John Kerry actually said...

"To your point about Senator Kerry, he was trying to be, quote-unquote, responsible, saying if Syria imploded we might have to put boots on the ground to protect the chemical weapons, to keep them away..."

"I do."

"The bottom line is, the President has no intention, and will not, and we do not want to, put American troops on the ground to fight this or be involved in the fighting of the civil war period."

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