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White House Girds for Battle with Congress over Syria Strike
(Wall Street Journal) Jay Solomon and Janet Hook - Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday: "If the United States is unwilling to lead a coalition of people who are prepared to stand up for the international norm with respect to chemical weapons...we will be granting a blanket license to Assad to continue to gas....We will send a terrible message to the North Koreans, Iranians and others who might be trying to read how serious is America." Leading Republican and Democratic lawmakers said Obama is going to face a major political fight to gain Congress's approval. The Assad regime, meanwhile, claimed the U.S. had lost its nerve and was fading as a global superpower.