White House: Syria's future can't include Assad

May 8, 2013 @ 10:24 am

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says that Syria's future cannot include President Bashar Assad.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says the U.S. views Syria's future as being a post-Assad future. But he says it's up to the Syrian opposition to decide which elements of Assad's regime could be included in a transitional government.

Carney was asked to clarify the U.S. position a day after Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. and Russia would convene a conference soon to seek peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition. Obama has long said Assad must leave office. But Kerry said Tuesday it was up to the Syrian people whether he should leave.

The Obama administration also announced $100 million in new humanitarian aid Wednesday to the opposition.


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  • 509 wrote...
    I wish Obama was as "horrified" by the American soldiers dying in Afganistan.
    May 5, 2013 12:14 pm
    For what purpose?? Why are we there?? His withdraw leaves 40,000 troops!!! Why aren't people marching in the streets!
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  • murr wrote...
    Fits his agenda
    May 5, 2013 3:26 pm
    to a T
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  • LibertyOrDeath-MolonLabe wrote...
    The FSA "Rebels"
    May 6, 2013 8:31 am
    are butchering Christians and Jews with impunity in Syria, just like they were beheading black people in Libya, and this is who Obama wants to support with our tax dollars. Giving the "rebels" (Al Qaeda) heavy weapons, the same "rebels" that are throwing Christians off of 4 story buildings. It's all on youtube. NATO will be invading in no time now that IsraHell is striking a Sovereign Nation that attacked NOBODY!!
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Owebama has no answers for anything.
    May 7, 2013 5:02 pm
    They guy is in over his head, and we all know it.
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    Kerry is correct
    May 8, 2013 10:32 am
    US forces seek to dictate to Syria what kind of leader she must have, what kind of government she must have, etc. But who gave the US Commander-In-Chief the role of master of destiny over other nations and other people? Why should Syria make choices not based upon what her people want, but so as to please the white house?
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  • hnuh wrote...
    It is remarkable,
    May 9, 2013 10:21 am
    the silence from media, code punk, all the usual leftist suspects on this subject. I guess if their boy pulls this crap then its all ok?
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