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Kerry on Syria: U.S. Can't Be "Spectators to Slaughter"
Secretary of State John Kerry and other top Obama administration officials urged lawmakers Tuesday to back a strike on Syria, insisting before a Senate panel that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to punish the Syrian regime for its apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians. "This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter," Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reiterating what he had told "Meet the Press" Sunday: that that tests on hair and blood samples from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack had tested positive sarin gas, and that there was no reasonable doubt that it was Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who had ordered its use. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also testified Tuesday. "The word of the United States must mean something," Hagel said. On Wednesday, the committee is set to hold a second, classified hearing on Syria. Get More at NBC News
Susan Rice "Confident" Congress Will Vote for Syria Strike
Obama's Syria Plan: Clinton Supports, Rumsfeld Slams
AP
Two now-retired former White House officials who helped shape
foreign policy for two very different presidents staked out opposite
stances Tuesday on President Barack Obama's plans for a strike on Syria,
even as top administration officials urged lawmakers in a Senate
hearing to support one. Donald Rumsfeld, the one-time Pentagon chief for
President George W. Bush who became instrumental in the invasion of
Iraq, blasted Obama as the weakest president "in my adult lifetime" in
comments at a lecture in Michigan on Tuesday. "You either ought to
change the regime, or you ought to do nothing," he said, adding that
Obama may have earned embarrassment for the U.S. "for being feckless and
ineffective." Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, said Tuesday
that she supports Obama's appeal to Congress for "a strong and targeted
response" to Syria's reported chemical weapons use, her aide told NBC
News. Until then Clinton, considered a frontrunner for the 2016
presidential race should she choose to run, had remained largely silent
on the issue.
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