John Kerry actually said...

"This authorization is a limited, targeted effort to focus on deterring and degrading the chemical weapons capacity of the Assad regime."

"I voted to approve the Chemical Weapons Convention because chemical weapons have no place in the civilized world and some behavior must be out of bounds."

"We cannot afford for Hezbollah or any terrorist group determined to strike the United States to have incentives to acquire or use chemical weapons."

"We believe we can achieve them with a military action that would be limited in duration and scope."