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Obama administration, via @nytimes, now says Obama's Syria "red line" was a gaffe. Huge implications here. http://nyti.ms/11KfIhI

8:08 AM - 5 May 2013

Obama’s Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot

President Obama surprised aides last year when he called the use of chemical weapons in Syria a “red line,” a move that has complicated the American response to evidence that such arms have been used.
The New York Times @nytimes

Via Twitchy:

More from The New York Times. Note, it also gives President Obama cover by titling the piece “Off-the-Cuff Obama Line Put U.S. in Bind on Syria”:

In a frenetic series of meetings, the White House devised a 48-hour plan to deter President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by using intermediaries like Russia and Iran to send a message that one official summarized as, “Are you crazy?” But when Mr. Obama emerged to issue the public version of the warning, he went further than many aides realized he would.

Moving or using large quantities of chemical weapons would cross a “red line” and “change my calculus,” the president declared in response to a question at a news conference, to the surprise of some of the advisers who had attended the weekend meetings and wondered where the “red line” came from. With such an evocative phrase, the president had defined his policy in a way some advisers wish they could take back.

Keep reading…http://weaselzippers.us/2013/05/05/obama...-that-red-line/

Obama's a plagiarist. He stole that line from Bibi Netanyahu when he gave the same speech at the United Nations.
Obama must have been impressed.