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John McCain: “It must be examined and I think we could have a very good initial test, Chris, and that would be the immediate dispatch…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2013
It must be examined and I think we could have a very good initial test, Chris, and that would be the immediate dispatch of monitors, international monitors, to these chemical weapon sites, which we know where most of them are, and secure them so that they can't be used by Bashar Assad, and then we work out the procedures for keeping them under international control and the removal. We could do that immediately. No, I am very skeptical, very, very skeptical, but the fact is that you can't pass up this opportunity if it is one, but you've got to right away determine whether it's real or not.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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Senator McCain discusses the need for international monitors at chemical weapon sites in Syria and expresses skepticism about the situation.

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