issues spoken to by other colleagues that conflict of iraq brings to the fore. i personally having reviewed in detail the intelligence offered by the administration am convinced that the administration of bashar al assad, his regime, used chemical weapons not once but likely repeatedly but that attack two weeks ago in damascus suburbs massacred more than 1,000 innocent civilians and given the steady escalation, steadily rising death in syria over the last two years, that has graduated from using snipers and helicopters and jet fighters to using cluster bombs and scud muscles and now chemical weapons in the absence of action by the united states to reinforce a global red line that has been enshrined in american statutes and treaties for decades, assad will use these weapons again and we'll be less safe and our