03/25/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"In the nearly 100 years since the first global commitment against chemical weapons, only two tyrants dared to cross the world's brightest line. Now Bashar al-Assad has become the third."
"It is our responsibility to evaluate the facts, assess the intelligence we have, and then debate the wisdom and scope of a military response fully and publicly, understanding its geopolitical ramifica..."
"I repeat here again today that only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described, or that the regime did not do it."
"It is clear that in addition to what I have just mentioned about the Syria Accountability Act and the threat to the Middle East, we cannot overlook the impact of chemical weapons and the danger that t..."