So which is it Mr. President? White House calls for regime change in Syria for the seventh time in six months, but has said five times that the US isn't plotting his downfall

A senior White House official told reporters Friday that the Obama administration wants Bashar al-Assad ‘remove[d] from power.’ But an examination of the government’s vacillating position on whether the Syrian dictator must go reveals a schizophrenic policy that has changed at least four times this year.

”There needs to be a political resolution to the civil war that removes Assad from power,’ Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said during an on-the-record conference call.

That position has been a consistent theme for eight days, but was preceded by two weeks of White House assurances that the possibility of U.S. military action in Syria was not intended to force ‘regime change.” .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk