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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...

Attack chemical weapon stocks and storage facilities, then you have to go after delivery systems. and when you go after delivery systems, you can go after a lot of different military assets -- command and control, airfields, aircraft, artillery units. they could attack the fourth armored division, which was responsible for the deployment of these weapons. so we need to be -- we need to be clear here. this is the least bad option. and suspect if you want to be credible, the administration is goin...

Can we really do to the assad regime in 24 to 96 hours? >> can do a lot of damage. lets face it, his regime is going to be damaged. particularly his larger systems and all of those facilities, harris that cant be moved. like radar sites, command and control headquarters. airfields. so he is going to suffer some dang. the question 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 answer is yes. >> general bob scales. thank you so mu...

Show us. >> the most important thing right away is to take out the air fields here represented by red airplanes. there are a number of significant airfields and they are the first targets for any attack. to the extent there are planes on the ground, theyll go as well. here we have represented a couple of brigades of the fourth armored division commanded by bashar al assads brother in which we think is probably the source of the gas attacks on the civilians. the latest gas attacks which killed al...

Campaign. lets keep -- start killing our people again using conventional weapons. because that seems to be okay. and then what does the united states do? pinprick against the syrians. we strike empty buildings and we strike airfields. and then assad still is in power. maybe even stronger in the minds of the syrian people and then what do we do? we do nothing. >> and, of course, i was reading the headlines in the english speaking papers in iran. and they talk about how one of them says foreign mi...

Strikes that are not part of a broader strategy leading to the removal from power. lass night mccain laid out how the u.s. could hammer syria without u.s. boots on the ground. >> the six airfields and six runways and i prevent him from using his air power. i would get the weapon tots people who are fighting and dying as we speak. >> mike turner says he is a no vote on military action until mr. obama removes the sequestration from the military. that illustrates what a difficult september it is tu...

Pictures of civilians that were hurt. >> so after the dust settles, the syrians all look at themselves assay wow, that wasnt bad, lets continue the campaign. lets start killing our people again using conventional weapon, because that seems to be okay. and then what does the united states do? thats when we look bad, is when we have this pinprick, if you will, against the syrians. we strike empty buildings, and we strike airfields. and then assads still in power, maybe even stronger in the minds o...

This isnt going to stop it. the only way youre going to stop that is if you have an enormous exercise of american military mite and we are not going to do that. this is a really a demonstration. its an -- its an empty gesture and its not going to have any military effect, except take out some of the airfields. that will have a military effect negatively on assad forces but not overturn the regime. >> colonel, thank you for your objectives and help on this. >> youre welcome. john kerry expect a...

Some people are, that in an attempt to destroy some of the nerve agent that we disperse it? >> that would be a planning concern. i think general keane spoke to the particular capabilities that syria depends on with regard to these airfields and air facilities, certainly the tomahawk missiles with a mixed set of munitions in the tom tomk warhead would be able to mitigate the capability of syria to actually demonstrate air capacity and actually disperse chemical weapons if we knew exactly where th...

Radical nor are the people that work for him. yes there are jihaddists flowing into all over the world actually to fight but general idris is a good man. if we have a plan heres the plan we need to implement. we need to take out his air capabilities. he is operating out of five or six airfields. we need to give them a safe zone and get the message in, excuse me, get the weapons in to the people that we know are good people and can use it. martha: very interesting take from senator mccain there. ...