John Kerry Statements About Syrian Rebels Remain At Odds With Intelligence Reports

[cali]

It's called LYING.

WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.

At congressional hearings this week, while making the case for President Barack Obama's plan for limited military action in Syria, Kerry asserted that the armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution.

"And the opposition is getting stronger by the day," Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

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As recently as late July, at a security conference in Aspen, Colorado, the deputy director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, David Shedd, estimated that there were at least 1,200 different Syrian rebel groups and that Islamic extremists, notably the Nusra Front, were well-placed to expand their influence.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/john-kerry-syrian-rebels_n_3870782.html

[David__77]

1. Total lies, bald-faced lies.

And we can certainly hope that congress says no. People don't like getting played. This propaganda barrage is a mile wide and an inch deep.

[cali]

2. and the parsing and defending it is foul, unconscionable