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September 2, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/31/statement-president-syria

Obama: I Will Ask for Congressional Approval before Syria Strike

(White House) President Obama said Saturday: "The world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century....This attack is an assault on human dignity. It also presents a serious danger to our national security." "I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets...[to] hold the Assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior, and degrade their capacity to carry it out....I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress."

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