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House for that. Also, as the city grieves over an nfl players tragic breaking point, new debates today about gun control and Domestic Violence. Youll hear both. But first, the u. S. Has long believed syria has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons. Now new concerns that chemical arsenal is on the move. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton today issuing another stern warning against syria, using these weapons. The Syrian Foreign Ministry quick to respond here saying it would not use chemical weapons against its people if it had any, but this announcement as turkey is sending warplanes to its border with syria after the Syrian Military bombed a nearby town of ras alain. You can hear that and see the smoke. This is the turkish side of the border. This is fue ....
To syria for at least 23 years. Since 1989, 23 years. Has some experience in that country but most interesting in them reason i most excited to have him talk to us tonight, unlike a lot of people have lots who have lots of opinions about syria david cutugno Bashar Alassad which is a pretty unique expected for an academic in particular and david wrote a book in 2005 which held up great hope for the future of syria under bush are. If you recall there is some sense that bashar would a reformer of syria after his father died and we have now discovered that is not the case and he is now written another book called the fall of the house of assad. We are going to talk a bit about that tonight and my first question is going to be, when did you first meet assad and what was your impression of him . I first met him in 2004. I wanted to interview him because he was the atypical middle east dictator. He was a licensed ophthalmologist. He was ....
With their archrivals, if not enemies, the iranians. That also holds true, to a large extent, in iraq, even though it has a shia majority. Theyre not persians. Theyre arabs. Iraq fought a bitter, brutal eightyear war with iran from 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of those casualties on the iraqi side or iraqishia arabs. So again, it is a great phrase. Our enemys enemy may still be our enemy. We have to be very, very careful here. Thank you, sir, for that question. Id only add to the previous two comments that in syria, iran continues to support the regime of Bashar Al Assad and Bashar Al Assad needs to go and allow a transition for our instate end goals and security. So this is a problem. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, mr. Chairman. You stated isil was both formidable yet vulnerable. Can you list the t ....
Other than combat capable. But thats different than how we use them. And in the case of our contributions in iraq right now, the airmen as the Ranking Member mentioned are very much in the combat role. The folks on the ground are very much in it a combat advisory role. They are not participating in direct combat. I mentioned if i found that circumstance evolving that i would change my recommendation. An example. If the Iraqi Security forces were at some point ready to could very well be part of that particular mission to provide close combat advising or accompanying for that mission. But for the daytoday activities that i anticipate will evolve over time, i dont see it to be necessary right now. One of the presumptions, and ill just raise it, would be because we are using air power that there is sufficient capacity in the iraqi forces to coordinate that air power on the groun ....