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The line and as commander in chief, it's put the united states on the line. itis important in syria and iran. >> the president says congress set their own red line on chemical reactions used, how do you respond to that. >> david just exposed it. the treaty doesn't require military action. go to the 1980s, saddam was using poison gas on his people in the iran/iraq war. in egypt, they used poison gas. 100,000 people have been killed in syria. a lot of children have been killed in syria. this is pretty horrifying stuff. but, is it stuff that justifies the united states engaging in, frankly, a lim...

>> the fact they said the world set the line in chemical weapons use, how do you respond? >> the treaty doesn't require military action. if you go back to the 1980s, saddam was regularly using poison gas against his own people and in the iran, iraq war. you go back a few years earlier, poison gas in yemen. nobody said was that a moral case for us. start with the fact 100,000 people have been killed in syria. a lot of children have been killed in syria. this is pretty horrifying stuff, but is it stuff which justifies the united states engaging in, frankly, a limited confused strike against a di...

I vote note, but i would say to you, if assad is still sitting there after the strikes, he's in a position to say the united states didn't do much to affect me, i'm still in charge. >> fareed, what do you say about that? >> i think that is -- i mean, newt highlighted the great danger, which is when you have a limited strike of this nature, you yield the initiative to the other side. if they survive the strike and assad continues to do what he's doing, maybe he doesn't use chemical weapons again, you haven't won. you have inched your way into the civil war. you have taken a side and you are not...

We said you can't booild build nuclear weapons, biological or chemical weapons and then we kept anymore the box and emphasized chemical weapons. i think that, yes, of course you don't want these weapons used but the impulse behind it which is that you could kill a lot of people is actually no longer true. conventional war kills many more people. >> you already see mission creep. >> i see mission creep brauz because of the rhetoric. when mccain says he will support the resolution because he's been given private assurances this is not a limited strike, not symbolic, much bigger. there's to going...

The report was reckless and full of false accusations. how do you answer the charge that what you're doing is partisan? >> i think that changing the talking points from the truth to an untruth is certainly partisan and likely for political reasons. but i think the better question is, why are the democrats not just as upset that we didn't do all we could do to save american lives? >> reporter: now, issa's democratic counterpart, elijah cummings, says they are as interested as republicans in finding the facts but that what issa and his fellow republicans are doing are engaging in, quote, ninvest...