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Lamar Smith: If we don't have regime change and Assad can still use chemical weapons again, why commit our Armed Forces?

On the recordSeptember 9, 2013
If we don't have regime change and Assad can still use chemical weapons again, why commit our Armed Forces?
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Smith raises concerns about military intervention without regime change in Syria.

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