Transcript of Secretary of State Kerry’s remarks on Syria, Aug. 30

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The link is broken. Attempting to fix manually doesn’t help.

Correct link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/running-transcript-secretary-of-state-john-kerrys-remarks-on-syria-on-aug-30/2013/08/30/f3a63a1a-1193-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

Hint: Stay far away from the comments section.

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Without even having read the linked article, I’m going to predict what it says, then check to see how close I got:

Regarding Syria, any action we take will only make the situation worse, but [chemical weapons / humanitarian crisis] so we can’t just do nothing.

John Kerry, from Mass, where Raytheon is? Yep, no incentives whatsoever to encourage military, rather than diplomatic solutions. http://benswann.com/john-kerrys-war-syrian-strike-means-big-money-for-lawmakers/

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Help this Canadian out: why is the Heinz ketchup guy telling the world that he wants to blow up Syria?

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So we’re supposed to trust untrustworthy people, who are getting their information from other untrustworthy people, who are themselves getting it from other untrustworthy people?

Why is this even taken seriously?

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If you folks are having trouble with the link, here’s a transcript:

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-Senator Hasbeen Doesanyone Rememberme

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Very much so, but the arguments he used were still interesting. He’s not claiming they will somehow help the Syrians; he never discusses how they could. Rather he confirms intervention is needed to send a message, and not specifically to Assad. It’s a message to Israel and Jordan and Turkey on one hand, and to Iran and Hezbollah and North Korea on the other. I think that does say something.

“It is directly related to our credibility and whether countries still believe the United States when it says something.”

Ummmm, NSA much?

Just too many emotions: “like a father”, “dead child”…
And it’s definitely not a good way of doing business to use social media videos to justify the military intervention.

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