When President Bush pulled together a coalition of dozens of countries for his invasion of Iraq, did media expect to hear the names of those countries and what each would be doing?
How do you suppose media would have reacted if President Bush\’s Ambassador to the United Nations, sent out to do the Sunday morning shows, would or could not name even one of the countries, let alone what they promised to do?
Journalists all over the country would have had their hoods, torches and pitchforks out in about 3 minutes. They would have been deriding Bush for barfing out claims that he had no way of supporting. They would have called him names, impugned his honesty and made sarcastic references to his intelligence level.
How do I know? Because they spent 8 years doing exactly that, often for far less significant incidents.
With the above in mind, please read the following excerpt from today\’s article at foxnews.com (that\’s right, Fox. Who\’d you expect to provide this kind of information? The major networks? MSNBC?):
TheU.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that theAmerican-led effort to destroy the terror group Islamic State hassupport from more than 40 countries but declined to name them or theextent of their support.
“It\’sup to the individual country,” Ambassador Samantha Power told ABC\’s”This Week.”
Francelast week joined the United States in airstrikes against IslamicState targets in Iraq, and Saudi Arabia has offered to help trainmoderate anti-Islamic State group fighters.
However,what remains unclear is whether Turkey and such Arab States as Egyptand Qatar will join in the airstrikes, also pending in Syria, or sendcombat troops in join Iraqi forces in the fight against IslamicState, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Can this possibly be right? Can Samantha Power possibly be telling us that 40 countries have signed on…..but she is not at liberty to tell us which ones?
We\’re supposed to find this claim credible? We\’re supposed to believe there are 40 countries ready, willing and able to go….but not who they are?
Do these people think we are all idiots? Evidently the answer is that they do.
Susan Rice – Power\’s predecessor at the United Nations and now President Obama\’s National Security Advisor – better watch out. For her “it was a video” BS after Benghazi, she is currently the undisputed champion among Obama administration members for lying to our faces on the Sunday shows. But with equally ridiculous BS like this, Rice is giving Power a run for her money.
How can anyone believe a thing that comes from any member of this administration?
