{"id":19111,"date":"2013-09-04T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:21:18","slug":"public-remains-opposed-to-syria-war-as-officials-admit-to-shaky-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/09\/public-remains-opposed-to-syria-war-as-officials-admit-to-shaky-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Remains Opposed to Syria War as Officials Admit to Shaky Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria3-1.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19112\" alt=\"syria3 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria3-1.gif?resize=328%2C353\" width=\"328\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"pagesub\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">White House: War Reflects US Interests<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">by Jason Ditz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Facing growing questions, the Obama Administration is reiterating its claims that attacking Syria would be in keeping with America\u2019s \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/29\/us-syria-crisis-us-britain-idUSBRE97S10920130829\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">national interests<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201d and is even threatening to launch the war without a single ally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The president may be convinced, but few others are, as polls continue to show an extremely small portion of the American public on board with attacking Syria,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2013\/Aug-30\/229307-as-war-rhetoric-increases-public-unconvinced.ashx\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">only about 25 percent<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">. That\u2019s actually less than the 33 percent Britain had, and their parliament<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/08\/29\/parliament-revolts-brits-to-stay-out-of-syria\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">voted down the war today<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">But that\u2019s only because there was a vote, and the Obama Administration is adamant that they aren\u2019t going to have any sort of vote. Still, that enormous opposition is going to make it awfully tough for him to launch a unilateral war, and raises the risk of backlash for a totally unapproved, extralegal war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">There\u2019s no reason to expect the public to suddenly come on board either, with the administration\u2019s own officials conceding to the Associated Press that their intelligence on the matter is certainly \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ap-sources-intelligence-weapons-no-slam-dunk-070731192.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">not a slam dunk<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">.\u201d \u0010Though on TV, officials continue to insist their allegations are \u201cundeniable,\u201d the truth is they\u2019re far from that, and the public seems in no mood to keep the administration\u2019s word for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/08\/29\/public-remains-opposed-to-syria-war-as-officials-admit-to-shaky-intel\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House: War Reflects US Interests by Jason Ditz Facing growing questions, the Obama Administration is reiterating its claims that attacking Syria would be in..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,43,84,46,189,97,119],"tags":[228,197,226,277,287],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-media-culture","category-statements","category-tvfilm","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-war","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-syria","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/syria3-1.gif?fit=328%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39545,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/39545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}