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John McCain: Would it be a complicated and difficult exercise? Yes, indeed. But as opposed to allowing those chemical weapons to be…

On the recordSeptember 10, 2013
Would it be a complicated and difficult exercise? Yes, indeed. But as opposed to allowing those chemical weapons to be continued to be used as we know Bashar Assad has done a number of times in the past, just not to the degree that this latest atrocity was, that -- then I think we have the lesser of two evils.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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Senator McCain argues for the necessity of international action to secure Syria's chemical weapons despite the complexities involved.

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