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09.01-08.13
President Obama said this week that the Syrian government is responsible for
a chemical weapons attack on civilians near Damascus. “We have concluded
that the Syrian government in fact carried these out,” he said on PBS. “And if
that’s so, then there need to be international consequences.” However, U.S.
intelligence officials have said that the connection between the attack and
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or high government officials is “not a slam
dunk.” U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel confirmed earlier in the week
that the U.S. is ready to take military action if Obama gives the orders.