it s a tough, tough slot. how will he get the votes? look, he s going to have to get a passage in the senate. the house won t vote first. two things will happen. one it will put some pressure on the house to pass it. the president may pocket the senate victory and say i don t need the house vote i got the upper chamber. when you pointed out israel wants us to go and it s about iran, this is really very important to understand. this is a proxy war. this isn t about syria. all international diplomats behind-the-scenes say this has nothing to do about syria, this has something to do with iran which is why the american people are more right to oppose this. on this question how far we ve gone let me read from april 1, 2012. we think assad must go hillary clinton told abc today after attending the one day friends of the syrian people conference in
political rebuke of president obama it would be an institutional rebuke of his presidency with unknowable consequences for the credibility of american foreign policy not only in syria but around the world. the global system really does depend on other nations confidence that the united states means what it says. this is not an argument that justifies vote are for a wicked or a reckless war and members of congress who see the syria intervention in that light must necessarily oppose it. but if they do, they should be prepared for the consequences. a damaged president, a potentially crippled foreign policy, and a long, hard, dangerous road to january 2017. iran will blow through every red line. they already have. they will only accelerate it. that s just a reality. that s possibly overstated. what s possible lui
with those countries has been funding logistics, salaries and arms flows that have led to a massive escalation of violence. this is not simply assad killing his people this is a war the u.s. has been supporting because we thought we could knock out assad and lead another regime change and it didn t look. sir, everyone is entitled to their own opinion on syria. i think your history of this is convoluted at best. the notion that somehow we have played some huge role in the fact that bashir al assad has killed and now gassed his own people. look, we should set this aside. did hilary we ll continue this. the point we ll take regarding hilary, she s been a part of this and i m sure after this show and even right now people are probably doing their
the president carried both in the 2008 and 2012 elections and the issue could prove to be toxic in the mid-term elections. four senior republican senators, all face primary challenges and nearly every challenger has come out against using military force in syria, trying to make it a wedge issue. all of the incumbents except south carolina senator lindsey graham are undecided on whether to use force. this has become a big political issue on a number of levels. you know what s interesting to remember as he talk about the polls and everybody against. i remember seeing a los angeles times poll in early 2007 that 75% of americans were against the surge. 75% of americans, congress didn t want to support the surge. they went ahead and supported the surge and, you know, like most people said that worked out and i m sure the president will argue that.
of good reasons don t oppose the war because israel will be hit by syria or iran. israel is hoping to be hit by syria or iran and then they will go in and absolutely demolish them. but there is a real concern, obviously, about destabilization across the middle east and every single republican senator that s supporting this has a challenger now that s going to make him pay, including and i love iron i, liz cheney. right. liz cheney. more dan senore, when he found liz cheney is going against the neo-con position. no question, this is guiding what congress should do but some of them are worried about losing. you hear members that have tough races in potential primaries saying that. you got a president who has got