winner. that s what happens. when president obama gets this approval, then those leaders will feel embolden. this is why you cannot lead from behind, you have to be in front. this is what the leader of the free world does. we also have a report, i want to get andrea s reaction. politico is reporting that former secretary of state hillary clinton is backing president obama on this request to congress and the action against assad and in syria. not a huge surprise, andrea, but perhaps an important timing wise so that she could be mentioned in the stories tomorrow morning about how this plays out in the future. and of course she voted for the resolution to go to war in iraq. it would be strange i think if she didn t come out on this, because a number of 2016 potential republicans contenders are weighing in, we saw rand paul. i do not believe the founding fathers set up this nation to be the world s cop. and i think we need to really take a hard look at what s happening. this solution pro
safer, less safe, i can make it crystal clear to you, israel will be less safe unless the united states takes this action. iran and hezbollah are two of the three biggest allies of assad. and iran and hezbollah are the two single biggest enemies of israel. if iran and hezbollah are advantaged by the united states not curbing assad s use of chemical weapons, there is a much greater likelihood that at some point down the road hezbollah, who has been one of the principal reasons for change in the situation on the ground, will have access to these weapons of mass destruction, and israel will for certain be less secure. i would also argue it is more likely hezbollah will attack because of this attack in
how can you i don t know. there s no way you can make that claim. no one can make that claim unless they saw that. 99.9%. can i give you five reasons why not to do this? give me an answer why you think tell me why you think, what s your evidence? i don t have any, that s the point. we don t kill people until we have evidence something happened. you re saying go kill a bunch of people because it is highly likely that assad killed his own people when we don t know if al qaeda who also wants to kill bashar al assad wants to do it. al qaeda has america take care of their problems. the weapons sit is where the free syrian army were. 1400 people, and children, you re worried about, al qaeda wouldn t do that? al qaeda has already used weapons of mass destruction.
there s a small military. they could pay for it. senator rand paul who has already said he would vote against it is expected to speak shortly and when that happens, we will bring that to you. i do want to talk to one piece of sound from senator marco rubio who up until today you hadn t heard much from him on this, which i think was fairly smart as he was taking in all of the information. listen to some of the questions he had for chairman dempsey. how confident are you and how confident can you express to this committee you are that we can, in fact, put in place a military plan that s limited in scope and duration that can effectively degrade assad s capability to carry out future chemical attacks? i m confident in the capabilities we can bring to bear to deter and degrade and it won t surprise you to know that we will have not only an initial target set but subsequent targets set should they become necessary.
we know that he will nas ra has. we know the syrian army was overtaken by rebels, likely weapons of mass destruction could have ended up in the hands of al qaeda. if i m al qaeda, why wouldn t i used them? why wouldn t i get the united states to come in, fight my war, oust assad, and then to have our administration say it is a phone oh scandal. kerry says our allies are watching. they have watched us oust mubarak, gadhafi, now potentially, haven t heard how, you just heard him say that let s see, the goal is departure of assad, that s what john kerry said. is it? i don t see how the plan they presented gets us to that point or gets us to a point assad doesn t use weapons again. bob, can i make a point? the big issue here is that you can t trust the people that are telling you this information, nancy pelosi used a conversation with her five-year-old grandson