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Organized. it had to do with a generational revolution of people looking for their freedom, their opportunity and their aspirations to be met. same thing happened in syria. and in syria that opposition was met with violence from assad. and so that is what has happened here. the moderate opposition is in fact committed to democracy. it's committed to protection of all minority rights to inclu incluesive incluesivei inclusivity. this is not about regime change. this is about the enforcement of the standard with respect to chemical weapons. that's what this is about. the president is asking for a...

Members of the house foreign affairs committee, grilling chuck hagel, general martin dempsey and john kerry. >> with respect to the limited strike not achieving the objective, i think the general has spoken to that earlier that he has confidence that we have the ability to achieve our objective if not in the first volley certainly we have the ability to achieve that objective. secondly, you said would it not in fact help the opposition? i have said many times as a collateral component of this, any degradation of assad's military will be a benefit to the opposition but that's not the fundamenta...

When you degrade assad, you are benefiting the opposition groups. i think that the bulk of that energy right now is with sunni supremacists and al qaeda affiliated terrorists. it is difficult to kind of figure out where everybody is on this. there was a quote that you had given when we were evaluating libyan opposition. you said we didn't know who people were in eastern europe either. we don't always know who they all are. i think that you have to kind of have a sense of the course of history and what they're fighting for. is that pretty much -- do you stand by that quote and kind of difficult...

Whom? >> not specifically that i know of, have they? they support it but they have not advocated to me. i've had conversations with president of the opposition and there was no pleading or urging to do this. >> in fact, haven't members of the syrian opposition said they don't want an attack? isn't that true? >> i have not heard that. >> you haven't seen public reports to that effect? >> no. >> all right. secretary kerry, there are 189 signers of the chemical weapons convention. syria does not happen to be one of them. how many of those signatories have pledged to participate in the military in...

That the best way to isolate that extremist opposition is the extremist components of the syrian fabric is to more rapidly build up the opposition. >> will the u.s. congress vote ultimately to authorize u.s. intervention in syria? there are a lot of questions as you're hearing. quick break. more on this house foreign affairs committee hearing and questions being thrown at the secretary of state, defense and the general martin dempsey. back after this.