; then proposed trillion dollar deficits.

Vowed the unemployment rate would be below 8% if his stimulus was passed; but then it broke 10%.

Promised shovel ready jobs; then admitted they weren’t shovel ready.

Said if you like your health plan you can keep it; but then threw seniors off Medicare Plus and employers are now saying they’ll dump people onto the public exchange.

Promised to have health care negotiations on live TV, but then reversed himself.

Indicated Bush violated the Constitution; then carried out warrantless wiretaps, indefinite detentions, secret renditions, quadrupled drone attacks, and kept Guantanamo Bay open. Voted against the Patriot Act, but then supported its extension.

Said lobbyists wouldn’t work in the White House; then gave them waivers to work there.

Vowed to take public financing for his 2008 campaign; then refused public financing when he realized he would receive more money without it.


I'm sure there is more but I don't feel like looking

Great post! Too bad the ones who drink the kool-aid will only see a blank page

I'd have to conclude, the liberals who participate here in current events that support oBummer are warmongering baby killers.

You know it's bad when Russia's Putin calls Obama on his lies but the American people blindly stand behind him.

The Russians call Barry a monkey with a hand granade.

Dem Rooskies callem like they see'em

UNPUNISHED???

Let me go get my whip and my boots. Send Assad to me. I'll punish him.

I don't see the American people standing blindly behind Obama.

They are claiming that the rebels did not have access to the rockets that delivered the chemical weapons.

But someone did.

Was is Assad? Could be..... people are leaving his country in the thousands.

OKAY I'M READY FOR HIM NOW. BRING HIM ON! HE NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED.

I was referring to those who voted for him and stand by his every word.
Sorry I should have been more clear about that.