Jim Webb actually said...

"when you make that determination, you should be making it in the U.S. Congress not by one individual of whichever party who happens to be the President."

"If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that gover..."

"If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government."

"I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported."