Obama Refuses To Rule Out Attacking Syria Without Congressional ApprovalPresident Obama today refused to rule out attacking Syria as new polls show he faces a crushing defeat in any vote in Congress.
An ABC News reporter at the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, tried to pin him down and get a ‘direct response’ to the question of what he will do if his gambit seeking congressional approval fails.
‘I’m not going to engage in parlor games now … about whether or not it’s going to pass,’ he said.
Obama also announced that he will make his case on Syria to the American people again on Tuesday in a national address.
Obama’s speech Tuesday will make a final pitch for support of his plan to cripple Syria’s access to its chemical weapons stockpiles. Polls show that few Americans agree that it’s in America’s national interest to get involved in a civil war that has already left 100,000 people dead and turned another 2 million into refugees.
But a senior aide today added to the confusion over Obama’s strategy.
White House deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken, told National Public Radio on Friday morning that although Obama has the power to act on his own, he has no plan to pull the trigger if he loses a Capitol Hill vote.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414017/Obama-plans-address-Americans-Tuesday-hes-set-lose-big-House-vote-White-House-aide-hints-wont-strike-Syria-Congress.htmlNot going to hold my breath for the anti-Bush crowd to denounce this.
