it to the other countries so that everybody sees it the same way and see if we can t find another way to hold this regime accountable for using these chemical weapons. we don t have the international support right now for a military strike. so i m hopeful that if congress turns the president down, he ll work hard aer on finding an alternative. janice hahn, thank you. appreciate you joining us here on cnn. thanks, don. tuesday night president obama takes his case for u.s. action against syria to the american people. he will address the nation from the white house. you can see and hear the president live 9:00 eastern here on cnn. before the president addresses the nation, he is sitting down with wolf blitzer. you can see that tomorrow 6:00 eastern on the situation room. syria s president is waiting for an air strike and giving interviews to western media. later, the president of the
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of what would follow. obviously, that they were prepared as they could be for a strike. he said they would be suggested they would be among people that are aligned with him, some kind of retaliation if a strike was made that that would be, that he would not talk about any kind of nature of the response. he had a message to the american people that it had not been a good experience for them to get involved in the middle east and in wars and conflicts in the middle east. the results had not been good. president obama has said regime change is not his goal and any intervention in syria. is that plausible given horrific crimes president assad is accused of? lieutenant colonel rick francona, you spent three years in syria at the u.s. embassy in damascus. do you think assad must go? oh, absolutely.
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about benghazi and other things. he called them made-up crisis, right? this particular crisis seems to be of his own doing. you said the words stupefied. are you stupefied somehow the president has gotten himself here? unfortunately, both libya and syria were self-inflicted errors by president obama. in both cases, for libya he said right away, gadhafi must go. same thing for assad in syria. assad has to go. so much so when gadhafi was trying to negotiate with others in africa we squashed that. assad has been willing with the syrians, with the iranians, with others we demonized to have some political way forward and we quashed it. the most recent thing, we quashed this u.n. investigation to see who is responsible for this apparent chemical attack on the ground? it doesn t seem we are interested in actually finding out objective reality. we are interested in forcing a political outcome with our military force.