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For us in turkey. richard, you just heard the presidents comments as well. how do you think that president obamas announcement and this decision to kick it to congress, how is this going to play with our allies? >> reporter: well, i think that i can tell you how its going to play with a lot of syria tonight, one line in particular, this mission is not time sensitive. i think a lot of people who are in syria and are being shelled right now, who are in the school we profiled last night that was at...

Israel is the underlying issue, and we want to draw a red line in a sense to stop assad now before he transfers chemical weapons to hezbollah and they can use that against israel. its a fascinating debate. i think its going to be a close vote. >> lynn, how is this going to play out politically for the president? >> it will be -- it depends on the details, and just judging from some of the reaction i am getting from the members of congress, the first threshold has passed and they wanted to be con...

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President had been of the mind that a military strike was necessary and he was prepared to go it alone and prepared to unilaterally attack syria, and then these mounting calls for members of congress, but particularly we are told by senior administration officials what happened in britain, and the fact that the british parliament voted no, not to authorize a strike against syria, and that is something that really weighed heavily on president obama apparently, so last night we are told according ...

Critical partner, and that the call on thursday that the administration had with the hill i was told was rather painful and this is a reflection of the reality that we have gone to the policy of doing just enough to enough is enough in ten days. >> david, you wrote about this friday. you wrote about the members of congress who remained unconvinced and you wrote in part those clear efforts to placate opponents of military action appear to be failing and warning of another iraq or are fueling this...

Regional opposition to this problematic move or impending move, i think the president is stuck, and one of the reasons he is going to congress, which apparently historically he did not have to do that, is basically to just make sure that he can say that he is keeping his word regarding the red lines, but i think its an uncalculated adventure and its not going to bode well for the united states or the syrian people and for all concerned. >> colonel jack, what happens if there -- when there is an ...

Had the moral responsibility to act and not to pass it on to congress, and you can expect more reaction in the similar tone that we are hearing from the syrian opposition, as well as other umbrella organizations that fall under the syrian opposition. >> let me follow-up on what you just said. i know you are in regular contact with the syrian opposition and you have contacts on the ground and a lots of contacts on the ground in syria, and over the next two or three weeks, and we dont know how lon...

Country with regards to iraq as well, and what did the presidents announcement today do for americas credibility? >> well, what the white house is trying to do is rather interesting, craig, because they are releasing information that otherwise wouldnt be out. specifically how they learned what they learned to raefeach t conclusion that there is chemical weapons used. and congress will demand that because we have been fooled before, and to echo that famous song, you dont want to be fooled again w...

Nonetheless, how surprised were you? >> i am enormously proud and relieved thats what he elected to do, and i think its brilliant politically, and more importantly if he can get a robust endorsement by the congress, which i dont think he will get, but it will move forward united, and if not, he personally has not lost his credibility, and i think the u.s. can point to congress in this case, they want to go forward. its a huge relief to me personally that this is the out come. >> you said you don...

And the spy satellite, and usually you dont get this specific information, and the administration needs to do this to build credibility with the public and with members of congress. >> i want to get your perspective, colonel, because i want to talk to you about the message that this sends to the syrian regime. here you have the leader of the free word, the largest military on the planet saying we have our weapons in place, and we have our ships in the mediterranean, but we want to talk about it ...