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Barack Obama: Well, what's happened has been heartbreaking, but, when you start talking about chemical weapons in a country that has…

On the recordAugust 28, 2013
Well, what's happened has been heartbreaking, but, when you start talking about chemical weapons in a country that has the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world, where, over time, their control over chemical weapons may erode, where they're allied to known terrorist organizations that in the past have targeted the United States, then there is a prospect, a possibility in which chemical weapons -- they can have devastating effects -- could be directed at us.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama discusses the potential threat posed by Syria's chemical weapons and their implications for U.S. national security.

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