Eliot Engel actually said...

"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."

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

"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..."

"The decisions we now face are decisions of life and death."