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In a brief statement before the Senate hearings today, Carl Levin in a few sentences propagated more lies than I can handle. There is no place in the US Congress for men who serves a false God rather than serve the People and the Nation.
If confirmed, our nominees will face a series of continuing challenges. In Syria, Assad is using air strikes, missiles, helicopters, tanks, and artillery to attack the Syrian people; he’s targeting civilians in residential neighborhoods, markets, schools, and places of worship; he’s using chemical weapons against the insurgents; and he’s increasingly relying on foreign fighters from Iran and Hezbollah to sustain his grip on power. To date, his actions have killed more than 100,000 Syrians, led more than a million to flee the country, forced more than four million more to become internally displaced, leveled entire villages and neighborhoods, and motivated the Syrian people to rise up against him.
I look forward to hearing the nominees’ views on steps that might be taken to increase the military pressure on Assad, in support of the administration’s goal of convincing the Assad regime and its supporters, including Russia, that the current military momentum toward the regime cannot last in the face of a major insurgency that has the support of both the Syrian people and an international coalition and that a political settlement that transitions Syria to a post-Assad regime that is inclusive of, and protective of, all elements of Syrian society is the only solution.
- Saudi edges Qatar to control Syrian rebel support – May 31, 2013