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“John Kerry Reveals Arab Countries Have Offered to Pay America to Carry Out Full - Scale Invasion of Sy”
by Mailonline   
September 6th, 2013
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Secretary of State John Kerry said during a hearing Wednesday in the House of Representatives that counties in the Arab world have offered to foot the entire bill for a U.S. military mission that destroys the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.

‘With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assist, the answer is profoundly yes,’ Kerry said. ‘They have. That offer is on the table.’

Kerry, with a cadre of anti-war activists sitting behind him and holding red-painted hands aloft in protest, declined to name the countries that have proposed opening their purses.

Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen had asked Kerry to comment on the expenses related to carrying out attacks on Syria if Congress were to authorize them.

Following through on a use-of-force resolution, she said, ‘could potentially cost … billions.’

But Kerry said other nations that see Assad as a destabilizing force in the region have proposed to cover the costs.

As for ‘the details of the offer, and the proposal on the table,’ Ros-Lehtinen asked Kerry, ‘what are the figures we are talking about?

‘We don’t know what action we [will be] engaged in right now,’ Kerry replied, ‘but they have been quite significant. I mean, very significant.’

‘In fact, some of them have said that if the U.S. is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost. That’s how dedicated they are to this.’

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