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"The stakes are just really too high here," Kerry said. "We are not going to lose this vote."

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A little more than a year ago, Obama declared that Assad’s use of chemical weapons would be the "red line" in a conflict that he has steadfastly avoided.

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What so many people are failing to realize is that Assad’s regime is the more moderate and Western of the two in conflict in Syria. The rebels are the semi literate peasant class along with a very few educated people from tribes other than that of the ruling regime. In this, it’s very much like Hussein era Iraq.

Another thing that many of the bleeding hearts are missing is that while the Assad regime doesn’t like us, the rebels HATE us. They’re infiltrated with al’Qaeda agents to a fare thee well and if they succeed in their aims they will be yet another Taliban regime that needs to be put down. We are talking about the people that Hezbollah has been recruiting for decades, folks.