The World of Obama and Reality - Syria Crisis

Today President Obama in Sweden stated the following, " First of all, I didn’t set a red line; the world set a red line.  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. 

Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty.  Congress set a red line when it indicated that -- 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.

And so when I said in a press conference that my calculus about what’s happening in Syria would be altered by the use of the chemical weapons, which the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn’t something I just kind of made up.  I didn’t pluck it out of thin air.  There’s a reason for it.  That’s point number one.

Point number two -- my credibility is not on the line.  The international community’s credibility is on the line.  And America and Congress’s credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important. ".

Either President Obama is having a memory lapse or he thinks the rest of the WORLD is thick, you never say something that is NOT TRUE and is on film.   You do not play about with foreign policy, those Republicans in the House who might think of voting for the Syrian resolution will now wonder if Obama is serious about taking action, or is seeking to shift the blame if Syria goes wrong.  The above words could have cost the Oval a Syrian Resolution passed by Congress.