Update: Power missed Syria session for personal trip
Oh, brother.
UN Ambassador Samantha Power was on a personal trip when she missed this week’s emergency Security Council meeting on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, U.N. diplomats have told Fox News. Power, who tweeted a call for U.N. action after news broke of the gas attack and has long advocated military intervention in the ongoing Syrian civil war, was said to be in a location where no travel arrangements could be made.
Our Ambassador missed the Emergency UN meeting on Syria. Has anybody seen Samantha Power? This worthless administration has put its complete confidence and reliability for action in the hands of the United Nations. Drawing a line in the sand again Obama? There is quite a bit of evidence of at least two chemical attacks and our Ambassador to the UN couldn’t bother to attend the emergency meeting? We have got to fire all of these people!!!
For the past several years, President Obama has presided over a U.S. policy on Syria that has made the collective support of the international community a condition of American action. Every answer the President gives on the crisis in Syria includes working thru the United Nations. So when the United Nations Security Council called an emergency meeting on Wednesday about the use of chemical weapons inside Syria, it was perplexing that the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to the UN was nowhere to be found.
White House Deputy Spokesman Josh Earnest issued a statement on Syria’s use of chemical weapons that emphasized the United Nations as the only U.S. action to the crisis. The President didn’t call for State Department action or a Department of Defense option plan – he only asked for a UN response.
Earnest said, “The United States strongly condemns any and all use of chemical weapons. Those responsible for the use of chemical weapons must be held accountable. Today, we are formally requesting that the United Nations urgently investigate this new allegation. The UN investigative team, which is currently in Syria, is prepared to do so, and that is consistent with its purpose and mandate. For the UN’s efforts to be credible, they must have immediate access to witnesses and affected individuals, and have the ability to examine and collect physical evidence without any interference or manipulation from the Syrian government.”
So the U.S. policy on Syria is to work thru the United Nations. Where was Samantha Power?
Earnest even emphasized the emergency meeting in his statement: “We have also called for urgent consultations in the UN Security Council to discuss these allegations.”
But while the White House was pretending to be in urgent mode, the new U.S. ambassador didn’t think the meeting was worth her time. Her office reportedly told Reuters that she was on a trip. But to where? What was more important?
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ROFL, Patricia. But Puhleeze —- could you squeeze a few more of ’em on the milk carton? You can start with Bronco ‘Bama. 🙂
This administration and their minions are MIA from just about everything….even if they are there…..
Considering the results of five years of US academic theory implementation it wouldn’t be a surprise if she was disinvited.
Powers, Rice and Clinton were all supportive of the Libyian Fiasco. Remember?
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Powers couldn’t be there in order to maintain Obama narrative. If she attended, then other countries could leak that they told her … This way the WH spokesdissembler can mouth moral platitudes w/o that nasty truth being told by others. The imperative is to protect Obama from the questions of, what about your red line being crossed – well we support the UN investigation.
In addition and probably of greater importance, Kristol wrote that Powers tweeted something about Syria to protect herself while pretending to uphold WH narrative. If the WH views her tweet that same way, then Powers is not filling the very large kissbutt shoes of Rice. Powers may not be a good enough liar for this administration. Not good to fool Father Founder the One.
What’s the problem? She’s just following the example of the Jerk leader. She went on vacation, or something close to that. OBummer didn’t let Egypt being *literally* on fire keep him from his Martha’s Vineyard vacay. Samantha just followed in lock step. “Tell them eat cake, I gotta get my tan on!”