Eliot Engel actually said...

"As chief of staff of the supreme military command, I hereby reaffirm the Free Syria Army's continued commitment to removing the twin terrorists Bashar al-Assad and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi from Syrian soi..."

"Left to fester, ISIS terrorists would rule the cradle of civilization with a brand of barbarism out of history's darkest chapters."

"We can't know what would have happened if we had acted then, but we do know that since then tens of thousands of men, women, and children have lost their lives."

"We call upon the world community, and the U.S. Congress in particular, to fulfill the humanitarian security responsibilities by providing the Free Syrian Army with robust support to bring a Syria free..."