Calls mount for Syria strike<br><br>WASHINGTON President Barack Obama gained ground Tuesday in his drive for congressional backing of a military strike against Syria, winning critical support from House Speaker John Boehner while key Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to back a nocombattroopsontheground action in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack.<br><br>Officials said ハミルトン the emerging Senate measure would receive a vote today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Approval is likely.<br><br>"You probably going ジョーダン to win" Congress backing, conservative Sen. Rand Paul, RKy., a likely opponent of the measure, conceded in a lateafternoon exchange with Secretary of State John Kerry.<br><br>Mr. Boehner, ROhio, leader of the House majority, emerged from a White House meeting and said the United States has "enemies around the world that need to understand that we not going to tolerate this type of behavior. We also have allies around the world and allies in the region who also need to know that America will be there and stand up when it necessary."<br><br>Mr. Boehner spoke as lawmakers in both リモワ スーツケース parties called for changes to the president requested legislation, insisting that it be rewritten to restrict the type and duration of any military action.<br><br>In the Senate, the compromise was the work of Sens. They are the chairman and senior Republican, respectively, on the Foreign Relations Committee, which held a lengthy hearing during the day on Mr. Obama request for congressional legislation http://spiffex.com/annsui.html in support of the military reprisal he wants.<br><br>The measure would set a time limit of 60 days and says サムソナイト 激安 the president could extend that for 30 days more unless Congress casts a vote of disapproval. ground troops for "combat operations."<br><br>Mr. Kerry, testifying before the committee, signaled earlier that the troop restriction オークリー メガネ was acceptable to the administration.<br><br>"President Obama is not asking America to go to war," spiffex.com/oakley.html Mr. Kerry said in a strongly worded opening statement. He added: "This is not the time for armchair isolationism. This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter."<br><br>Mr. Obama earlier in the day expressed confidence that Congress would respond to his call for support, and http://pearnow.com/new-balance.html said Syrian President Bashar Assad action "poses a serious national security threat to the United States and to www.shizu-roufukujigyo.jp/samsonite.html the region."<br><br>The administration says 1,429 died from the Aug. 21 attack in a Damascus suburb. Casualty estimates by other groups ヴィクトリアズシークレット 下着 are far lower, and Mr. Assad government blames the episode on rebels who have been seeking to overthrow his government in a civil war that began more than two years ago. A oakley アウトレット United Nations inspection オロビアンコ バッグ team is awaiting lab results on http://www.assistyouth.org/sites.html tissue and soil samples it collected while in the country last week before completing a closely watched report.<br><br>Mr. Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat shouldertoshoulder at the Senate committee hearing while, a few hundred miles away, United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoon urged caution. Charter, or if approved by the organization Security Council. Russia and China have repeatedly used their veto power in the council to block action against Mr. Assad.<br><br>Mr.<br><br>Mr.<br><br>Still, the president also has www.hispaniolarealestate.com/site.html stated that the United States will オロビアンコ 人気 be stronger if lawmakers grant their support.<br><br>As Mr. Obama has often noted, the nation is weary of war after more than a decade エミリオプッチ アウトレット of combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, and there is residual skepticism a decade after Bush administration claims went unproven that Iraq Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Additionally, a spate of polls indicates that the public opposes a military strike against Syria. A new Washington PostABC survey shows 59 percent against a http://johnwarrillow.com/hamilton.html strike and 36 percent in favor if the United States acts unilaterally; if allies take Celine 店舗 part, a narrower 51 percent still are opposed to a strike, and 46 percent favor it.<br><br>Among major allies, only France has publicly offered to join the United States in a strike, although President Francois Hollande says he will await Congress decision. The British House of Commons rejected a military strike last week.<br><br>Yet the president decision to seek congressional approval presents lawmakers with a challenge プラダ 店舗 as well. Even some of Mr. Obama sternest critics in Congress expressed strong concerns about repercussions of a failure to act.<br><br>Apart from the meeting with Mr. Obama, the White House provided closeddoor briefings for members of Congress.<br><br>There are two aircraft carriers in the mcm バッグ region: the USS Nimitz strike group in the southern Red Sea and the USS Harry S Truman in the Arabian Sea. Also in the area is an amphibious warship, the USS San Antonio, with about 300 Marines aboard.
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