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Congress doesn't vote for this very limited request the president has put before you. iran is hoping you look the other way. our enact would surely give them a permission slip for them to at least misinterpret our intention, if not to put it to the test, hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that ambivalence carries the day. they're all listening for our silence. and if we don't answer assad today, we will erode a standard that has existed for those hundred years, in fact we will erode the standard that has protected our own troops in war. and we will invite...

Tentative support they got from the key republican senators yesterday, lindsay graham and john mccain, they feel this extraordinary level of outreach that that i have seen from president obama and his administration that it is working. it's still unclear whether the votes are where they need to be at this point. there's still a lot of winning over to do and the white house says that they realize that. officials say that the president is prepared to be engaged in this as he heads overseas and heads to sweden this evening and goes to russia for the end of the week. there's still the question of ...

I think what's interesting though is they failed to realize thousand they brought this on themselves. it couldn't be clearer that neither president obama nor prime minister cameron or international community wanted to intervene in syria. for two and a half years they have not. it is the syrian regime with the accusations and most people believe is their use of chemical weapons that has brought the international community to this point where we are right now, wolf. >> very, very sensitive moment, not only in regional history but world history. we're standing by for an important hearing before t...

Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described or that the regime did not do it. it did happen and the assad regime did it. i remember iraq. secretary hagel remembers iraq. general dempsey especially remembers iraq but secretary hagel and i and many of you sitting remember iraq in the special way because we were here for that vote. we voted. and so we are especially sensitive, chuck and i, to never again asking any member of congress to take a vote on faulty intelligence. that is why our intelligence community has scrubbed sean rerescrubed the evi...

Don't mean, sometimes, we don't mean somewhere. never means never. so this is a vote for accountability. norms and laws that keep the civilized world civil mean nothing if they are not enforced. as justice jackson said in his opening argument at the nur berg trials, to make statesman responsible to the law. if the world's worst des pits see they can go without prohibitions against the world's worst weapons then those prohibitions are pieces of paper. that is what we mean by accountability and what we mean by we cannot be silent. let me be clear.