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cthulu2016

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5. This is F'ing FALSE. Please delete. The article is a lie.

Mon Sep 9, 2013, 01:17 PM

Sep 2013

"Following Russia's offer, however, the U.S. State Department immediately backtracked, with spokeswomen Jennifer Psaki saying that Kerry's earlier comments were only meant to make a “rhetorical” point about the unlikelihood of Assad ever bending to international pressure."

That is a lie, and I don't see how the author can not know it is a lie.

The State Depratment rolled back Kerry's prediction that Assad would not take the offer. Not the offer itself.

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After Syria Accepts, US says Offer to Call Off War 'Rhetorical' [View all] 99th_Monkey Sep 2013 OP

lol, your article headline is bending over backwards to be WRONG Schema Thing Sep 2013 #1

No, that's exactly the point the title made. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #4

uh, yeah, no. Schema Thing Sep 2013 #6

You don't seem to understand what rhetorical means. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #7

Seriously. You are mistaken. cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #8

Yeah, who didn't see this coming? polly7 Sep 2013 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author cui bono Sep 2013 #3

This is F'ing FALSE. Please delete. The article is a lie. cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #5

We shall see, what we shall see 99th_Monkey Sep 2013 #9

Kerry is flip-flopping? RobertEarl Sep 2013 #10