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The gas that fell out of the sky yesterday was more deadly, leaving men, women, the elderly, and children gasping for their very last breath. and as first responders, doctors and nurses rushed to help the victims, a second round of bombs rained down. they died in the same, slow, horrendous manner as the civilians they were trying to save. we all also know this. just a few weeks ago, this council attempted to hold assad accountable for suffocating his own people to death with toxic chemicals. russia stood in the way of this accountability. they made an unconsciousable choice and denied the cons...

Implement foreign policy through sound byte or tweet, maybe comments would be relevant the negotiations are a serious process. the president has been shown effective at building coalition. we saw those in sanctions implemented in iran and working well with our european allies but you know i'm not saying we don't stumble as we did in seara. i'd rather that an administration stumble in terms of building negotiations and coalitions than stumble into war like we saw in previous bush administration. >> i want to go back to listen to what john kerry said about syria. back when there was a military o...

Myself, quite frankly, are weary. they're weary of war. i can tell you that i believe and many of them believe that president obama was right to propose a limited strike because as the only super power left in the world capable of actually making sure we can hold a leader like assad accountable for the horrific and abhorrent murder of almost 1500 of his own people, including hundreds of children, that it's absolutely our responsibility to do that, to degrade and deter him from doing it again. and i think the president made an effective and forceful case last night that there was the evidence t...

Be interested. a lot of people say that nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a hanging. well, it's the credible threat of force that has been on the table for these last weeks that has, for the first time, brought this regime to even acknowledge that they have a chemical weapons arsenal. and it is the threat of this force, and our determination to hold assad accountable that has motivated others to even talk about a real and credible international action that might have an impact. so how do you maintain that pressure? we have to continue to show syria, russia and the world that we are...

How best to hold president assad accountable for all of this. there is no question, and i agree completely that trying control the privilege racing of chemical weapons say goal that we must have as a nation. we must go forward. but can a one-time, limited military strike accomplish that? and i think what our committee wants to hear today how will that happen? how will this one-time strike be enough to hold assad accountable while not creating a chaos or risk that these very dangerous weapons would frankly fall into more dangerous hands given the presence of al qaeda and other groups in syria t...