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He made a fool of himself and wants to blame congress for it like everything else he does. the second most common reason among our viewers is that he has no reason. donna says, i dont think he even has any idea. hell get out of it by blaming congress or bush. larry says it convenient way to give the u.s. a perfect pretext to go to war with iran. barbara says to install a muslim brotherhood leader in syria like in equipment. a lot of people think that the president should focus on the problems th...

Wants to blame congress like everything else he does. the second most common vein that he has no reason. donna said i dont think he has an idea. he will get out of it boy blaming congress or bush. its a convenient way to draw iran into i conflict and gives the u.s. a perfect pretext from going to war with iran. barbara said to install a leader in syria just like he did in egypt. a lot of people think that the president should focus on the problems that we are having here at home. barbara says he...

Since 1782 have refused a request for military action by their prime minister. nato has rejected your call. the european union has rejected your call. the u.n., of course, is still investigating. and the italians, well, they are too busy dancing with berlusconi at one of his bunga bunga parties and putin had to give you a lecture on international law. >> translator: only the u.n. security council can sanctions force against a sovereign state and any other pretext or method which may be used to j...

Disappointsments congress has yet to pass an immigration bill. shes optimistic the house will pass it now senate has passed it. i asked her about continuing criticism from opponents who say they cant vote for it unless theres better security at the border. >> the border security argument to me, it creates the image that somehow were not or havent done anything at the border. and its simply lucy goosy down there. exactly the opposite is true much more manpower, technology, infrastructure, crime a...

The end to be bullpucky. it was a made up pretext. all of congress went along with it but not oregon senator wayne morse. as congress, again, today considers reports of a grave and terrible provocation in a far away place, as a potential justification for american military commitment, that otherwise would not take without that provocation, today theres no reason to believe that the claims about chemical weapons use in syria are as shaky and even made up as reports from the gulf of tonkin back in...

Proves that youre wrong. in fact, history is going to record that senator greening and i voted in the interest of the american people this morning when we voted against this resolution. and ive held the remark, and people remember what this resolution really is. its a resolution which seeks to give the president of the united states the power to make war without a declaration of war. >> oregon senator wayne morse. he was right about that. that was, that vote, right, was 88-2 and he was one of th...

The united states in a position where we might have to fight against hitler and the imperial japanese. this was an isolationist country, very isolationist congress. he got into pretty dicey situations in the north atlantic where there were american vessels that were in pretty grave danger of getting hit by a german sub which would have been terrible, but roosevelt would have known that would have provided a pretext to get the kind of involvement in world war ii he felt was necessary. >> how does...

Against hitler and the imperial japanese. this was an isolationist country, very isolationist congress. he got into pretty dicey situations in the north atlantic where there were american vessels that were in pretty grave danger of getting hit by a german sub which would have been terrible, but roosevelt would have known that would have provided a pretext to get the kind of involvement in world war ii he felt was necessary. >> how does the war in iraq, in your view as a historian, how does the i...

Holds tremendous currency in the debate over syria. chief washington correspondent james rosen reports from the state department. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin called secretary of state john kerry a liar for telling congress tuesday that al qaeda enjoys less sway over the syrian rebels forces than it used to. >>translator: we communicate with u.s. officials and assume theyre decent people. kerry lies openly and knows that he lies, this is sad. >> reporter: he also alleged through...

Weapons. he says it is illogical. and the government knows that should chemical weapons be used it would trigger international intervention. >> i dont think he had any hard evidence to back it up, is that the rebel fighters, he calls himself bashar al assads fighters call them terrorists, but the opposition fighters are the ones that use the chemical weapons against their own supporters as a pretext for the international community to go after them, thats the insinuation of theth president, right...