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Plans? not that the target list t it has been increased. its that the original target list was may increase again, b target list is no different than e one that wasplanned. weve got plans to do everything you can possibly think of internationally and particularly and these plans have been on the books and verified for a long, long time. when the president calls for a limited strike, the pentagon works up a target include, in this case, mostly airfields and other places. mobile missile and contro...

Indecisiveness by the president. >> lets say president obama says were going anyway and we hit the airfields, which is what they are going for. assad is still in power. iran does something to israel or iraq. where are we? then do we have to declare war on syria? >> what do you think will happen if we dont go? it will leave every desperate in the world. we are much better off to go in there. you know who is against america on this? left wing democrats and anti-war democrats and right wing republi...

Equivocation on the part of the president. >> bob, can i ask you this question. lets say we do go. president obama says were going anyway. we hit the airfields which is what i think theyre going for, so they dont actually deliver the weapons. theyre not actually going after the weapons. assad is still in power. iran does something to israel or iraq. where are we? then do we have to declare war on syria? >> what do you think will happen if we dont go? it will leave every despot in the world who w...

Indecisiveness by the president. >> lets say president obama says were going anyway and we hit the airfields, which is what they are going for. assad is still in power. iran does something to israel or iraq. where are we? then do we have to declare war on syria? >> what do you think will happen if we dont go? it will leave every desperate in the world. we are much better off to go in there. you know who is against america on this? left wing democrats and anti-war democrats and right wing republi...

>> by doing what? >> go after helicopters, airfields, delivery mechanisms for these chemical weapons. >> you think this is going to be a surgical strike? >> i think it will. >> and not kill many people. >> i do not think it will kill many people. >> congressman, your thoughts on the idea we kill people to punish someone for killing people and basically were killing the same syrian people which is so encrusted with irony, i dont know how to keep going. your thoughts? >> i think mr. gibbs is sayin...

Kill people. that is somehow going to stop assad from killing his people. explain how that stops him from killing his people. >> i think what we do is we degrade his capability -- >> by doing what? >> go after helicopters, airfields, delivery mechanisms for these chemical weapons. >> you think this is going to be a surgical strike? >> i think it will. >> and not kill many people. >> i do not think it will kill many people. >> congressman, your thoughts on the idea we kill people to punish someon...

Hillary clinton is kind of behind here too. dont remember to a certain degree, she and the establishment democratic party lost the presidency in 2008 to barack obama because of her decision to vote in favor of the iraq war resolution. that kind of folk memory is there with a lot of democrats, traditional democrats who will say to themselves, wait a minute, why are we doing this? and furthermore, why are we doing this for a president, president obama, who got to power because of his very skeptici...

Regime of president assad. >> but the goal, mick, at least from the administration, is that is not their goal, at least for any actions from our air strike. let me bring in colonel jacobs on that. thats the other part, i think, colonel, that people are conflicted about. one, the words of secretary kerry last week combined with the actions of the president, the words of the president and where we are now and also the goal here. if we are expecting somehow assad to shrug off any military action, e...

Much damage can we really do to the assad regime in say 24 to 96 hours? >> we could do a lot of damage. and lets face it, his regime is going to be damaged, particularly his larger systems and all those facilities, harris, that cant be moved, like radar sites, command and control headquarters, airfields. so, hes going to suffer some damage. the question is, is after the smoke clears after 24 to 96 hours, will assad still be in power? so far, it seems to us, at least, the answers yes. >> general ...

Had expected. that the focus of it will be not just on deterring the use of chemical weapons but degrading assads military capacity level. and i think many of us certainly have an advocacy for that. they will concentrate on chemical weapons delivery systems, rockets and artillery will be harder to get to because you can move those around and obviously hes doing that. airfields, airplanes and logistical infrastructure that supports air power will be much easier to get to. then the other thing, it...