Annie
Not So Junior Member
So much for 'facts,' now it's 'commonsense' or 'we really, really think so, bombs away!
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89a...tes-Syria/id-4b69473ef7ad4000bd4f14e6cd8bf2e8
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89a...tes-Syria/id-4b69473ef7ad4000bd4f14e6cd8bf2e8
Sep. 8, 2013 9:03 AM ET
US: 'Common-sense test' holds Assad responsible
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House asserted Sunday that a "common-sense test" rather than "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" makes the Syrian government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response.
As part of a major push to win the backing of a divided Congress and skeptical American public, Obama's top aide made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to press the case for "targeted, limited consequential action to deter and degrade" the capabilities of Syrian President Bashar Assad "to carry out these terrible attacks again."
At the same time, chief of staff Denis McDonough acknowledged the risks that military action could drag the U.S. into the middle of a brutal civil war and endanger allies such as Israel with a retaliatory attack.
The U.S. is "planning for every contingency in that regard and we'll be ready for that," he told CNN's "State of the Union."
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